A high real cost of borrowing is not that frightening , if we consider that:
a) high real interest rates stem from fears of debt repudiation and that such fears may prove self-fulfilling;
b)market trades lower inflation in the short run for higher inflation in the long run;
c) contrary to Walras’ law, which states that the bond market always clears, that is not obviously happening at present;
d) it means less investment projects are financially viable;
e) it reveals the Keynesian collapse of the marginal efficiency of capital and the rise of liquidity preference that is only cash and not highly illiquid financial assets of some corporates...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
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