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Rewriting Textbook EconomicsTILBURG – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s recent announcement that the Fed would maintain the current pace of monetary stimulus in the United States has cinched it: economics textbooks, at least the chapters on monetary policy, need to be rewritten.
Central banks are using so-called “forward guidance” to assure market participants that they will, to some extent, maintain ZIRP and QE for years to come.
But eurozone members that currently benefit from exceptionally low borrowing costs – Germany, Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, and, to a lesser extent, France – maintain that Italian and Spanish borrowing costs largely reflect these countries’ failure to reform their economies and strengthen their public finances.
Depositors deserve strong, effective protection for their funds--and the banking system requires it in order to maintain confidence.
Continuing to maintain that stance would be a mistake.
The resulting economic slowdown has undermined the government’s capacity to maintain inflated asset prices and avoid pockets of credit distress.
So should every country adopt a recall procedure to maintain the legitimacy of governments?
For Europe’s task is to maintain and strengthen structures of cooperation that retain the advantages of diversity and independence without reviving the old curse of the European nation state: xenophobia, bloodshed, and war.
By relying on some 110,000 foreign state and non-state actors to maintain a hold on the small portion of Syria that he still controls, Assad’s regime is much like his military: a shadow of what it once was.
Nor was WWI a purely accidental war, as others maintain: Austria went to war deliberately, to fend off the threat of rising Slavic nationalism.
What individuals bring into any setting is important, but so are the situational forces that act on them, as well as the systemic forces that create and maintain situations.
Sophisticated investors routinely maintain that economic growth is not determinative of investment returns.
Xi’s government is struggling to maintain domestic stability as it moves China away from labor-intensive, investment-heavy economic growth toward a model based on domestic consumption and services.
The reason, of course, was the common knowledge that Germany, vehemently opposed to our government, was about to switch off the green light required by the ECB to maintain the exemptions allowing it to accept Greek collateral.
Alternatively, they could also maintain the current piecemeal approach, which has essentially committed small amounts of public resources and forced the stronger banks to support the weaker ones.
Multilateral financial institutions must maintain their central function in the international development architecture, and in particular in financing infrastructure investment.
Beyond the economic and human costs of wars fought to maintain reliable oil supplies are the tremendous costs – which are set to rise substantially in the coming years – associated with human-induced climate change.
They deserve a better hearing now that retaining the solidarity of their citizens has become an essential condition for European governments to maintain solidarity with America for the long struggle against international terrorism that lies ahead.
If, for example, meeting domestic inflation and employment targets requires greater monetary expansion – which will place downward pressure on the local currency, bolstering the economy’s international competitiveness – other countries may have to pursue their own monetary expansion to maintain optimal domestic inflation and employment rates.
As mothers, women have evolutionary incentives to maintain peaceful conditions in which to nurture their offspring and ensure that their genes survive into the next generation.
The new regime will take into account the debt/GDP ratio (removing Italy’s ability to maintain its outsize debt burden) and implicit liabilities (for example, a country with an oversized banking sector will have to confront potential rescue costs).
The pessimists, however, doubt that China can maintain catch-up economic growth.
This means consolidating Party leadership, contrary to America’s wishes, in order to maintain a pragmatic, flexible, and strategic approach to managing systemic risks and addressing internal concerns and external threats.
On the international front, Xi plans to maintain a responsible foreign policy aimed at inclusive global development and resisting hegemony by any single actor.
London’s mayor recently embraced this approach, proposing a $15 billion megafund to help the United Kingdom maintain a leadership role in drug development.
Once growth is set into motion, it becomes easier to maintain a virtuous cycle with rapid growth and institutional transformation driving each other.
To meet that risk, nuclear plants maintain large emergency diesel generators, which can operate for days – until their fuel runs out.
An EU that is coming apart at the seams will not be able to maintain the sanctions it imposed on Russia following its incursion into Ukraine.
As the market mechanism extended its sway, the fiction that people act on the basis of a given set of nonmarket values has become progressively more difficult to maintain.
It is a complicated, sophisticated structure, and a deliberate effort is required to establish and maintain it.
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