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The natural tendency for monopolies and oligopolies to arise needs to be constrained by regulations.
They have constrained Obama’s willingness to embrace trade deals.
At long last, it can be said that an Iraqi legislature understood that it was constrained by constitutional principals and the rule of law.
As they close in on effective joint banking and fiscal policies incorporating more and more elements of Hamilton’s fiscal federalism, they are increasingly constrained by state politics – exactly as Europe’s leaders are inhibited in the current system.
If nominal demand grows faster than real potential growth, inflation is inevitable; and nominal demand growth can be constrained only through a mix of fiscal and monetary policy.
But the fact of the matter is that northern European governments, constrained by domestic public opinion, remain unwilling to act.
It emerges from a president’s confidence that, as a popularly elected leader, he should not be constrained by the Supreme Leader’s oversight.
But, while this approach could work in the US, the European Central Bank is institutionally constrained from raising the inflation target.
And, while international cooperation to combat terrorism is useful, its impact is constrained by suspicion and mistrust, as the Boston Marathon bombings highlighted.
Growth in China’s megacities – metropolitan areas with a population exceeding ten million – has long been heavily constrained by rigid state administrative divisions and planning agencies.
But the advanced countries are, to varying degrees, fiscally constrained by relatively high and rising public debt, largely owing to fiscal imbalances that were hidden from view until defective growth models broke down in the crisis of 2008.
Just how fiscally constrained these countries are remains subject to debate.
Italy and Spain are clearly constrained by the absence of private capital in their respective sovereign-debt markets, with rising yields threatening their fiscal stability and reform programs.
As a result, US ties to India were no longer constrained by fear of complications in Pakistan.
With the exception of the almost defunct six-party talks aimed at eliminating the nuclear threat posed by North Korea, Asia’s powers refuse to be constrained by international rules or norms.
When the next downturn comes, they will quickly find that their own reckless policies have severely constrained their ability to respond.
Moreover, while China’s nascent consumer-led growth dynamic is impressive by most standards, limited market access has constrained US companies from capturing what they judge to be a fair market share of the potential bonanza.
With so many banks in the US fragile, lending is likely to remain constrained.
They are not constrained by huge assets in the hated West.
But in Turkey’s constrained political environment, and with a popular if polarizing president still at the helm, opposition leaders will face a difficult struggle to maintain the momentum they have established.
But, though nation-states and their politicians are more constrained than ever before, the records of women like Merkel and Rousseff suggest that individual leaders remain a potent force, for better or worse.
(NASA in particular has been constrained by years of political infighting and patronage in the US Congress, to the point where its mission seems to be employment maintenance rather space exploration.)
Whether that fall reflected low demand for credit or constrained supply may seem like a technical issue.
For SMEs, a shortage of customers, not a shortage of credit, constrained borrowing, employment, and output.
But fiscal stimulus is constrained within the eurozone, where member countries no longer issue their own currency and “sovereign” debt therefore carries a default risk.
Moreover, the crisis-related damage to banks’ balance sheets constrained demand by severely limiting household credit and lending to small and medium-size businesses.
Indeed, though domestic investment is constrained by credit availability, major European and Latin American multinationals have begun investing in the Spanish economy, attracted partly by its enhanced competitive posture and structural flexibility, and, on a slightly longer time horizon, by a recovery in domestic demand.
The US insists that it would be unfair to burden its companies if energy-intensive industries could simply relocate to developing countries that had not yet constrained their emissions.
Unlike the UN tribunal for former Yugoslavia, which was established during the Balkan wars, a tribunal for Iraq would be more constrained by the need to avoid applying justice retroactively.
But countries with large external imbalances, low reserves, or high debts will increasingly feel financially constrained, if they don’t already.
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