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At the same time, China’s recent efforts to build the institutions of an alternative financial architecture – spearheaded by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the New (BRICS) Development Bank – stand in sharp contrast to an increasingly inward-looking US.
The same is true of the reported intention of some EU governments to have the so-called “Privileged Partnership” concept explicitly included in the negotiating framework as an alternative to full membership.
That finding reinforced efforts to devise alternative indexes.
The main alternative would be majority alliance put together by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by the 82-year-old Lal Krishna Advani.
Each alternative could have serious implications for India.
But history is not destined to repeat itself, and leaders of commodity-rich countries are seeking alternative futures.
Newcomers, most notably China, have become a ready alternative source of cheap finance.
Russia is now as hostile to the EU as it is to NATO, and has created a Eurasian Economic Union to serve as an alternative regional unification effort.
While Trump has been tweeting nonsense, investors have been looking for alternative safe havens in other markets, from Switzerland to Japan.
For starters, a no-confidence vote in Germany cannot succeed unless an alternative candidate wins the backing of an absolute majority in the Bundestag.
But an alternative accounting method could also be used, registering expenditures when payments – in accordance with front-loaded schedules – were actually made.
Choosing this alternative meant the transfer of substantial amounts of spending from the date of expected deliveries to the time when orders were placed.
The alternative would be for UK exporters to accept the EU’s common external tariff, and for the UK to create its own import tariff, applied to all imports, including from the EU.
A catfight is now underway about which institution has been right over the past few years, the IMF with its tough treatments or the World Bank and its alternative cures.
That latter view was promoted across Asia, where governments, including that of Japan, called for an Asian IMF with alternative (softer) policies.
Once again, Japanese officials made their case for an Asian IMF, an alternative strategy without the pain of IMF austerity and the unaccustomed transparency.
The World Bank’s alternative treatments and Japan’s Asian IMF are, despite lip service, not drawing too many clients.
Although the public's outrage at his tactics makes a comeback unlikely, Menem still dreams of retreating with his defeated troops and reshaping himself from an alternative power base.
This is more likely under a Bush administration with better open-market credentials and a more assertive foreign policy than any Democratic alternative.
In November, Dubai announced the construction of a solar energy park that will produce electricity for less than $0.06 per kilowatt-hour – undercutting the cost of the alternative investment option, a gas or coal-fired power plant.
Trump richly deserves criticism for abandoning the Paris climate agreement without any alternative plan of action.
Another alternative is to recall the late Rudi Dornbusch, who taught that any economist who forecasts interest rates based on fundamentals is a fool, because fundamentals are complex and unstable, shifting suddenly and substantially.
Theoretically, international loans could be an alternative, but who would lend to an unstable government, let alone a government whose legitimacy has not been fully established?
I believe we can and must, and that in some countries the alternative will not be no monetary finance, but monetary finance implemented without discipline.
And alternative policies will in some circumstances have adverse side effects.
The likely alternative is not no monetary finance, but monetary finance implemented too late and in an undisciplined fashion.
The pattern is starting to look familiar: a new crisis, a new meeting in Brussels, an initially muddled response, debates and divisions, and then gradual, step-by-step progress toward a common response, driven by the realization that there is no other alternative.
Moreover, young people have the option of continuing their education, thus adding to future earnings power, whereas continuing education is a much less viable alternative for their elders.
But the alternative – an endless cycle of hunger, disease, and needless death – is unacceptable.
The preferable alternative would be growth-boosting devaluations – that is, a eurozone breakup.
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