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But land
purchases
have amounted to less than 15% of China’s official fixed-capital formation rate – or around 10% of total investment in fixed assets – since 2004.
Until 2007, many people financed consumer purchases, whose prices were more or less stable, by borrowing against their houses, which were rapidly rising in value.
It is likely that Draghi’s statement will indeed be followed by ECB
purchases
of Spanish (and Italian) sovereign bonds.
First, the ECB’s renewed bond
purchases
must express the clear intention of reducing sovereign interest rates to sustainable levels, which are at least 200 basis points below their July averages.
If these three steps – an ECB bond-buying program to hold down sovereign interest rates, concrete progress on establishing a real economic union, and realistic revision of current adjustment programs – could be achieved as a package, the resources that the ECB would need to use for its bond
purchases
would drop, because credibility would be restored.
In 2009, when financial markets were in turmoil and the economy was in free-fall, the US Federal Reserve took matters a step further, initiating large-scale asset purchases, or quantitative easing (QE).
The ECB also claims that its bond purchases, after financial markets had already normalized, sparked economic growth and fostered employment.
Taking him at his word, markets immediately traded the euro up, because investors concluded that, under these circumstances, negative rates and asset
purchases
would no longer be warranted.
Most of these
purchases
have been made in Africa, with two-thirds taking place in countries where hunger is widespread and institutions for establishing formal land ownership are often weak.
The
purchases
in Africa alone amount to an area of agricultural land the size of Kenya.
It has been claimed that foreign investors are purchasing land that has been left idle; thus, by bringing it into production, the
purchases
are increasing the availability of food overall.
But the Land Matrix Partnership report found that this is not the case: roughly 45% of the
purchases
involved existing croplands, and almost a third of the purchased land was forested, indicating that its development may pose risks for biodiversity.
Oxfam, drawing attention to large-scale land acquisitions that have entailed direct rights violations, has called on the Bank to freeze investments in land
purchases
until it can set standards ensuring that local communities are informed of them in advance, with the option of refusing them.
The US Federal Reserve, which pioneered the post-crisis experiments with zero interest rates and QE, began to reduce its
purchases
of long-term securities at the beginning of 2014, stopped QE completely later that year, and started raising interest rates in 2015 – all without producing the “cold turkey” effects predicted by skeptics.
Since Putin offers Ukraine nothing, Ukraine has minimized its
purchases
of gas from Russia and downgraded all other bilateral relations.
Fed
purchases
of government securities have tempered market-based discipline of federal spending.
The more substantial argument against quantitative easing is that
purchases
of securities would be ineffectual, given Europe’s bank-based financial system.
For starters, it remains unclear whether the Federal Reserve will begin to “taper” its open-ended quantitative easing (QE) in September or later, how fast it will reduce its
purchases
of long-term assets, and when and how fast it will start to raise interest rates from their current zero level.
The most direct method is
purchases
of foreign assets.
Or it will reluctantly re-launch its
purchases
of public-sector debt in secondary markets, capping the other peripheral eurozone economies’ interest-rate spreads relative to the core.
There is a significant chance that with Americans' savings rate at dismally low levels - sustained last year by car
purchases
and home refinancing - consumer spending may moderate.
Some of the sales in 2001, moreover, reflected
purchases
that would have been postponed until this year were it not for special offers inducing consumers to buy cars earlier than they otherwise would.
With traditional monetary policy becoming less effective, non-traditional policy tools aimed at generating greater liquidity and credit (via quantitative easing and direct central bank
purchases
of private illiquid assets) will become necessary.
Moreover, according to the Swiss Re report, “monetary policy and central bank asset
purchases
have aggravated economic inequality via equity price inflation.”
In this way, companies that create durable or recyclable products empower consumers to think differently about their
purchases.
More consequential, the European Central Bank has committed to a large and relatively open-ended program of large-scale asset
purchases.
The previous meeting, in late October, had already set the stage for the normalization of monetary policy, with the announcement that the ECB would halve its monthly asset purchases, from €60 billion ($71 billion) to €30 billion, beginning in January 2018.
Restrictions on investment and land
purchases
can be dropped.
It seems clear that the extraordinary run-up in equity prices was fueled by a surge in margin financing of stock purchases, which was legalized in 2010-2011 and encouraged by the PBOC’s monetary easing since last November.
The public pension system is unreliable, there is little health insurance available to pay for the high cost of Western-style care, parents must pay tuition for their children’s schooling, there is little credit available for
purchases
of consumer durable, and buying an apartment requires a large down-payment.
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