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Shareholders at Tesla approved what corporate governance experts have called the “staggering” pay package of the company’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, whose “Trump-like ability to get people to believe in him and his preposterous promises,” as one commentator put it, has propelled the company’s share price to sky-high levels at the same moment that its bonds are trading at junk bond levels.
But today the US Congress and President are tripping over themselves to adopt an ill-advised giant fiscal stimulus package, whose main effects will be to tie the hands of the next president in simplifying the US tax code and closing the budget deficit.
The cooperation of the Pakistani diaspora movement and international donors like the Islamic Development Bank (which in March signed a financing package of $227 million to fight polio in Pakistan), together with the vaccinators’ determination to reach all of the country’s children, is inspirational.
Both sets of recommendations stress the importance of an interlocking package of measures that combine much greater loss-absorbency with structural reform.
So the ICB concluded that its reform package for the UK would achieve the main aims of full separation at a lower cost, and without creating the risk to financial stability that could come from having undiversified, correlated, stand-alone domestic retail banking.
But, at least for the UK and the rest of Europe, it is a key part of the overall reform package, along with much stronger capital and liquidity standards, loss-absorbent debt (including “bail-ins” by creditors), real resolvability, and so on.
The package stands out for its tangle of instruments – and thus the risk of counterproductive, overlapping regulation, which will substantially increase costs compared to an effective climate policy.
The researchers measure the impact of the 20-20-20 package through independent energy-security indices.
Without implementation of the package, slightly more than half of Europe’s energy needs would be met by imported fossil fuel by 2020, compared to 50% today.
The latest package to cope with Greece’s insolvency offers a bond buyback to lighten the country’s debt burden.
The Trump administration would have trouble passing such a package of long-run investment through Congress with only Republican support; various ideological objections would no doubt be raised.
Egypt, for its part, may benefit from short-term gains as a result of the IMF package.
But the once-exalted principle of simplicity has been superseded by a new credo: the package deal.
Each country is to implement a bespoke package of measures to decrease its investment risks.
The elements of an eventual settlement have been known for years: the creation of a viable Palestinian state – a goal endorsed by the last two US presidents – together with secure borders for Israel, some arrangement on Jerusalem, and an economic package.
Indeed, the US Congress has consistently failed to ratify a package of IMF reforms, agreed in 2010, that would give countries like China greater say in decision-making – a failure that protects Western Europe, whose members benefit most from the status quo.
Success required not only an economic stimulus package at home, but international coordination.
Russia did adopt an anti-crisis stimulus package; but, at 3.5% of GDP, it was just one-third the size of the 2008 package.
So Europe needs a short-term growth strategy to supplement its financial-support package and its plans for fiscal consolidation.
Do the gnomes of currency markets seriously believe that the eurozone governments’ latest “comprehensive package” to save the euro will hold up for more than a few months?
Whereas the US Congress’s “supercommittee,” charged with formulating a fiscal-consolidation package, will likely come up with a proposal, it is far from clear that either Republicans or Democrats will be willing to accept compromise in an election year.
The Bahraini foreign minister recently called for a regional forum that includes Israel to resolve the problems ahead; a former senior Saudi official met with Israelis in the United Kingdom to reiterate the need for a comprehensive peace agreement; and Israeli Labor Party leader Ehud Barak has said that it may be time to pursue an overall peace deal for the region, accompanied by an economic package, since separate negotiations with Syria and the Palestinians may prove fruitless.
How Europe Can Rescue EuropeLONDON – At their meeting in Rome last Thursday, the leaders of the eurozone’s four largest economies agreed on steps towards a banking union and a modest stimulus package to complement the European Union’s new “fiscal compact.”
They have stopped making public statements about a possible Greek exit, and just supported a third bailout package for the country.
The seamy side of China’s post-crisis stimulus package was ventilated in the trial of Liu Zhijun, who oversaw the development of China’s showcase high-speed rail network – a position that garnered him 374 properties, 16 cars, and 18 mistresses.
Saudi Arabia used a package of carrots and sticks, including offering to replace Iran as Syria’s chief supplier of oil.
Keep the IMF Out of EuropeBUENOS AIRES – A short-lived rumor recently suggested that the International Monetary Fund was putting together a €600 billion ($803 billion) package for Italy to buy its new government about 18 months to implement the necessary adjustment program.
Except for the magnitude of the package, this sounds no different from a standard IMF adjustment program – the kind that we are accustomed to seeing (and criticizing) in the developing world.
That means that the short-lived story of Italy’s jumbo IMF package, which was to be funded largely by non-European money, can be regarded as a game changer: while Italy may never receive such a package, Europe, it seems, is determined to resolve its problems using other people’s money.
The basic elements of a recovery package include, first and foremost, a rational approach to rebooting the financial system.
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