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His conciliatory speech in Cairo on June 4, 2009, much derided by hawks in the US, together with his general lack of bluster, created enough space for the opponents of Middle Eastern dictators to rebel without being tainted in any way by foreign intervention.
But American hawks want what most opposition leaders in Libya have expressly rejected.
They have defended their empirical methods and insist that they are not the deficit hawks that their critics portray them to be.
For example, Reinhart and Rogoff might have downplayed their results – such as they were – in order to prevent them from being misused by deficit hawks.
By validating Trump’s self-serving belief that tough sanctions bend countries to America’s will, Moon gained political cover from US foreign-policy hawks unhappy about diplomatic overtures to Kim.
The ECB’s hawks, understanding the dangers of abnormally low interest rates for a central bank whose primary objective is price stability, had been eager to start raising rates earlier.
The hawks were right to be in a hurry.
Several frustrated hawks on the Governing Council are dead set against cutting interest rates precisely because they believe that, at 4%, rates already have been “cut” from the 5% or so levels they had expected to achieve.
So please don’t allow yourself to be drawn into pandering to Israel’s radicals and hawks.
This would please America’s trade warriors and national security hawks, who believe that such a decoupling would limit the growth of Chinese power.
Though some hawks called for only muted criticism of the regime, the US had no choice but to condemn the massacre and be expelled.
Many inflation hawks, some inside the Fed, thought unemployment rates below 6% were dangerous, but Greenspan let unemployment fall towards pre-1970 rates as long as prices and wages remain well-behaved.
If India’s pursuit of peace strengthens like-minded Pakistani politicians who are struggling against their own hawks, it is worth attempting.
While most central banks are inflation hawks, this stance is a matter of religion, not economic science.
But, ultimately, his chief failure had been to hand power to military and civilian hawks – wrongly called conservatives, for their vision was a radical reordering of Europe.
Unlike the so-called “chicken hawks” who avoided service in the Vietnam War themselves but could barely wait to send young Americans into Iraq to fight, McCain’s life is not at odds with his politics.
More dangerous, Bolton is the ultimate foreign-policy hardliner, the hawk to end all hawks.
Instead, Kennedy offered a deal that would protect Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s reputation in the eyes of Kremlin hawks: the US would withdraw its missiles from Turkey (which were superfluous already), in exchange for the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
This is also true of the Greek crisis, in which Merkel – despite her public image in southern Europe – was not aligned with the hawks in her party and administration.
But, if history is a guide, global events, not deficit hawks or military promoters, will have the ultimate say over how far defense reductions go.
Another is that Latin American populists can also be fiscal hawks, as Evo Morales has shown in Bolivia.
Unlike the fiscal cliff, the structural deficit problem is not imminent: contrary to deficit hawks’ dire warnings, the US does not face a time-sensitive debt crisis.
Clearly, White House hawks such as National Security Adviser John Bolton have not heeded any of the lessons from the US debacle in Iraq.
Some observers detect a new “Geo-Green” coalition of conservative foreign-policy hawks, who worry about America’s dependence on Persian Gulf oil, and liberal environmentalists.
In the hawks’ view, the real energy problem is not the absence of petroleum reserves, but the fact that they are concentrated in a vulnerable area.
The anti-inflation hawks in Frankfurt are not at all happy with Bernanke’s aggressive 50 basis point cut and the promise of more to come.
The longer the ECB maintains its inflationary bias, the steeper the consequent economic decline as the economy crumbles under the weight of the skyrocketing euro and interest rates that are too high for current economic realities (though lower than where the ECB hawks had planned to go before the current financial crisis hit).
Moreover, there have been proposals to eliminate regional presidents from the FOMC, largely because they tend to be policy hawks – committed to keeping inflation low – while governors in Washington often prefer to focus policy on economic growth and employment, even if it places price stability at risk.
What if Trump had just attended a meeting with hawks eager to launch a preemptive nuclear attack on North Korea, or goad Iran into conflict?
Interestingly, a number of different answers to these questions are emerging, and central banks are dividing into hawks and doves.
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