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Take away respect for international law, and the EU would cease to exist – almost
overnight.
But if lenders get cold feet, the resulting “sudden stop” in capital flows requires the country to cut back on key imports overnight, triggering a recession.
Besides damaging public accounts and imposing a severe fiscal sacrifice on the country, the abnormally high level of the Selic rate (the Brazilian
overnight
interbank rate) inhibited the “animal spirits” of entrepreneurship, distorted resource allocation, and impeded the development of the real-estate and capital markets, while causing currency appreciation.
The reforms needed to secure these objectives are not easy, and change will not happen
overnight.
Either the British government would have, overnight, declared its exit from the euro, without a referendum or even a parliamentary vote, or Germany and France would have had to agree to scrap immediately the ECB’s prohibition of monetary financing.
Either Brexit would have triggered a cascade that would soon cause Germany to withdraw from the euro, leading to the EU’s collapse, or the EU would have become a fiscal union overnight, leading to a political dynamic very different from the one experienced since 2008.
Even today, about 70% of the core US financial firms’ liabilities are very short-term loans, like
overnight
repos.
But had vast numbers of Germans suddenly lost their senses overnight, or were they part of a situation in which most of us would simply have done as we were told?
Government cannot solve the problem alone, much less make the problem go away
overnight.
Spend in haste, repent at leisure: America’s latest bailout planCambridge – With minds concentrated by fears of another 1930’s-style Great Depression, America’s politicians have adopted, virtually overnight, a $700 billon bailout plan to resuscitate the country’s rapidly deflating financial sector.
And party rules have allowed for leaders – including serving prime ministers – to be torn down
overnight
by their parliamentary colleagues (although this has now changed for Labor).
As Frederick Taylor discusses in his book Exorcising Hitler, society-wide rejection of Nazi ideology did not happen
overnight.
For example, in recent testimony before Congress, James Woolsey, a commission member and former CIA director, urged the use of hybrid gasoline/electric vehicles that could charge their batteries
overnight
with cheap off-peak electricity; energy efficient ethanol made from cellulose; and a ten-mile-per-gallon increase in fuel-efficiency requirements.
Climate Change as a Business ProblemLONDON – Some political problems can be solved overnight; others take years to tackle.
Nominal interest rates are now negative not only for
overnight
debt, but also for ten-year government bonds.
If you were holding Swiss franc assets at a negative nominal return right before its central bank abandoned its euro peg in mid-January, you could have made a 20% return overnight; a negative nominal return is a small price to pay for a large capital gain.
Effective institutions of restraint do not emerge overnight; and it might seem like those in power would never want to create them.
Change cannot occur
overnight.
All this is a reminder that the task will not be completed
overnight.
Cutting down legal impediments and changing attitudes won’t happen
overnight.
The average interest rate paid for
overnight
reserves in the US has been well below the 5.25% per year that the Fed still publicly says is its target.
But the market for
overnight
reserves now appears to be divided into three segments.
To date, the premiums charged are small: for an
overnight
loan of $100 million, even a one-percentage-point spread in the interest rate is only $3000.
Even short of an actual military conflict – which could double oil prices
overnight
– the resumption of saber-rattling by Israel and the war of words between the two sides could lead to a sharp rise in energy costs.
Changing entrenched attitudes could not happen overnight: it required a step-by-step process of confidence-building measures, from the grassroots level to the heights of political power.
Stronger safety net programs might reduce the need for precautionary savings in the future, but such reforms cannot be accomplished
overnight.
China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) may help some more, but it will not solve the problem
overnight.
After the Paris attacks, France and Belgium (where the plot was planned and organized) suspended civil liberties indefinitely, transforming themselves
overnight
into what are, at least by statute, police states.
More than 100,000 people from these communities immediately joined the Peruvian armed forces, thus quadrupling the military’s size
overnight.
The bad news is that Peru’s model for legal and economic inclusion cannot simply be expanded to account for billions of people
overnight.
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