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If Trump does choose a more hawkish monetary-policy approach, it will have an ambiguous impact on the dollar,
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to his other proposals’ downstream effects.
However, the required adjustments have been delayed repeatedly,
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to political constraints, social pressure for much-needed development spending, and favorable external financing conditions.
With developing countries finding it difficult to deter massive capital inflows or mitigate the effects –
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to economic constraints, like high inflation, or to domestic politics – the “currency wars” metaphor, coined in 2010 by Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, has resonated widely.
The next day, the US government had to extend an $85 billion bailout to American International Group (AIG), the world’s largest insurer,
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to its inability to back up its deteriorating derivatives position.
According to this view, the system is unreformable, and real change will be possible only after it finally collapses, perhaps
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to fiscal weakness, since the combination of deficit-financed transfers, low growth, and low labor-market participation may prove unsustainable.
Monetary interest rates have increased steadily,
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to rampant regulatory arbitrage (whereby banks find loopholes that enable them to avoid unfavorable rules) and the fragmentation of the credit market, while return on capital has fallen rapidly because of overcapacity.
The credibility of Europe’s national supervisory agencies has been irreparably damaged in recent years,
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to financial stress tests that gave clean bills of health to institutions – Laiki Bank of Cyprus and Bankia of Spain, among others – whose balance sheets were later found to have enormous holes.
Surveillance strategies, for example, are often more expensive than necessary,
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to poor communication.
Trump understands one thing well: Germany and the eurozone are at his mercy,
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to their increasing dependence on large net exports to the US and the rest of the world.
The opinion polls are currently bouncing wildly,
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to the Fillon scandal and a surge in support for Hamon among left-wing voters outside of the Socialist Party.
That structural shift, in combination with the renminbi’s strengthening effective real exchange rate relative to the dollar,
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to inflation and rapidly rising wages in export sectors, offers hope that China’s surplus will fall.
Unlike the United States, where the financial sector is smaller as a share of GDP, the UK economy has still not recovered the output lost in the post-2008 Great Recession,
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to continued retrenchment in the banking sector.
But,
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to China’s skewed economic structure, its exchange-rate regime presents much more challenging problems than those encountered by Japan and other East Asian economies.
We can rule out a swift, large-scale flight from the dollar,
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to its unique, long-standing status as an international store of value.
The subject was not taught in schools,
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to “cultural sensitivities.”
In normal times, capital markets perform this function smoothly; but these markets break down from time to time,
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to sudden large changes in perceptions about the riskiness of important asset classes.
But strategic reductions of wages to ever lower levels (the Uberization of society) cannot be rational, because the result would be a catastrophic collapse,
owing
to disappearing aggregate demand.
Nowadays, another major controversy has erupted in several Indian states,
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to a research project to vaccinate girls against cervical cancer – an issue that has now entered the US presidential campaign, because Texas’s governor, Rick Perry, now seeking the Republican presidential nomination, backed a similar mandatory program.
With private investment remaining weak,
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to the corporate sector's heavy debt burden and banks' huge volume of bad assets, the government has clearly decided to jumpstart the process through infrastructure spending.
Moreover, Argentina’s fiscal deficit has increased,
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to the drop in revenues brought about by the recession.
Furthermore, public anger is reaching fever pitch,
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to the effective redistribution of wealth away from workers brought about by Macri’s policies.
NATO is in Afghanistan largely
owing
to shared concerns about terrorism.
In 2014, capital started to flow out of China and the currency started to depreciate, perhaps
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to a slowdown in the Chinese economy, relatively strong growth in the US, and a corresponding shift in their respective monetary policies.
Macroeconomics may be the only applied field within economics in which more training puts greater distance between the specialist and the real world,
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to its reliance on highly unrealistic models that sacrifice relevance to technical rigor.
Since the early 1990’s, many poor countries’ food bills have soared five- or six-fold,
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not only to population growth, but also to their focus on export-led agriculture.
Fourth, many cash-strapped developing countries fear that social safety nets, once put in place, may become fiscally unsustainable,
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to a sudden loss of export revenue, poor harvests, or sharp increases in prices for food imports.
Fortunately, the region is better positioned for a growth takeoff than it was in the 1990s,
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to major education and infrastructure investments that were made during the last decade of high oil prices.
In fact, I predict that 2018 will be a breakout year for many – though not all – African economies,
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to gains in eight key areas.
Meanwhile, America’s relationship with its traditional Arab allies – the region’s conservative Sunni regimes – is faltering,
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largely to US President Barack Obama’s failure to respond effectively in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings.
The US has a rather low savings rate; but it has significant opportunities for investment,
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to its efficient entrepreneurs and vibrant technology sector.
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