Keeping interest rates low discouraged capital inflows and encouraged asset price inflation.

But this vigorous attempt to reduce interest rates is distorting capital allocation.

William agreed to pay George interest and the capital in compensation, but George remained unpaid.

Similarly, a potential downside to quantitative easing is that low interest rates send capital to higher growth, high interest rate countries.

But higher interest rates also imply large capital losses for central banks asset holdings.

Monetary policy was undermined by the banking crisis, and any reduction of interest rates to boost economic activities would encourage further flight of capital and stop capital inflows.

Over time, however, the interest rate premium is likely to be small, because higher capital requirements and contingent capital should significantly reduce the likelihood of ever reaching the triggers.

Nonetheless, we continue to transfer capital to rich countries to pay interest on our foreign debt.

Will the government liberalize interest rates or loosen capital controls? How will the fiscal system be revamped?

Doing so will require maintaining some capital account control, while raising interest rates to market clearing levels.

If they try to clamp down by raising domestic interest rates, they will only attract greater capital inflows.

The problem? An invasion of short term capital flows fleeing the slow growth, low interest rate advanced countries.

Second, many argue that raising interest rates would trigger a flood of speculative capital from low yielding advanced economies.

As a result, market oriented interest rate reform is now needed to help optimize capital allocation and support the development of China s financial market, thereby laying the groundwork for future capital account and exchange rate liberalization.

Interest rate liberalization together with other financial reforms would help to improve the efficiency of capital allocation and to optimize the economic structure.

Taxes. Obama would raise the top marginal tax rates on wages, capital gains, dividends, interest, and estates, especially on higher income individuals and small businesses.

Interest rates on Russia s bonds have risen by 2 3 percentage points, and many Russian creditors no longer have access to international capital markets.

Adam Smith focused on the role of enlightened self interest (the invisible hand ) and the role of specialization in promoting the efficiency of capital accumulation.

For emerging markets, the best way forward is to correct the incentives for interest rate arbitrage at the source of capital flows.

Believers in low interest rates also emphasize shifts in income distribution in the United States away from labor and toward capital, which have greatly boosted firms' resources to finance investment internally and reduced their dependence on capital markets. They point to rapid technological progress, which has boosted output from new and old capital investments.

And inflation is like default a capital levy on holders of public debt, as it reduces the real value of nominal liabilities at fixed interest rates.

Thus, the IMF s recommendation to use capital controls only after exhausting interest rate adjustment, reserve accumulation, and prudential regulation is out of step with the profession.

In issuing contingent capital, banks would have to pay a higher interest rate than they would on ordinary long term debt, because debt investors will face the true cost of capital, not the government subsidized cost.

The world's indebted nations, unfortunately known as the Third World, transfer capital to the rich nations by paying interest on their foreign liabilities.

Today s capital markets raise money for governments, corporate clients, and individual customers, manage pension funds investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

Second, wealth effects are maximized when debt service is minimized that is, when interest expenses do not swallow the capital gains of asset appreciation.

Simply put, surging capital flows into the US artificially held down interest rates and inflated asset prices, leading to laxity in banking and regulatory standards and, ultimately, to a meltdown.

The result would be capital flight but to where? Many banks would have a similar problem a collapse in US Treasury prices (the counterpart of higher interest rates, as bond prices and interest rates move in opposite directions) would destroy their balance sheets.

And the low interest rates needed to maintain full employment would lead in time to the euthanasia of the rentier of those who live off the rents of capital.

Increased uncertainty concerning the safety of deposits will push up interest rates and deepen Europe s recession, and may also trigger capital outflows from the eurozone s weaker peripheral economies to the core.

While cross border capital flows and interest and exchange rates must be liberalized to maintain economic development, such reforms raise the risk of asset bubbles if implemented under distorted benchmark prices.

But that means that when intervention comes to an end, interest rates will rise and any holder of mortgage backed bonds would experience a capital loss potentially a large one.

Japan s ability to sustain high fiscal deficits, low interest rates, and net capital exports has been possible because of its high private saving rate, which has kept national saving positive.

And low interest rates will encourage firms that do invest to spend on fixed capital like highly automated machines, thereby ensuring that, when recovery comes, it will be relatively jobless.

In a liberalized capital market, the undiminished risk that the yuan might appreciate means that investors must be compensated by a higher interest rate on dollar assets.

According to standard trade theory, a global labor glut ought to imply an increased rate of return on capital, which again pushes interest rates up, not down.

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The higher interest rate will reduce the level of business investment and residential construction until they can be financed with the smaller volume of national saving plus the reduced capital inflows.

Capital flight, interest rate spikes, declining private investment, and a collapse in the value of the dollar all of these are likely should financial markets lose confidence in a Fed chairman.

As a result, the cost of capital in the US will soar, discouraging investment and reducing consumption spending as high interest rates depress the value of households principal assets their houses.

Income on deposits Estimates for income on deposits are based on anticipated interest earnings on cash balances in the General Fund, Working Capital Fund, and Operational Budget Account for Support Costs.

What business wouldn t jump at investment opportunities yielding returns in excess of 10 if it could borrow capital as the US government can for less than 3 interest?

The capital would be repaid in annual installments as the funds become available through the EU budget, while the national co financing rate would apply to interest payments.

True, the US Federal Reserve has tried to prevent a recession by cutting its interest rates. But the Fed cannot endow the banks with new equity capital and prevent a credit crunch.