The more entities manage for total return, the more
unstable the financial system becomes.
In the United States during much of the 19th Century, an erratic and
unstable financial system combined with the huge infrastructure needs of a rapidly expanding continental economy meant that the US was almost always in short supply of money and capital *, and so to a large extent its growth rate was constrained mainly by British liquidity.
Kocherlakota also spends a chunk of his speech addressing concerns raised by some about financial stability, and that keeping interest rates near zero is exacerbating an already
unstable financial system.
Not exact matches
A better approach: The global
financial system is increasingly
unstable and fragile, more so than in 2008.
When expectations are «
unstable» — when the
financial system is «
unstable» in other words — then the mechanism goes off the rails.
That has become all the more clear in the last couple of months, as a sell - off in India's currency and a gush of money out of a variety of emerging markets has shown how
unstable the world
financial system can be.
For the Fed to wait until the major benchmarks buckle means that the
financial system may grow increasingly
unstable.
High levels of total leverage make a
financial system inherently
unstable, and the only way to cure it is through expedited bankruptcy procedures.