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Easing monetary policy won’t solve this kind of crisis, because even moderately lower interest rates cannot boost asset prices enough to restore the financial system to solvency.
A 25% rise in the dollar lowers the cost of imports by 20% (just enough to offset the increase in import prices caused by the 20% tax), while raising the cost of US exports to foreign buyers (just enough to offset the implied 20% subsidy).
And, because there is no change in prices paid by American consumers or received by American exporters, that tax is borne by foreign producers, who, owing to the dollar’s appreciation, receive less in their own currencies for their exports to the US.
Americans wanted additional demand for their goods and higher prices, while the Germans and Japanese defended their export industries.
Companies borrow a lot to start up, accumulate large fixed costs, and offer such low prices at first that they lose money.
At that point, they can hike prices and engage in price discrimination relatively freely.
Add to that complex algorithms that set prices in a way that maximizes profits, and the company’s dominance seems relatively secure.
The turning point came in 2013, when the expectation of rising interest rates in the United States and falling global commodity prices brought an end to a multi-year capital-inflow bonanza that had been supporting emerging economies’ growth.
China’s recent slowdown, by fueling turbulence in global capital markets and weakening commodity prices further, has exacerbated the downturn throughout the emerging world.
It was hailed as the biggest tax reform since independence, but business owners were so uncertain about how it would affect the prices of their wares that many shuttered their businesses for the day.
As a result, some US producers will move overseas, others will raise prices and lose market share, and still others will simply go out of business.
Lower demand could, in turn, cause the fall in prices to accelerate, sending prices into a dangerous tailspin.
A weaker euro would raise the cost of imports and the potential prices of exports, thus pushing up the eurozone’s overall inflation rate.
In response to an attack, Iran might well seek to obstruct shipping in the Persian Gulf, potentially triggering oil shortages and soaring prices.
A generation of global market participants knows only a world of low (or even negative) interest rates and artificially inflated asset prices.
In the absence of genuinely robust global growth, which is unlikely in the near term, financial markets are relying on extremely loose monetary policy to prop up prices.
What matters far more are changes in house prices, which have not deteriorated.
Unaffordable tax cuts and wars, a major recession, and soaring health-care costs – fueled in part by the commitment of George W. Bush’s administration to giving drug companies free rein in setting prices, even with government money at stake – quickly transformed a huge surplus into record peacetime deficits.
To be sure, the many risks facing emerging markets still call for a highly differentiated stance, as market illiquidity can magnify the impact of shocks on prices.
Low equilibrium interest rates are an important anchor for local and external debt prices in emerging markets.
But even optimists don’t believe that real-estate prices will increase substantially any time soon.
The second way that QE might have a slight effect is by lowering mortgage rates, which would help to sustain real-estate prices.
If oil prices remain high – likely in the foreseeable future, given strong demand from the US, Japan, China, and India – oil revenues could reach $400-600 billion.
After the Gold RushVENICE – The run-up in gold prices in recent years – from $800 per ounce in early 2009 to above $1,900 in the fall of 2011 – had all the features of a bubble.
At the peak, gold bugs – a combination of paranoid investors and others with a fear-based political agenda – were happily predicting gold prices going to $2,000, $3,000, and even to $5,000 in a matter of years.
But prices have moved mostly downward since then.
There are many reasons why the bubble has burst, and why gold prices are likely to move much lower, toward $1,000 by 2015.
First, gold prices tend to spike when there are serious economic, financial, and geopolitical risks in the global economy.
Indeed, at the peak of the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, gold prices fell sharply a few times.
If anything, inflation is now falling further globally as commodity prices adjust downward in response to weak global growth.
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