jueves, 29 de octubre de 2015

Where's the risk in the international financial system?

Per former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke (quoted in the October 28 New York Times), the risk to financial stability today comes from emerging markets. In a talk at the London School of Economics, Bernanke highlighted emerging markets and how they react to higher interest rates in the US as a "risk area". The magnitude and nature of that risk is hard to know, he cautioned.