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The Fed knows skyrocketing home prices are a problem but doesn't know what to do about itFederal Reserve policymakers have an eye on surging US home prices, meeting minutes showed.Some officials "saw benefits" to tapering mortgage-loan purchases to cool the red-hot market.Members chose to hold policy steady, but the minutes signal the Fed may want to curb inflation.Of the various items surging in price in 2021, homes are perhaps the most extraordinary.Price growth is the strongest it's been in more than 30 years. While demand remains elevated, builders have struggled to bring more supply to market. America's central bank played at least some role in this incredible price inflation.The Fed's emergency policies dragged mortgage rates to record lows and helped spark the sharp increase in homebuying. But as prices climb to dizzying heights, some experts have called on the Fed to rein in its support. Officials at the Fed are tuned in to the problem, minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee's June meeting showed.Several of the meeting's participants "saw benefits to reducing the pace" of the central bank's purchases of mortgage-backed securities, citing "valuation pressures in housing markets," the minutes said. They also suggested tapering MBS purchases earlier than Treasury purchases, a move that would counter the Fed's past signals.The FOMC meeting ended with policymakers electing to hold rates near zero and keep buying at least $80 billion in Treasuries and $40 billion in MBS each month.The outlook echoes comments made in recent months by a handful of Fed officials. Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said in May that MBS purchases could be having "some unintended consequences" that should be weighed against their benefits."We don't want to get back to the housing-bubble game that cost us a lot of distress in the 2000s," St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on CNBC in June.But other FOMC members saw reason to stay the course. Several said synchronized tapering of Treasuries and MBS purchases would be preferable, since that "would be well aligned with the Committee's previous communications," the minutes showed. They also said purchases of both Treasuries and MBS helped the Fed achieve its goal of easing financial conditions.For the moment, any policy shifts are likely months away. FOMC participants agreed to continue assessing the housing market and discussing plans for eventual tapering. Fed Chair Jerome Powell has repeatedly said that "substantial further progress" toward the Fed's goals of maximum employment and inflation averaging 2% was required for policy adjustments.Officials generally agreed in June the threshold hadn't yet been met, according to the minutes. For now, then, the Fed is set to keep house prices booming. But there's a crack in their thinking.
(Lectura obligatoria:https://www.bde.es/bde/es/el-consejo-de-gobierno-del-bce-aprueba-su-nueva-estrategia-de-politica-monetaria-b80514ef6c58a71.htmlhttps://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/search/review/html/ecb.strategyreview_monpol_strategy_statement.es.htmlEn inglés:https://www.ecb.europa.eu/home/search/review/html/ecb.strategyreview_monpol_strategy_statement.en.html )EL BANCO CENTRAL EUROPEO SE PONE DURO CON LA VIVIENDA.—En su revisión histórica de estrategia, el BCE pone la Vivienda en el centro de su nuevo discurso.Pasos que, implícitamente, anuncia el BCE en la puertas de la Era Zero:1) Rerrebajón de la Vivienda.2) Incorporación al IPC de la Vivienda una vez rerrebajada (lo que equivale a categorizarla oficialmente como Consumo, deshaciendo la apariencia de que se trata de Inversión).3) En la medida en la que los precios de la Vivienda muestren dinamismo al alza, se obtendrán datos de IPC no negativos ('an inflation buffer above zero per cent') que permitirán administrar el estrangulamiento financiero total, a la par que aprendemos a vivir con la bendición de un dinero fortísimo en estabilidad monetaria, para escarnio de la idiocia creditófaga del siglo pasado (en España, con el ventrílocuo Moreno, estamos viviendo un trágico ejemplo de en qué acaban convirtiéndose las espirales de deuda).No coman mierda (difícil misión en Madrid). No se crean ni una sola deposición de 'enteraos' sobre fantasmagóricas subidas de precios inmobiliarios. Todos los precios inmobiliarios, no solo los de Vivienda, están bajando, y mucho, desde antes de la pandemia de coronavirus, como refleja lo poco del sector que cotiza en Bolsa. ¡Y ahora la autoridad monetaria patrocina una bajada a plomo!, sabedora de que esta vez la banca de depósitos está a salvo, tras el éxito de la Operación Desagüe. Tengan cuidado: cualquier día nos desayunamos con que tal o cual fondo o institución financiera no a pleno sol regulatorio suspende reembolsos.La victoria del estructuraltransicionismo es total.En el Repinchazo de la Reburbuja, los perdedores no nos dan ninguna pena. El daño que han hecho tardará décadas en restañarse.Preparémonos para ver cómo el mediopelo mierdista se revuelve contra el BCE.Pro memoria:El uso que hacemos de la palabra mierda no es gratuito. El Mierdismo es la fase superior del Nuncabajismo/Pocobajismo:— «Bendita mierda que es todo, para mayor gloria de El Ladrillo».Está la gente jodidísima por la pandemia y los muy hijos de la gran puta, perdónesenos la expresión, en la televisión todo el día, con el cinismo más lacerante que nunca se haya visto, envenenando a los pobretones con que El Ladrillo no solo no se ha inmutado, sino que la propia pandemia habría cargado las pilas de un enésimo ciclo dorado de usura. Reconozcamos el sentimiento de repugnancia que nos provoca. Dejémoslo pasar. No tenemos que hacer nada, salvo contemplar los últimos días del búnker.
