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Did all hell break loose?
We cannot relive the past; we can only tell stories about it – and the stories we tell tend to have a rather loose relationship with what really happened.
Given that extraordinarily loose monetary policies are causing unprecedented – but predictable – distortions in German and eurozone financial accounts, it seems ill-advised to suggest that German fiscal policy also be loosened to address the current-account imbalance.
The impact was greater in countries that had a history of structural fiscal problems, maintained loose fiscal policies, and ignored fiscal reforms during the boom years.
For all the loose talk of an “American empire,” the fact is that the US does not have colonies that it must administer, and thus has more freedom to maneuver than the UK did.
Some analysts describe the post-1945 period as a US-led hierarchical order with liberal characteristics, in which the US provided public goods while operating within a loose system of multilateral rules and institutions that gave weaker states a say.
In fact, Pakistan’s descent into a jihadist dungeon occurred not under civilian rule, but under two military dictators – one who nurtured and let loose jihadist forces, and another who took his country to the very edge of the precipice.
The problem with the Supreme Leader’s calculation, however, is that Ahmadinejad is a loose cannon.
Loose talk about resurrecting a multi-polar world is just that – loose talk.
Europe, gripped by a tremendous banking and debt crisis, is not an attractive destination, and loose monetary policy in the US has produced ultra-low bond yields there.
A new East African NCD Alliance – a loose coalition of civil-society organizations – has been created to tackle the challenge in that region.
While successful twentieth-century insurgencies developed some degree of hierarchy and a political wing, the Iraq insurgency remains a loose, amorphous network.
Currently, the BRICS countries constitute a loose, informal bloc.
Wouldn’t a loose association of sovereign nation-states, sharing the hard economic core of a continental common market – the British model – be enough?
The issuance of risky junk bonds under loose covenants and with excessively low interest rates is increasing; the stock market is reaching new highs, despite the growth slowdown; and money is flowing to high-yielding emerging markets.
But the reality is that credit and asset/equity bubbles are likely to form in the next two years, owing to loose US monetary policy.
If too loose, a rule is merely ornamental.
Moreover, stock markets’ record highs are no longer relying so much on loose monetary policy for support.
This summer, the Turkish economy started imploding under the weight of overly loose monetary and fiscal policies.
With monetary conditions in the US tightening, and with Erdogan doubling down on his loose fiscal and monetary policies, the Turkish lira depreciated rapidly in the first half of this year, losing some 20% of its value.
She cautioned her colleagues against loose talk about a “Grexit” – Greece’s exit from the eurozone – and assured visiting Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras that Germany remained committed to his country’s membership of the eurozone.
For all the loose talk of American empire, the US is less tethered and has more degrees of freedom than Britain ever had.
There are three major players: the United States, China, and a loose coalition formed by the other members of the G7.
These ancestral homelands exercised a hold on Turkish imaginations, but today it is business opportunities, energy resources, and other practical matters rather than ethnic unity that are creating a loose Turkic “commonwealth.”
Other foreign-policy issues cry out for serious discussion and debate: addressing absolute poverty and pandemics in the global South; strengthening global governance, including undermanned and outmoded United Nations structures; international cooperation on the rising number of natural disasters; and rethinking Afghanistan/Pakistan with the understanding that Pakistan is far larger and one angry mob away from a loose nuke – and therefore should not be reduced to the role of a supporting actor in Afghanistan’s travails.
Investment bankers wait with bated breath for the merger and acquisition league tables, even though the link between a high ranking and profitability is somewhere between loose and non-existent.
True, America’s original thirteen colonies were a loose federation, and many Americans considered themselves citizens of their state first and of the US second as late as a century after the Revolution.
The US Federal Reserve is sometimes blamed for the current mortgage crisis, because excessively loose monetary policy allegedly fueled the price boom that preceded it.
But loose monetary policy is not the whole story.
These arrests, which shocked many Indians, would not have been possible without the loose wording of the law.
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