Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Good
day fellow global citizens!
It’s
late afternoon here in the Philippines
Light
there may be for the global economy, but that light no longer comes from the Western
economies. Definitely no longer from the once mighty ‘economic superpower’ USA
I’ve
already treated the matter of declining Western techno-economic power and
hegemony over the rest of the globe in many articles. There is hardly any
serious, highly-informed analyst in the world today who doesn’t share the same
view, a view that Western (Caucasian) social forecasters do likewise hold even
as they forewarned the West of the catastrophes that will confront them.
Stock
markets across the globe, however, just couldn’t adjust to the new reality soon
enough. They still behave like old hush puppies that look up to Wall Street for
precedence in setting the trends of local bourses. That renders the local bourses
as laughing stock dinosaurs that need to retool quickly, and the quickest that
such retooling will be translated into practice, the better will it be for
their respective stock trades and financial-monetary markets.
To
reminisce a bit, America USA
Today,
the economic landscape had entirely changed. The USA Japan
Herd
behavior, of course, is the least that we can make of the behavior of
plummeting bourses. “Follow the leader” mindset of cave dwellers is still in, a
mindset that is a messy sticking point for retooling purposes.
Why
should local bourses refuse to see the new reality and dis-engage from the
antiquated herd instinct? After all, stock markets are the exclusive games of
the big corporate boys and consummate traders who have been addicted to the casino
economy of antiquity. They hardly matter for the real economy sectors, such as
those of Asia ’s that have effectively built
firewalls between the real economy and casino stock markets.
If
to serve a bit of relevance to domestic growth at all, local bourses ought to
look at the health of their own domestic physical economies and
financial-monetary wellness.
Take
a look at East Asia . The region has been
driving the global economy beyond doubt, its average investments and savings
rates are high, gross international reserves are equally high, and the physical
economy as a whole has shown the way to high value-added production. Stock
markets should better follow the lead of the healthy conditions of their domestic
economies rather than look up to an offshore global leader that is now a
chimera.
Or,
if they can’t resist looking at offshore patterns, then they should look at
their very own regional backyards for such models. Regional integration has
been the strategy of the day, so why get fixated to a dinosaur fiction (USA
As
already articulated by me in previous articles, the Western markets will
decline progressively across time. Consumption from 2007 through 2015 will
decline by as much as 30% of their pre-recession levels. In contrast, Asia’s
consumption will more than double during the same period, thus rendering Asia the unquestioned driver of the global economy in
terms of (a) technological cutting edge, (b) production levels of the real
economy, and (c) consumption levels.
In
closing, just like the pattern for mega-cities where no one mega-city can be
considered a global center today, so is it with national economies. Economic
leadership has already been de-centered, global hegemony had been erased, and
there can only be inter-dependence between markets as the most viable option. That
interdependence should find translations in the bourses and currency markets.
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