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As a consequence of too much regulatory subsidized credit, whether by deflation or inflation, both houses and sovereign debts will be worth much less.

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 3:04

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Sir, Martin Wolf writes: “monetary policy fosters risk-taking, while regulation discourages it — a recipe for instability.” “How the long debt cycle might end” May 15

Over the last decade I have written hundreds of letters to Wolf and other at FT about the dangerous waste of any stimuli package when you simultaneously distort the allocation of bank credit to the real economy, as is currently done with the credit risk weighted capital requirements for banks.

Just looking at some of the risk weights: like 0% for the sovereign, 20% for anything rated AAA to AA, 35% or less for residential mortgages and 100% for loans to unrated entrepreneurs, should have sufficed to know where we would end up, namely:

A banking sector abandoning much of its traditional “risky” lending in favor of what is perceived, decreed or concocted as safe; forcing most of those that used to keep to what was perceived as safe, like individual private savers, pension funds and even insurance companies, to get into the world of what’s risky, something for which they are much less prepared than banks.

And excessive bank exposures, as usual, morph what is very safe into being very risky. Having, with too much financing, pushed houses from being homes into being investment assets, have made households house-rich and money poor. Just wait till many of current owners, out of need must convert houses into main-street purchased power at any cost. Whether by deflation or inflation, those houses will be worth much less.

Of course, lower bank capital requirements for loans to sovereigns than for loans to citizens, translates, de facto, into a belief that bureaucrats know better and are more responsible than citizens about how to use bank credit, and will therefore cause excessive sovereign debts.

With respect to it Wolf writes: “Those in emerging countries are particularly vulnerable, because much of their borrowing is in foreign currencies”. That is so but let me also add to that the Eurozone nations who, de facto, do not take on debt denominated in a domestic printable currency.

But, let us be clear, a nation printing itself out of excessive public debt, does also expose itself to inflationary pressures and so again, whether by deflation or inflation, in real terms, that sovereign debt will be worth much less than what its buyers’ paid for it.

Sir, finally, Martin Wolf opines that those who recommended another route of adjusting than with the stimuli package to the 2008 crisis were “fools”.

That could be but, as a consequence of taking “the smart way”, the world just kicked the crisis can forward and renounced to the long-term benefits of a hard landing. There will come a time when too many will regret not having taken the fools’ way.

http://subprimeregulations.blogspot.com/2019/03/my-letter-to-financial-stability-board.html

@PerKurowski

Source: http://teawithft.blogspot.com/2019/05/as-consequence-of-too-much-regulatory.html

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