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In its early days, the Internet was often characterized as the ultimate egalitarian conduit of free-flowing information – a harbinger of the end of government
controls.
Russia resolved the hemorrhage problem for a moment as the moratorium and capital
controls
stemmed the outflow of dollars from the central bank.
Then the International Monetary Fund backed the use of capital
controls
and voiced concern over income inequality.
Eurozone authorities may claim that a Greek exit no longer poses a systemic risk, given the introduction in recent years of various instruments for fighting financial crises, including government-backed rescue funds, a partial banking union, tougher fiscal controls, and the European Central Bank’s new role as lender of last resort.
A short list of such policies would include: carbon taxes and other measures to ameliorate climate change; more work visas to allow larger temporary migration flows from poor countries; strict
controls
on arms sales to developing nations; reduced support for repressive regimes; and improved sharing of financial information to reduce money laundering and tax avoidance.
Primakov tried to launch communist policies, such as price and currency controls, but failed and found little money to dole out.
Today, China has replaced Germany (and Japan) as the world’s top exporter – but with one difference: it manages its exchange rate tightly, using capital
controls
and massive intervention in currency markets.
As the only major economy with capital controls, China has created its own “exorbitant privilege”: it can determine its exchange rate because no other big countries impose capital
controls.
The Chinese could abolish capital
controls
and let the renminbi’s exchange rate float.
Prohibiting the Chinese authorities from buying US debt would, of course, be tantamount to imposing capital controls, thereby breaking China’s monopoly on such instruments.
(Largely thanks to Kashmir, the Pakistani Army
controls
a larger share of its country’s national budget than any other army in the world.)
But imposing major losses on Cypriot banks’ depositors violates the deposit-insurance guarantee that forms part of the proposed European banking union, while the imposition of capital
controls
further erodes the monetary union’s foundations.
Likewise, the leaders must either accept much of the information revolution’s swamping of
controls
or engage in far more costly repression.
After all, he
controls
the monetary spigot.
Yet, while almost all the old members of the committee were not reelected, at least 15 of the 22 members will be old-style leaders (presuming Abbas will appoint such people to the four seats that he controls).
But that implies a stable business environment, including more transparency in government approvals, and looser capital
controls.
The following propositions garnered support from at least 90% of economists: import tariffs and quotas reduce general economic welfare; rent
controls
reduce the supply of housing; floating exchange rates provide an effective international monetary system; the US should not restrict employers from outsourcing work to foreign countries; and fiscal policy stimulates the economy when there is less than full employment.
Likewise, the proposition that rent
controls
reduce the supply of housing is violated under conditions of imperfect competition.
Currently, the EU contains a bloc of countries – the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the Scandinavian and Baltic countries – with favorable views on free trade – that
controls
roughly 32% of the votes in the European Council.
Not only is Iran’s policy of supplying weapons and fighters to keep Assad in power unpopular at home; the country’s leaders also recognize that fighting the Islamic State in Iraq is a half-measure at best, as long as the group
controls
vast swaths of Syrian territory.
China has very strong capital controls, but they are far from impervious.
Shortages of medicines and basic foodstuffs such as milk, sugar, eggs, beef, and chicken abound as a consequence of price
controls
and mounting inflation.
Clearly, one reason she swept to power this year were her ties to her brother, exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who
controls
the country’s strongest political party.
Alternatively, Mediterranean countries must be offered budgetary leeway, in exchange for assuming front-line responsibility for immigration
controls.
The government was forced to impose harsh capital controls, including restrictions on what citizens could spend abroad as tourists.
Aside from a humanitarian crisis, with thousands drowning each year trying to reach Europe and thousands more detained, there is the soaring expense of border
controls
and bureaucracy, a criminalized people-smuggling industry, and an expanding shadow economy, where illegal migrants are vulnerable to exploitation, labor laws are broken and taxes go unpaid.
These problems are due not to immigrants, but to our immigration controls, which are not only costly and cruel, but also ineffective and counterproductive.
And, in the previous 100-year period, Argentina’s governments defaulted on international debt on eight occasions, issued about a half-dozen currencies, engineered an episode of hyperinflation, and experimented with capital
controls
and confiscations.
In a small-state setting, imposition of a dense network of
controls
is likely to lead to the loss of mobile factors of production, while in a large state it is harder for labor or capital to escape.
Regulations and exchange
controls
prevent the retail sector from benefiting from new wealth creation.
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