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So let me place my bet - which I think is only 60% likely - and say that my best guess is that world real interest rates will be high over the next generation, and that current bond prices (and real estate prices) are not sustainable.
Finally, high oil prices in the past 12 months provided an unexpectedly large windfall to the Iraqi budget, allowing for the financing of other sectors without slighting the oil industry.
High prices also enabled the Coalition Provisional Authority to add even more private security personnel to protect refineries and pipelines.
Under even the best circumstances for Iraq, with oil prices remaining high, the funds available to maintain and modernize the oil industry are limited.
If oil prices decline in the future, the oil industry will suffer severely.
Only Saudi Arabia can manage the global output of oil in such a way that will make room for Iraqi oil and keep prices high.
In contrast, only Saudi Arabia can flood the market and reduce prices far below their current level.
In fact, every peak in oil prices since 1973 was caused by an event related to Iraq.
One would hope that his removal would reduce market volatility and stabilize oil prices.
Unfortunately, Iraq appears set to continue to be a major source of high oil prices, owing to highly erratic output.
For the foreseeable future, one of the principal outcomes of the invasion of Iraq will be greater volatility and thus higher prices.
We can hold onto companies with strong long-term fundamentals but poor-performing stock prices because our investors understand what we are doing and give us the leeway to execute our strategy.
Hitler’s electoral breakthrough of 1932 was achieved amid rapidly falling prices.
In the advanced economies, low inflation reflects not just the temporary impact of falling commodity prices, but also longer-term wage stagnation.
Because real income growth is vital to boost consumption and prices, central bankers and politicians are now in the novel business of encouraging wage increases.
Finance ministers and central banks frequently urged wage moderation, with many countries even introducing formal policies governing wages and prices.
After all, though this approach would eventually stimulate demand, it would do so by driving up asset prices – thereby exacerbating wealth inequality – and by re-stimulating the private-credit growth that fueled the financial crisis.
The Naira has lost 30% its value, manufacturers are complaining about rising import prices for raw material, and unemployment, particularly among recent graduates, is at an all-time high.
Will Rising Interest Rates Torpedo Stock and House Prices?
What will this landmark change mean for prices of such assets as stocks and homes?
In theory, when interest rates go up, there is reason to believe that asset prices will go down.
Higher interest rates also raise the cost of borrowing to buy these assets, which may diminish demand for them, exerting downward pressure on their prices.
When interest rates fall, the opposite effect on asset prices may be predicted.
The market may know, not just from the experience of 2001-2, that interest rate movements do not have predictable effects on stock prices.
But, there are reasons to believe that higher interest rates, even though expected, can have a negative impact on home prices.
High home prices are already putting great stress on many families, which are struggling to make their mortgage payments.
Some will then try to sell their overpriced homes, and the resulting market imbalance will cause prices to fall.
But declines in home prices will not occur quickly when central banks begin to raise interest rates.
In places where home prices have been rising rapidly, the upward trend may continue or level off for a while.
A symmetric adjustment has also occurred in China, via real appreciation of its currency and higher prices for labor and land.
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