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Economists who pretend that this would be anything less than an economic and political catastrophe for Greece should look closely at the structure of Greek trade, the anemic response of exports to the already huge internal devaluation, and company and household balance sheets.
With most credit pipelines already partly blocked, the shortage of corporate credit will become more severe as regulators finally force banks to embark on a proper mobilization of prudential capital and shrink balance sheets to less risky levels.
Quickly out of ammunition when the Great Crisis hit in late 2008, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke embraced the new miracle drug of quantitative easing – a powerful antidote for markets in distress but ultimately an ineffective tool to plug the hole in consumer balance sheets and spark meaningful revival in aggregate demand.
And, because large financial firms do very well with a great deal of leverage, they continue to devote abundant lobbying resources to resisting efforts to ensure that they are better capitalized (with more shareholder equity relative to their total balance sheets).
After all, for too many years leading up to the global financial crisis, America “bought” and “borrowed” its growth by leveraging balance sheets, rather than “earning” it through increased competitiveness.
Credit rationing has followed, as banks reduced their overburdened balance sheets and were discouraged from risk-taking.
A necessary step is to abandon convertibility and let the peso float, while transforming outstanding obligations to pesos so as to prevent the devaluation from wrecking the balance sheets of local banks and corporations.
With bad debt left to fester on banks’ balance sheets, growth vanished and deflation set in.
Japan’s real monetary-policy lesson is that prolonged monetary accommodation with near-zero rates enables banks to delay any serious effort to clean up their balance sheets.
The good news is that the ECB, recognizing this danger, has been calling for a rigorous cleanup of European banks’ balance sheets and is submitting the banks under its supervision to an asset quality review and stress tests.
But it also comes down to this: how much loss-absorbing shareholder equity is on the balance sheets of the largest financial firms?
The reason deficit reduction worked in the US in 1993 was that America's banks, whose balance sheets were weak, had large holdings of long-term bonds, the value of which increased as long-term interest rates fell.
Even interbank loans, traditionally included on balance sheets, have been turned into “interbank investment businesses,” which can exist off balance sheets.
Similarly, central banks’ inflated balance sheets – the result of short-term crisis-response measures – could, through refinancing arrangements, be used to boost green investment.
As the private sector deleverages and attempts to rebuild its balance sheets, consumption and investment demand have collapsed, bringing output down with them.
First, public- and private-sector balance sheets in most emerging economies are relatively clean.
Moreover, deferral distorts corporate balance sheets and capital-allocation decisions.
From 2007 to 2014, the central banks of the four reserve-issuing economies (the US, the eurozone, the United Kingdom, and Japan) expanded their balance sheets by $7.2 trillion.
Central banks, in order to generate resources, would expand their balance sheets by investing through the IMF in the form of increased SDRs.
Sea levels are rising, and could climb sharply if global warming leads to a destabilization of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
After all, when banks don’t know their own balance sheets, they aren’t about to trust others’.ampnbsp;
At the same time, banks, faced with a surge in nonperforming loans and compromised balance sheets, may be unable or hesitant to engage in new lending.
Delays in cleaning up balance sheets are among the factors that impede recovery and make post-crisis recoveries different from typically sharper business-cycle rebounds.
Rebalancing the State’s Balance SheetMILAN – Until recently, relatively little attention was paid to states’ balance sheets.
Meanwhile, the asset side of states’ balance sheets remains largely invisible.
America’s zombie consumers need to repair their damaged balance sheets, and US workers need to align new skills with new jobs.
Less visibly, it has acquired many times the current volume in so-called “repo operations,” through which the ECB provides euros to struggling banks in a “temporary and reversible” exchange for the government bonds on their balance sheets.
Only chaos-lovers wish for such an outcome, but it is possible if core governments continue to hesitate in engaging their balance sheets; if peripheral governments abandon their fiscal-reform efforts; and/or if societies can no longer tolerate economic stagnation, high and rising unemployment, and budget austerity.
Looking forward, one can foresee a gradual process of restoring balance sheets and balanced growth patterns in a wide range of economies.
But a strong and durable economic expansion is unlikely until progress is made in dealing with the toxic assets poisoning the balance sheets of financial institutions and bedeviling policymakers almost everywhere.
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