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Booms and busts in individual equity stocks or specific commodities typically have little macro-level effect: and even huge swings in entire equity-market sectors – such as the NASDAQ boom and bust of 1998-2002 – may have only a mild adverse impact on overall economic growth.
The Case for Muddling Through BrexitSANTA BARBARA – Panic is gripping markets – stocks and bonds are falling, the pound is plumbing new depths, fears of recession are rampant – all because a slim majority of voters in the United Kingdom decided that the country should leave the European Union.
Global food stocks are at historic lows.
In 1930, US President Herbert Hoover was advised by his treasury secretary, Andrew Mellon: “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.
But, given that many IT entrepreneurs were young at the start of their careers, with limited ownership of stocks, a more refined explanation is needed.
At that time, German and Dutch asset sellers who now hold central bank money will notice that their stocks are claims against their central banks that are no longer covered.
Suddenly, the world turned upside down: “rich” countries were running large deficits and, in some cases, tipping from net creditor status to net indebtedness, while “poor” countries were running surpluses and accumulating large stocks of external assets, including financial claims on Western economies.
China’s Stock-Market Red HerringROME – With the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index down more than 40% since last June, investors worldwide are watching the decline with growing concern – but not because they are invested in the plummeting market (China’s stocks are overwhelmingly held by Chinese).
Large stocks of dollar-denominated debt remain a key vulnerability.
Downward adjustments in profit expectations for corporations and hence for stocks may not reverse quickly; consumer confidence may decline another notch.
With tax cuts encouraging households to spend even more and interest cuts underwriting aggressively priced stocks, the house of cards, they say, is overdue for a fall.
But no, don’t wait for collapse – not in stocks, not in confidence, not in credit.
When there is no excess demand for cash, there will be no excess supply of the bonds and stocks that underpin and finance the economy’s productive capital.
Within the 200-nautical-mile limit that comprises their exclusive economic zones (EEZs), a few countries have used a combination of strong legislation, good management, and effective enforcement to preserve fish stocks and ecosystems.
At present, a web of legislation – including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Food and Agriculture Organization guidelines, and the Fish Stocks Agreement, as well as the Convention on Migratory Species of Wild Animals – governs activities that may affect biodiversity on the high seas.
Such a coordinated and harmonized framework may help to close regional gaps in governance; compel existing fisheries bodies to work to improve outcomes; and ultimately enable the development of new bodies that are focused on management and protection of ecosystems, not only fish stocks.
We draw from stocks of non-renewable natural resources (for example, oil and metal ores), and we deteriorate or modify the quality of other resources (for example, water and arable land) by imposing on them a rhythm of exploitation superior to their capacity for regeneration.
But, happily for us, our evolution is determined not only by entropy, but also by the accumulation of knowledge and technological progress – a process that is just as irreversible as the decrease in stocks of non-renewable resources and the degradation of environmental quality.
The fact that Greek stocks are tumbling and bond yields are soaring means almost nothing; after seven years of economic contraction and human suffering worse than that during the Great Depression of the 1930s, even a large amount of volatility is no reason to persist with failed policies.
Indeed, back in 1999, European central banks, seeing no reason to keep holding so much gold, entered a pact to start reducing their stocks in an orderly fashion.
It was not a mandate to buy, or announce to buy, sizeable stocks of bonds in order to reduce long-term interest rates.
And one should not forget Andrew William Mellon’s infamous and reckless advice to former US President Herbert Hoover on the eve of the Great Depression: “liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate.”
The New Economy – which is real – became the “invincible” economy where risks are discounted, stocks always rise, world economic conditions are always beneficial, and budget surpluses continue forever.
Foreigners have been keen on buying US stocks and bonds, while American businesses and households used that capital to support their investment and spending.
Of course, the worldwide crash of high-tech stocks in 2000 chilled the hype about a "new economy" that seemed to be emerging at the "end of history."
While fish stocks, for example, are depleted because of a lack of regulation, we can actually eat more fish than ever, thanks to the advent of aquaculture.
Searching the Internet gets you to places where you can book travel, buy music, find walking paths, and trade stocks, but these sites are generally not where users can aggregate, manage and analyze their own content and data.
Yahoo! is open enough to offer such third-party sources as the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, but even its own services generally provide only generic content around, say, health care and stocks, rather than the ability to manage one’s own health data or stock portfolio.
If taxes on capital are not adjusted, holders of domestic stocks suffer a comparable loss.
Furthermore, market forces could reduce inequality in the longer term only if China’s authorities tolerated the short-term inequalities created by fluctuations in prices for housing, stocks, labor, natural resources, and currency.
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