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Dos and Don’ts for the European Central BankCAMBRIDGE – Recent statements by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and Bank Governor Ewald Nowotny have reopened the debate about the desirable
limits
to ECB policy.
Sooner or later, the ECB will have to clarify the
limits
of its policy.
This is where rules that impose term
limits
on officeholders, such as the Twenty-Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, have their place.
Elsewhere, notably in many of the Soviet Union’s other successor states and in Latin America, those in power have often simply changed the constitution – including rules on term
limits
– to their advantage.
It would impose only those
limits
that are consistent with democratic delegation, possibly along with a limited number of procedural norms (such as transparency, accountability, representativeness, use of scientific evidence, etc.) that enhance democratic deliberation at home.
Thus, while ordinary Politburo members have been targeted in the past (three have been imprisoned), members of its Standing Committee have been off
limits.
Currency policy highlights the
limits
of financial globalization by crystallizing the tension between domestic agendas and global issues – a tension that both shapes and is shaped by exchange rates.
But Trump has so far shown such indifference to rules and norms, such a disregard for limits, and such unpredictability, that the prevailing mood among Democrats and Republicans alike is one of uncertainty and unease.
And German officials also regularly suggest that their economy is already performing at close to its supply-determined
limits.
Far from being willing to coerce people to live in a certain way, German conservatives seek a politics that recognizes
limits
- the
limits
of the state, the market, and the individual.
Likewise, FIFA must introduce and adhere to clearer term
limits
for its president and board members, starting with Blatter – and with immediate effect.
In his forthcoming budget, however, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown may need to admit that the UK risks breaching the Maastricht Treaty's deficit
limits.
But the overall message is clear: Putin answers to no rules, and there are no
limits
to the reach or ruthlessness of his retribution, no matter how powerful in Russia a person may once have been.
The right often traces its intellectual parentage to Adam Smith, but while Smith recognized the power of markets, he also recognized their
limits.
With governments in many developed countries now reaching the
limits
of their gap-filling capacity, three undesirable possibilities loom large (in addition to the desirable possibility that they will have no choice but to undertake long-postponed reforms that will create sustainable growth with less need for government buffers).
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has taken a more nationalistic stance than most of his predecessors, and his Liberal Democratic Party is committed to revising Article 9 of the constitution, which
limits
Japan’s forces to self-defense.
We cannot base our actions solely on commercial will, because that
limits
us to operating strictly at the whims of international markets.
But, upon getting to the front of the line, people were often met with strict withdrawal limits, because, in a display of shocking ineptitude, not enough new currency was printed prior to the announcement.
In our view, the
limits
of managerial capitalism explain why, after approaching US levels of per capita income in the late 1980’s, both Western Europe and Japan failed to match America’s information-technology-driven productivity resurgence that began in the 1990s.
Even complacency has its limits.)
Unlike healthcare, there are almost no
limits
to genetic enhancements.
Furthermore, the innate desire to provide for one's children is so powerful that affluent citizens may buy reprogenetics elsewhere even if their society bans or
limits
its use.
The debate about whether and how to introduce Eurobonds has focused on the appropriate
limits
on issuance.
Nineteen years of experience with the Maastricht Treaty, which created both the EU and the euro, has shown convincingly that such
limits
are unenforceable.
Countries with the clout to flaunt the
limits
will do so whenever it is politically convenient.
Indeed, once the unintended consequences of their actions – more financial duress for the non-rich after the crisis – became clear, Bertrand and Morse show that the legislators in unequal districts moved against the financial sector to protect their constituents, voting to set
limits
on interest rates charged by “payday” lenders (who lend to over-indebted lower-income borrowers at very high interest rates).
A smart power strategy starts with a clear assessment of
limits.
Although both cases reveal the
limits
to the EU’s soft power, it remains the key to overcoming the legacies of strife in the Balkans.
Nowadays, there are many adherents of the “Hubbert’s peak” theory of oil production, which holds that we have reached the upper
limits
of output capacity, the wells are running dry, and it is all downhill from here.
On the contrary, it aims, in Hirschman’s words, “to widen the
limits
of what is or is perceived to be possible.”
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