Anything that makes your attempt to buy an asset more risky can have a material effect on the amount of investment we get. These days, we'd be lucky if we get lots of foreign direct investment. We should not restrict it. We should make it easier. |
Global imbalances are growing, cross-border financing needs are increasing and a smooth-functioning financial system is now essential for this. |
He's one of the most brilliant people I've ever met. |
I think it's a very negative signal we're sending to the world. We don't have the luxury to snub the world. |
If we continue with our current patterns of spending above our incomes, by 2013 the U.S. foreign liabilities could be as high as 75 percent of GDP and an increasing fraction of such liabilities will be in the form of equity. So, let us stop whining about the dangers of unfriendly foreigners owning our firms and assets and get used to it. |
Our ability to finance ourselves depends upon the willingness of foreign central banks to hold dollars. That willingness is going to be shrinking (this) year. |
The ability to send a 'sell' order that roils markets may not give China a veto over U.S. foreign policy, but it surely does increase the cost of any U.S. policy that China opposes. |
The Chinese are trying to do the least they can. They want to set their own pace. |
There is definitely a big split in Europe at the moment. Europe is getting leaner and meaner, but that causes nervousness at the household level. |
There's renewed market attention on global imbalances as governments have showed again they're worried and the U.S., without saying it has a weak dollar policy, is making clear it would like a lower dollar. |
This is a very delicate moment. The economy is already very imbalanced. On top of that, we've had a massive oil shock and now we have a natural disaster that might be something of a tipping point. |
We're living beyond our means, ... and we have to get our act together. |
We’re living beyond our means, ... and we have to get our act together. |
While central banks care less than private investors about the return on their investments, they're not completely clueless, |