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While the US external deficit could stand to be reduced, as it partly reflects America’s own lack of savings, trade policy alone would be insufficient to achieve that goal.
Addressing them successfully would allow the country to generate the
savings
needed to meet its huge looming public-investment requirements: expansion of productive infrastructure (roads, ports, and airports) in order to remove severe bottlenecks to faster non-inflationary growth; unprecedentedly large planned investment in oil exploration and electricity generation; and forthcoming international sporting events (the World Cup and the Olympic Games) that Brazil will host in the next few years.
Two important options for raising consumption are social insurance – which is developing, but too slowly – and reducing state-owned enterprises’ huge
savings
by paying dividends to citizens, much as privately owned companies routinely pay dividends to shareholders.
Lacking in
savings
and wanting to grow, the US runs massive current-account and multilateral trade deficits in order to import other countries’ surplus
savings.
Policies to expand social security and improve the provision of public goods could support these efforts, boosting domestic consumption by allowing households to reduce their precautionary
savings.
It is understandable that older Americans who have few
savings
want to protect their Social Security and Medicare benefits.
And savings, the seed corn of future prosperity, remain in woefully short supply.
Moreover, countries that invest 25% or more of their national income will be able to grow faster than those – including many in Latin America – with low levels of
savings
and investment.
Some are talking about letting people own their social security contributions, in the form of personal retirement accounts, their health care through health
savings
accounts, and their education through educational
savings
accounts and school vouchers.
America, in turn, said that the world should be thankful: by living beyond its means, it helped keep the global economy going, especially given high
savings
rates in Asia, which accumulated hundreds of billions of dollars in reserves.
The Fund urges that
savings
be found in unproductive spending - meaning excessive military spending, subsidies for the well-to-do, and inefficient administrative practices.
Unprecedented shifts and growing imbalances – between consumption and production,
savings
and investment, economy and ecology, social inclusion and marginalization, and equality and disparity – persist and incubate within a complex global system in which there is no “risk-off” switch.
Developing nations, the argument went, have plenty of investment opportunities, but are short of
savings.
Foreign capital inflows would allow them to draw on the
savings
of rich countries, increase their investment rates, and stimulate growth.
The Germans want the ECB to focus only on large systemic banks, and leave smaller
savings
banks (like those that invested heavily in subprime mortgages) to national authorities.
The case for a pan-European supervisor is widely accepted, especially as the European Banking Authority (the EU’s banking regulator) proved feeble in carrying out financial stress tests: the first tests were so weak that even Spain’s now-bankrupt
savings
banks could pass with flying colors.
In Germany, which suffered from hyper-inflation in 1923, there is widespread fear that people will again lose their
savings
and need to start from scratch.
Summers’s Keynesian argument is that the problem is a chronic aggregate-demand shortfall: Desired investment lags behind desired savings, even at near-zero nominal interest rates, resulting in a chronic liquidity trap.
Second, developing and emerging economies still offer immediate opportunities for large high-return investments, which should be financed by what appears as excess global
savings.
Such investments would help close the global
savings
gap and generate positive feedback for advanced economies as well.
Dissaving by the government contributes to a dismally low national
savings
rate.
When Greek households have to pay higher taxes, they can simply withdraw the funds from their
savings
accounts and continue spending much as before.
Its government should then no longer need external financing, provided it can mobilize its own citizens’
savings.
Fostering domestic savings, and getting citizens to buy bonds of their own government instead of keeping their money abroad, is just as important.
But now that interest rates are at zero, Germany’s large
savings
are no longer doing it much good.
Meanwhile, it distorts reality to view Spain’s entire banking sector through the prism of the cajas, the
savings
banks that are the soft underbelly of the Spanish financial system.
Reducing the budget deficit – by limiting government spending and combating a culture of tax avoidance – will increase total domestic
savings
available to invest.
A first lesson of Japan’s experience is that, despite the eurozone’s difficulty generating inflation in an aging society characterized by excess savings, growth is not necessarily out of reach.
Another lesson from Japan is that a country with a large
savings
surplus can handle a large public debt, because it can be financed internally.
Japan’s debt-to-GDP ratio now exceeds 150% of GDP (taking into account the large financial assets of the government-owned
savings
institutions), and continues to rise, owing to large fiscal deficits.
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