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What is at stake for Germany is not simply its reputation as a source of economic dynamism and an anchor of monetary stability within the EU.
But there is a hitch: Someone has forgotten to raise the anchor, which remains planted firmly in Ireland.
Indeed, to get into the Great Power maritime game, China needs Gwadar to redress its main weakness – the absence of a naval anchor in the Indian Ocean region, where it plans to have an important military presence.
The main anchor of central banks’ monetary policy over the past 20 years was an inflation-targeting framework that developed from academic interpretation of the problems involved in targeting monetary aggregates.
Yet Sridevi’s death became the subject of ghoulish stories, particularly on television, about what might have happened behind the closed door of her bathroom, with one TV anchor even attempting to enact a bathtub drowning.
In the past, gold had been the anchor of monetary stability and financial discipline, even if it was deflationary.
Europe’s German Ball and ChainBRUSSELS – A storm-tossed ship near dangerous cliffs needs a strong anchor to avoid finishing on the rocks.
But now Europe’s anchor has become a brake, hindering forward movement.
Europe’s German anchor has become stuck, and the rising tide of anxiety among Germany’s partners should not leave its government indifferent.
Because such a mechanism would require a strong economic-cooperation dimension, encompassing energy and water issues, it would encourage long-term strategic thinking and anchor multilateral efforts to resolve problems as they arise.
On Europe’s eastern border, only nine of the 44 tanks promised for the Bundeswehr unit that is supposed to anchor NATO’s 5,000-strong rapid-reaction force in the Baltics next year are fit for use.
And China relied heavily on the US dollar to anchor its undervalued currency, allowing it to boost its export competitiveness.
Government borrowing costs, which anchor banks’ own funding, normally fall during recessions.
We are working on a new Association Agreement, which would anchor Moldova in the European space.
It may in the near future no longer be seen as the anchor of the international monetary system, bringing to an end to what Valéry Giscard d’Estaing famously called the “exorbitant privilege” enjoyed by the US as a result of the dollar’s centrality in international trade.
So what is left of the inflation anchor?
Exchange rate stability is the key anchor when a country's reform process is underway.
One is a nominal anchor and one is a measure of external competitiveness.
Such a constraint also provides a welcome anchor for domestic decision-making in member states with weaker political systems.
And it is not just the Kurds’ unity and bravery that have raised their prestige; they have increasingly become an anchor of stability and a reliable pro-Western partner in a region that is short on both.
And, perhaps most remarkably, the relative global decline of the United States, the world’s economic and security anchor since 1945, became unmistakable in 2011, reflected in political polarization and paralysis – and punctuated by a credit-rating downgrade.
Both outcomes would be bad for Germany, which is widely perceived – and relied on – as an anchor of stability in Europe.
As they successfully eliminate malaria, they will provide a new malaria-free anchor that will enable their neighbors, which have been pursuing aggressive control measures in the interim, to embark on their own eradication campaigns.
Rather than opting for interest-rate hikes and an external funding anchor to support domestic policy adjustments, the government has adopted a mix of less direct and more partial measures – and this at a time when Turkey is in the midst of an escalating tariff tit-for-tat with the United States, as well as operating in a more fluid global economy.
Society has lost its anchor.
Of course, no one should think that America’s shale-gas revolution (which has brought it to the brink of energy self-sufficiency) means that its Bahrain-based Fifth Fleet will lift anchor any time soon.
So far, the credibility of Europe’s central bank has been sufficient to firmly anchor inflationary expectations.
For Saudi Wahhabism, in which absolute power is granted to the royal family by religious mandate, innovative forms of political Islam that anchor legitimacy in genuine representation are a strategic threat.
In July 2011, following the highly publicized crash of a supposedly state-of-the-art high-speed train in eastern China, Qiu Qiming, a news anchor for the national broadcaster CCTV, turned the disaster into a metaphor.
One is a euro without an anchor, something Northern Europe would not want to remain part of for long.
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