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So relying on exchange rates to influence trade balances is a zero-sum game.
To be sure, the Japanese and German external balances were subject to heavy swings in the course of the turbulent 1970’s.
Harvard’s Kenneth Rogoff dubbed the UK’s reliance on a simple-majority referendum to end a 55-year-old partnership “Russian roulette for republics,” because the procedure did not include the checks and balances that such a consequential decision should have required.
For starters, Eastern Europe lacks the tradition of checks and balances that has long safeguarded Western democracy.
And, sensing all of this, companies are beginning to deploy the massive precautionary cash balances that they have accumulated.
The idea is to impel the banks to reduce their unspent balances and increase their lending or investments.
Beyond the issue of money, there is the problem of a system of checks and balances run amok, leading to governmental paralysis.
The opposition countered with the argument that a coalition government would counter the country’s deep political polarization, while helping to establish stronger checks and balances.
First and most importantly, these equilibrium rates are based on a theoretical model where long run current account balances tend toward zero.
Under this scenario, any country that runs persistent, large current account balances must look forward to a hard landing and a correction in the value of its currency.
But there are equally fundamental changes in the global balances of economic power: the hoards of liquid money to help bail out the world lie in Asia and the Middle East, not in West.
The balances among national central banks within the eurozone constitute another widely used indicator of the probability of a breakup.
These so-called TARGET2 balances are often taken as a sign of capital flight: investors in countries at risk of abandoning the euro might be tempted to transfer their funds to Germany.
That way, these investors would benefit if their country left the currency union, because balances with a German bank presumably would remain in euro, or in rock-solid “neue Deutsche Mark” should the eurozone break up.
But this line of reasoning does not seem to explain recent developments, because the TARGET2 balances are not correlated with the euro breakup probabilities as measured by the Sentix surveys.
True, the balances of Spain and Italy are now again nearing €400 billion ($423 billion) in net liabilities, a level last reached at the peak of the euro crisis, before ECB President Mario Draghi promised in July 2012 that the European Central Bank would do “whatever it takes” to save the euro.
The only country for which the Sentix indicator is correlated with TARGET2 balances is Italy.
This would horrify America’s founders, who regarded direct democracy as a precursor to mob rule, and established a system of checks and balances precisely to prevent such an outcome.
Confronted with daunting obstacles and a disloyal opposition, Funes may well decide to cater to FMLN hard-liners and pursue his reform agenda with no patience for democratic checks and balances, as other leftist leaders in Latin America, such as Ecuador’s Rafael Correa and Bolivia’s Evo Morales, have done.
When it functions well, it balances risk and reward, and innovation and safety.
This report would evaluate the sustainability of current-account balances and exchange rates, and the adequacy or excessiveness of members’ foreign-exchange reserves.
Rather, it more likely represents another move in India’s age-old tradition of managing regional balances of power.
The Stability Pact emerged after a long period (part of the 1970s, all of the 1980s, and a good portion of the 1990s) during which many European countries lost control of their fiscal balances.
Quantitative easing in the US cannot have been behind these large swings in global current-account balances, because America’s external deficit has not changed significantly in recent years.
For strength unalloyed by checks and balances – and by a capacity for self-critical reflection about the rightness and wrongness of state action – can be unnerving.
Yet Trump likes to focus on bilateral merchandise balances, rather than a broader and more useful indicator, such as the overall balance of goods and services.
In any case, we know that it would have been lower, and that the liquidity balances that support spending would have been deprived of $20-55 billion.
On the other hand, if the Fed maintained the higher federal funds rate, financial flows would be diverted away from productive investment and into idle cash balances, spending would decrease, and the economy would enter a new recession.
Some think that fiscal policies - from the structure of taxation to welfare, to budget balances - should also be harmonized.
Abundant capital inflows caused their exchange rates to appreciate, making imports cheap and unleashing consumption (and sometimes investment) booms that eroded their trade balances, even as rising commodity prices boosted the value of their exports.
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