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Even when things look more difficult in the US, as when inflation began to run higher recently and productivity growth lowered, the stock market sell-off that followed did not burst the overall market bubble.
Their stock markets have declined by even more (40% in Brazil and one-third in South Korea).
This reaching for yield has driven up the prices of all long-term bonds to unsustainable levels, narrowed credit spreads on corporate bonds and emerging-market debt, raised the relative prices of commercial real estate, and pushed up the stock market’s price-earnings ratio to more than 25% higher than its historic average.
International pension funds, mutual funds, German corporate pension plans, as well as insurance companies already play a leading role on the German stock market, and calls for corporate managers to focus on increasing shareholder value (as opposed to the older, more consensus-oriented corporate policy) are getting louder -- not only on the trading floor, but also in the boardroom.
The peripheral countries suffer from severe stock and flow imbalances.
The stock imbalances include large and rising public and private debt as a share of GDP.
And, without resumption of growth – not years down the line, but in 2012 – the stock and flow imbalances will become even more unsustainable.
Since the prolonged showdown over the budget began earlier this year, the stock market has lost about 20% of its value (roughly $10 trillion).
It was the value of the stock market that fell sharply – which makes sense, given that counter-cyclical policy is now severely constrained.
From a broader historical perspective, stock markets always experience booms and busts.
Growth ultimately depends on supply-side factors – investment in and acquisition of new technologies – and the stock of technologies that can be adopted by poor countries does not disappear when advanced countries’ growth is sluggish.
The boom in the world’s housing markets and stock markets between 2003 and 2006 was caused by this faulty idea, and the idea that investments in homes and equities are a sure route to wealth.
On the contrary, economic theorists have been puzzled by the historical rate of increase in the stock market, which they call “the equity premium puzzle.”
Adding imputed interest earnings, the stock of Africa's capital flight stood at $274 billion - a sum equivalent to 145% of the debts owed by those countries.
In stock trading, 79% of market transactions are now performed by software, according to Frank Zhang of the Yale School of Management, reflecting the hope that machines will be able to identify patterns more effectively than a human could – a hope that may have contributed to the recent stock-market correction.
Nor are these claims based on the Chinese stock market, which has generally followed a downward path over the past few years.
Anticipating deeper economic reforms from a strengthened Modi administration, India’s stock market surged.
Securities investment funds now account for roughly 30% of tradable stock market capitalization, although this represents only 0.9% of GDP, compared to more than 5% in India.
Since mid-2015, the country’s stock market has been on a rollercoaster.
The Great Depression, which followed the stock market crash of 1929, saw unemployment rise sharply in many countries, accompanied by severe deflation.
For example, sometimes the stock market has set a new record, whether up or down, which is nothing more than the result of inflation.
This will put increasing strain on the environment and deplete the world’s stock of resources.
Yet America was great before Trump, and his behavior – riding roughshod over international agreements, trashing allies, and pursuing protectionist trade measures – will only undermine that greatness by, among other things, depleting the country’s formidable stock of soft power.
Europe’s Dog Days of SummerMADRID – August is always a good time for taking stock.
Some countries, notably Saudi Arabia, which issued the largest volume of external debt of any emerging market in October 2016, started with a clean balance sheet – no outstanding debt and a high stock of assets.
By 2006 (the peak of the US housing bubble), foreign official institutions held about one-third of the stock of US Treasuries outstanding, approximately twice the amount held by the Fed.
Since then, growth in these economies has slowed markedly, their stock markets have slumped, capital outflows have escalated, and many of their currencies have crashed.
For example, companies increasingly augment standard wage packages with stock options, even for rank-and-file employees.
In the United States, the Labor Department reports that in 2003, 14% of US workers in firms with 100 or more employees were offered stock options.
A recent paper by MIT Professors Nittai Bergman and Derk Jenter suggests that management tends to award employee options when employees are excessively optimistic about the outlook for company stock – thereby in effect opportunistically substituting overpriced options for full pay.
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