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Not only have wealth and currency effects failed to spur meaningful recovery in post-crisis economies; they have also spawned new destabilizing imbalances that threaten to keep the global economy trapped in a continuous series of crises.
Unsurprisingly, the wealth effects of monetary easing worked largely for the wealthy, among whom the bulk of equity holdings are concentrated.
The effect is just like a huge tax that transfers wealth to the oil-exporting countries.
Moreover, the widening urban-rural divide has increased the country’s income and wealth disparities.
Land reform would also help to spread wealth, because stronger property rights boost rural land prices.
Central banks do not completely deny the economic costs that these policies imply: exuberance in financial markets, financing gaps in funded pension systems, and deeper wealth inequality, to name just a few.
Yet the new tech giants are multi-product, omni-channel platforms that cut across all sectors, including production, distribution, payments, and, increasingly, wealth management.
I heard the usual suspects – including a former treasury secretary who had been particularly vociferous in such admonishments during the East Asia crisis – bang on about the need for transparency at sovereign wealth funds (though not at American or European hedge funds).
We know that despite its great wealth – and its groundbreaking medical research – America’s health-care system is awful.
The research provides NGOs and government officials with the intellectual ammunition to advocate for more funding for effective solutions, and it gives donors and elected officials a wealth of data on which to base tough decisions.
Opening up the economy to competition and expanding the private sector would undermine the system of wealth and power that Putin’s associates enjoy.
Its new Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) will mobilize global pension and sovereign wealth funds to invest in infrastructure as a specific asset class.
More than 65% of foreign direct investment has gone toward mining and logging, which are notorious for generating little employment and concentrating wealth in the hands of a few.
Even staid pension funds and sovereign wealth funds have increased their allocations to emerging-market assets.
In fact, given an increasingly unequal distribution of income between capital and labor (as well as across the income spectrum for labor) a larger store of public assets certainly has merit, as it equalizes the distribution of capital and wealth, albeit indirectly.
Such newfound wealth is normally a source of celebration.
Lula’s government has thought long and hard about how to manage the oil wealth, and has devised a unique program.
First of all, it wants to spread the wealth by pursuing a new model of regional integration through energy and infrastructure.
Consumers are pulling back from home and automobile purchases not only because they have suffered a blow to their wealth with declining stock prices and housing values, but also because they don’t know where to turn.
In the Brezhnev era, expansionist policies reflected the country’s new energy-derived wealth.
Some have argued that even though the PBOC has stopped buying US and other foreign assets, China’s sovereign wealth funds still do, and that this, too, counts as manipulation.
All are examples of fast-moving industries in which competition is fierce and great wealth is created.
European competition law in particular allows policymakers to intervene at will, increasing uncertainty, damaging wealth creation and consumer well-being.
Imposing billions of dollars of fines on the most conspicuous wealth creators is not the way to go.
This sounds like a good indicator of wealth, but, as is frequently pointed out, it includes things that do not make us richer and leaves out things that do.
If we pay to clean up pollution, this increases GDP, but no wealth has been created.
It is worthwhile to consider these limitations of GDP as a measure of wealth.
And it could make sense to produce a better GDP, which adds uncounted benefits, subtracts the costs of externalities, and excludes activities that generate no wealth.
If green measures are used to shortcut the political process, we can actually end up worse off, because countries will be deprived of jobs, wealth, and welfare, while relatively small environmental benefits will be achieved.
Green GDP does include uncounted losses, so it avoids the problem of overestimating our wealth, but it fails to account for the potentially much larger benefits of innovation.
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