Capital market is deep and can handle volatility


File pic shows Fed chair Jerome Powell at a Senate briefing

RISING US interest rates, combined with quantitative tightening, are frequently disruptive to emerging market economies (EMEs), causing capital reversals due to interest rate differentials, increased debt burdens, increased import costs, exchange rate depreciation, and a tightening of financial conditions, which can lead to currency and financial crises.

The incredible (Paul) Volcker disinflation that occurred in the early 1980s, which saw a steep rise in US interest rates to fight inflation, was associated with a sharp rise in the incidence of financial crises in EMEs.

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