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Regardless of which party is in power, the logic is the same: financially distressed states weaken the banks, owing to the falling value of government securities, while distressed banks weaken states, owing to anticipated bailout costs.
Instead, they hold federal securities.
The figures are so high in part because the vultures seek to earn past interest, which, for some securities, includes a country-risk premium – the higher interest rate offered when they were issued to offset the larger perceived probability of default.
It would appear that ICOs serve little purpose other than to skirt securities laws that exist to protect investors from being cheated.
Such rights are enforceable because securities and their issuers must be registered with the state.
There are restrictions limiting the sale of certain kinds of high-risk securities to qualified investors only.
In the Wild West of ICOs, most cryptocurrencies are issued in breach of these laws and regulations, under the pretense that they are not securities at all.
Jay Clayton, the chairman of US Securities and Exchange Commission, recently made it clear that he regards all cryptocurrencies as securities, with the exception of the first mover, Bitcoin, which he considers a commodity.
The implication is that even Ethereum and Ripple – the second- and third-largest crypto-assets – are currently operating as unregistered securities.
Banks and other financial firms borrow short – increasingly in recent years from the commercial securities market, not deposits – and lend long at higher interest rates, taking on both credit risk (of default) and interest-rate risk.
Estimates of the losses on US loans and securities range from under $1 trillion to almost $4 trillion.
This creates an incentive to default, which increases foreclosures and lowers the value of the mortgage-backed securities on financial firms’ books.
The result is, of course, paradoxical: private funds that flow into these countries are recycled into US Treasury securities via investment of accumulated reserves.
Why do Piemontese, Bavarians, or Scots need intermediate national bureaucracies to run their tax policies, welfare programs, securities laws, and the largely useless, duplicative armies?
The US gained by turning to China for low-cost goods that helped income-constrained consumers make ends meet; it also imported surplus savings from China to fill the void of an unprecedented shortfall of domestic saving, with the deficit-prone US drawing freely on China’s voracious appetite for Treasury securities.
They viewed the Fed’s open-ended purchases of long-term securities as an attempt to engineer a competitive devaluation of the dollar and worried that ultra-easy monetary conditions in the United States would unleash a flood of “hot money” inflows, driving up their exchange rates.
In response, investment banks branched into new businesses like originating and distributing complex derivative securities.
It also created a more buoyant market for the securities of Freddie and Fannie, feeding the originate-and-distribute machine.
As they absorb their losses on US treasury and agency securities, capital flows toward the US will diminish.
America exported its toxic mortgages around the world, in the form of asset-backed securities.
National City Bank and Chase National Bank had already announced that they were liquidating their securities affiliates.
Underwriting had collapsed, and banks were more than ready to get out of the securities business.
Domestically oriented macroeconomists look at the situation roughly like this: at some point in the future, foreign central banks will become less willing to continue buying massive amounts of dollar-denominated securities in order to prop up the greenback.
But the Fed has now tried to induce the creation of more savings vehicles, in part through $3 trillion in purchases of long-term securities.
A low VIX signals a “risk-on” period, when investors “reach for yield,” exchanging US Treasury bills and other safe-haven securities for riskier assets like stocks, corporate bonds, real estate, and carry-trade currencies.
Yet markets acted as if risk was low, driving down the VIX and US Treasury bill rates, and driving up prices of stocks, junk bonds, and emerging-market securities.
Likewise, the formula for pricing mortgage-backed securities requires a statistical estimate of the frequency distribution of defaults.
Both licensed securities brokers and unlicensed lenders were offering increasing amounts of margin financing, which fueled mutually reinforcing surges in prices and turnover.
In what sense did risks increase when the Fed purchased another $85 billion of long-term securities for cash in September?
QE neutralizes Treasury duration risk – the sensitivity of bond prices to changes in interest rates – within central banks that will hold the securities to maturity.
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