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Above all, however, the matter of control, of checks and balances has to be resolved.
While Trump’s focus on bilateral trade balances betrays a lack of understanding of how trade works – multilateralism functions better than bilateralism, as it is less likely to leave one economy beholden to another – it also makes the bilateral TFT strategy more straightforward to implement.
History is not particularly encouraging when it comes to adjusting to profound changes – new actors and shifting balances of power – as the twentieth century tragically and repeatedly demonstrated.
Another post, published in July, explicitly challenged the BoE’s “official” view that as the economy recovers, we can expect non-financial companies to begin to run down their cash balances to fund investment.
Financial innovation ought to be allowed to flourish, but not without better checks and balances.
So bringing the savings rate down is necessary if domestic and external balances are to be achieved.
But the implications of today’s constellation of current-account balances extend beyond shorter-term interest-rate considerations.
Specifically, that means pursuing an economic policy that balances competitive markets and social solidarity, with substantial space for local diversity.
Moreover, checks and balances, though still inadequate, have been strengthened in recent years.
When the next generation takes over, all of the Politburo Standing Committee members will be vested with almost equal political authority, resulting in more power-sharing and high-level checks and balances.
Spain, too, is in serious trouble, owing to the budget deficits of its traditionally independent regional governments, the weakness of its banks, and its need to roll over large sovereign-debt balances each year.
Large holders of sterling balances – Nehru’s India, Nasser’s Egypt, and Peron’s Argentina – all embarked on major nationalizations and a public sector spending spree: they built railways, dams, steel works.
The sterling balances proved to be the starting point of vast and inefficient state planning regimes that did long-term harm to growth prospects in all the countries that took this course.
The institutional checks and balances built into Russia’s constitution have been neutralized.
In his original plan for an International Clearing Bank, the British economist John Maynard Keynes proposed an escalating range of sanctions against member states that maintained continuous credit balances (and less onerous sanctions on countries with persistent debt balances).
They grab whatever power they can, disable checks and balances, fill all state offices with cronies, and reward their supporters (and only their supporters) with benefits in exchange for their loyalty – what political scientists call “mass clientelism.”
In any given year, governments can forecast that their growth rates, tax revenues, and budget balances will improve in subsequent years, and then argue the following year that the shortfalls were unexpected.
The Constitution is based on an eighteenth-century liberal view that power is best controlled by fragmentation and countervailing checks and balances.
But the United States has mostly avoided these traps, owing largely to term limits and a reliable system of checks and balances.
And they must do everything they can to defend liberal-democratic institutions, if Trump tries to weaken checks and balances.
Whom would you pick: an expert who balances conflicting arguments and concludes that the likeliest outcome is more of the same, or an expert who gets viewers on the edge of their seats over radical Islamists seizing control and causing oil prices to soar?
Its checks and balances were meant to frustrate any such mission at the hands of an all-powerful executive, and it is doubtful that Americans would support such activism in perpetuity.
Unfortunately, given Bush’s repeated assertions – in defiance of America’s constitutional tradition of checks and balances – that his office endows him with unilateral powers to violate rights, he appears to be untroubled by that prospect.
Internal devaluation (a fall in unit labor costs to restore competitiveness) has occurred to some extent (in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland, but not in Italy or France), thus improving external balances.
At the same time, the loss of competitiveness has been only partly reversed, with most of the improvement in external balances being cyclical rather than structural.
While many mature democracies would require some kind of super-majority to confirm an enormous constitutional change like Brexit, the UK has never seen the need for such checks and balances.
As a result of these factors, depositors (both foreign and domestic) have decided that it is time for them too to flee the country for fear that their own bank balances will be frozen or closed.
Furthermore, the ECB should reintroduce the requirement that TARGET2 debts be repaid with gold, as occurred in the US before 1975 to settle balances among the districts of the Federal Reserve System.
Through all of this, Russia has managed to maintain macroeconomic stability and external balances, but it has suffered a minor decline in output and a major decline in the standard of living.
That would lift the interest rate that balances supply and demand out of negative territory, solving Summers’ secular-stagnation problem.
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