It’s just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis.
ALAN M. TAYLORIt’s just very hard to teach a class of students about what has happened in the Global Financial Crisis.
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Furthermore, this pattern is seen across all the advanced economies, and isn’t just a feature of some special subset (e.g. the Anglo-Saxons).
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Eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent,
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A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels.
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Non-trivial understanding of the financial sector, credit, and the banking system.
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We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since 1970.
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In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all.
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The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today’s advanced economies’ operating systems are more heavily dependent on private sector credit than anything we have ever seen before.
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Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date.
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Absent significant regulatory or tax changes, and a sharp transition could be disruptive.
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To the security of employment at working age, to the challenge of accumulating for retirement.
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And we have never observed modern finance-capitalist systems operating over a sustained period at this kind of credit-to-GDP leverage ratio.
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1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.
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How we ended up there and how we got to where we are today, without having some basic.
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Macroeconomic stability will be more elusive and that will affect all of our lives: from the risks many will face in childhood.
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More financial instability will introduce more uncertainty all down the line.
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