Expectation
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China must, therefore, put development first, with the
expectation
that economic growth will solve the country’s problems.
An absurd expectation, one might think.
Since the ten-year US Treasury bond rate tends to be one percentage point above the average of expected future short-term interest rates over the next decade, even the
expectation
of five years of deep depression and near-zero short-term interest rates should not push the 10-Year Treasury rate below 3%.
The idea was that Russia would protect NATO from attacking missiles traveling over its territory, with the
expectation
that the alliance would then forego developing defenses capable of engaging missiles over Russia.
Urging large surplus, low debt countries to devalue is an invitation for beggar-thy-neighbor policies 1930s style, for a Chinese devaluation would trigger an outburst of devaluation across Asia, or at the very least the
expectation
of one.
Hence, the recent evolution of Puerto Rican bond prices reflects an
expectation
that the additional funds will go not to Puerto Ricans still suffering from the devastating effects of Maria, but rather to the commonwealth’s creditors.
One of the most powerful arguments for the EADS-BAE marriage had been the
expectation
of industry analysts that within 20 years China will challenge Airbus and Boeing in the global aviation market, while also creating a powerful new defense industry.
In both cases, banks took excessive risks in the
expectation
– eventually vindicated – that governments would bail them out.
In particular, banks, for which maintaining market share is crucial, cannot be expected to constrain risky lending, especially given the
expectation
that, if things do go wrong, the taxpayers will fund a bailout.
The mere
expectation
of that outcome has already driven up oil prices – another gift from Trump to Putin.
These measures will include not just a cap on the number of economic migrants, but also policies leading to
expectation
of full employment and continuity of income.
His
expectation
was that by controlling the amount of money in circulation, the Fed could bring about larger reductions in inflation with smaller increases in idle capacity and unemployment than what traditional Keynesian models predicted.
For example, as Western countries increasingly move to protect gay rights, the
expectation
has arisen that aid recipients follow suit, placing such rights above the “national rights” of the government.
Their
expectation
might have been that North Korea could improve relations with the US while retaining its nuclear weapons, in exchange for not developing long-range missiles.
Against this background, China’s
expectation
that India will respect its sensitivities is a bit rich.
Many have apparently pinned their hopes on the unrealistic
expectation
that they could renegotiate the EU treaties.
The
expectation
that AI would overcome human weaknesses such as bias has also fallen short.
Nor are there clearly identifiable differences in doctrine that should translate into a reasonable
expectation
of better economic performance under one party than the other.
In fact, the
expectation
that Iran will continue its march toward nuclear breakout ignores the entire logic and experience of nuclear non-proliferation.
Failure to recognize the fundamental slowdown that is occurring is reinforcing the
expectation
that old models can revive growth – an approach that will only create new fragilities.
What businesses in these countries need is not necessarily more finance, but the
expectation
of larger profits for their owners.
In fact, this
expectation
may already be strong enough to decrease private investors’ willingness to pay high prices for minority shares (except, perhaps, if they are politically connected insiders protected from expropriation).
The
expectation
that the benefits will “trickle down” to the middle and lower classes is highly dubious.
If anything, the
expectation
among Brexit voters, created by Brexiteers like Boris Johnson, now May’s foreign secretary, was that they could “have their cake and eat it.”
With the
expectation
that there will be no "succession crisis" and that an orderly transfer of power had long been agreed, business people simply do not expect the political situation in China to be worse than in 1989, when good business opportunities continued to abound.
The
expectation
that girls will grow up to do little other than serve their husbands reduces parents’ incentives to invest in their daughters’ education.
Uneducated women then have few alternatives, and the
expectation
becomes self-fulfilling, leaving women in a continuous cycle of powerlessness that has had significant adverse long-term effects.
But, on another level, the attempt to rate government alongside business and the media is fundamentally misguided: no sector operates at the scale of responsibility, accountability, and
expectation
that governments do.
There are certainly some in Russia who might advocate a prolonged, low-level conflict, interspersed perhaps with occasional bursts of military offensives, in the
expectation
that Ukraine will eventually disintegrate.
The economic fundamentals are far from stable, while the reduced financial tension is the fortunate outcome of an
expectation
game.
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