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The Chilean government’s excessive caution – rooted in fear of instability that could affect the basic rights regained after the dictatorship – also helped Pinochet evade justice.
Whatever one might say about Greece’s past economic policies, its uncompetitive economy, its decision to join the eurozone, or the errors that European banks made when they provided its government with excessive credit, the country’s economic plight is stark.
Given that eurozone members rejected even the idea of automatic sanctions for countries with excessive deficits, they are not likely to countenance such a wide ranging loss of sovereignty.
The proposed legislation is full of excessive and impossible requirements, and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives may not be able to pass it, even in modified form.
This will reduce the danger of excessive capital flows to emerging markets, but the next crisis is likely to arise from inadequate capital flows.
Excessive regulation that protects incumbent firms and other vested interests undermines market competitiveness and limits prospects for improved productivity and efficiency.
The Gezi Park demonstrators who in June protested peacefully against the use of excessive police force by simply standing still also protested peacefully, years ago, against the ban on the headscarf then in effect in Turkey’s universities.
It will take years to overcome the excessive indebtedness and real-estate overhang that resulted.
I decided that those last three digits were a bit excessive.
Regulators have recently woken up to the incentives for excessive leverage in this sector – and to the risks that such leverage poses to lenders and the broader economy.
The shift of US military priorities to the Asia-Pacific region is an understandable strategic rebalancing, given America’s excessive focus on the Middle East and its maintenance of an unnecessary military presence in Europe.
A well capitalized IMF, much better capitalized than pre-crisis, should be able to fill this backstop – similar to what central banks do (and did in the crisis) to prevent a credit freeze and the inevitable and excessive economic damage that would result.
At that point, the problem of how to divide the eventual bill when things became costly was not addressed, and the problem of excessive debt was wished away by the establishment of convergence criteria (which were not fully implemented anyway).
But while this bias is detrimental to decision-making, so, too, is excessive complacency.
The rest of the world, in the face of excessive unemployment, is no longer trying to reduce prematurely government debt accumulated during the financial crisis.
When potential refugees are blocked by offshore barriers, detained for excessive periods in unsatisfactory conditions, or refused entry because of restrictive legal interpretations, the protection of international law is lost.
The underlying problem remains that, while both central banks and finance ministries are unhappy about the excessive volatility of real and nominal exchange rates, they do not understand very well what causes it.
The challenge for China is to manage prudently the growth in housing supply needed to satisfy the demand requirements of urbanization, without fostering excessive speculation and dangerous asset bubbles.
As these downswings continue, there is a danger that they, too, may become excessive, dragging the financial system and the economy even deeper into crisis.
In effect, the presumption is that capital losses are random, so the sharp reversals and losses that usually ensue after excessive upswings in prices are disregarded in risk calculations.
Banks’ defenses need to be fortified during excessive upswings in asset prices so that they are able to weather the inevitable reversals.
But it also recognizes that price swings can become excessive, in the sense that participants may bid asset prices far from levels that are consistent with their long-term values.
History teaches that such swings are not sustainable, and that the more excessive they become, the sharper and more costly are the eventual reversals – and the graver the consequences for the financial system and the economy.
The lesson of this crisis is that excessive swings need to be dampened with a set of prudential measures.
Afflicted by historically high unemployment, massive under-employment, and relatively stagnant real wages, while burdened with underwater mortgages, excessive debt, and subpar saving, US consumers are stretched as never before.
The efficient-markets theory led policymakers astray by encouraging them to undertake excessive financial deregulation.
It is a fact of nature – human nature, at least – that prudent and appropriate policies now will later seem excessive.
The dysfunctional system of European fiscal governance should be dismantled; fiscal responsibility should be returned to member states; and, to minimize the risk of excessive future lending, private lenders should be required to bear the losses implied by unsustainable sovereign debt.
Excessive population growth, it was feared, would outpace agricultural production and create yet more poverty.
More problematic, lower oil prices encourage excessive consumption – the long-term environmental impact of which will be compounded by the weakening incentive to invest in alternative energy sources.
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