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The only viable regimes, indeed, in our globalized financial world are floating exchange rates and irretrievably fixed rates.
East Asia’s victims of currency crises were, like most other nations, on fixed rates - pegged to the dollar, other major hard currencies, or baskets of currencies.
Those sources of distrust in Asian economic and financial prospects, some fundamental and some speculative, that triggered the Asian crises would likewise have pushed down the exchange rates had they been floating, but surely not nearly as far as they plunged in the free fall following the collapse of fixed rates.
Through most of the period since 1945, fixed rates were protected by capital controls and exchange restrictions.
In many ways these developments were advantageous, but they made currencies more vulnerable and fixed exchange rates more problematic.
Yet the same authorities pressing for financial integration maintained the pressure for fixed exchange rates.
A fixed rate was seen as a "nominal anchor" against inflation, forcing disciplined monetary and fiscal policies.
Success in maintaining a fixed rate was touted as an attraction to foreign investors.
Recent short-term bank lending from Tokyo, New York, Frankfurt, and London to East Asian banks and businesses are an example of how financial integration and deregulation made fixed exchange rates vulnerable.
Whatever the exchange rate regime, fixed or floating, which a country adopts it is surely unwise to promote or even allow net import of foreign capital in such transient liquid form as developing markets have done over the course of this decade.
Governments and central banks should use their powers to steer the import of foreign capital into direct fixed investment, equity, and to a limited extent long-term hard-currency debt.
Each entrant will add one member, while the number of officials from the ECB's headquarters in Frankfurt will remain fixed at six.
A decent compromise that allows for elections that people can recognize as fair, not fixed, is surely available.
Exponential growth at a fixed percentage rate can look like a hockey stick.
Moreover, while this share is in theory fixed, in practice it is negotiated.
But, while the EFSF is a necessary step towards restoring confidence, the Greek crisis has revealed structural weaknesses of the European Monetary Union’s fiscal-policy framework that cannot, and should not, be fixed by routinely throwing other countries’ money at the problem.
China’s growth rate may have dropped from a three-decade average of 10% to a 25-year low of 7%, but that slowdown has been largely the result of policies to reduce fixed investment and move the economy from manufacturing to services.
Likewise, Bolivia’s automatic allocation of a fixed portion of tax revenue to local government has created a de facto stabilization fund, while cash bond payments to senior citizens have spread some of the wealth.
One problem is that workers have fixed costs, such as transportation to work or a health plan, that do not decline when hours (and thus pay) are cut.
Their debts and obligations are similarly fixed.
In the days of fixed commissions, investment banks could make a comfortable living booking stock trades.
Banks’ capital-adequacy ratios were set globally, and, once set, remained fixed.
What would help is if their nominal disposable income rose relative to their (fixed) debt service.
For example, the Foreign Investment Law of 2007, which fixed a 15-day deadline for projects to be authorized, has resulted in only $200 million in new inward investment.
Take the simple case of taxi licenses: if the number of taxi licenses is fixed, and consumers start using taxis more often, what you will observe is, at most, an increase in the demand for powerful Mercedes cars that taxi drivers use, not an increase in jobs.
This will inevitably make fixed exchange-rate links crack under pressure as the same monetary policy cannot possibly be appropriate for both regions.
In China, Brazil, Malaysia, and Mexico, foreign direct investment (FDI) accounts for 8% to 12% of gross fixed capital formation – without generating debt.
MF Global’s failure stands as a warning that only three years later, and even after the major Dodd-Frank financial reforms, the US still has not fixed key problems that brought them down.
Or was his presence a silent public vow, as he makes his decisions, to keep his mind fixed on matters of life and death, rather than on the next election?
Moreover, water is an essentially fixed resource, albeit one that renews itself every year.
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