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This enforced investment slowdown is itself increasing China’s net savings, i.e., the current-account surplus, while constraining the expansion of domestic consumption.
Moreover, China’s aging population, and its strategy of boosting domestic consumption, will negatively affect global
savings.
The world may enter a new era in which investment demand exceeds desired
savings
– which means that real interest rates must rise.
Indeed, it makes far more sense to tax bad things, like pollution, than to tax good things like work and
savings.
In the 1980’s, it enabled lead to be phased out more rapidly than predicted and at an estimated annual
savings
of $250 million relative to the command-and-control approach.
Taxpayers end up paying for these exposures, as do retirees and others who rely on returns from their
savings.
The argument goes like this: high consumer debt, slowing population growth, and rising income inequality have weakened consumer demand and stimulated savings, while slowing growth in productivity and output itself has discouraged investment.
So the “natural” rate of interest – the rate at which the demand for investment equals the supply of
savings
– has fallen, and arguably has become negative.
But, because real interest rates cannot be strongly negative unless inflation is high (which it is not), there is a
savings
glut.
And the region’s problem is not too much domestic savings, but too little.
The scarcity of
savings
in the region reflects the weak incentives embedded in poorly designed tax and pension systems.
But
savings
performance is also related to long-standing fiscal problems.
Even abundant domestic
savings
in the future would not guarantee higher investment.
If the barriers to private investment in urban infrastructure could be overcome, the world would benefit from lower CO2 emissions, faster economic growth, and sounder retirement
savings.
Institutions’
savings
and investment returns are closely linked, because they are determined by the real sector, not the financial sector.
In every economy, the argument goes, there is a market interest rate determined by the financial system, and there is a natural interest rate – the value at which desired
savings
at full employment equal desired investment at full employment, and at which the economy as a whole desires neither to leverage nor to deleverage.
Some blame a global
savings
glut for this state of affairs, and call for less thrift.
First, they must accumulate capital, which implies a high
savings
rate that will help pay for new machines, equipment, and infrastructure.
At 19% of GDP, national
savings
rates are very low – indeed, much lower than in Asia – and labor legislation is antiquated, discouraging efficient use of human capital, while productivity growth is meager.
The continent needs measures that are designed to encourage
savings
and investment, improve labor utilization, and upgrade failed educational systems.
People would move their
savings
to protect them from redenomination risk.
Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors and a likely candidate to succeed Alan Greenspan as the Federal Reserve’s chairman in January, has called the decline in real interest rates over just the last decade a “global
savings
glut.”
As private companies know, transformations – deep changes in the way things are done – often cost money before they bring
savings.
The real economic benefit, however, is in the cost
savings
thereafter.
In many countries, the fall in bank lending was partly offset by an increase in lending to governments, which thought that the banks should recycle society’s
savings
directly into public-sector spending.
And even outside of high-cost regions, nearly two-thirds of US households lack the
savings
to cover a $500 shock such as a car repair or health-care expense.
The
savings
rate for households has gone from 5% of American GDP in 1990 to zero in 2000.
Balancing China’s High SavingsBEIJING – China’s national
savings
rate has been very high in recent years, amounting to 52% of GDP in 2008 (the most recent year for which statistics are available), and is often blamed for today’s global imbalances.
In late 2009 and in early 2010, China’s
savings
rate might well have remained at 50% of GDP had its trade surplus not narrowed significantly compared to previous years.
Only when a country invests less in fixed assets than the amount that it saves will the “surplus savings” show up in the trade balance.
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