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Alasdair Macleod: Central banks are now insolvent
By Alasdair Macleod
GoldMoney, Toronto
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Behind the battle to convince everyone that price inflation is not a lasting problem is the necessity to keep interest rates and bond yields suppressed. In the past, the interest rate cycle was entirely due to the expansion and contraction of commercial bank credit. But that was before central banks built up bond portfolios through quantitative easing.
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Not only does this expose them to the interest rate cycle, but they have not increased their capital base to keep pace with the expansion of their balance sheets. Hence the problem with rising interest rates and bond yields: On a mark-to-market basis the major central banks are insolvent with balance sheet liabilities now exceeding their assets.
This article finds this condition true of the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve Board, the Bank of Japan, and the entire euro system. Other central banks are not examined.
Doubtless this will be resolved in the short term by governments investing more equity in their central banks. But there is one major exception, which is the European Central Bank and the euro system, with all its shareholders sinking into negative equity with the only minor exceptions of the Irish, Maltese, and Slovenian central banks.
Consequently, with the interconnectedness of the global financial system, the ability of central banks to guarantee the survival of their own commercial banking networks has almost certainly ended due to a collapse of the euro system. The precedent is the failure of a prototype central bank in 1720, John Law's Banque Royale. That experience allows us to see how this is likely to play out. ...
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https://www.goldmoney.com/research/goldmoney-insights/central-banks-are-now-insolvent?gmrefcode=gata
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