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This is particularly problematic for private-equity funds that promise to return capital to their investors after a fixed time period.
Private-equity funds that trade like stocks do not need fixed redemption periods and hence are in no hurry to sell.
They can warn of the collateral damage of low interest rates, which harm Americans living on fixed incomes and raise financial stability risks by encouraging investors to stretch for yield.
Once America went from being a net global creditor to being a debtor economy in sustained deficit to the rest of the capitalist world, Bretton Woods was condemned to extinction, because the Federal Reserve could no longer guarantee a fixed exchange rate with the Deutsche Mark, yen, franc, and so on.
The characteristic asymmetry of fixed exchange-rate systems was gone.
They consider the roles played by stronger fixed investment, greater consumer optimism (and thus higher spending on durables), fewer unfavorable oil shocks, and faster growth abroad.
As a result, refugees’ lack of an identity card, loan collateral, and/or a fixed address is becoming irrelevant.
In 2018-2019, fixed capital formation, which has historically averaged about 30% of the GDP, fell to 14% of GDP, barely enough to restore the existing capital stock.
Nor is it the possible crowding out of private investment, which assumes that the pool of finance is fixed.
In the early 1960s, economists Robert Mundell and John Fleming pointed out that fixed exchange rates are compatible with free capital movement or an independent monetary policy, but not with both at the same time.
Moreover, none of the points in the triangle is absolute: there is no such thing as completely fixed exchange rates, because even the tightest fix (including a currency union) can be broken.
When it comes to Everest, part of the problem is a fixed supply.
Many of these businesses are under- or unbanked, because traditional lenders have little incentive to incur the high fixed costs of servicing a large number of very small loans.
They may also lease vehicles from car owners, called “partners,” on fixed weekly terms.
As their earnings fell, drivers struggled to cover their fixed costs.
Or, to quote former US President John F. Kennedy by way of IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde more recently, we have not fixed the roof while the sun was shining.
A parallel problem eventually led to the breakup of the post-war Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, a decade after the Yale economist Robert Triffin first identified it in the early 1960s.
Investments in expensive fixed assets like dams must be accompanied by a thoughtful approach to managing a live river system.
The average annual rate of non-residential gross fixed capital formation since 2009 has been 5.3%, more or less the same as it was in the expansions of the early 2000s and the 1980s, and well below the rate in the investment-led boom of the late 1990s.
Even when discharged of their payroll costs, they still had fixed costs to shoulder.
At the macro level, Bretton Woods was based on fixed but adjustable exchange rates, and relied on the newly created International Monetary Fund to monitor the consistency of national policies and provide financial support to countries facing external shocks.
Digital technologies tend to come with high fixed costs, but low to negligible variable costs.
For most of the 1990s, Argentina had successfully implemented a fixed exchange rate, which the IMF saw as a sensible option for containing inflation.
Departing from a fixed rate is always a traumatic experience, with obvious winners and losers.
In 2008, following the decline in world oil prices brought on by the financial crisis, the government reduced fuel subsidies and adjusted domestic fuel prices, but kept fuel prices fixed.
But while the government was willing to take the first step, it ultimately decided once again to keep prices fixed.
After all, if the Fed were to raise the short-term rate slowly and support equity markets with a guarantee to purchase a broad-based exchange-traded fund at a fixed price, there is no reason why the rate increase should cause higher unemployment.
In China, fixed investment, industrial output, and retail sales declined at a double-digit annual rate in the first two months of the year.
A mistake cannot be fixed by compounding it.
If the supply of oil were completely inelastic (that is, if the world had a fixed number of wells from which oil could be pumped at no cost), the market price would fall by exactly the amount of the tax.
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