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For several reasons, it should buy US treasury securities.
As the Fed tapers its purchases of long-term assets, including US treasury securities, it is a perfect time for the ECB to step in and buy some itself.
The core protective legal institution for outside finance, the federal securities laws, didn’t fall into place until the 1930’s – decades after US financial markets had grown to finance America’s economic rise.
Without the joint-depreciation option, central banks responded to the 2008 crisis with interest-rate cuts that were unprecedented in scope, size, and speed, as well as massive purchases of long-term securities (so-called quantitative easing, or QE).
The problem with monetary policy is that, in responding to today’s crisis, the world’s central banks have bought so many safe government bonds for so much cash that the price of safe wealth in the near future is absolutely flat – the nominal interest rate on government securities is zero.
In Mexico, the market for new low-and middle-income housing has grown rapidly, thanks to the creation of a market for residential mortgage securities in 2003.
In the last quarter of 2007 alone, Mexican issuers sold $1.5 billion in new mortgage-backed securities – a significant portion of $4.4 billion outstanding – with only a slight drop in prices to reflect globally induced risk, according to the publication Asset Securitization Report .
These markets have been insulated in part because most investment in real estate-backed securities has come from local investors who often need to invest in local-currency markets.
Standard & Poor’s analyst Juan Pablo de Mollein points out that Mexico does not have a liquid secondary market where mortgage securities can be traded to buyers who are far removed from the original issuer.
Finally, in 2015, the ECB launched its quantitative-easing program, whereby member states’ central banks bought €2.4 trillion ($2.8 trillion) worth of securities, including €2 trillion of government bonds.
China is the largest foreign holder of US Treasury securities, a major trade partner for the US, Europe, Latin America, and Australia, and a key facilitator of intra-Asian trade, owing partly to the scale of its processing trade.
In 1911, the leading textbook on the German financial system, by the veteran banker Jacob Riesser, warned that, “The enemy, however, may endeavor to aggravate a panic…by the sudden collection of outstanding claims, by an unlimited sale of our home securities, and by other attempts to deprive Germany of gold.
Attempts may also be made to dislocate our capital, bill, and securities markets, and to menace the basis of our system of credit and payments.”
The left would trigger a currency collapse and a run on French securities that would bring the euro crisis from Greece, Spain, or Italy to the heart of the European process, France’s relationship with Germany.
In terms of the huge stock of foreign exchange reserves held worldwide, the public sector holds more US Treasury securities than the private sector.
Funds like the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) grabbed headlines as they gobbled up assets – including listed securities, private companies, and real estate – primarily in Europe and North America.
Unfinished business includes a deposit-insurance scheme, as well as the creation of a senior tranche of safe sovereign assets, or eurozone-wide risk-free securities.
Our programs to purchase asset-backed securities and covered bonds were tailored to help lubricate further the transmission of lower funding costs from banks to customers.
Unwilling to confront that issue, the eurozone authorities are consumed with tweaking trivialities like the degree of “flexibility” in the fiscal rules and the ECB’s dubious plan to purchase asset-backed securities.
The problem now is that the natural interest rate – that is, the liquid safe nominal interest rate on short-term US Treasury securities – is less than zero.
The Fed’s bout of indigestion started with Chairman Ben Bernanke’s June 19 press conference, where he warned that the Fed’s purchases of long-term securities might start to taper off if the economy continued to perform well – specifically, if unemployment fell to 7%.
When and how purchases of long-term securities were reduced would depend on incoming data.
In the absence of inflation, it was mainly warnings about new asset bubbles that pressured the Fed to curtail its purchases of long-term securities.
Debt relief created fewer problems for banks in the US because a significant proportion of the subprime loans packaged into AAA-rated securities had been sold to gullible foreigners.
And Friedman set out in 1948 a very clear case for using OMF to stimulate an economy when appropriate: “another reason sometimes given for issuing interest-bearing securities is that in a period of unemployment it is less deflationary to issue securities than to levy taxes.
Paulson’s proposal to purchase distressed mortgage-related securities poses a classic problem of asymmetric information.
The securities are hard to value but the sellers know more about them than the buyer: in any auction process the Treasury would end up with the dregs.
Unless the Treasury overpays for the securities, the scheme would not bring relief.
They could be applied more effectively by capitalizing the institutions that are burdened by distressed securities directly rather than by relieving them of the distressed securities.
For years, with the authorities’ encouragement (or at least acquiescence), China’s securities companies spared no effort in pumping up China’s stock exchanges with fashionable financial instruments and practices, the sole aim being to realize capital gains from rising prices (dividends are rarely distributed).
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