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An exceptional performance by a superstar soccer player can be beautiful – even inspiring – just as rescue mechanisms and stimulus packages can rally markets and raise hopes.
They got lucky, and the G-20, as well as the governments that instituted stimulus packages, are currently in a honeymoon period of apparent success.
And from 2010 onward, they were the recipients of EU fiscal rescue packages.
But, because financial markets viewed these rescue packages as insufficient, the ECB, in 2012, issued a promise to cover unlimited member-state government bonds under its “outright monetary transactions” program, turning them into de facto euro bonds.
And then Greece, Ireland, and Portugal lost access to credit markets, requiring bailout packages from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union.
If finalized, the IMF program could trigger further aid packages by the World Bank and other international donors.
Anger has come to focus on banking executives’ huge compensation packages, composed largely of bonuses.
Her promises to improve the health system, curb exorbitant pay packages of top executives, and deliver more social housing (which tenants could then purchase) looks reassuringly familiar, even old-fashioned (especially when viewed alongside her pledge to let Parliament vote to lift a nearly two-decade-old ban on fox hunting).
Huge stimulus packages were implemented in 2008-9, led by the United States and China, coordinated by Britain, and with the reluctant support of Germany.
The public response to the book’s description of unsanitary conditions in the industry was so strong that the United States Congress enacted the Pure Food and Drug Act – the first law to require labeling of contents on food packages – the very same year.
Placing conditions on aid packages is controversial, but about 11% of all aid is currently diverted into military spending, which significantly increases the likelihood of violence.
As Obama and other leaders around the world implement stimulus packages in the months ahead, they should recognize that the question of who benefits goes beyond the number of jobs created.
If these packages target education (very redistributive) or sanitation, fire, police, and highways (mildly redistributive), they can create jobs and reduce inequality.
Instead of restructuring the manifestly unsustainable debt burdens of Portugal, Ireland, and Greece (the PIGs), politicians and policymakers are pushing for ever-larger bailout packages with ever-less realistic austerity conditions.
Better to radically reduce the size of the Commission, and to either tie countries into regional packages for Commission representation or rotate membership every few years among countries.
No Safe Havens for Dirty MoneyPARIS – In difficult economic times like these, one principle should be given the same prominence as the headline-grabbing issues of high deficits and austerity packages.
How can we account for this poor start to the IMF packages?
Two countries – Hungary and Ukraine – have already asked for large packages of support.
But the Western European bailout packages could make the situation in emerging Europe worse.
Companies continue to announce compensation packages for their top managers that leave people agape, not just because the gap between companies’ highest- and lowest-paid workers is so wide, but also because the compensation bears so little relation to firms’ performance.
Part of the issue is that executive remuneration packages have become too complex.
At a time of great hope and a desire to woo the candidate, desperation or enthusiasm can lead to poor judgment and badly formulated packages, which, once negotiated, are not subject to shareholder vote.
If they are responsible for all aspects of the company, then they cannot abdicate responsibility with a “Because I’m worth it” attitude when news of their large pay packages becomes public.
The revolt against large pay packages won’t go away.
After that, “labor-saving innovation” took a back seat to “a succession of entertainment and communication devices that do the same things as we could do before, but now in smaller and more convenient packages.”
Instead of setting a universal target of 2% of GDP for stimulus packages, it is enough to agree that the periphery countries need international assistance to protect their financial systems and engage in countercyclical policies.
Consider executive pay packages.
The recent increase in protectionist measures is an understandable political price for a range of stimulus packages in advanced and developing countries.
EU and Western aid packages will need to take this into account.
Such compensation packages can be rationalized in the context of share-price performance, but that hardly makes them justifiable.
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