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And it is corruption, combined with a loss of accountability, that is eroding the checks and balances of India’s democratic order.
New arrangements for monitoring member states’ budget balances have been introduced, but they can do nothing about the stock of debt outstanding.
The lesson policymakers drew is that Hungary's deep integration into the international economy makes it impossible to pursue soft macroeconomic policies; the impact of such laxity on Hungary's external balances is immediate because international capital markets lose confidence quickly in the country.
When you hold a checking or current account in your bank at a zero interest rate – as most people do in advanced economies – the real return is negative (the nominal zero return minus inflation): a year from now, your cash balances buy you less goods than they do today.
Investors accept negative returns for the convenience of holding cash balances, so, in a sense, there is nothing new about negative nominal interest rates.
This is of course the opposite of liberal democracy, a core feature of which is a robust set of institutional checks and balances designed to limit executive authority.
Nor are earlier trade balances about to reemerge.
Those failing to keep their pension balances in the black should have to pay into a bailout fund before they can pursue share buybacks or similar programs.
By focusing on checks and balances, the US Constitution’s framers created a kind of safety valve for the political system, meant to protect it from unexpected shocks arising from any of its many moving parts.
And both leaders have increasingly taken foreign-policy decisions into their own hands, while undercutting their respective countries’ systems of checks and balances.
Similarly, it was not Putin who enacted a constitution with an enormously powerful presidential government and a weak system of checks and balances, nor did he start the slaughter in Chechnya.
So China can have a trade deficit with the Middle East and a trade surplus with the US, but these bilateral balances indicate nothing about China’s overall contribution to global imbalances.
Regional current-account balances were interpreted as the upshot of infallible optimizing behavior by market participants, rather than, for example, the result of a real-estate bubble in Spain and elsewhere.
Having gone to university in western countries, we were inspired by the American system of check and balances.
But interest rates cannot fall below zero (in fact, they may be stuck above zero if there is a strong desire to build up cash balances).
Rather, what is distinctive about populists in power is that they attend only to their clientele (the rest of the population is utterly undeserving) and ride roughshod over checks and balances.
The scale of migration should be a matter of enlightened public debate, one that balances economic, humanitarian, and social considerations.
Given how financially stretched US households are, a good part of this tax rebate may be used to pay down high credit card balances (or other unsecured consumer credit) or to postpone mortgage delinquency.
The deterioration of the overall fiscal balances of South Korea, China, and India has been just as severe as in the larger EU member states.
True, America’s founding fathers created a system of checks and balances designed to preserve liberty at the price of efficiency.
Succumbing to the temptation to consolidate power in the hands of the president, ostensibly to protect his government’s authority, could limit checks and balances and restrict space for political opposition, including within his own party.
Tight national caps on Target balances could provide the right incentive to comply.
If the concentrated economic and social power that financial markets and network economies tend to create can be used to capture and control political power, an effective system of checks and balances becomes virtually impossible.
Madison’s answer to the possibility of an “American Mussolini” was a system of institutional checks and balances ensuring that the US would never resemble Italy in 1922 – or Russia, China, or Turkey today.
Some countries may need temporary controls to curb damaging capital outflows, but policymakers should aim for a market-based exchange rate and a solid plan for governing inflation, debt, foreign-exchange reserves, current accounts, and fiscal balances.
It is therefore vital that the United States and other NATO allies speak out now and insist that functioning democratic checks and balances are safeguarded.
By implementing new mechanisms to render the future path of fiscal balances and public debt more predictable, they could have averted the worst of the crisis.
Some believe that monetary expansion in one country shifts the trade balance against its partners, owing to the exchange-rate effect; others believe that any adverse effect on trade balances is offset by higher spending.
How will he use the enormous powers granted the Russian president in a political system that lacks any real checks and balances?
Thus, at the beginning of the current decade, the democratic system of political checks and balances that had been created in the 1990’s began to be dismantled.
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