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Of course, investing in stocks is not a bad thing.
Many such stocks, such as Newfoundland cod, which supported huge fisheries for centuries, have been reduced to a tiny proportion of their former levels.
Salmon stocks are endangered up and down the West Coast of the US, and ecologically unsustainable aquaculture is now the major source of salmon supplies for restaurants and supermarkets.
Clearly, the loss of fish stocks deprives our palates, and puts parts of our food supply at risk.
The conventional hedge-fund strategy should be going short on Shanghai stocks and long on Tokyo stocks.
But the sheikhs are sitting on fixed stocks of oil.
If he tries to pursue radical populist policies, the response will be swift and punishing: stocks will plummet, the dollar will fall, investors will flee to US Treasury bonds, gold prices will spike, and so forth.
In most cities, rents and home prices have increased faster than incomes, and in urban areas with robust job markets, housing stocks have failed to keep pace with demand.
They buy Russian stocks, but only for the sizeable dividend yields – not for shareholder influence.
According to the UN’s most recent “State of the World’s Fisheries and Aquaculture” report, 85% of fish stocks are fully exploited or worse – the highest levels ever recorded.
Employment in fisheries in many countries is projected to grow again over the coming decades as depleted stocks recover.
The idea seems to be that there are a lot of liquid assets lying around, and that they are being used to get money to bid up the prices of stocks, housing, land, art, etc.
The ratio tells us essentially how many months of stocks we have, and today they are around 15% for some key commodities – meaning two months of stocks.
US stocks are overpriced for a world in which inflation is not totally dead and Japanese bonds are overpriced for the simple reason that the country's debt is huge and the budgets deficits on its horizon seemingly stretch forever.
The US problem is simple: stocks are in the stratosphere.
But there is no reason for stocks to rise forever: at the slightest sign of inflation trouble stock prices will implode fast.
Banks, for example, hold large stocks of government bonds.
That trade deficit is financed by foreign investments in America, as savers the world over increase their holdings of US stocks and bonds.
In the United States over the past 100 years, investments in stocks delivered an average 6% more than safe investments in short-term government securities.
But the risks that investor faced would also have doubled, for the volatility of returns on short-term government securities was 3% during the same 50 years, but a whopping 17% for the S&P index, and 30% for small cap stocks.
In other words, long-term investments in stocks do yield more than investments in government securities, but the heightened volatility means that decades must pass before we can safely conclude that an average stock investment has indeed brought higher returns.
The history of "new economy" stocks is too short to allow anyone to say whether the extraordinary performance of the stock exchanges in more or less all countries over the last few years is a temporary speculative boom, or an irreversible result of the new economy.
But the greater volatility of the last few weeks saw the index of new European stocks lose at least 30% of its value.
Looking at price earning ratios on Wall Street, Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale University and one of the most convinced believers in the bull market, observed recently that stocks have never been more overvalued, not even in the summer of 1929, before the Great Crash.
Yet, during that period, the differential in returns between stocks and treasury securities was on the order of 6%.
For individual investors, stocks remain personal risks; for Europe as a whole, bursting any speculative bubble may risk economic stability.
What the G-20 agriculture ministers have agreed is to forge a system to improve transparency in agricultural markets, including information about production, stocks, and prices.
Fully 90.6% of US families in the highest decile of the income distribution owned stocks – double the 45% ownership share of the other 90%.
The dollar has also risen relative to currencies of emerging markets with economic and financial fragilities: twin fiscal and current-account deficits, rising inflation and slowing growth, large stocks of domestic and foreign debt, and political instability.
These events have fueled fears that, even very deep and liquid markets – such as US stocks and government bonds in the US and Germany – may not be liquid enough.
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