Calviño se consolida como la clave de la estrategia económicaLa ministra de Asuntos Económicos se convierte en la vicepresidenta primera en sustitución de Carmen Calvo(...) Sánchez reafirma la autoridad de la ministra de Asuntos Económicos en la agenda económica del Gobierno, según algunos economistas consultados por Efe, que consideran que Calviño "sale reforzada" en la gestión de los fondos europeos y liderando las reformas comprometidas.Fuentes próximas al Gobierno también interpretan la decisión como el paso a una etapa en la que lo prioritario pasa a ser la recuperación económica, tras otra en la que lo ha sido la gestión de la pandemia o cuestiones políticas como los indultos. También consideran que supone un refuerzo del papel de Calviño en el equipo económico del Gobierno.
Germany's Scholz sees final tax reform deal by OctoberVENICE, July 10 (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Saturday he expected a final deal on taxing multinationals to be reached by October, after finance ministers from the G20 club of large economies backed a plan to stop companies shifting profits to tax havens.“We have already reached the core agreement,” Scholz told reporters at the G20 gathering in Venice.“So I am absolutely sure that we will get an agreement in October.”
G20 recognizes carbon pricing as climate change tool for first timeG20 finance leaders recognized carbon pricing as a potential tool to address climate change for the first time in an official communique on Saturday, taking a tentative step towards promoting the idea and coordinating carbon reduction policies.The move marked a massive shift from the previous four years when former U.S. President Donald Trump's administration routinely opposed the mention of climate change as a global risk in such international statements.The communique, issued on Saturday after a meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bank governors in the Italian city of Venice, which is threatened by rising sea levels, inserted a mention of carbon pricing among a "wide set of tools" on which countries should coordinate to lower greenhouse gas emissions.Such tools include investing in sustainable infrastructure and new technologies to promote decarbonization and clean energy, "including the rationalisation and phasing-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies that encourage wasteful consumption and, if appropriate, the use of carbon pricing mechanisms and incentives, while providing targeted support for the poorest and the most vulnerable," said the communique from the financial leaders of the world's 20 major economies.The statement was issued just days before the European Union was scheduled to unveil a controversial carbon-adjustment border tax on goods from countries with high carbon emissions."It is the first time in a G20 communique you could have these two words 'carbon pricing' being introduced as a solution for the fight against climate change," French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told reporters. "We have been pushing very hard to have these two words ... introduced into a G20 communique."Those efforts met strong U.S. resistance for most of Trump's presidency, during which the United States quickly withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.At a summit in Saudi Arabia in 2020, then-U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin agreed to a G20 reference to climate change, but not as a downside risk to global growth. Instead, it was included in a reference to the Financial Stability Board’s work examining the implications of climate change for financial stability.The carbon pricing mention on Saturday marks the influence of the Biden administration, which immediately rejoined the Paris agreement in January and has set out ambitious carbon reduction targets and clean energy and transportation investment plans.But while supporting emissions reductions, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called on Friday for better international coordination on carbon-cutting policies to avoid trade frictions.The EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) would impose levies on the carbon content of imported goods in an effort to discourage "carbon leakage," the transfer of production to countries with less onerous emission restrictions. Critics of the measure worry that it could become another trade barrier without reducing emissions.
