Thursday, March 10, 2011

synthetic securities

this in epitome is the heart of financialization's a go go moment
the construction of derivative  products
was it all just  elk antlers for contemporary corporate systems
or is it really  a better fuller  marketizing
de facto socializing  of  the portfolio of lenders  ??

both !!!

like everything else in the end
two polar aspects contend
the ever more pervasive credit system
itself quickly revealing the irrational stage of the private firm

once society can immortalize a corporation
make it a for as long as necessary operation
 how is it like the classic
 self contained limited credit line  firms of yore
how can the spontaneous selection process
called bankrupcy
                  retain its faithful following
when reserection powers exist thru the holy ghost called fed streaming credit
from the magic fountain

the credit system is by stages fillig in its missing linkages between various types of "enterprise"

a model oughta be able to show the improved dynamics of this process

a few  insights  not fully digested institutionally

credit is unlimited

prices and obligations are best if maximally  elastic
but only if that elasticity expresses itself
  in co ordinated movements
ie
price level and debt load need to move together
no fisher effects because the rate can't go negative

a negative rate socializes ..spreads fully the impact of debt /price level adjustment
smooths it out
rids the system of its  anachronistic  reliance on  defaults  to clear off excess debt loads

existing debt  vs new debt is  system wise
   merely an accidental distribution of  fixed nominal obligations
an optimal means of modification
of any existing  array of obligations
requires both price level management and full range interest rates
that could  both discount hunks of nominal debt and  decrease debts  real "value"
by use of both or either instrument

the lifting of the payment system off the shoulders of operating companies
would remove this burden of past actions on foward looking management
thus the obligatory universal default insurance system covering all obligations

derviatives are part of the slowly self assembling  hommunculus of this future universal system