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They could not simultaneously debase the currency and back it with gold at a fixed rate.
Under such an arrangement, the restricted shares and stock options granted in any given year are cashed out in future years according to a fixed, gradual, and pre-announced schedule set at the time the restricted shares and stock options are granted.
Gold, despite being in nearly fixed supply, does not have this problem, because there is no limit on its price.
Not only will they find it difficult to meet the convergence criteria (mandated low inflation and debt levels) fixed at Maastricht -- if they do join EMU they will find it hard to raise living standards to western levels, being forced to accept monetary and exchange rate policies designed primarily to stabilize prices in Germany and France.
In general, the more people who use a drug, the larger the number of problem users there will be (on the reasonable assumption that problem users comprise a fixed proportion of all users).
As conceived in Islamic political thought, a caliphate, unlike a conventional nation-state, is not subject to fixed borders.
Does the growing prevalence of buybacks explain why fixed investment and productivity have remained so weak across the West?
But, despite the reforms set out by the Third Plenum of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, the shift in China’s growth model from fixed investment toward private consumption will occur too slowly.
They realized that the realities of East Germany were not fixed in stone after all; that it was possible to achieve change, which many brave dissidents and proponents of civil rights trapped behind the wall had demanded for so long a time.
The rebalancing of growth away from fixed investment and toward private consumption is occurring too slowly, because every time annual GDP growth slows toward 7%, the authorities panic and double down on another round of credit-fueled capital investment.
The country was running a current-account surplus, but the pound was slipping against the dollar, causing the Bank of England to sell its dollar reserves to defend the fixed exchange rate.
Likewise, increasing the supply of money relative to a fixed amount of output will lead to a decline in the purchasing power of money, as each currency unit buys fewer goods.
If exchange rates were fixed but capital could move freely, capital flight from the country would generate pressures to end loose monetary policies.
Structural degradation is thus an indicator of the species’ exposure to random genetic drift: mildly deleterious mutations that would typically degrade the protein structure are more likely to be selected against in bacteria before they can become fixed in the entire population (estimated in trillions of individuals), whereas such a mutation has a far better chance of prevailing in humans.
The Economic Case Against Bush's Tax CutNEW YORK: Washington politicians are worried over signs that America’s great structural boom of the past five years is over: a poorer outlook for profits, increased corporate debts, and a related slowing of business investment in fixed capital, new customers and new employees.
By moving fast on a few technical improvements of the merger control rules, and introducing them ahead of the Convention, the Commission acted as if it were hoping that the institutional structure of competition policy would not become an item on the agenda of the Convention: we just fixed it, let's wait and see how the new rules work out , it seems to be saying.
The eurocrats, like labor laws or the welfare state, didn’t suddenly change in 1999, with the creation of the fixed exchange-rate system, or in 2008, with the beginning of the crisis.
As long as current policies remain fixed, new points of contention seem inevitable between Pakistan, its neighbors, and the United States.”
It may not collapse, but it would not thrive, owing to the lack of a stable, viable, and effective institutional structure with fixed and accepted limits.
In Hungary, the proposed tax would have been particularly onerous, because it would raise the cost of mobile data by 5-15% and have an even bigger impact on fixed broadband subscriptions.
Given that the implicit nominal exchange rates are fixed “forever” within the euro, these countries have accumulated major deficits relative to Germany.
With the exception of one minor adjustment in 2013, it has stuck to a fixed rate since 2011, even after its currency became massively overvalued and started to create imported-goods shortages.
A 2009 study by the World Bank found that a 10% increase in fixed broadband penetration boosts a developing economy’s GDP by about 1.4%.
In China, this proportion of fixed, illiquid assets exceeds 90%.
They subordinated domestic monetary and fiscal policies to maintaining the fixed exchange rate – even during the 1997-98 Asian crisis, despite great pressure to devalue.
Greater economic openness, coupled with the fixed nominal exchange rate, ended China’s inflationary roller-coaster ride, and, after 1994, real GDP growth also became more stable.
But China’s abandonment of the yuan’s “traditional parity” in July 2005 rules out a new, credibly fixed exchange-rate strategy for some time.
Instead, it requires a specific definition of what Iran must do in order to get what it wants in return, as well a fixed list of disadvantages it will suffer should transgressions continue.
Argentina’s long absence from international capital markets began in December 2001, when a deep economic crisis brought about the end of the decade-old Convertibility Plan (which fixed the Argentine peso to the US dollar) and ushered in what turned out to be a year-long banking holiday known as the Corralito.
As exchange rates in the eurozone were fixed and uniform, interest rates on government debt should have signaled differences in economic strength.
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