Balance
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A few days ago, I attended a small conference in Paris focused on the new challenges and changing
balance
of power in the Middle East.
An economy is a remarkably complex structure, and fathoming it depends on understanding its laws, regulations, business practices and customs, and
balance
sheets, among many other details.
That could bring its current account into
balance
– or even into slight deficit – by 2015.
To achieve sustained growth, a
balance
between short-term and long-term objectives must be struck.
Striking that
balance
is the biggest challenge facing China.
The fierce debate concerning the presidency underscored the symbolic significance of the post in Turkey’s domestic
balance
of power.
To judge whether their prices are “too high” at the existing exchange rate we have to look at the trade
balance.
And, with the euro down significantly relative to many other currencies over the past year, Europe’s trade
balance
can increase further in the months ahead.
And criticism by the US Congress of any further expansion of the Fed’s
balance
sheet would be certain and intense.
The Fed has explained that it will sell the large volume of mortgage securities that it now holds on its
balance
sheet, absorbing liquidity in the process.
The increase in Turkey’s population might almost
balance
out the decline in the population of the present EU 15; but it is unlikely that today’s existing member states will regard this satisfactory.
Moreover, the strategic
balance
to Europe’s east will also be transformed, because the populations of Russia and the Ukraine are expected to decline even more steeply than those of the EU.
At a time when rich countries like the United States are running deficits of 12% of GDP because of the global financial meltdown, the IMF has been telling countries like Latvia and Ukraine, which did not start the crisis but have turned to the Fund to help combat it, that they must
balance
their budgets if they want aid.
Ukraine’s government, moreover, was told to
balance
its budget by massively slashing state pensions.
Another post-election route to deficit reduction would be to lower marginal tax rates and
balance
that revenue loss with cuts in tax expenditures.
By taking a system-scale approach – looking at dams in the context of an entire river basin, rather than on a project-by-project basis – we can better anticipate and
balance
the environmental, social, and economic effects of any single project, while at the same time ensuring that a community’s energy needs are met.
This entails finding the optimal
balance
between spending cuts and tax increases, and identifying the least harmful measures over the medium term.
The intellectual challenge that Britain has consistently sidestepped is how to
balance
autonomy with cooperation.
Only by getting the
balance
right can we begin to build a fairer, more united UK.
Establishing the stable
balance
of power needed to realize Pence’s vision will require all of the region’s major democracies – from Japan and India to Indonesia and Australia – to come together.
Since ancient times, philosophers have tried to devise systems to try to
balance
the strengths of majority rule against the need to ensure that informed parties get a larger say in critical decisions, not to mention that minority voices are heard.
The headwinds buffeting the US recovery – impaired household
balance
sheets, a depressed housing market, and government spending and employment cuts – are dissipating.
Improving household
balance
sheets imply stronger consumer sentiment.
Stronger consumer spending, along with record-high corporate profits, should boost investment spending further this year, as will re-shoring of economic activity and an improving trade balance, owing to a decline in energy and labor costs in the US.
In this context, selective capital controls and careful reserve management can help to stabilize the
balance
of payments and ensure that the terms of trade do not change too fast to be offset by productivity growth.
As hard as the finance ministry may try to
balance
expenditures and revenues, it lacks the needed political weight.
To some observers, this represents a fundamental shift in the global
balance
of power, because China could bring the US to its knees by threatening to sell its dollars.
Judging whether economic interdependence produces power requires looking at the
balance
of asymmetries, not just at one side of the equation.
Nevertheless, this
balance
does not guarantee stability.
In that case, maintaining a weak renminbi would protect the trade
balance
from a flood of imports.
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