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One reason was that rising stock markets and higher house prices made individuals wealthier, reducing their need to save for retirement and allowing retirees to dissave more.
The stock market dropped sharply.
In response to the new monetary stimulus, the London stock market surged and the UK pound slid further.
Meanwhile, the main transmission channels of monetary stimulus to the real economy – the bond, credit, currency, and stock markets – remain weak, if not broken.
Rethinking the Twenty-First-Century EconomyGENEVA – Before the threat of a US-China trade war arose, surging stock markets and corporate profits had obscured the fact that the global economic system is under existential stress.
Harrison’s alternative was “direct pressure” – that is, using the Fed’s regulatory powers and moral suasion to persuade member banks to curtail their lending to the stock market.
No sooner did the Federal Reserve System’s member banks limit their provision of credit to purchasers of securities than non-member banks, insurance companies, and trust companies ramped up their lending, allowing the stock market to race ahead.
A recent study authored by PATH, with support from Novo Nordisk, reported that across Benin, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, and Zambia, just 20% of the health facilities that provide diabetes diagnosis and treatment had insulin in stock, and only one in four had testing strips available to monitor diabetes.
For the US the story is mostly neutral: a gain in competitiveness toward Europe, a loss relative to Japan, and with no net gain or loss in competitiveness or trade, scant inflationary effects to speak about, no interest rate hikes or stock declines - nothing to get excited about.
In Italy, a 10% fall in the stock market following the Brexit vote clearly signals the country’s vulnerability to a full-blown banking crisis – which could well bring the populist Five Star Movement, which has just won the mayoralty in Rome, to power as early as next year.
It provides a measure of the saving that is available to fund expansion of a country’s capital stock, and thus to sustain its economic growth.
A government that buys political risk insurance by placing an ever-growing stock of reserve assets in dollar securities guards against some dangers.
World leaders can allow the IMF to sell some of its gold stock to endow the agency with enough cash to fund its monitoring and surveillance functions.
The volatile stock market and the renminbi’s “surprise” depreciation are signs of imminent economic collapse, according to this view, as risky investments and high levels of government debt put the brakes on decades of turbo-charged output growth.
Indeed, when Chinese GDP was growing strongly during 2010-2013, stock prices were falling.
More recently, when stock prices began soaring during the first half of 2015, the economy’s slowdown had already begun.
As the American economist Paul Samuelson famously quipped, “The stock market has called nine of the last five recessions.”
The volatility in equity prices in recent months has more to do with the peculiarities of China’s stock markets than with the country’s underlying economic fundamentals.
In more developed economies, such as the United States and Europe, many institutional investors – who tend to be focused on long-term fundamentals – help stabilize stock markets.
Moreover, the firms listed on China’s stock exchanges are not representative of the country’s companies.
The rise and fall of the Chinese stock market should also be understood in the context of Chinese households’ limited options for storing savings.
When the alternatives are few and provide only low returns, the equity market looks more attractive, especially if – as was the case – the country’s major newspapers are running bullish editorials about stock prices.
And, as with all stock markets, shifts in sentiment that are not connected to fundamentals can also drive volatility.
Whether China’s economy can continue to grow rapidly will depend far more on its ability to reform than on how its stock markets perform.
If reforms stall, falling stock prices are likely to be the least of China’s worries.
Thus, the important thing was not to nationalize the capital stock, but to socialize investment.
And investors were also reassured by the fact that the world’s second most powerful economy, China, had a vested interest in a relatively strong, stable dollar, owing to the fact that a large portion of its massive stock of foreign-exchange reserves was held in dollars.
Multinational corporations use retained earnings to finance R&D, but because this approach can adversely affect a company’s stock valuation, even they tend to be conservative in pushing new ideas forward.
Dozens of experts recently gathered in Bhutan’s capital, Thimphu, to take stock of the country’s record.
Yet America’s stock market has performed well since Trump’s election, faltering only when his administration’s political future appears to be in doubt.
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