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In Russia, unlike in most other countries, the central bank does not retain the exclusive right to
intervene.
Europe’s incapacity to act coherently in foreign policy is a glaring shortcoming, and it became a source of scandal and shame when the EU failed to
intervene
effectively in the war in Yugoslavia.
The US federal government needs to
intervene
in the water industry.
Why is the idea, common to John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, Knut Wicksell, Irving Fisher, and Walter Bagehot alike, that governments must
intervene
strategically in financial markets to stabilize economy-wide spending now a contested one?
If we continue to delay military action, we will have to
intervene
with greater force when the carnage spreads to Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq.
This position was reaffirmed in September, when Putin decided to
intervene
in the Syrian conflict, securing for Russia a role in any attempt to bring peace to the country.
In order to correct these imbalances, the five countries signed the Plaza Accord, in which they agreed to
intervene
in currency markets to devalue the dollar.
Instead of simply watching in horror, as it did at the start of the Bosnian war, NATO decided to
intervene
before Milosevic’s forces could again devastate one of the constituent ethnic groups of the former Yugoslavia.
But the preceding savagery of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ethnic cleansing, in that first phase of the Balkan tragedy, and the lily-livered impotence of the EU, had been so shocking and so shameful for the Europeans, that when they saw President Slobodan Milosevic embarking on an even more outrageous process of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, with the prospective death or displacement of tens or hundreds of thousands of Albanian Kosovars, they were compelled, almost willy nilly, to
intervene
more forcefully this time round.
Thus, the Commission was able – even before it was officially asked to
intervene
– to preempt measures that were contrary to single-market logic.
But the most infamous example of this policy paralysis was Obama’s 2012 declaration that the use of chemical weapons was the “red line” beyond which the US would be forced to
intervene.
For example, will it
intervene
when European industrial or energy interests are threatened?
Spontaneous protests erupted in front of police headquarters, but the police did not
intervene.
After all, the only time he has been prepared to strike any kind of deal over the last four years was when he believed that the US was prepared to
intervene
militarily in response to his use of chemical weapons.
Indeed, the fact that fundamental questions – like who should
intervene
and to what end – remain unanswered mars both the theory and the practice of R2P.
A larger state can inevitably do more to control the economy, and hence is exposed to the costly temptation to
intervene
in response to political pressure from vested interests.
This levy, strongly backed by those countries whose financial sectors are in tatters after the crisis, is hard to swallow for EU states that did not
intervene
to bail out their banks.
So the Japanese started to
intervene
to weaken the yen.
Indeed, though the US pretends not to
intervene
to weaken the dollar, it is actively doing precisely that via more QE.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), for example, has unexpectedly demonstrated both the will and the capacity to raise a fighting force to
intervene
in regional conflicts, such as the awful civil war in Sierra Leone.
Throughout this period, the Bundesbank sold dollars to curb the dollar's appreciation (Figure 1c) but the Fed did not
intervene
at all (Figure 1b).
As The New York Times puts it: “Putin calculates that the departing President Obama will be unlikely to
intervene
in the escalating Syrian conflict and a new American president who might consider a tougher policy will not yet be in office.”
It is then the central bank’s job to
intervene
in the banking system in order to push the market interest rate to the natural interest rate, thereby balancing the economy at full employment without excess inflation.
Although the Balkan countries that are outside the EU will remain there for many years, they are in the European security space already, and Europeans should be prepared to
intervene
militarily if outbreaks of violence recur.
Finally, central banks still stand ready to
intervene
to prevent bank runs.
Israel has reacted positively to the will of the young generation, but it cannot and should not
intervene
in events in the Arab world.
As a consequence, the euro is rising not only against the US dollar, but also against Asian currencies, whose central banks
intervene
in foreign exchange markets to fix their currencies’ value against the dollar.
Governments will have to
intervene
to set these standards, as they did during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to improve abysmal conditions in factories.
In demanding that China stop the renminbi’s market-driven depreciation, however, Trump is effectively calling on the country to do exactly what the US has always condemned:
intervene
directly in currency markets.
This would reduce Ahmadinejad’s ability to
intervene
in economic policies and keep him from naming the bank’s governor.
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