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CAMBRIDGE – To Europeans with whom I speak, the $8.9 billion fine imposed on the French financial-services company BNP Paribas for violating American sanctions against Cuba, Iran, and Sudan seems excessive.
Thus, European critics of the fine imposed on BNP Paribas are right to emphasize its disproportionate nature.
For example, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman argues that the fact that Latvian GDP is still more than 10% below its pre-crisis peak shows that the “austerity-cum-wage depression” approach does not work, and that Iceland, which was not subject to externally imposed austerity and devalued its currency, seems to be much better off.
Now it is the IMF’s turn, beginning with the decision to admit that the policies it has imposed for five long years created a disaster.
The troika badly misjudged the macroeconomic effects of the program that they imposed.
While ultra-low interest rates yielded few benefits for developed countries, they imposed significant costs on developing and emerging-market economies.
After the US accused Russia of committing war crimes in Syria, Russia declared that it was suspending an agreement to dispose of surplus plutonium unless the US meets certain conditions, including compensating Russia for the costs of Western sanctions imposed after Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014.
Sanctions imposed on journalists, lawyers, and others who cross an invisible line often involve punitive legal action, though in many cases the authorities dispense with formalities to ensure their line is toed.
For example, the authorities have imposed a 12% tax on gas-guzzlers.
Hefty fines imposed by US regulators for breaching the rules – notably, the recent $8.9 billion settlement by BNP Paribas – are already causing European banks to re-think their compliance costs and the profitability of operating in the US.
But the existence of deposit insurance creates room for abuse, in the form of excessive risk taking, because bank executives get the upside if things goes well, and any potential losses are imposed on the insurance fund.
Fueled by racism and fears of overcrowding, globalism turned predatory: powerful countries imposed uneven trade pacts on neighbors and partners, or simply overran them.
And now that the government has imposed new restrictions on capital flows, the country’s attractiveness to foreign investors will fall further.Capital controls are of course in keeping with the “resistance economy” favored by conservatives, one of whom recently stoked fears of capital flight by declaring that $30 billion had left the country in only a few months.
And now that the government has imposed new restrictions on capital flows, the country’s attractiveness to foreign investors will fall further.
Looking back, it is ironic that the Chinese government’s draconian “one-child” policy, imposed in 1979, was implemented at the same time as the “open door” policy, aimed at capturing labor-intensive foreign manufacturing investment.
Yet in recent years, topics about which most people had never heard or cared – for example, securitization, credit default swaps, and the European payment system known as Target 2 – have imposed themselves on public debate, forcing ordinary people to grapple with their intricacies.
But the truth is that Saudi governance standards are more rigorous than those that would be imposed on Saudi Aramco by an international exchange.
In Greece, the “haircut” imposed on creditors so far has been managed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
Taking over Transnistria, a pro-Russia Moldovan enclave adjacent to Ukraine, would be economically challenging for a Russia that is still reeling from the Western sanctions imposed over Crimea.
An Islamic democracy cannot be imposed from above.
Iran’s economy has struggled ever since the Islamic Revolution, partly because of the economic embargo imposed by the United States three decades ago.
Yet this policy has reached its limits – and imposed undeniable costs.
A transition to democracy in the old revolutionary Arab regimes will not correspond to a Western model, nor can it be imposed by American F-16’s.
Even if those from Europe’s northern countries are right in claiming that the euro would work if effective discipline could be imposed on others (I think they are wrong), they are deluding themselves with a morality play.
The anti-dumping measures imposed by the EU therefore hit European companies in an unintentional way.
Because these ideologies’ claim to be in possession of the ultimate truth is bound to be false, they can be imposed on society only through repression and compulsion.
Moreover, the easier medium-term payments will be made contingent not only on growth, but also on new “conditionalities” (read: austerity measures) imposed by the (renamed) troika.
And almost 40% of firms surveyed by the World Bank lament the constraints imposed by competition from informal firms.
In any case, the Middle East must be allowed to take ownership of solutions to the challenges it faces; after all, no externally imposed solution has worked so far.
Iraq is not like Vietnam, where American departure was followed by stability imposed by an authoritarian government.
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