The Green Economy Has a Resource-Scarcity ProblemThe world is at a tipping point on sustainability. Investors are increasing their focus on ESG, consumers are demanding transparency and accountability, governments are setting legally binding targets, and companies are stepping up with bold commitments. But new solutions will inevitably trigger bottlenecks for the very resources, infrastructures, and capabilities upon which they depend. While the supply of these sustainability-related resources will expand due to investment and innovation, in many categories rapid growth in demand will likely outstrip supply, heightening competition and pushing up prices. Forward-thinking companies will move swiftly, mapping out a plan for delivering on its promises, securing the required inputs, and capturing the value that new sustainable business models offer.(...) Consider carbon credits, for example. Many companies rely on them as a near-term bridge or as a long-term primary strategy for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions. But at BCG, we anticipate that a significant shortage in carbon credit availability will emerge over the next decade. Under even a conservative scenario, the net supply of credits annually coming onto the market will fall short of supply by 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2030, according to our analysis. This market shortage will likely be exacerbated by a compounding effect in which deficits from prior years stack on top of one another as companies fight to offset both current and historical emissions.Other impending sustainability scarcities are already visible in several categories:Recycled Plastics: According to BCG analysis, about 45% of the demand for recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) will be unmet by 2025. This will be a problem for consumer-packaged goods companies that have set ambitious rPET packaging goals.Battery Inputs: The current supply of raw materials, such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite, is less than one-third of what will be required to meet battery demand in 2030, according to Cairn Energy Research Advisors. This poses a significant risk to companies that manufacture electric vehicles and energy storage systems.Green Hydrogen: This has been touted as a promising method of decarbonizing heavy industries, such as steel and cement manufacturing, chemical and petrochemical refining, and large-scale shipping. Industry projections of supply and demand of green hydrogen suggests production capacity will need to grow by a factor of 100 to 200 over the next 30 years to meet demand. However, that level of growth in supply could be challenging, given potential bottlenecks in the production of equipment and factory inputs, such as platinum needed for the cathodes in electrolyzers, as well as in the renewable energy input required to produce green hydrogen.Sustainable Cotton: The vast majority of major fashion brands have committed to using 100% sustainable cotton by the end of 2025. In 2018, however, just 21% of cotton worldwide was grown sustainably. And industry experts don’t expect the supply of sustainable cotton to expand rapidly enough to meet demand, owing to such factors as the financial challenges that small farmers face in adopting sustainable growing practices.Forward-looking companies are already trying to secure the resources they will need before sustainability scarcity becomes the norm. For example, Apple, Tesla, and Volkswagen have acted to ensure access to future supplies of critical metals through long-term contracts with producers. Meanwhile, other companies are taking steps to address the looming shortage of recycled plastics. Nestlé and Unilever have invested $30 million and $15 million respectively in a private equity fund that invests in and supports the development of companies in the plastics recycling value chain. PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have invested heavily in the R&D of plastics alternatives, consumer education, and recycling infrastructure to get in front of the expected rPET shortage.By identifying and anticipating critical bottlenecks, forward-looking companies can take the moves necessary to alleviate constraints and turn them to competitive advantage.(...)To win through sustainability, a company must move swiftly, mapping out a plan for delivering on its promises, securing the required inputs, and capturing the value that new sustainable business models offer. Besides benefiting the company, these actions will accelerate the world’s investment in and development of scarce resources — propelling us toward a sustainable future.
https://hbr.org/2021/07/the-green-economy-has-a-resource-scarcity-problem?linkId=123617503CitarThe Green Economy Has a Resource-Scarcity ProblemThe world is at a tipping point on sustainability. Investors are increasing their focus on ESG, consumers are demanding transparency and accountability, governments are setting legally binding targets, and companies are stepping up with bold commitments. But new solutions will inevitably trigger bottlenecks for the very resources, infrastructures, and capabilities upon which they depend. While the supply of these sustainability-related resources will expand due to investment and innovation, in many categories rapid growth in demand will likely outstrip supply, heightening competition and pushing up prices. Forward-thinking companies will move swiftly, mapping out a plan for delivering on its promises, securing the required inputs, and capturing the value that new sustainable business models offer.