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At the same time, public spending acts as a brake on overall spending, and prevents the rapid cost escalation to which America’s private insurance companies contribute.
Echoing comments by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Deputy Economics Minister Mario Baldassarri said in Il Sole 24 Ore last week that all efforts to boost growth are in vain “if someone is pushing on the brake pedal.”
Unfortunately, PiS’s efforts to neuter the Constitutional Court have removed this essential brake on extremism.
Despite the excesses of anti-Communism, US dominance has also acted as a brake on ideological extremism.
But this cannot be accomplished by relaxing the brake on public spending.
The freedom of money, financial markets, and people to move – and thus to escape regulation and taxation – might be an acceptable, even constructive, brake on excessive official intervention, but not if a deregulatory race to the bottom prevents adoption of needed ethical and prudential standards.
Fiscal consolidation and the abrupt closure and restructuring of inefficient banks and state enterprises would, after all, constitute a powerful brake on short-term growth, threatening social peace and political stability.
That would have put a partial brake on growth in asset prices, raised savings, reduced investment, and probably lowered the trade deficit.
Interdependence acts as a brake on what governments can do without hurting themselves.
And the big American banks now want to use the slow pace of change in Europe as a brake on US policy (for example, through the ongoing free-trade negotiations between the European Union and the US).
There is, in fact, compelling evidence that child marriage has been a major brake on progress towards no less than six of the eight MDGs.
The motor has turned into a brake.
Moreover, the brake that the functional constituencies can put on legislation should be scrapped, leaving decisions to a simple majority.
Moreover, the Federal Reserve has viewed trade deficits as a helpful brake on inflation, while politicians now view them as a way to buy off consumers afflicted by wage stagnation.
But now Europe’s anchor has become a brake, hindering forward movement.
The plan does not challenge the constitutional debt brake that forbids the federal government from running structural deficits above 0.35% of GDP.
Stagnating or falling real incomes do not just act as a brake on consumption demand and GDP growth; they also fuel social and political discontent, as citizens lose confidence in existing economic structures.
For inflation control a strong currency is helpful and a DM tie, for example, works like a brake on any outbreak of inflation.
Yet, over the next year or so, several of our former colleagues may recognize that they, too, want some form of emergency brake on migration flows from one EU country to another.
In the meantime, Greece’s regulatory authorities would be keeping a watchful eye over commercial lending practices, while a debt brake would prevent our government from indulging in old, bad habits, ensuring that our state never again slips into primary deficits.
So, when it comes to automobiles, for example, one firm would produce all of the gears, another producing all of the brake pads, and so on.
Especially given the sharp brake on growth in global liquidity as central banks have raised interest rates, the prospect of risk premiums returning to more normal levels is itself one of the major risks the world faces today.
Yet, in a letter published soon after by the same magazine, Justin Forsyth of Oxfam claimed that “..current patterns of growth and globalization are widening income disparities and hence acting as a brake on poverty reduction.”
Raising the retirement age to 67, abolishing wage indexation, and compelling countries to enshrine a debt brake in their national constitutions are reasonable measures to enhance competitiveness and restore confidence in the euro.
Germans refer to this solution as a Schuldenbremse (debt brake).
In Germany, with no antitrust policy, there was no brake on the cartelization of industry, which made the average German poorer and the distribution of wealth more skewed.
On the contrary, when the price of oil rises, so do costs in most rich, industrialized economies; thus, a rising oil price acts as a brake on growth.
The German magazine Der Spiegel heralded the “9/11 of the nuclear industry” and “the end of the nuclear era,” while Spain’s leading newspaper El Pais preached that supporting “this energy [was] irrational,” and that “China has put a brake on its nuclear ambitions.”
But such a sharp decline in potential growth typically implies a powerful brake, in the form of an external shock or major internal adjustments.
The most important change that may keep the problem manageable is that China’s monetary authorities have been putting the brake on the growth of these debts since late last year.
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