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The measures include tighter limits on home purchases by non-locals in cities with excessive price gains, a reinforced 20% capital-gains tax, mandatory 70% down payments, and a 30% benchmark interest-rate premium for second mortgages.
Don’t Cry for Me, Ben BernankeWASHINGTON, DC – Financial volatility since Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s announcement in May that the Fed would “taper” its monthly purchases of long-term assets has raised a global cry: “Please, Mr. Bernanke, consider conditions in our (non-US) economies when you determine when to end your quantitative-easing policy.”
The Fed’s Surprise and Yellen’s ChallengeNEWPORT BEACH – The US Federal Reserve sparked a global – and now month-long – guessing game with its decision on September 18 not to “taper” its monthly purchases of long-term securities.
While equity and credit markets did rebound from their May-June dislocation, higher interest rates have hit the housing market quite hard, reflected in a sharp fall in the mortgage-refinance index, lower home affordability, and declining purchases.
Atif Mian and Amir Sufi warn that US consumers’ purchases of cars and other durables have been bolstered by the same unsustainable “subprime” lending practices that were used to finance home purchases before the crisis.
Across the Atlantic, the Fed is set to complete its exit from quantitative easing (QE) – its policy of large-scale asset purchases – in the next few weeks, leaving it completely dependent on interest rates and forward policy guidance to boost the economy.
These guidelines identify when a country, despite running a large current-account surplus, is pursuing long-term, large-scale purchases of foreign assets, thereby blocking exchange-rate appreciation – exactly the problem we want to prevent.
In standard analyses, the tax cut brings a reduction in government purchases of goods and services, like defense.
It seems clear that tapering the Fed’s monthly purchases of long-term securities later this year would cause a realignment of asset values in financial markets.
In addition, there are also several special exchange rates – for things like oil purchases, imports for hotels, and export revenues.
The difficulty of working through the full economic implications is precisely what discourages consumers from making purchases and causes firms to postpone investment.
By treating eurozone-government bonds as risk-free, permitting commercial banks to hold them without any capital provision, and failing to apply limits on large-scale credit exposure to sovereign debt, the system encouraged undercapitalized banks to increase their bond purchases.
As it turned out, a “mini-crisis” followed Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke’s announcement that the Fed might “taper” its quantitative-easing (QE) policy – its open-ended commitment to monthly purchases of long-term assets worth $85 billion – before the end of 2013.
Koreans buy more classical music as a proportion of their CD purchases than any other country (including Poland, Austria, Italy, etc) in the world!
Much of the sovereign-debt accumulation of recent years has been enabled by quantitative easing, with central banks making large-scale purchases of government bonds.
Unconventional Monetary Policy on StiltsNEW YORK – With most advanced economies experiencing anemic recoveries from the 2008 financial crisis, their central banks have been forced to move from conventional monetary policy – reducing policy rates via open-market purchases of short-term government bonds – to a range of unconventional policies.
There was quantitative easing (QE), or purchases of long-term government bonds, once short-term rates were already zero.
This was accompanied by credit easing (CE), which took the form of central-bank purchases of private or semi-private assets – such as mortgage- and other asset-backed securities, covered bonds, corporate bonds, real-estate trust funds, and even equities via exchange-traded funds.
Third, credit easing by central banks, or purchases of private assets, could broaden significantly.
Think of direct purchases of stocks, high-risk corporate bonds, and banks’ bad loans.
In the United Kingdom, for example, the Help to Buy initiative has subsidized home purchases with down payments of only 5%.
And, for the affected emerging economies, the Fed’s tapering of its massive monthly purchases of long-term assets – so-called quantitative easing (QE) – is certainly easier to blame than their own failure to move faster on economic reform.
Nor is a US that cuts back on import purchases more rapidly in the interest of any export-oriented developing economy – including China.
Weber’s dissenting voice on Greek bond purchases brings that day dramatically closer.
It could also be relevant to purchases of debt from distressed member states.
The Federal Reserve’s policy of “long-term asset purchases,” also known as “quantitative easing,” has intentionally kept long-term rates low.
The Fed has indicated that it will eventually end its program of long-term asset purchases and allow rates to rise to more normal levels.
The most popular culprit is the Fed, which has begun to taper its highly experimental policy of “quantitative easing,” or purchases of long-term assets aimed at supporting growth beyond what could be achieved with zero nominal interest rates.
Thus, neo-Keynesians have tried to spur more housing investment through rock-bottom interest rates, more auto purchases through securitized consumer loans, and more “shovel-ready” infrastructure projects through short-term stimulus programs.
In practice, helicopter money can look a lot like quantitative easing – purchases by central banks of government securities on secondary markets to inject liquidity into the banking system.
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