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For the last four decades, Europe’s fundamental problem has been complacency in the face of low economic growth caused by excessive taxation and regulation.
But interest-rate premiums are the main mechanism by which excessive debt in the eurozone can be avoided.
Many governments have now implemented interest-rate ceilings and margin caps to curtail excessive profits for MFIs, while ignoring the margins of the market’s non-organized alternatives, like pawnbrokers.
The economic and political implications of this long-term trend have been widely discussed but left largely unattended, betraying the general lack of concern for distributional issues that shadows elites’ excessive faith in markets to provide beneficial outcomes.
Excessive reliance on debt finance has undermined basic tenets of democracy, with government finance increasingly determined not by electoral cycles and political deliberation, but by repayment schedules.
But this obscures the real issue, which is excessive government expenditures.
My greatest worry is not Putin but that Russia will face an excessive inflow of foreign portfolio investment again, as in 1997.
For China, it is excessive reliance on fixed-asset investment for growth.
The FBI report noted these incidents with the comment: “doesn’t seem excessive given Department of Defense policy.”
The largest of the BRICS, China, faces additional risk stemming from a credit-fueled investment boom, with excessive borrowing by local governments, state-owned enterprises, and real-estate firms severely weakening the asset portfolios of banks and shadow banks.
While it is true that surging M2 can reflect excessive leverage, it is not a particularly accurate gauge in China, where commercial banks can easily circumvent high reserve requirements and quantitative controls by moving loans off their balance sheets to wealth-management products – practices that fuel artificial credit expansion that looks like M2 growth.
The 70/30 split underscores the challenge: the US must face up to a fundamental rebalancing – weaning itself from excessive reliance on internal demand and drawing greater support from external demand.
In order to minimize the excessive resource consumption associated with driving, the vehicles would be tailored to trip characteristics, such as the number of passengers.
Fiscal policies should be left with the member states, albeit under the constraints imposed by the EC Treaty (the coordination procedures of Article 99 and the excessive deficits procedure of Article 104).
While it may seem excessive to require the Saudi government, which owns 95% of Aramco, to consult with the remaining shareholders, an LSE Premium Listing usually requires just 25% equity.
Civilians may not be targeted; the principle of proportionality requires the avoidance of excessive force in pursuing a legitimate military objective; and prisoners must be treated humanely.
Another period of excessive pessimism arose a year ago.
The logical answer to that problem, one might think, is to interrogate the models closely, to see what is driving the differences, and demand calibration changes where the resultant asset reductions are deemed excessive.
On the contrary, such a refusal “should be considered an acceptance of the human condition, or a wish to avoid the application of a medical procedure disproportionate to the results that can be expected, or a desire not to impose excessive expense on the family or the community.”
And a large proportion of these deaths are preventable: about one-third are due to vehicles traveling at excessive speeds.
This excessive consumption and construction demand led to excess demand for labor, especially in protected sectors like services, thus driving up wage costs.
If excessive domestic demand was the problem, the solution should now be on its way.
Only with a global liquidity-insurance system – underpinned by multilateral currency-swap arrangements – can countries pursue much-needed reflation, without excessive fear of capital flight and/or exchange-rate devaluation.
The US economy has been sustained by a consumption boom fueled by excessive borrowing, and that will be curtailed.
The attraction of this metaphor may be attributable to the excessive trust that Americans place not only in their army, which is understandable, but in force in general, which is much less understandable in the case of an intelligent people.
And it announced its intention to slow local governments’ seizures of farmland and excessive borrowing through captive enterprises.
More transparency also implies international agreement on incentive structures in the financial sector that discourage excessive risk-taking.
Of course, there have been warnings that risk-taking had become excessive, but for toolong it was hoped that market forces would solve all problems.
The fundamental problem is well known: major banks have significant incentives to take on excessive risk.
Education in social sciences and humanities is particularly deficient, owing to lack of investment in these disciplines and excessive political control of curricula.
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