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(We will see how investors judge the dollar once the smoke clears and the huge expansion of US money and debt becomes evident.)
Although he was an architect of core components of social democratic policy – particularly its emphasis on maintaining full employment – he did not subscribe to other key social democratic objectives, such as public ownership or massive expansion of the welfare state.
Yet, as Keynes would have argued, it is important that the expansion of government involvement is informed by sound economics rather than political ideology, social democratic or otherwise.
Though political resistance and financial limitations have slowed expansion, this is arguably the most far-reaching universal coverage scheme, because it creates competition among all kinds of insurers and health care providers.
Such alliances can be composed of countries with very different political systems, for they are not allied by shared values, but by their interest in maintaining or strengthening their own power, either in their own protection, or worse, in expansion.
Openness and the principle of solidarity belong to the very substance of NATO and, as such, they are rooted also in the text of the Washington Treaty that opened the door to NATO expansion.
Thus, it is Russia, with a soaring birth rate among its Muslim citizens that is the most attractive for expansion and take-over.
The second paradox is that monetary expansion may be largely ineffective in the country that undertakes it, but can generate large negative externalities on others.
So far during the financial crisis and ensuing recession, the US has been incapable of kick-starting credit growth, the major transmission mechanism by which monetary expansion feeds through to domestic economic activity.
The effectiveness of monetary expansion could be enhanced in advanced countries by reducing the leakages generated by the carry trade and other short-term capital outflows.
Eliminating these barriers would increase the availability of long-term financing for business expansion.
Massive expansion in gas extraction and in coal and mineral mining, together with rapid population growth (for a rich country), means that energy use and emissions are set to grow in the coming decades.
It restrains excessive credit expansion during booms, while reducing the risk of bank failure or a much diminished capital base in recessions, thereby enabling bank lending to kick-start a sustainable recovery.
But NATO expansion as proposed will not effectively serve an anti-Russian purpose either.
But NATO expansion is not likely to make Russian foreign policy more peaceful ever.
Western proponents of NATO expansion contend that, in addition to bolstering Central European democracy and containing Russia, extension of the Atlantic Alliance to Central Europe is desirable because, there is a "security vacuum" between Russia and Germany.
NATO expansion risks upsetting the network of understandings, assumptions and agreements on which this new security order rests.
The Sixty-Year StormToday’s financial crisis, triggered by the collapse of the housing bubble in the United States, also marks the end of an era of credit expansion based on the dollar as the international reserve currency.
Every time the credit expansion ran into trouble, the financial authorities intervened, injecting liquidity and finding other ways to stimulate the economy.
That created a system of asymmetric incentives – also know as moral hazard – which encouraged ever greater credit expansion.
Credit expansion must now be followed by a period of contraction, because some of the new credit instruments and practices are unsound and unsustainable.
Instead of a development strategy, there was simply an expansion of the anti-corruption agenda initiated by his predecessor, James Wolfensohn.
Even under pressure from the international community and, most powerfully, from the US, Israel has consistently refused to slow expansion of its settlements in the West Bank.
Of course, monetary expansion should be accompanied by a less contractionary fiscal stance in industrial countries.
Some Chinese are suspicious that the US push for RMB appreciation and financial-market liberalization is really an attempt to gain trade advantages and generate profits for American companies while slowing China’s economic expansion.
“Surplus” Chinese savings made possible America’s credit expansion between 2003-2005, when the federal funds rate (the overnight rate at which US banks lend to one another) was held at 1%.Ultra-cheap money produced a surge in sub-prime mortgage lending – a market that collapsed when interest rates increased steadily after 2005, reaching 5%.The financial crisis of 2008 was the start of a highly painful, but inevitable, process of de-leveraging.
While that would be welcome, such efforts need to be accompanied by an expansion of benefits.
Both have been used more widely – indeed, taken to extreme levels – to supplement the unconventional expansion of balance sheets in the context of liquidity traps.
After Jean-Claude Juncker was appointed European Commission President in 2014, he confirmed the status quo, by declaring that the EU would undergo no further expansion during his five-year term.
Monetary expansion generally makes it easier to borrow, and lowers the costs of doing so, throughout the economy.
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