(...) Consider carbon credits, for example. Many companies rely on them as a near-term bridge or as a long-term primary strategy for offsetting greenhouse gas emissions. But at BCG, we anticipate that a significant shortage in carbon credit availability will emerge over the next decade. Under even a conservative scenario, the net supply of credits annually coming onto the market will fall short of supply by 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2030, according to our analysis. This market shortage will likely be exacerbated by a compounding effect in which deficits from prior years stack on top of one another as companies fight to offset both current and historical emissions.Other impending sustainability scarcities are already visible in several categories:Recycled Plastics: According to BCG analysis, about 45% of the demand for recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) will be unmet by 2025. This will be a problem for consumer-packaged goods companies that have set ambitious rPET packaging goals.Battery Inputs: The current supply of raw materials, such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite, is less than one-third of what will be required to meet battery demand in 2030, according to Cairn Energy Research Advisors. This poses a significant risk to companies that manufacture electric vehicles and energy storage systems.Green Hydrogen: This has been touted as a promising method of decarbonizing heavy industries, such as steel and cement manufacturing, chemical and petrochemical refining, and large-scale shipping. Industry projections of supply and demand of green hydrogen suggests production capacity will need to grow by a factor of 100 to 200 over the next 30 years to meet demand. However, that level of growth in supply could be challenging, given potential bottlenecks in the production of equipment and factory inputs, such as platinum needed for the cathodes in electrolyzers, as well as in the renewable energy input required to produce green hydrogen.Sustainable Cotton: The vast majority of major fashion brands have committed to using 100% sustainable cotton by the end of 2025. In 2018, however, just 21% of cotton worldwide was grown sustainably. And industry experts don’t expect the supply of sustainable cotton to expand rapidly enough to meet demand, owing to such factors as the financial challenges that small farmers face in adopting sustainable growing practices.Forward-looking companies are already trying to secure the resources they will need before sustainability scarcity becomes the norm. For example, Apple, Tesla, and Volkswagen have acted to ensure access to future supplies of critical metals through long-term contracts with producers. Meanwhile, other companies are taking steps to address the looming shortage of recycled plastics. Nestlé and Unilever have invested $30 million and $15 million respectively in a private equity fund that invests in and supports the development of companies in the plastics recycling value chain. PepsiCo and Coca-Cola have invested heavily in the R&D of plastics alternatives, consumer education, and recycling infrastructure to get in front of the expected rPET shortage.By identifying and anticipating critical bottlenecks, forward-looking companies can take the moves necessary to alleviate constraints and turn them to competitive advantage.(...)To win through sustainability, a company must move swiftly, mapping out a plan for delivering on its promises, securing the required inputs, and capturing the value that new sustainable business models offer. Besides benefiting the company, these actions will accelerate the world’s investment in and development of scarce resources — propelling us toward a sustainable future.
Global Boom in House Prices Becomes a Dilemma for Central BanksSurging house prices across much of the globe are emerging as a key test for central banks’ ability to rein in their crisis support.Withdrawing stimulus too slowly risks inflating real estate further and worsening financial stability concerns in the longer term. Pulling back too hard means unsettling markets and sending property prices lower, threatening the economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.With memories of the global financial crisis that was triggered by a housing bust still fresh in policy makers minds, how to keep a grip on soaring house prices is a dilemma in the forefront of deliberations as recovering growth sees some central banks discuss slowing asset purchases and even raising interest rates.Federal Reserve officials who favor tapering their bond buying program have cited rising house prices as one reason to do so. In particular, they are looking hard at the Fed’s purchases of mortgage backed securities, which some worry are stoking housing demand in an already hot market.In the coming week, central bankers in New Zealand, South Korea and Canada meet to set policy, with soaring home prices in each spurring pressure to do something to keep homes affordable for regular workers.New Zealand policy makers are battling the hottest property market in the world, according to the Bloomberg Economics global bubble ranking. The central bank, which meets Wednesday, has been given another tool to tackle the issue, and its projections for the official cash rate show it starting to rise in the second half of 2022.Facing criticism for its role in stoking housing prices, Canada’s central bank has been among the first from advanced economies to shift to a less expansionary policy, with another round of tapering expected at a policy decision also on Wednesday.The Bank of Korea last month warned that real estate is “significantly overpriced” and the burden of household debt repayment is growing. But a worsening virus outbreak may be a more pressing concern at Thursday’s policy meeting in Seoul.In its biggest strategic rethink since the creation of the euro, the European Central Bank this month raised its inflation target and in a nod to housing pressures, officials will start considering owner-occupied housing costs in their supplementary measures of inflation.The Bank of England last month indicated unease about the U.K. housing market. Norges Bank is another authority to have signaled it’s worried about the effect of ultra-low rates on the housing market and the risk of a build-up of financial imbalances.Beginning of the End of Easy Money: Central Bank Quarterly GuideThe Bank for International Settlements used its annual report released last month to warn that house prices had risen more steeply during the pandemic than fundamentals would suggest, increasing the sector’s vulnerability if borrowing costs rise.While the unwinding of pandemic-era is support is expected to be gradual for most central banks, how to do so without hurting mortgage holders will be a key challenge, according to Kazuo Momma, who used to be in charge of monetary policy at the Bank of Japan.