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Across Latin America, if poverty and violence are not ameliorated, tensions are
bound
to grow.
But “US efforts to get China to shed these objectives sound hypocritical when the United States seems to be opting for excess stimulus itself....[I]f the People’s Bank and the Fed tightened in coordination with most central banks, domestic [Chinese] concerns about competitive depreciation would be muted...”China’s policy of export subsidies through currency manipulation was always
bound
to become unsustainable in the long run because it was
bound
to generate substantial domestic inflation.
It is also
bound
to push their exchange rates up.
After all, when serving a vast democracy requires non-stop electioneering, and politicians are thus dependent on financial donations, governance is
bound
to go awry.
The governor from a country in recession might feel almost
bound
to vote against an increase in interest rates, or for a cut, regardless of overall conditions in the eurozone.
The international community is legally
bound
to protect those who are being forced to flee their homes by conflict and persecution.
Only by overcoming vested interests and building a more efficient bureaucracy,
bound
firmly by the rule of law, can the reforms China needs be pushed through.
Moreover, a common monetary policy combined with independent fiscal policy is
bound
to fail: the former increases unemployment in weaker economies because the interest rate reflects average eurozone indicators (with large weights on Germany and France), but keeps borrowing costs low enough that weak economies’ governments can finance fiscal profligacy.
As the world’s center of economic gravity shifts east, the balance of financial activity is
bound
to move with it.
You could say that Venezuela now exists as a “lawless legality,” a political system within which officials deny that in making or interpreting laws they are
bound
in any way by the spirit of justice that underpins those laws.
The endeavor was
bound
to be ambitious.
Although the government recently attempted to attract capital back to the official banking sector by eliminating the lending rate’s lower bound, more substantial reform is needed – and that will likely have to wait until the interest rate on deposits is fully liberalized and the financial sector is open to private banks.
Brexit constitutes a revolution, and that means it is
bound
to follow a familiar historical pattern.
Some speculative assets, such as cyber currencies, have already reached this point, and shares in even the best public companies are
bound
to experience temporary setbacks if they run up too fast.
Blackmail that is based on mutual illusions is
bound
to fail.
This, in conjunction with the tightening of current sanctions, including the exclusion of Russian banks from Western capital markets, is
bound
to cause serious shortages, declining living standards, and major problems for Russia’s ownership class.
Unless officials – especially German officials – act fast, the verdict of financial markets is
bound
to be ruthless.
To be sure, the Social Democrat-Green coalition, with the support of only 38% of MPs, was
bound
to be an uncertain exercise.
But even without noisome politics, the sheer amount of money required to stage the Olympic Games – the building contracts for stadiums, transport infrastructure, and hotels, together with all the other commercial razzmatazz – was
bound
to produce a culture of bribery and kickbacks.
The (re-)emergence of big economies like China is thus
bound
to have a greater impact on Europe than on the US.
Moreover, any tax whose proceeds increase in line with company returns is
bound
to discourage investment.
Nowhere in the world do neighbors live together more peacefully, and people move more freely and with greater security, than in Europe, owing in part to a new European identity that is not
bound
to national citizenship.
As the situation in Libya and the wider Middle East unfolds, policymakers are
bound
to face further acute dilemmas, not least in responding to continuing repression in Tripoli, or the similarly ugly and fragile situations in Bahrain and Yemen.
What are Israel and its supporters supposed to gain by bitterly resisting the United Nations General Assembly resolution recognizing Palestine as a non-member “observer state” (with a status like the Vatican), which now seems
bound
to be introduced, and passed by a huge international majority, on or around November 29?
As a non-believer, I am
bound
to treat such claims with skepticism.
Interest-rate cuts will run into the zero lower
bound
before they can have a meaningful impact on the economy.
The Fed and other central banks are informally exploring this option now, because it could increase the equilibrium interest rate to 5-6%, and reduce the risk of hitting the zero lower
bound
in another recession.
Ultimately, when the next recession strikes, central banks in advanced economies will have no choice but to plumb the zero lower
bound
once again while they choose among four unappealing options.
Given that financial push is
bound
to come to economic shove once again, unconventional monetary policies, it would seem, are here to stay.
Counterbalancing the mood of the market requires judgment, and because regulators are human, they are
bound
to get it wrong.
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