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Innovation economies will always require investments in a multitude of prospects to produce the few big winners that will ultimately anchor the mature ecosystem.
Four large countries and several small ones had to be brought into nominal convergence to ensure that the anchor of a common currency did not rip their economies apart.
Even so, Putin does seem genuinely popular among a public longing for a leader who can anchor their country without sinking it.
Yet, to improve Sino-Japanese relations, Japan must first anchor its ties on the other side of the Pacific; for, at the end of the day, Japan’s diplomacy must always be rooted in democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights.
That is all the more important in a disorderly climate of QE, where China's role as a currency anchor may take on even greater importance than it did in the late 1990s.
Similarly, China’s sovereign wealth funds have served as important anchor investors in the vehicles designed by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation and the EBRD to bring long-term institutional capital into their projects.
Perhaps the most important element of the “federation by exception” would be its strong democratic anchor.
Nevertheless, Asia-Pacific growth will continue to outpace that of all other regions, acting as an anchor of stability and a new pole of dynamism for the world economy.
But the anchor of US policy in the Middle East is the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, negotiated by Sadat in 1979, maintained by Mubarak, and well liked by Egypt’s military high command, which controls the strongest Arab army, is US-trained, and has been supplied with top-shelf American weaponry.
They must be the “bearers of hope,” in the words of Max Weber, that create an anchor for economic, social, and political stability and cohesion.
While the common currency has benefited all countries that have adopted it – not least as an anchor in the current economic crisis – the failure of euro-zone members to abide by their agreement risk could yet turn the euro into a disaster.
In the meantime, Germany can hardly play its customary role as Europe’s anchor of stability.
And it did so at a time when financial disruption in emerging economies is reminding the world of the importance of a strong stabilizing anchor at the core of the international monetary system.
Instead of mourning the liberal world order, as so many seem eager to do, we should be seeking to advance a new, shared purpose that can anchor a truly global system – and guarantee a better future for all.
Central banks are increasingly using such guidance to communicate monetary policy and anchor market expectations.
France needs to become a second anchor of growth and stability.
Without the political anchor provided by the EU accession process, Turkey’s modernization process could go into reverse.
Today, most developing economies, with the exception of a few Eastern European countries, still choose to anchor their domestic macroeconomic arrangements by stabilizing their exchange rates against the dollar, at least intermittently.
But the dollar’s role as international anchor is beginning to falter, as emerging markets everywhere grow increasingly frustrated by the Fed’s near-zero interest-rate policy, which has caused a flood of “hot” capital inflows from the US.
A second scenario is that the US remains Asia’s principal security anchor, with or without a third possibility: the emergence of a constellation of Asian states with common interests working together to ensure that Asia is not unipolar.
The third and fourth scenarios can unfold even if the US remains the principal security anchor for Asia.
The alternatives have seemingly boiled down to a choice between systems in which the exchange rate is rigorously fixed and serves as an anchor and those where the exchange rate is allowed to float freely with the central bank targeting a low level of inflation and then doing all it can to hit that target.
The second option – "free floating exchange rates" -- abandons any form of exchange rate anchor.
But because maintaining economic stability demands some type of nominal anchor, the so-called "inflation targeting" regime has become increasingly popular.
These freely floating systems are buttressed by a formal inflation target which serves as an anchor for national monetary policies.
Inflation targeting is regarded as an alternative to a "monetary anchor" in which designated levels of the monetary supply are the targets (as with the German Bundesbank before the euro).
Despite these problems, inflation targeting offers significant advantages in terms of clarity, transparency, and flexibility, and so should be considered by countries that opted for a free floating exchange rate system and are debating the adoption of a macroeconomic anchor to support it.
A few hours after the Fed’s announcement, news came that the British government was open to considering a change in the Bank of England’s policy anchor.
An even bigger shift came with disinflation almost everywhere, along with what appears to be an extremely resilient anchor for long-term inflation expectations around 2% per year in places like the UK, the eurozone, and the United States.
True, countries outside the eurozone have less protection, but now even they have an anchor, and the Vienna experience has reinforced it.
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