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“Currency wars” is a more apt description when countries intervene to push down their currencies in deliberate attempts to help their trade balances.
True, in recent years, a wide array of countries has indicated a preference for weaker currencies as a means of improving their trade balances.
Although all countries could not improve their trade balances simultaneously, when they devalued against gold, they succeeded in raising the price of gold, thereby increasing the real value of the global money supply – exactly what a world in depression needed.
I asked Roth if he thought that it was strange that the greatest democracy in the world must fall back on such an unlikely set of checks and balances.
As people pursue boycotts and disinvestment, lobby for legislation, and activate social-media campaigns with growing sophistication, they are increasingly able to influence companies’ operational and strategic decision-making, thereby imposing checks and balances on today’s enormous accretions of private power.
To use IMF gold for further debt relief in the face of increased risk threatens the Fund’s financial integrity and contradicts the recent decision to increase the IMF’s precautionary balances.
For example, ordinary citizens could be allowed zero-interest-transactions balances (up to a limit).
If the EU were to require companies to publish detailed information regarding production and operational numbers, financial and accounting balances, and payments to authorities, companies would become truly accountable to citizens, and government revenues would be augmented.
And, with policy uncertainty and market volatility driving Chinese businesses to sit on, rather than invest, large cash balances, the pressure of secular stagnation is growing more severe.
“The science of politics...like most other sciences,” claimed Alexander Hamilton, “has received great improvement....The regular distribution of power into distinct departments...legislative balances and checks...judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election...are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided...”Perhaps Hamilton was too much the optimist.
As I put it at the time, “Facebook swims against the tide of a global movement toward transparency, engagement, and checks and balances.
Rich economies are already challenged by this decline, and so are scrambling to meet the insatiable demands of public pension and health care systems, which causes their fiscal balances to deteriorate.
Among the soft-power skills are emotional intelligence (self-control and the ability to use emotional cues to attract others); vision (an attractive portrait of the future that balances ideals, objectives, and capabilities); and communication (the ability to use words and symbols to persuade both an inner circle and a broader audience).
Neither local democracy nor small societies, neither governmental checks and balances nor civil rights, can prevent the decline of critical thought that democracy seems to cause.
Their cash balances are extremely high, interest payments on debt are low, and principal obligations have been termed out.
For example, the classical prohibition on usury was softened from a ban on charging interest on all loans to a ban on charging interest on loans for which the lender had no alternative use, i.e., for charging interest on “hoards” or cash balances.
A comprehensive immigration strategy that balances security, human rights, and economic competitiveness is one such policy.
Another scenario is that the United States and China form a G-2, or include the EU to form a G-3, that balances out the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, Indian, China, and South Africa).
Almost 90 countries have now committed to begin, as early as 2017, cross-border data exchanges that would include information about account holders and certain details regarding their deposits and balances – information that could help authorities identify proceeds from corruption and illegal transactions through suspicious activity and spikes.
Business investment is also weak, even though large corporations have very high cash balances.
The fatal divergences that are most frequently cited include differences in growth rates, job-creation, and unemployment rates, as well as dramatic disparities in current-account balances, all of which may be traceable to wide deviations in unit labor costs.
And global institutions have failed to adapt to new power balances and technologies.
But changing economic balances also lead to changing political balances.
He thought that the American president should operate beyond the checks and balances applied by the US Constitution, just as his country should not be constrained by any international rules.
SEATTLE – Every health-care system balances coverage, quality, and cost – often focusing on one or two at the expense of the others.
With no change in course, the programs’ “trust fund” balances will be depleted by the 2030s.
Yet parallels exist: without the checks and balances of sound domestic institutions, the global winds of political liberalization unsettle former authoritarian regimes, much as economic globalization wrecked havoc on weak financial institutions.
The fiscal balances of the G-20 economies will deteriorate dramatically as a result of the crisis.
Moreover, we must remember that budgets were already strained before the crisis, and that governments’ balances do not reflect all aspects of reality.
Higher leverage creates macroeconomic risk – not least for fiscal balances when implicit guarantees must be honored.
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