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Just as a family backstops its
savings
with insurance, countries should be able to tap into a global financial safety net.
Goldman Sachs and the J.B. Pritzker Foundation have provided $7 million in investment to fund the program; their investment will be repaid with future
savings.
The OFEs failed to boost overall savings, because the increase in public debt almost exactly matched the pool of assets in the funded part of the state pension system.
Poland’s experience serves as a warning to other governments that, unless a funded pillar is financed by additional private savings, the impact on overall
savings
and output can be negative.
It can also reflect the government’s penchant for running fiscal surpluses; after all, the current-account surplus, by definition, is the excess of public and private
savings
over investment.
Many studies have shown that changes in private
savings
and investment tend to offset partly the current-account effects of higher fiscal deficits.
Currency appreciation, Japan argued then and China argues now, is unlikely to result in a significant current-account adjustment, which requires addressing not only China’s high
savings
rate, but also low
savings
in the US.
In the US, a lingering overhang of household debt implies that deleveraging and the rebuilding of
savings
continues to take precedence over discretionary consumption.
The new bank can make a major contribution to the global economy’s health by facilitating the transition to new poles of growth and demand, helping to rebalance global
savings
and investments, and channeling excess liquidity to productive use.
While the fiscal
savings
may appear attractive to Cameron in the short term, for the British people – and for the rest of the world, which benefits from Britain’s liveliness, civilization, and tradition of democracy – the cost is far too high.
The value of Greek residents’
savings
would be slashed, as euros were suddenly converted into New Drachmas.
Given its great depression, Greece should use its
savings
to pay pensioners, provide food relief, make crucial infrastructure repairs, and direct liquidity toward the banking system.
“Being at the heart of the global financial system,” he said, “broadens the investment opportunities for the institutions that look after British savings, and reinforces the ability of UK manufacturing and creative industries to compete globally.”
There may have been more
savings
opportunities for households and more diverse funding sources for firms, but the added value of asset-management activity was illusory.
There is no company in the US that would be unaffected by a government default – and no bank or other financial institution that could provide a secure haven for
savings.
Governments absorb the excess of private
savings
over private investment and re-inject it into the global economy, thereby stabilizing aggregate demand and the financial system.
Retirees can sue if their homes are seized for urban renewal, but not if the Fed’s financial suppression deprives them of a return on their
savings.
The British may now consider the EDA a defense expenditure, but, when better defined, it could represent a source of
savings
for every EU country.
The excess of
savings
over investment flows abroad as capital exports.
Because the non-bank asset-management industry remains small relative to the banking sector, there are limited funds available to inject equity to enable corporate borrowers, especially SMEs, to deleverage, despite high domestic
savings.
It is time for China’s leaders to encourage a structural shift, by channeling domestic
savings
toward long-term projects with high social returns.
But will these
savings
be enough to offset the burden of a significantly larger overall government?
After all, high-income countries, where populations are aging rapidly, often have an excess of
savings
ready to be allocated to high-yield investments.
And he is right to emphasize that all have made terrific progress and now offer great opportunities for the rising middle class, which wants to accumulate savings, borrow more easily (for productive investment, home purchases, education, etc), and, more generally, smooth out consumption.
In fact, experience in recent decades confirms what should have been obvious from previous centuries: as countries grow and accumulate savings, they become increasingly prone to financial collapse.
This has driven up food prices and caused tens of millions of people to starve, while costing more than $17 billion each year in subsidies and causing agricultural deforestation elsewhere in the world, with more total CO2 emissions than the entire
savings
from the ethanol.
All that is needed are the right financial incentives to induce utility companies to produce less electricity (and still be more profitable) and consumers to reduce their use (and gain
savings
without sacrificing comfort).
In fact, modern tools like maps and satellite navigation contribute to annual
savings
of up to 3.5 billion liters of gasoline and more than one billion hours of travel time.
And, unlike many of its developing-country rivals, China has ample fiscal space, household savings, and foreign-exchange reserves for such investments.
America’s overall trade deficit will not disappear without an increase in domestic
savings
and a more fundamental change in global monetary arrangements.
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