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“I do not like the idea that Germany plays itself up to impose its will on others,” German President Joachim Gauck said recently.
Regions must be prevented from promulgating regulations that violate national laws or impose negative effects on other regions, as has happened with the creation by some regions of internal trade barriers.
Reintroducing the drachma risks exchange-rate depreciation in excess of what is necessary to restore competitiveness, which would be inflationary and impose greater losses on drachmatized external debts.
In such cases, the likelihood of failure increases, because of the intrinsically multilateral nature of transnational issues in a global age, and the costly effects on US soft power that unaccepted unilateral actions may impose.
While ASEAN rejected previous calls to impose sanctions, or even to expel Myanmar, this step shows that it will not remain inert regardless of what the generals do.
Is Europe Ready for a Trade War?PARIS – US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose import tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum is surprising neither for its expression of protectionist ideology nor for its sheer economic irrationality.
If that fails, Trump could unilaterally intervene to weaken the dollar, or impose capital controls to limit dollar-strengthening capital inflows.
As former President Jacques Chirac said: to impose democracy in Arab countries means that you despise their cultural differences.
Governments that try to protect the status quo will not only fail on climate change; they will ultimately impose higher social costs, even as they fail to capitalize on the economic opportunities created by reform.
Trump’s obsession with the trade deficit has led him to impose import tariffs on steel, aluminum, and a wide range of products from China.
His friends in the US Senate have already introduced a bill, which currently has 59 cosponsors, that would impose new sanctions on Iran; this is tantamount to torpedoing the entire Iran deal.
Likewise, last July, he mooted the possibility that the United States might withdraw from the WTO if it constrained his ability to impose tariffs.
His position seemed less to deny the existence of global warming than to insist that policies mitigating climate change not impose an unreasonable burden on American companies.
On the other hand, because it required significant and expensive short-run cuts in emissions by industrial countries, it threatened to impose large immediate costs on the American, European, and Japanese economies.
For most of the previous half-century, the North sought relentlessly to impose its will on the South.
In 2011, after the US and its allies convinced Russia’s former president, Dmitri Medvedev, not to block a United Nations resolution to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, they launched a full-scale military bombardment of Libya, which helped to bring down the regime – a move that Russian officials called “deceptive.”
If they do not, concerned citizens should demand that educators provide a justification for the policy that they do impose on schoolchildren.
Recent financial history suggests that the next liquidity crisis is just around the corner, and that such crises can impose enormous economic and social costs.
Macron’s policy was a perfect example of how not to impose higher carbon taxes.
This was a huge increase to impose on owners of already existing vehicles, which could not be immediately replaced.
If the global business elite is serious about action on climate change, it should advocate for an international agreement to impose a carbon price on conventional jet fuel, whether via an explicit tax or through a green-fuel mandate requiring a gradually rising proportion of zero-carbon bio or synthetic fuel.
The ESAs should have more power to impose their will in the interests of the EU as a whole.
We do not yet know what the outcome there will be, but “the greatest country on earth” cannot impose a solution.
So, while powerful, “hegemonic” countries like the US managed to impose their own rules on weaker partners in the PTAs that they helped to proliferate, big emerging economies like India, Brazil, China, and South Africa insisted on rejecting such demands when made as part of multilateral trade rounds like Doha.
In fact, such templates now extend beyond conventional trade issues (for example, agricultural protection) to vast numbers of areas unrelated to trade, including labor standards, environmental rules, policies on expropriation, and the ability to impose capital-account controls in financial crises.
With US President Barack Obama hesitating to impose any costs on China for these aggressive moves, Japan’s leaders are taking matters into their own hands.
Armchair strategists in faraway countries are deluding themselves if they think attempts to impose neat new borders on these ancient lands would not founder against modern reality.
Already, Trump has raised doubts about his commitment to the “one China” policy – including by accepting a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan’s president after the election – and threatened to impose high tariffs on China, which he has accused (wrongly) of devaluing its currency to gain an unfair trade advantage.
As it is, bank executives expect to share in any gains that might flow to common shareholders, but they are insulated from the consequences that losses, produced by their choices, could impose on preferred shareholders, bondholders, depositors, or the government as a guarantor of deposits.
The common shareholders in financial firms do not have an incentive to induce executives to take into account the losses that risks can impose on preferred shareholders, bondholders, depositors, and taxpayers.
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