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Recent reports commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) neatly summarize where we are with two key data points: While global investment in renewables increased by 17% last year, 116 of 140 countries registered a deterioration in their stock of natural capital.
In recent research I conducted with Gylfi Zoega, we hypothesised that such shifts in expectations, and thus in future economic expansion, can be detected in advance from tell-tale shifts in the stock markets.
Further, they would have a well-developed stock market, since stock options help motivate entrepreneurs to start new businesses and venture capitalists will want an exchange in which to sell the shares in the start-ups they acquire.
“Shareholder value” has gained force; access to an organised stock exchange has widened.
In 1998, for example, the government led a chorus blaming the British for the property price bubble that was punctured by Asia's financial crisis of 1997, causing the stock market to fall sharply.
It is time for us to take stock of what those dynamics portend, and take seriously the lessons historical memory holds.
The top executives at 14 leading financial firms received cash compensation (as salary, bonus, and/or stock options exercised) totaling roughly $2.5 billion in 2000-2008 – with five individuals alone receiving $2 billion.
Realizing Private Capital’s Public BenefitsGENEVA – Greece’s youthful left-wing leader, Alexis Tsipras, has a point – certainly polemical and undoubtedly over-simplified – in declaring that the time has come to confront “global capitalists, bankers, profiteers on stock exchanges, the big funds.”
Yanukovych’s government must take stock of its behavior.
Although Poland moved quickly toward macro stability and free prices, still almost half of its large enterprises remain in government hands, unemployment is well over 10 percent, and only a few companies are traded on its stock exchange.
A newly-created, active, and sophisticated stock market trades shares in hundreds of companies, not the few dozen traded on other exchanges in central Europe.
If you agree with the many pundits who say stock prices have gone too high, and are much more likely to fall than to rise further, you may be right—but not if macroeconomic risk continues to drain from the system.
At the end of 2000, at the height of the Internet stock boom and just before the 2001 crash, the economists James Glassman and Kevin Hassett published Dow 36,000 .
Certainly the timing was bad: global stock prices began to collapse a few months later, and it took years for them to fully recover.
Within two decades, however, a burst of social innovation replenished the stock of social capital.
Society nowadays is different than in the 1890s; so too, the causes of a stagnant stock of social capital.
And in countries like Singapore and South Africa, companies listed on the stock market are obligated to disclose their environmental and social performance, a requirement that investors and regulators increasingly view as essential to the efficient functioning of financial markets.
In 116 of 140 countries assessed by UNEP, the stock of natural capital that underpins value creation is in decline.
The stock exchange boom of the early 1870’s was followed by collapse in 1873 and a witch-hunt for those responsible.
A post-modern neglect or disdain for reality generated the sense that the whole world was constantly shifting and malleable, and might be as transient and meaningless as stock quotations.
Given massive global corporate debt and a soaring US stock market – the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio is high by historical standards – one possible trigger for a downturn in the coming years is a negative shock that could send securities tumbling.
Perhaps burned by the way stock prices and real estate collapsed when the 1980’s bubble burst, savers would rather go for what they view as safe bonds, especially as gently falling prices make the returns go farther than would be the case in a more normal inflation environment.
Stock markets around the world soared.
It is time to take stock of the crisis and recognize that the financial industry is undergoing fundamental shifts, and is not simply the victim of speculative panic against housing loans.
One way to overcome opposition to privatization is to identify potential opponents and cut them in on the deal by means of, for example, stock ownership, a kind of populist capitalism at which Mrs. Thatcher was skilled.
Moreover, the deterioration was predictable: history shows that the real stock of government debt explodes in the wake of recessions caused by financial crises.
More than 80% of the 140 countries surveyed in UNEP’s “Inclusive Wealth” report registered a deterioration in their stock of natural capital.
His concerns appear to have been vindicated by the 20-minute shutdown of trading in New York on May 6, when the stock market completely failed in its most basic function: price discovery between buyers and sellers.
But for stock markets generally, valuations are not yet excessive, and investors are far from euphoric.
Instead, official encouragement of financial innovation fueled a sharp rise in the stock market, far beyond what China’s economic fundamentals merited.
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