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Both economies’ recoveries have been driven largely by a pickup in consumption on the back of stronger household balance sheets, especially in the US.
Since the banks are large net international debtors, who have borrowed from abroad in dollars (and yen) to re-lend domestically in local currency, the balance sheets of the banks worsen every time the Asian currencies fall further.
As the recession deepens, however, bank balance sheets will be hammered further by a wave of defaults in commercial real estate, credit cards, private equity, and hedge funds.
The level of uncertainty about asset values, solvency, and the connectedness of balance sheets that prevailed at the time was extraordinarily high.
The narrower agenda – financial reform, stabilizing the housing market, restoring balance sheets, addressing structural deficiencies, and restoring growth and employment – would not have captured the public’s imagination, and almost certainly would have disappointed Obama’s enthusiastic supporters.
The advanced countries will spend decades working off high public-debt loads, while their central banks will have to unwind bloated balance sheets and back off from promises of support that markets have come to rely on.
While it is true that surging M2 can reflect excessive leverage, it is not a particularly accurate gauge in China, where commercial banks can easily circumvent high reserve requirements and quantitative controls by moving loans off their balance sheets to wealth-management products – practices that fuel artificial credit expansion that looks like M2 growth.
Judging by non-financial firms’ balance sheets, investment-to-profit ratios decreased from 1995 to 2014, with especially steep declines in Brazil, Malaysia, South Korea, and Turkey.
Tragically, such losses never appear on the profit sheets measured by accountants.
Others – such as Bridges Ventures and Pacific Community Ventures – are using Community Development Financial Institutions and insurance-company balance sheets to expand the financing pool available to start-ups in disadvantaged communities.
Doing so would strengthen their balance sheets, crowd in the private sector, and generate employment.
It is no coincidence that from 2010 to 2014, the largest banks, firms, and investment funds increased their cash holdings by $3 trillion – roughly the amount by which central banks in reserve-currency countries expanded their balance sheets over the same period.
The bad loans, in turn, have created massive holes in banks’ balance sheets, which have to be repaired.
Household balance sheets are weaker.
The holes in financial institutions’ balance sheets should be filled in a transparent way.
Second, Chinese balance sheets carry too much debt relative to equity.
Such crises cause major negative demand shocks, as excess debt and falling asset prices damage balance sheets, which then require increased savings to heal – a combination that is lethal to growth.
Meanwhile, capital is accumulating on high-net-worth balance sheets and in sovereign-wealth funds.
An increase on that scale is associated in their model with a 0.3-percentage-point reduction in annual growth, and twice that in a housing-market crisis, given the high proportion of mortgage lending on EU banks’ balance sheets.
According to a 2012 study by Andrew G. Haldane of the Bank of England, the financial crisis caused failures in around half of the 101 banks with balance sheets larger than $100 billion as of 2006.
Only decisive progress on these fronts will unlock the trillions of corporate dollars that, rather than being invested in new plants and equipment, remain stranded on companies’ balance sheets or are handed over to shareholders via higher dividends and share buybacks.
The current crisis has come to be called a “balance-sheet recession” of global scope and tremendous depth and destructive power because of its origins in the balance sheets of the financial and household sectors.
Somewhere in the system, accountability for stability and sustainability in terms of asset valuation, leverage, and balance sheets will need to be assigned and taken seriously.
In the current crisis, a substantial fraction of countries outside the G-20 are essentially defenseless: small relatively poor economies, no fiscal capacity for stimulus, and inadequate reserves to offset the capital outflows that occurred to shore up damaged balance sheets in advanced markets.
No academic laurels are to be won by finding innovative accounts as its cause: the collapses were the result of financial weakness in countries where bad policies produced hyper-inflation, which destroyed banks’ balance sheets.
The answers, if they exist, lie in the slow and painful cleaning up of balance sheets; and in microeconomic restructuring, which cannot simply be imposed from above by an omniscient planner, but requires many businesses and individuals to change their outlook and behavior.
With households desperately trying to rebuild their balance sheets, and with capital investment remarkably healthy, the only places to boost spending to restore capacity utilization and unemployment to normal levels are exports, government purchases, and construction investment.
Governments engaged in war do not worry about debt-to-GDP ratios or bank balance sheets.
In short, as Greenspan departs, he leaves behind an American economy burdened with high household and government debt and fragile balance sheets – a legacy that is already contributing to global financial instability.
Spanish banks are required to increase their deposits in proportion to their lending and set aside capital against assets in their off-balance sheets.
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