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Banks and credit-card companies have become much more cautious about extending credit.
Those who can borrow have ample cash and are cautious about spending, while those who want to borrow – highly indebted households and firms (especially small and medium-size enterprises) – face a credit crunch.
Suzanne Maloney, a former State Department official, expressed cautious optimism, stating that “it is early days and it will require a lot of testing, but Mr. Rouhani has been more ambitious than I would ever have hoped.”
Yet their most valuable asset is cultural: soldiers who are willing and able to interact with the local population, who are cautious in their use of lethal force, and who are ready to accept the many shades of gray that exist between conflicting parties.
But optimism about this turn of events must be tempered with cautious realism.
His approach – to convince bureaucrats, opposition-party leaders, and the general public to support gradual reform – may seem to reflect cautious conservative timidity, but it has enabled the long-term success of his government’s measures.
Perhaps this brand of cautious and gradual reformism is what the Arab world needs if it is to ameliorate its own polarizations and conflicts.
As long as NATO remains reluctant to enter into a dialogue with the SCO, such a cautious attitude looks set to linger, and may even intensify.
As for the civil war between Assad and his opponents, the Vienna talks offer reason for cautious optimism.
In climate policy, most governments choose a progressive stance while talking and deciding, but a more cautious one when it comes time to act.
The US may be cautious about overextending itself in the Middle East, but that reflects its experience with the costly invasion of Iraq and the general turmoil of the Arab Spring revolutions, rather than illusions that shale produces political “energy independence.”
Of course, this possibility still cannot be dismissed, which is why international investors remain cautious about Europe.
Seeing the excitement that can be generated in young people through events like science festivals and networks of science centers gives rise to cautious optimism – provided we seize the diversity of opportunities that informal learning offers.
A Banker’s RevolutionKUALA LUMPUR – Financial regulators are generally known for taking a measured and cautious approach to change.
From Israel’s perspective, these changes are to be welcomed, though its government must remain cautious about the country’s own role.
But the US is rightly cautious.
Against this background, monetary policymakers must be cautious, because low interest rates can shift the growth model back toward leverage and domestic consumer demand, stalling the structural shift to the tradable side that is underway.
With harder budget constraints imposed by the central government, local officials and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have curbed their spending on investment, and are now being overly cautious.
While internationalization of the RMB is necessary (and inevitable), it should be guided by market principles and pursued in a cautious manner.
And, indeed, the legacy of Third Reich hyper-chauvinism and “actually existing socialism” in the eastern part of the country has inculcated in most Germans a cautious centrism, rendering extremist parties unsupportable for the majority of voters.
Understandably, the international community, which has long punished Myanmar’s authoritarian regime with sanctions, remains cautious.
The spirit of hope in the country is palpable, though some older people, who saw earlier moments of apparent relaxation of authoritarian rule come and go, remain cautious.
Cautious steps are being taken, like the review of religion-based laws and curricula that have contributed to a creeping talibanization of Pakistani society.
But, even then, it would be better for creditors to bear the loss than for taxpayers to do so, because this would encourage more cautious lending in the future.
As the situation deteriorated, one might have guessed that the IMF would mark its beliefs to market, as it were, and adopt a more cautious tone.
So perhaps Villalobos should be a bit more cautious, and Dieterich a bit less forlorn.
First, countries should be cautious about external financial liberalization when financial sector development and institutional quality are below key thresholds.
One conclusion, therefore, is for countries to be cautious about removing capital controls when they have not yet reached the relevant “safety” thresholds, but equally to stress the sizable net benefits for countries that exceed the thresholds.
There are grounds for cautious optimism.
My reading of the evidence leaves me more cautious.
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