Credibility
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Capturing the most media attention has been Europe’s eroding credibility, with its paralyzed institutional response to the ongoing financial crisis making ever more fanciful the notion of a “G-3” world, in which the European Union could compete as a political and economic equal with the United States and China.
Japan’s power and longstanding antagonistic relationship with China reinforces the
credibility
of Japanese security commitments toward Vietnam and other countries in the region.
The result is that both politicians have since lost all
credibility
with an impatient public.
But in the long run, it will likely reduce US employment, shrink North America’s share of the global auto market, and undermine America’s
credibility
on international trade issues – all while failing to reduce the US current-account deficit.
Money ceases to have
credibility.
Today, as France engages the progressive forces of the “Arab Spring” – politically, if not militarily, as in Libya – can it continue to maintain a hypocritical stance towards Algeria, paying a high price in
credibility
for continuing its silence about the past?
Notwithstanding Obama’s skillful response to the Arab Spring – the only strategic surprise that he has faced as president – his
credibility
in the Muslim world has steadily declined.
Jettisoning the Manichean rhetoric of that “war” allowed the US to regain the political legitimacy that former President George W. Bush had lost, without diminishing its strategic
credibility.
This “just-do-it” approach works fine in the United States, for example, where the Federal Reserve has established its anti-inflationary
credibility.
US
credibility
is not at risk, for either its allies or foes, when it makes carefully calibrated choices about the balance of risk and return in using such force in particular cases.
We need a sustained global commitment to disarmament and continued common efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction in order to maintain the
credibility
of the collective security system.
And yet, though feared, they have scant political credibility; the UK’s Brexiteers, by contrast, include government ministers who count the EU’s supposedly undemocratic decision-making among its main shortcomings.
It certainly would deal a devastating blow to the EU’s credibility, both in its member states and abroad.
If confidence and
credibility
are to be restored, sound governance has to be put at the core of the next government’s plans for banks.
Restoring market
credibility
also means clarifying banks’ role in the economy.
If confidence in Italy or Spain deteriorates again, the eurozone may have to resort to the traditional bridge between weak
credibility
and low-cost financing: a temporary International Monetary Fund-style monitored reform program.
One possible explanation is that they are concerned about the loss of
credibility
implied by setting an inflation target of 2% and then failing to come close to it year after year.
But the reality is that steps toward looser monetary policies are non-existent – especially with the fledgling European Central Bank anxious to establish its inflation-fighting
credibility
– and that steps toward structural reforms are half-hearted, hesitant, and small.
If Germany refuses to take a more reasoned approach, it risks undermining the ECB’s credibility, thereby reducing the effectiveness of its measures.
And it has the authority to bolster the ECB’s
credibility
and thus its efforts to ensure future price stability and prevent financial contagion.
Governments fear that they will lose
credibility
with financial markets.
Emerging-Market Risk and RewardNEW YORK – One definition of an emerging-market economy is that its political risks are higher, and its policy
credibility
lower, than in advanced economies.
After the financial crisis, when emerging-market economies continued to grow robustly, that definition seemed obsolete; now, with the recent turbulence in emerging economies driven in part by weaker economic-policy
credibility
and growing political uncertainty, it seems as relevant as ever.
Only a serious program of universal nuclear disarmament can provide the reassurance and the
credibility
needed to build a global consensus that nuclear deterrence is a dead doctrine.
Strategy is China’s greatest strength, lending
credibility
to its commitment to structural transformation.
And, making matters worse, US
credibility
has been thoroughly eroded by Trump’s decision to abandon the Iran nuclear deal, and by comments from his national security adviser, John Bolton, and Vice President, Mike Pence, both likening North Korea’s situation to that of Libya under Muammar el-Qaddafi.
In this confrontation, international
credibility
and legitimacy will be the deciding factors, and ensuring them will require far-sighted and cool, calculated American leadership.
And too many regional governance mechanisms, with the important exception of the European Central Bank, lack sufficient influence, credibility, and, therefore, effectiveness.
All of this serves to undermine the effectiveness of government policies – by reducing their credibility, clogging their channels of transmission to the economy, and making it difficult to offset the withdrawal of private-sector capital and spending.
Governments compete with each other and with other organizations to enhance their own
credibility
and weaken that of their opponents.
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