“Monetary policy is a blunt tool,” said Momma, who now works as an economist at Mizuho Research Institute. “If it is used for some specific purposes like restraining housing market activities, that could lead to other problems like overkilling the economic recovery.”But not acting carries other risks. Analysis by Bloomberg Economics shows that housing markets are already exhibiting 2008 style bubble warnings, stoking warnings of financial imbalances and deepening inequality.New Zealand, Canada and Sweden rank as the world’s frothiest housing markets, based on the key indicators used in the Bloomberg Economics dashboard focused on member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The U.K. and the U.S. are also near the top of the risk rankings.As many economies still grapple with the virus or slow loan growth, central bankers may look for alternatives to interest-rate hikes such as changes to loan-to-value limits or risk weighting of mortgages -- so called macro-prudential policy.Yet such measures aren’t guaranteed to succeed because other dynamics like inadequate supply or government tax policies are important variables for housing too. And while ever cheap money is gushing from central banks, such measures are likely to struggle to rein in prices.“The best approach would be to stop the further expansion of central bank balance sheets,” according to Gunther Schnabl of Leipzig University, who is an expert on international monetary systems. “As a second step, interest rates could be increased in a very slow and diligent manner over a long time period.”Another possibility is that house prices reach a natural plateau. U.K. house prices, for example, fell for the first time in five months in June, a sign that the property market may have lost momentum as a tax incentive was due to come to an end.There’s no sign of that in the U.S. though, where demand for homes remains strong despite record-high prices. Pending home sales increased across all U.S. regions in May, with the Northeast and West posting the largest gains.While navigating the housing boom won’t be easy for central banks, it may not be too late to ward off the next crisis. Owner-occupy demand versus speculative buying remains a strong driver of growth. Banks aren’t showing signs of the kind of loose lending that preceded the global financial crisis, according to James Pomeroy, a global economist at HSBC Holdings Plc.“If house prices are rising due to a shift in supply versus demand, which the pandemic has created due to more remote working and people wanting more space, it may not trigger a crisis in the same way as previous housing booms,” said Pomeroy. “The problems may arise further down the line, with younger people priced out of the property ladder even more.”As they tip toe away from their crisis settings, monetary authorities in economies with heavily indebted households will need to be especially careful, said Alicia Garcia Herrero, chief economist for Asia Pacific at Natixis who used to work for the ECB and International Monetary Fund.“Real estate prices, as with other asset prices, will continue to balloon as long as global liquidity remains so ample,” she said. “But the implications are much more severe than other asset prices as they affect households much more widely.”
U.S. Treasury's Yellen to push development banks to step up climate financing effortU.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday signaled she will push multilateral development banks further away from fossil fuel projects, saying she would ask them to "increase their climate ambition" to support the Paris Agreement on carbon emissions reductions.Yellen told a news conference that development lenders including the World Bank needed to boost efforts to encourage more private-sector climate-friendly investment."I plan to shortly convene the heads of the MDBs to articulate our expectations that the MDBs align their portfolios with the Paris Agreement and net-zero goals as urgently as possible," Yellen said in remarks to a G20 climate forum."We also expect them to take steps to more effectively mobilize private capital so that developing countries can increasingly benefit from private sector pledges to support climate-aligned and sustainable investments," Yellen said.(...)
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How the ECB’s New Inflation Goal Will Shape EconomyThe European Central Bank’s decision to raise its goal for inflation and even let it overshoot the target for a while gives it more leeway to support an economy which for years has turned in a lackluster performance by international standards. Nine years after former ECB President Mario Draghi memorably said the central bank would do “whatever it takes” to preserve the euro, his successor Christine Lagarde’s revamp of ECB strategy following an 18-month review is intended to inject more clarity into policy-making on interest rates and inflation. The strategy review is the first by the institution since 2003, and the most ambitious attempt to rethink its role in serving the euro zone’s 342 million citizens since the creation of the single currency.(...)2. What does it mean for inflation?Lagarde said the old inflation target was seen as “too elaborate” and told a press conference July 8 that the new version “removes any possible ambiguity and resolutely conveys that 2% is not a ceiling.” Officials agreed to better reflect the costs of owner-occupied housing in gauging price pressures. While the inclusion of those figures in official inflation numbers will take time, the ECB will pay attention to initial estimates.