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With fear of bank runs and defaults receding, banks’ reserve ratios became ever smaller, thus increasing their lending facilities.
Keynes failed in his quest to endow the IMF with the power to create a new international reserve unit as an alternative to the dollar.
A failed euro, moreover, would be bad for China, leaving the US dollar as the single international reserve currency.
The Belgian economist Robert Triffin first identified this problem – dubbed the “Triffin dilemma” – in the 1960s, emphasizing the fundamental conflict between national objectives, such as limiting the size of the external deficit, and international imperatives, such as creating enough liquidity to satisfy demand for reserve assets.
And it was the motivation behind the 1969 creation of the IMF’s Special Drawing Right (SDR), which was supposed to become “the principle reserve asset in the international monetary system.”
General SDR allocations are to be based on “a long-term global need to supplement existing reserve assets,” with decisions made for successive periods of up to five years.
As long as that partition remains in place, SDRs will function, at best, like a credit line that can be used unconditionally by the holder – a kind of overdraft facility, not a true reserve asset.
If Trump really is concerned about national security, then one wonders why the US is not keeping ore in the ground as a strategic reserve for future hostilities.
Some Asian countries raise banks’ reserve requirements and homeowners’ loan-to-value ceilings during booms, and lower them during financial downturns.
It is lying idle in their reserve accounts at the International Monetary Fund.
These SDRs will sit largely untouched in the reserve accounts of these countries, which don't really need any additional reserves.
And the dollar could still remain the preferred reserve currency, provided it is prudently managed.
Last month, the five BRICS countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa – established the New Development Bank and a contingent reserve fund to diversify sources of official lending to developing countries.
And they are barred from using a “parliamentary reserve fund” to finance local initiatives.
If it loosens monetary policy further – by, say, cutting banks’ reserve requirement ratio – the momentum for restructuring could be lost; and there is no guarantee that the additional liquidity would flow into the real sector.
The G-20 promised to triple the Fund’s lending capacity (from $250 billion to $750 billion), issue $250 billion of new Special Drawing Rights (a reserve asset made up of a basket of major currencies), and permit the Fund to borrow in capital markets (which it has never done) if necessary.
As a result, ample reserve funds have been created on the banks’ balance sheets and return on equity has remained high.
Colombia, Peru, Brazil, and other countries in the group have also used a range of unconventional policy tools – especially changes in reserve requirements for bank liabilities of varying maturities and currency denominations – to manage liquidity and credit.
Brazil, for example, has recently lowered reserve and capital requirements in an effort to stimulate the economy after a slow 2011.
China has reduced reserve requirements on banks.
For now, there is no Islamic global reserve currency and no lender of last resort.
In contrast to the British royal family’s stiffness and reserve, she showed herself to be a princess who was also a normal human being, more like the rest of us.
Unification of onshore and offshore markets is more important than a floating exchange rate in determining whether the International Monetary Fund will include the renminbi in the basket of currencies used to determine the value of its reserve asset, the Special Drawing Right.
But, whereas advanced economies rarely implement this advice, China and many other developing countries do tend to adjust regulation, including reserve requirements for banks and ceilings on homebuyers’ borrowing, counter-cyclically.
Some of Trumpi’s advisers try to explain to him how trade deficits work in an economy that benefits enormously from having the world’s leading reserve currency.
They explain that a return to mercantilism could spur others to do the same, potentially by creating an alternative reserve currency through a global institution.
An institution the Venetians helped establish and once led, the International Monetary Fund, creates a new reserve currency, based on gold convertibility.
The excess was mopped up through statutory reserve requirements amounting to as much as 20% of bank deposits.
In short, despite a strong national balance sheet and ample central-bank liquidity, China is confronting a localized subprime problem, owing partly to high reserve requirements.
But we shouldn’t allow American politicians who do not even possess passports to write us off with the same patronizing sneer that some Europeans used to reserve for President George W. Bush’s administration and policies.
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