"How can I know what I think until I read what I write?" – Henry James


There are a few lone voices willing to utter heresy. I am an avid follower of Ilusion Monetaria, a blog by ex-Bank of Spain economist (and monetarist) Miguel Navascues here.
Dr Navascues calls a spade a spade. He exhorts Spain to break free of EMU oppression immediately. (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard)

lunes, 28 de mayo de 2012

Sustitución de Bancos Centrales

Wolfgang Munchau nos ofrece la vía para sostener el euro antes de que Grecia salga y se produzca la estampida. No es tanto de condiciones,marino de capacidad politica para llevarlas a Cabo...

Las condiciones, dice, no exigirían cambios de tratados. No lo se,mejor ahí van:

First, a eurozone-wide deposit insurance scheme with an unequivocal guarantee that deposits will be repaid in euros even if the host country leaves the eurozone.

Second, a eurozone-funded resolution trust company with the power to force a recapitalisation of the banks – without national veto. It is vital that this includes all banks, not just the biggest, as the most vulnerable happen to be the second-tier banks, such as Spain’s Bankia. The trust needs to be accompanied by a further centralisation of bank regulation and supervision.

Third, a proper eurozone bond to cover a large portion of outstanding and new debt. It would require a partial transfer of fiscal sovereignty from the member state to the centre. Ideally, the new fiscal union should also have regulatory powers over labour and product markets.

Fourth, a change in the mandate of the European Central Bank to include specific responsibility for financial stability – and to make it explicit that the ECB faces no constraints on the conduct of secondary market operations in pursuit of its new mandate.

En concreto, para España, propone que:

This year Spain will apply for a programme under the European Stability Mechanism to deal with the recapitalisation of its banking sector. That liability, too, will ultimately have to be shared. Since Italy is insolvent under current interest rates, it, too, would have to be brought into the ESM. But that would require an increase in its ceiling from a current €500bn to €2tn-€3tn. In the future, the liabilities of the ESM could be split into a bank resolution fund and into a eurozone bond. It would be an indirect and rather messy route, but would get us to the same outcome.

Todo esto ha sido negado hasta ahora por los mandatarios del euro. es verdad que parece que van aceptando poco a poco que su camino del dolor no lleva a un buen final, pero llegan tarde siempre.

Estos artificios ex post son para suplir la necesidad de un aaBanco Central soberano en sus funciones básicas de estabilizar y salvar el sistema financiero. Eso se desdeño al lanzar el euro, en una borrachera de irresponsabilidad descomunal, que deja en pañales la de cuano se boto el Titanic.

Pero, ¿Son suficientes estos sustitutos de ultima hora e un banco central nacional? Creo que no. Como no hay sustituto para un ajusrte vía devaluación. Para ambas cosas se necesita un banco central, y mas ahora, después de la crisis, en que se esta revisando aceleradamente la doctrina anterior, en el sentido de que la estabilidad financiera - no de precios- debe ser el objetivo primero.

Pero el BCE sigue bajo la doctrina anterior, una antigualla, y además no tiene el poder que tendría un banco central nacional.

Yo creo que es tarde ya. Munchau ha sido siempre pro euro, y sus propuestas son bien intencionadas. Pero es tarde.

Además, nuestro gobierno no va por ahí.

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