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First, and most optimistically, wage earners throughout the new EMU zone understand the force of permanently fixed exchange rates.
The pessimistic argument is this: nothing has changed;Germany and France had fixed rates for years; so too Austria, the Netherlands, and Spain.
In fact, fixed business investment as a share of GDP is some 2% lower today than 4 years ago.
After the economic crisis of 2001, the authorities fixed the price of energy in nominal pesos and kept it there for years, even though inflation was running at 20% or more (according to independent estimates, that is; official figures are cooked to show lower inflation).
Indeed, two fixed notions underpin it.
That’s because at some point, the volatile price of the tradable resource will exceed the fixed cost of destroying it.
Ensuring that the ACA would remain in place for some minimum fixed term, rather than leaving it vulnerable to immediate repeal by Donald Trump’s administration, might have enabled a more fundamental transformation of America’s flawed health-care system, including through improvements to “Obamacare” itself.
Globally, debt securities issued by non-financial corporations – which are supposed to undertake fixed investments – increased significantly during the same period.
Very little of it went to fixed investment.
Fixed mortgages, with interest rates at 6%, were replaced with variable-rate mortgages, whose interest payments were tied to the lower short-term T-bill rates.
After all, poverty is not an unchanging attribute of a fixed group; it is a condition that threatens billions of vulnerable people.
The European Union is providing that certainty through its clean-energy targets, carbon markets, and feed-in tariffs (under which utilities guarantee to pay a fixed rate for clean energy).
Making matters worse, persistently high interest rates have pushed fixed investment down to around 20% of GDP, which is at least ten percentage points lower than what is required to bring down unemployment.
No one forced Argentina to adopt the currency board devised by Domingo Cavallo, the former economy minister, which pegged the peso to the dollar at a fixed exchange rate of one to one.
At the same time, much-touted reforms to rebalance growth from fixed investment to consumption are being postponed until President Xi Jinping consolidates his power.
Aside from the Almighty, the purveyors of such victories are the larger-than-life President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, both duly portrayed with gaze fixed heavenward.
After all, a fixed exchange rate or common currency requires limits on fiscal independence.
But the sheikhs are sitting on fixed stocks of oil.
He has kept the government’s rate of fixed investment at around 5% of GDP, which is twice what it was under Ahmadinejad, but still too low.
Government fixed investment is the traditional driver of economic growth in Iran, and has been as high as 20% of GDP in good times.
The Internet will not only create economic momentum for China in the years ahead; it will help to transform an unsustainable growth model based on fixed investment and cheap labor.
No interpretation is absolute or fixed for all time and all places.
Germany has also continuously failed to meet its commitment to spend 2% of its GDP on defense, at the same time that it has insisted that troubled EU economies stick to austerity budgets that limit their deficits to a fixed proportion of their economic output.
Central Banks around the world promised that their respective domestic currencies (British pounds, U.S. dollars, French Francs, etc.) could be converted into gold at a fixed exchange rate, even though they did not have enough gold to guarantee the commitment fully.
We should also reject monetary straitjackets -- like currency boards and fixed exchange rates -- which impose the gold-standard.
The Americans first unilaterally suspended the gold convertibility of the dollar--the backbone of the fixed but adjustable exchange-rate regime created by the post-WWII Bretton Woods conference--and then teamed up with the Europeans to force on Japan a 16.9% revaluation of the Yen against the dollar.
But the end of the fixed exchange-rate regime for industrial countries did not end activist management of currencies.
Recent improvements in data for industrial production, fixed investment, and retail sales suggest that the Chinese economy, which had slowed in recent quarters, may already be on the mend.
In less than a decade, that board has led the creation of a “one-stop center” to facilitate investment, has overseen streamlined issuance of construction permits, and has pressed successfully for a fixed fee for property registration, the extension of customs hours, and risk-based customs inspections.
Europe must be fixed politically as much as financially.
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