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Banks responded with ingenious ways of repackaging and selling that debt, but the fundamental problem lay in the channeling of financial flows in an unproductive direction, owing to public pressure.
This points to a fundamental flaw in the US approach to Syria.
Europe is making a fundamental mistake by allowing the two key elements of any resolution of the crisis – namely, debt restructuring and real stress tests for banks – to remain taboo.
Europe still exists in the US, though probably more among the Washington administrative and political elite than within the world of New York finance and business, despite the fundamental importance of transatlantic trade for both economies.
The EU is undergoing fundamental changes, many of which have gone largely unnoticed, owing to the overwhelming focus on large-scale top-down reforms.
But fundamental questions about the right approach remain.
The escalating spiral of violence by Israel and Gazan militants indicates not only that deterrence is failing, but also that its effectiveness depends on adherence to fundamental standards of morality.
According to Stork, “the cuts are seriously affecting civilians who have nothing to do with these armed groups, and that violates a fundamental principle of the laws of war.”
As he stresses, the most fundamental driver of financial instability is the ability of fractional reserve banks (and shadow banking systems) to create credit and money, and thus to inject additional spending power into the economy.
White and I agree that the fundamental driver of the 2007-08 financial crisis was a huge increase in leverage throughout the economy.
But the devotees of 100% reserve banking usefully focus our attention on the fundamental issue – the credit cycle – and, like White, I believe that fundamental change is required to ensure a more stable future system.
Quite rightly, he starts with the same fundamental question I posed in my Cass lecture: Do we need more stimulative policies of any sort to engender a faster rate of nominal GDP growth than is currently being achieved?
But the confused outcome of Italy’s recent parliamentary election, with an upper house dominated by a party that campaigned on an anti-EU platform and a pro-European majority in the Chamber of Deputies, has revived the fundamental debate about the purpose of European integration.
But, until that lesson is really learned, Europe must brace itself for more setbacks and backlashes, which means that it must still answer the fundamental question: Why stick it out together, especially at a time when more and more Europeans are choosing not to get married at all?Empowering EuropeEMBARGO OCT 1ST, 2007Barring a last-minute change of heart, European heads of government will sign off this month on a new agreement to beef up the European Union’s foreign policy machinery by strengthening the role of the EU High Representative.
But this welcome institutional innovation will not answer a more fundamental question: is Europe serious about having a coherent and vigorous foreign policy?
Europe now faces a difficult choice: either fix this fundamental design flaw and move toward fiscal union, or abandon the common currency.
To overcome this fundamental design flaw, government debts must be pooled.
The Shadow of the CrescentNEW YORK — As Pakistan atrophies in its existential crisis, a fundamental question about the nature of the country is coming to the fore: Are the country’s citizens Pakistanis who happen to be Muslims, or are they Muslims who happen to be Pakistanis?
When faced with acute, seemingly overwhelming threats like Islamic terrorism, Russian adventurism, and demagogic populism, the best refuge can be fundamental principles and values – complemented by a little common sense.
What Europeans must remember is that they still live in democracies that not only respect their citizens’ fundamental rights, including the right to express themselves, but that also have economies that are at least as competitive as those of most of Europe’s rivals.
This is an economic fact of fundamental significance, for the real long-term interest rate is a direct measure of the cost of borrowing to conduct business, launch new enterprises, or expand existing ones – and its levels now fly in the face of all the talk about the need to slash government deficits.
However, I believe that Stern’s fundamental conclusion is justified: we are much better off reducing CO2 emissions substantially than risking the consequences of failing to act, even if, unlike Stern, one heavily discounts uncertainty and the future.
The turbulence reinforces the lesson – fundamental to the rationale of establishing the euro – that ordinary people and businesses should not be exposed to exchange-rate risk.
In other words: Europe faces a fundamental collective-action problem.
For it may seem impossible to combine objectivity with the recognition of fundamental conceptual differences between cultures.
Culture, self-understanding, and language mediate whatever we identify as fundamental to a common human nature.
If our tacit sense of the human condition can block our understanding of others, and if it is so fundamental to who we are that we cannot merely wish it away, are we utterly imprisoned in our own outlooks, unable to know others?
Without more fundamental reforms, even an impeccable macroeconomic policy mix would not work.
Our economic expertise is limited in fundamental ways.
To ensure that it stays that way, its leaders must remember a fundamental truth: no predominantly domestic problem will ever be resolved by a loan or transfer of resources from abroad.
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