Tham khảo tài liệu 'the cost of capitalism market madness_5', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 146 The Cost OF Capitalism Figure Bernanke s Calamity The Fed Lowers the Funds Rate but Mortgage Rates Rise ended any hope of a simple short-circuiting of the adverse feedback loop that gripped the housing market see Figure . Why did mortgage rates rise during the aggressive Fed ease Initial mainstream commentary tied the rising mortgage rates to fears of future inflation and the weakness of the . dollar brought about when the Fed eased and the ECB stood firm. But that explanation died in mid-2008. At that time confidence in the ECB evaporated and the European currency plunged. And commodity prices began their free fall. How could mortgage rates rise amidst a soaring dollar and disappearing worries about inflation Simple. The rise reflected the wholesale collapse of confidence in the entire mortgage finance industry. As Bernanke a master of understatement put it in late October 2008 Bernanke s Calamity and the Onset of . Recession 147 The financial crisis has upset the linkage between mortgage borrowers and capital markets and has revealed a number of important problems in our system of mortgage finance. . . .3 For Minsky the phenomenon of rising long rates alongside falling short rates was hardly novel. And the dynamic in short order depressed the real economy. In a crisis Minsky wrote All of the internally generated funds are utilized to repay debt. A major objective of business bankers and financial intermediaries in this situation is to clean up their balance sheets. This can tend to sustain and may even raise long-term interest rates even as short-term interest rates are decreasing. We are no longer in a boom we are in a debt deflation process as a feedback from the purely financial developments . . . to the real economy . . . takes The mad dash to reduce risk exposure the dominolike falls of financial service companies and the morphing of the . recession into a global capital markets crisis and a worldwide recession are the subject
