Limits
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After all, a fixed exchange rate or common currency requires
limits
on fiscal independence.
There are obvious
limits
to this theory.
While people in a wide range of countries accept some degree of market-determined income variation, based on differential talents and personal preferences, there are
limits.
China has been stretching the
limits
of regional (and US) tolerance with its expansive sovereignty claims and massive land-reclamation activity – some 2,000 acres in the last 18 months – on Fiery Cross Reef and elsewhere.
Pushback is required, but within defined
limits.
This multi-speed approach has reached its
limits.
Philosophy, which could teach them about the
limits
of the economic method, is a closed book.
Yet this policy has reached its
limits
– and imposed undeniable costs.
As monetary policy was being pushed to its limits, what went missing was an increase in long-term investments in high-speed rail, roads, ports, low-carbon energy, safe water and sanitation, and health and education.
The
limits
of free speech are not just legal.
The informal
limits
to free speech are subject to norms of social respectability.
Since norms in any given society are constantly being renegotiated, we need comedians, novelists, and artists to test the
limits.
What is less known is that the high seas – the areas of the world’s oceans that lie beyond the
limits
of national jurisdiction, which extend 200 miles from shore – make up roughly two-thirds of our oceans and 45% of the planet’s surface.
The Rio Declaration, issued at the Earth Summit in 1992, recognizes a responsibility to ensure that activities do not damage other states’ environment or that of areas beyond the
limits
of national jurisdiction.
The initial disappointment about electronic productivity was thus a vivid demonstration of the
limits
of classical individualism.
Beyond excessive trade barriers, Africa suffers from inadequate transport links and
limits
on the free movement of people.
This may include restrictions on investments by institutions and individuals and intrusive regulation that limits, or dictates, their conduct in the market.
To be sure, every country places some
limits
on speech.
Citizen-based redistricting, open primaries, changes to term limits, majority-vote budgets, a rainy-day fund, and legislative transparency have all been the direct result of civic-minded leaders deploying the initiative process for the public good.
The situation in the eurozone is particularly unstable, owing to citizens’ growing alienation from a distant, technocratic elite; the absence of conventional economic adjustment mechanisms (exchange rates, inflation, public investment, and so on); and tight
limits
on fiscal transfers, which send powerful signals about the real boundaries of cohesion.
The Stability Pact already imposes
limits
on each member’s fiscal policy discretion.
To spur financial investment, China will raise foreign-ownership
limits
to 51% within three years, on the path toward ultimately removing restrictions altogether.
By 2022, it will scrap foreign ownership
limits
on local auto firms, boosting companies like Tesla, which could then fully own a subsidiary in China.
Subsequently, they were constrained by the
limits
to their fiscal reactions embodied in the Maastricht Treaty; the large economies of Continental Europe had not done enough budgetary consolidation during the years of good growth.
It did sign the Kyoto agreement, albeit as an “Annex I state,” meaning that it did not commit to any defined
limits
on carbon emissions.
Unlike China, the US must commit to absolute
limits
on emissions.
But, while collaboration among governments has helped drive some climate action, growing fragmentation within the international community has made the
limits
of this approach clear.
We are about to get a comprehensive package of re-regulation focused on capital requirements and leverage, transparency, ratings and other sources of information, incentives, conflicts of interest and
limits
on the scope of financial firms, consumer protection, and resolution mechanisms.
These crises have stretched the EU’s powers and institutions up to – and beyond – their limits, which is why Europe’s response has been so mortifyingly weak.
International policymaking is a hardheaded, cynical business, but tolerance for double standards has its
limits.
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