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If this continues for two more years as it has for the past three, the stock of refinancing loans in Germany will disappear altogether.
Corporations are allowed to deduct interest payments on bonds, but stock dividends are effectively taxed at the both the corporate and the individual level.
Policymakers can also help find ways to reduce barriers to the development of stock markets, and to advance ideas for new kinds of state-contingent bonds, such as the GDP-linked bonds that Yale’s Robert Shiller has proposed.
Because Pemex, unlike the Brazilian and Colombian state-owned oil companies, will not be listed on the New York or Mexico City stock exchanges, internal reform will be postponed or half-baked.
The indictment contains four counts: that Greenspan wrongly cheered the growth of non-standard adjustable-rate mortgages, which fueled the housing bubble; that he wrongly endorsed Bush’s tax cuts; that he should have reined in the stock market bubble of the 1990’s; and that he should have done the same with the real estate bubble of the 2000’s.
The “felonies” of which Greenspan stands accused are the other two charges: that he should have done more to stop the stock market bubble of the late 1990’s, and that he should have done more to stop the housing bubble of the early 2000’s.
The only way, he says, for the Fed to have kept stock prices in reasonable equilibrium ranges in the late 1990’s would have been to raise interest rates so high that they hit the real economy on the head with a brick.
Interest rates high enough to curb stock market speculation would also have curbed construction and other forms of investment, raised unemployment, and sent the economy into recession.
All in all, Greenspan served the United States and the world well through his stewardship of monetary policy, especially by what he did not do: trying to stop stock and housing speculation by halting the economy in its tracks.
Some, including new US Federal Reserve Board chairman Jerome Powell, believe that economic fundamentals are strong, and that what stock markets experienced in early February was only a temporary hiccup.
There might already be a huge one in the US stock market.
On January 23, just a few days before equities crashed, Robert Shiller reminded us that the US had the world’s priciest stock market, with the highest cyclically adjusted price-earnings (CAPE) ratio of 26 stock markets for which there are comparable measures.
Shiller pointed to the common practice of share repurchases as one possible explanation, but then concluded that, “it is impossible to pin down the full cause of the high price of the US stock market.”
That risk is real, but it is not inevitable, because the relationship between the reserves held at the Fed and the subsequent stock of money and credit is no longer what it used to be.
Increases in the stock of money have generally led, over multiyear periods, to increases in the price level.
Consumers temporarily increased their spending in response to the increase in the stock market at the end of 2010, but that spending has recently been much more sluggish.
Compare that to the stock market: According to the GFD monthly S&P 500 total return index, an annual loss of 67.8% occurred in the year ending in May 1932, during the Great Depression, and one-year losses have exceeded 12.5% in 23 separate episodes since 1900.
Regarding the stock market and the housing market, there may well be a major downward correction someday.
The Moscow stock exchange lost 15% of its value in August, and Russia’s central bank forecasts a 25% decline in foreign investment this year.
That would be plausible if American corporate ownership were concentrated and powerful, with major shareholders owning, say, 25% of a company’s stock – a structure common in most other advanced countries, where families, foundations, or financial institutions more often have that kind of authority inside large firms.
Hedge funds with big blocks of stock are news, not the norm.
In lieu of an election that could remove recalcitrant directors, an outside company might try to buy the firm and all of its stock.
A tax on stock transactions encourages longer-term holdings.
Traders might stop trading, but shareholders still might not conduct more fundamental, long-term analysis: the rise of index funds, which hold a broadly-diversified swath of the entire stock market, reflects this trend toward stockholder passivity.
More importantly, they provide a refuge for fish populations, a kind of insurance policy against stock collapse.
The Hanshin earthquake in 1995 destroyed capital stock worth 2% of GDP.
It can be addressed only when Europeans take stock of the way the world is changing, decide that allowing others to determine the future world order is less than optimal, and develop the attitudes and behaviors of a post-American Europe.
The Global Future of Europe’s CrisisWASHINGTON, DC – It is now clear that the eurozone crisis will continue well into 2012, despite early February’s recovery in stock markets.
Around the world, the stock of financial assets has become so large, relative to national income flows, that financial-market movements can overwhelm most countries.
Since 1980 the ratio of stock market capitalization to GDP soared more than 13-fold, while equity financing rose 16-fold.
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