Central banks, bond markets and fiscal credibility – why market stability had become political

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Fiscal sustainability is therefore not simply an exercise in projecting debt-to-GDP ratios decades into the future. It also depends on the willingness of financial markets to fund governments in the meantime.This is uncomfortable for politicians accustomed to treating the public finances as an accounting exercise. Fiscal rules can be adjusted, growth forecasts revised and spending commitments postponed. The mathematics might satisfy the Treasury, but it cannot guarantee the confidence of those expected to fund the borrowing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFree Thinking - City AM Opinion Newsletter\nGet weekly sparky insight and expert commentary on markets, entrepreneurship and innovation from City AM’s Opinion Editor, delivered every Saturday.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAcross the developed world, governments face mounting demands for defence spending, ageing populations and economic investment, just as successive inflationary shocks have complicated the task of managing their debt. Britain must reconcile its spending promises with fiscal credibility; France faces political instability alongside deteriorating public finances; and even America’s reserve-currency privilege cannot indefinitely insulate Washington from the cost of borrowing.\n\n\n\nPolitics collides with realityThese different political circumstances are colliding with the same financial reality: governments need investors to absorb enormous debt issuance, just as the nature of those investors is changing.This was the second important element of Bailey’s warning. Sovereign bond markets increasingly depend on leveraged investors, whose willingness to participate depends on funding costs, volatility and their capacity to maintain positions. They provide valuable liquidity in normal conditions, but margin calls and forced selling can magnify market moves. Investors willing to finance borrowing yesterday can become sellers tomorrow.The UK discovered the consequences during the 2022 gilt crisis, when leveraged pension fund strategies were forced to sell assets into a falling market. The Bank of England intervened as a market-maker of last resort, temporarily purchasing government bonds to prevent disorderly trading from developing into a wider financial crisis.\n\n\n\nFour years later, the episode is still largely remembered as the downfall of Liz Truss. Yet focusing on the Prime Minister risks missing its more instructive lesson. The potentially most expensive measure, the original two-year Energy Price Guarantee, had been announced before Kwarteng’s mini-Budget. The crisis was not simply about the size of the fiscal commitments, but about their credibility, financing and the vulnerabilities of the gilt market.More importantly, the political response was remarkably swift. 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