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But the negative interest rates resulted in shrinking German pension funds, while the asset
purchases
magnified inequality in Germany.
The authors present a broad, detailed, and fair assessment of private equity – the business of investing in established companies through debt-financed
purchases
of controlling stakes.
Since 2008, the US Federal Reserve has maintained zero interest rates, while pursuing multiple waves of unprecedented balance-sheet expansion through large-scale bond
purchases.
He has engaged in immense arms
purchases
from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, most recently including tanks, fighter planes, and a submarine.
Long-term interest rates could be pushed significantly lower if the Federal Reserve were to undertake the unprecedented step of mammoth
purchases
of long-term government bonds.
China’s seemingly open-ended
purchases
of US government debt are at the heart of a web of codependency that binds the two economies.
China’s
purchases
of Treasuries help hold down US interest rates – possibly by as much as one percentage point – which provides broad support to other asset markets, such as equities and real estate, whose valuation depends to some extent on Chinese-subsidized US interest rates.
Curtailing
purchases
of US Treasuries is a perfectly logical outgrowth of this process.
Meanwhile, in Asia, the Japanese economy’s sputtering indicators have spurred the Bank of Japan to increase its securities purchases, which likewise point to the prospect of a weaker yen.
But it would require some extremely unlikely data to change the Fed’s implicit plan to end its
purchases
of long-term assets (so-called quantitative easing) in October 2014 and to start raising the federal funds rate from its current near-zero level sometime in the first half of 2015.
In economic theory, household light bulb
purchases
reflect net present value calculations of lifetime bulb and electricity costs for alternative bulb types, which could be influenced by taxes on incandescent bulbs, or through carbon prices on electricity.
The Reserve Primary Fund – brought down by its
purchases
of IOU’s from Lehman – was a money-market mutual fund, not a commercial bank.
Since last May, when the Fed announced its intention to begin tapering its asset purchases, capital has become less accessible and more expensive for emerging economies – a shift that has been particularly painful for countries whose large current-account deficits leave them dependent on foreign finance.
In the event of new US tariffs, it seems reasonable to expect China to respond by reducing such purchases, reinforcing a strategy of asset diversification away from US dollar-based assets that has been under way for the past three years.
Moreover, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan would need to tighten monetary policy – including accelerating the taper of their large-scale asset
purchases
– faster than markets expect.
The German court is also right to argue that
purchases
of troubled countries’ government bonds cannot be considered monetary policy – and thus exceed the ECB’s mandate.
The conclusion that I draw from this is that we should try a combination of all checklist measures – quantitative monetary easing; bank guarantees, purchases, recapitalizations, and nationalizations; direct fiscal spending and debt issues – while ensuring that we can do so fast enough and on a large enough scale to do the job.
Because India does not produce much gold itself, these
purchases
have contributed to an abnormally wide current-account deficit.
At the same time, the Fed’s tapering of its long-term asset
purchases
has begun in earnest, with interest rates set to rise.
These devices didn’t become household items because governments subsidized
purchases
or forced up the price of typewriters and slide rules.
China’s Shadow MenaceBEIJING – The US Federal Reserve’s decision to exit from so-called “quantitative easing” – its massive monthly
purchases
of long-term assets – is stoking fears of a hard economic landing in China.
The 30% mainly consists of four components – capital spending by firms, net exports (exports less imports), residential construction, and government
purchases.
By contrast, the government sector has been moving in the opposite direction, as state and local governments retrench and federal
purchases
top out after post-crisis deficit explosions.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s announcement in May that the Fed would soon start reducing its asset
purchases
and end QE in 2014 caused long-term interest rates to jump immediately.
According to SAFE, as of February 2012, China had accumulated $4.7 trillion in foreign assets through
purchases
of United States government securities and other investments, and more than $2.9 trillion in foreign liabilities through foreign direct investment (FDI) and borrowing.
Owing to massive dollar purchases, emerging economies have for too long supported the credit culture in the United States that ultimately led to this crisis.
Once the first two elements of the plan are in place, there should be little need for the third – bond
purchases
by the ECB in the secondary market in order to narrow interest-rate spreads and provide further confidence.
A contemporary observer, Winthrop Case, explained it all in 1938: economic revival depended “on the willingness of individual and corporate buyers to make
purchases
that necessarily tie up their resources for a considerable length of time.
Russia is really the only major emerging market to increase its gold
purchases
significantly, in no small part due to Western sanctions, with holdings now amounting to almost 15% of reserves.
Proponents of OMT counter that the Treaty forbids only direct government bond purchases; indirect
purchases
in secondary markets are allowed.
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