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It is particularly remarkable that eurozone regulators can now oversee and, if necessary, intervene on behalf of the monetary union’s largest banks.
But when, say, the Luddites of the early nineteenth century protested against newly developed textile machinery by smashing it, the authorities did not intervene to limit new technologies.
Reforming governance implies significant progress toward economic unification: centralizing European debt through Eurobonds, mobilizing sufficient rescue funds, allowing the European Central Bank to intervene in the primary bond markets, and establishing both a fiscal and a banking union.
I have often argued that Turkey should not intervene in the internal affairs of its neighbors or adopt a Middle East-centered policy.
At the same time, the fact that police agents must intervene in places with which they are not familiar severely impedes their effectiveness.
For example, Paul De Grauwe of the University of Leuvem has proposed that the European Central Bank should intervene when exchange-rate developments are out of touch with economic reality, in order to send a signal to the markets.
They acknowledge that in some circumstances intervention, or at least the readiness to intervene, may be effective, but only if a number of associated conditions are met.
In particular, a country planning to intervene must demonstrate that it has an intimidating stockpile of foreign-exchange reserves, and the readiness to use it.
Indeed, despite the giant trade surplus, the People’s Bank of China has been forced to intervene heavily to prop up the exchange rate – so much so that foreign-currency reserves actually fell by $500 billion in 2015.
If oil revenues fall further, they may be forced to sell those holdings, using the dollars to intervene in the foreign-exchange market and support their currencies or to bail out troubled banks, like Russia’s Trust Bank, the mid-size institution that the government rescued in December.
Even when they do not intervene directly, their interest-rate policies are often formulated to be compatible with exchange-rate objectives.
In any case, the new policies should reassure those who feared that China’s central government either would simply watch the bubble inflate or that it lacked a sufficiently independent macroeconomic policy to intervene.
Yet I am told that the chances of getting more money in the US for an extra round of fiscal stimulus this year is zero, as is the chance of getting more money this year to intervene in the banking system on an even larger scale than America’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
Other creditors, too, will continue to provide financing, because they expect that the (national) authorities will intervene – either by providing emergency funding or by arranging a merger with another institution – before the bank fails.
“Currency wars” is a more apt description when countries intervene to push down their currencies in deliberate attempts to help their trade balances.
But as Iraq spirals into chaos, diplomats and leaders everywhere are again asking themselves if it is ever appropriate for alliances of nations or the international community as a whole to intervene when a sovereign country appears unable or unwilling to defend its citizens from genocide, war crimes, or ethnic cleansing.
They want much wider latitude to intervene.
In failing to intervene early and decisively, it is said, Obama shirked his United Nations-backed “Responsibility to Protect” civilian populations from governments committing war crimes against them.
Moreover, he left space for external powers that support Assad – especially Russia, which has sent trainers and strike aircraft to help Assad’s forces – to intervene in the conflict.
To be sure, many outsiders claim that radicalization was not inevitable, and that it occurred precisely because external powers like the US failed to intervene earlier and more forcefully.
Yet in the US and elsewhere (tellingly, far from the frontlines), the chattering classes continue to agonize about supposed lost opportunities to intervene militarily and protect civilians.
First, we must ensure that the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine – whereby the international community has an obligation to intervene to prevent genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing – is more than a norm in international law; it must be a cornerstone of international relations.
To be sure, investors understand that the state can and will intervene to ease temporary market instability.
In January, France, which no longer has strategic or economic interests in western Africa, responded to a request from Mali’s citizens and caretaker leaders to intervene to prevent Islamist rebels from Libya and Algeria from overrunning the country.
First, “the West” is hardly keen to intervene, diplomatically or militarily, to protect populations from mass atrocities.
The British parliament voted not to intervene in Syria;Western countries are among the smallest contributors to United Nations peacekeeping operations; and countries that preach diplomacy and prevention, like Germany, have yet to turn their rhetoric into action.
But the Security Council did agree to intervene in Libya, and it sanctioned intervention by a French/African Union force to prevent genocide in the Central African Republic.
Despite today’s turbulence, it is unlikely that the military will intervene directly and taken over the reins of government, as it has on four occasions in Pakistan’s history.
For now, however, the best option may be for China to peg the renminbi to the dollar, with an adjustment band of 5%, within which the central bank would intervene only lightly, to guide the market back to parity over the long term.
Higher levels of government, including the EU, should intervene only when it is truly necessary.
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