Manipulation
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But “US efforts to get China to shed these objectives sound hypocritical when the United States seems to be opting for excess stimulus itself....[I]f the People’s Bank and the Fed tightened in coordination with most central banks, domestic [Chinese] concerns about competitive depreciation would be muted...”China’s policy of export subsidies through currency
manipulation
was always bound to become unsustainable in the long run because it was bound to generate substantial domestic inflation.
Each faces a greater risk of
manipulation
by outsiders than other countries in the region.
China has waged its psywar against India largely through disinformation campaigns and media manipulation, aimed at presenting India – a raucous democracy with poor public diplomacy – as the aggressor and China as the aggrieved party.
And as the methods of
manipulation
multiply, the problem is only likely to worsen.
Though elections may not be free and fair, massive electoral
manipulation
is rare and the days when only males, whites, or the rich could vote are long gone.
But, given that it has failed to conduct a comprehensive internal audit of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, as requested by the European Parliament, there is every reason to fear that the upcoming European Parliament election in May will be subject to still more foreign
manipulation.
As the statistical
manipulation
that attends uncertainty increases, confidence is eroded.
But only a small percent of the breaches were the result of deliberate
manipulation.
The worst cases of outright
manipulation
occurred when local bureaucrats - all appointed from above - pressured voters to support President Nursultan Nazarbayev's Otan Party.
Had systematic
manipulation
occurred, one-third of the races would not have gone to runoffs.
For starters, meeting outside of Colombia has enabled the parties to avoid the pressure and
manipulation
that contributed to the breakdown of talks the last time.
Not only does germ line gene therapy not require the
manipulation
of normal embryos; it may not even demand the
manipulation
of abnormal embryos.
As it stands, the relevant international institutions – the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund – are not organized to respond effectively to possible currency
manipulation
on their own.
The economist Stefan Kawalec has explicitly referred to the current policy mix in the eurozone as “currency manipulation.”
Moreover, individuals close to him and his administration have recently become entangled in the net of judicial manipulation, which suggests that he may be losing control over the police and the special courts.
It shrank its budgets and began to downsize, and, while it was handed some new responsibilities in the meantime – surveillance over “currency manipulation,” in particular – its deliberations proved largely irrelevant.
On the contrary, by protesting against the grotesque
manipulation
of the modern game, they are trying to take it back.
Alan Greenspan, the former US Federal Reserve chairman, was a master of
manipulation
with his Delphic utterances, but instead of acknowledging what he was doing, he pretended that he was merely a passive observer.
China, which has faced sharp criticism from the US, the EU and Japan for unfair trade practices – including export subsidies, currency manipulation, intellectual-property theft, and forced technology transfer – has a particular responsibility here.
Thailand's lively press is intimidated by the
manipulation
of the large advertising budgets of Thaksin-owned companies and government agencies.
On May 22, the Senate avoided it, by narrowly defeating – 51 to 48 – a proposed “currency manipulation” amendment to a bill that gives Obama so-called “fast-track” authority to negotiate the TPP.
For at least a decade, Congress has been focusing on currency
manipulation
– a charge leveled at countries that purportedly intervene in foreign-exchange markets in order to suppress their currencies’ value, thereby subsidizing exports.
Stop the currency manipulation, went the argument, and America’s gaping trade deficit would narrow – providing lasting and meaningful benefits to hard-pressed workers.
And it is here that the currency
manipulation
argument falls apart.
In other words, America does not suffer from a small number of bilateral trade deficits that can be tied to charges of currency
manipulation
by countries like China, Japan, Malaysia, or Singapore.
For example, assuming that there is no increase in domestic US saving, penalizing a low-cost producer like China for currency
manipulation
would most likely cause the Chinese piece of America’s trade deficit to be reallocated to higher-cost producers.
Further complications would arise from putting the verdict on currency
manipulation
– presumably dependent on some type of “fair value” metric – in the hands of politicians.
The charge of currency
manipulation
is nothing but a foil for the US to duck responsibility for fixing America’s saving problem.
In the end, there is no way around it: If Congress does not like trade deficits, it needs to address America’s saving problem and stop fixating on misplaced concerns over currency
manipulation.
Currency
manipulation
legislation is one tragedy that can and should be avoided.
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