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When a country with higher inflation and structural rigidities joins a monetary union, it initially finds itself awash with liquidity: exchange-rate risk disappears, real interest rates turn negative, and borrowing becomes an irresistible bargain.
Financialization of the economy was the goal, neoliberalism was its ideological cloak, the Paul Volcker-era Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hikes were its trigger, and President Bill Clinton was the ultimate closer of the Faustian bargain.
As for labor rights, the agreement makes a devil’s bargain: it opens trade while locking in a status quo that is appalling.
Oregon has entered into a pay-for-success bargain with the federal government.
A new grand bargain between the eurozone’s two largest economies, France and Germany, will be needed sooner rather than later.
In Yeltsin’s case, Putin kept his end of the bargain.
Partly a result of the lack of outside support, but also to harsh economic conditions, the Faustian bargain between Yeltsin and Russia's old guard was made.
Such a massive diversion of resources “away from goods and services directly useful this year,” I argued, “is a good bargain only if it boosts overall annual economic growth by 0.3% – or 6% per 25-year generation.”
In other words, it is a good bargain only if it collectively has a substantial amount of what financiers call “alpha.”
One might wonder whether such a Faustian bargain could be worthwhile if it means that the World Bank has more resources to promote development in poor countries.
If it undermines Bhutto’s popularity, she may come to rue her deal with the general as a Faustian bargain.
In short, advocates of cooperation call for an open and explicit bargain: Iran's support for stability during the current transitional phase in Iraq, as well as its commitment to maintain cooperative relations with whatever permanent government emerges in Iraq, in exchange for an improvement in Iran's regional and international position.
This means upholding the principles that have helped to support peace and prosperity since the 1950s, including by backing the Iran nuclear deal, as long as the country continues to hold up its end up the bargain, and pursuing a peaceful resolution to the North Korea crisis.
It may be a Faustian bargain – prosperity in exchange for political obedience – but so far it has worked.
What if the bargain struck between the Chinese middle classes and the one-party state were to fall apart, owing to a pause, or even a setback, in the race for material wealth?
Yet, with the international community having failed to hold up its end of the bargain, progress has not just stalled; it could be reversed.
One sign of this is the hard bargain that President Xi Jinping struck in negotiating China’s recent huge gas contracts with Russia; another is that Chinese lending to Russia since the invasion of Crimea has actually declined.
Northern Europe must hold up its side of the bargain.
The accession countries have upheld their end of the bargain, achieving a degree of trade integration with EU countries that is even higher than many current members.
More to the point, as George Washington’s Treasury secretary, he crafted the bargain that successfully rationalized the US states’ debts.
He identified a source of revenue – the tariff – that could be devoted to this end, and he rendered the bargain politically palatable by making clear that if state governments accumulated additional debts, and again got into trouble, they would not be bailed out a second time.
But the main concern centers around the Treasury’s apparent intention to pay more than double the current market price (20-30 cents on the dollar) on the premise that Treasury’s success in untangling the mortgage market will make any discount seem like a bargain.
Instead of using development funds to serve its own needs, the EU should offer a genuine grand bargain focused on the needs of recipient countries.
In order to kick-start progress, ECB President Mario Draghi has proposed a grand policy bargain to European governments: if they implement structural reforms and improve fiscal flexibility, the central bank will expand its balance sheet to boost growth and thwart deflation.
If member states do not uphold their end of the bargain, the ECB will find it difficult to carry the policy burden effectively – exposing it to criticism and political pressure.
So, a basic bargain at the core of liberal democracy is the recognition of rights that key minorities value and that are fundamental to generating broader benefits.
It is time for Russian and Western leaders to devise a grand bargain for peace in eastern Ukraine, one that goes beyond the Minsk Protocol to address the questions of global security and arms control that have impeded cooperation on issues like Syria’s civil war and Iran’s nuclear program.
They know that when two great powers bargain with each other, it is countries like them that usually lose.
Flippantly attempting to change that bargain eschews political realities and threatens to set the European project on a dangerous course.
The German dogma of “no payments without counter-performance and control” was thus off the table, and the bargain struck in the early hours of the morning was exactly the opposite of what she had wanted.
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