The Coming Global Credit Glut

Floating exchange rates were supposed to prevent countries from manipulating their currencies, but, by accumulating large quantities of US treasury bills, East Asian countries, especially China, kept their exchange rates artificially low. This East Asian savings glut enabled a debt fuelled consumption glut in the US, Britain, and much of the Western world.

This East Asian savings glut enabled a debt fuelled consumption glut in the US, Britain, and much of the Western world.

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China s slowdown, coming after years of over investment in real estate and infrastructure, is also causing a global glut of manufactured and industrial goods.

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First, credit that can be, and is, created offshore and through off balance sheet SIVs is not captured by national balance of payments statistics. In other words, while a savings glut may contribute to low interest rates and fuel excess credit creation, it is not the main cause.

It is not that there is too much saving around the world today, but that the amount of saving has been high enough that returns, as measured by real interest rates, are a lot lower than they once were. In a March 2005 speech, Bernanke argued that this glut helps explain several features of the American economy, possibly including the enormous fiscal and trade deficits.

The natural interest rate was low because, as the Fed s current chairman Ben Bernanke explained at the time, the world had a global savings glut (or, rather, a global investment deficiency).

In a March 2005 speech, Bernanke argued that this glut helps explain several features of the American economy, possibly including the enormous fiscal and trade deficits.