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After all, steel companies have an inherent need to hedge against fluctuations in the
price
of iron ore, just as airlines and utilities have an inherent need to hedge against fluctuations in the
price
of oil.
Instead of denominating a loan to Nigeria in terms of dollars, the Bank would denominate it in terms of the
price
of oil and lay off its exposure to the world oil
price
by issuing that same quantity of bonds denominated in oil.
In the event of an increase in a commodity’s price, a finance minister who has done a perfect job of hedging export-price risk on the futures market will suddenly find himself accused of having gambled away the national patrimony.
If the international financial wizards can get together and act on this idea now, commodity exporters might be able to avoid calamity the next time the world
price
of their product takes a plunge.
But the exercise of that power usually comes at a high
price.
And once a timeline is set, the
price
of failure must be made clear.
Any negotiator knows that the parties to a conflict will be reluctant to make compromises unless there is a
price
to pay if the talks fail.
What is not on the decline, though, is our exposure to risk and the high
price
that we pay in terms of lost jobs, destroyed or damaged homes, and disruption to education, health services, and transport infrastructure.
Because the airline manager – known as the “financial wizard” – has no idea what the
price
of the pottery is, a creative solution is needed to determine the appropriate amount of compensation.
The manager decides that each traveler should write down the
price
– any integer from $2 to $100 – without conferring with one another.
If all write the same number, that figure will be understood as the price, and thus the amount of compensation each traveler receives.
If they write different numbers, the lowest number will be taken as the correct
price.
In the past 30 years, a remarkable degree of consensus had been established that the primary, if not sole, responsibility of central banks was to ensure
price
stability.
Increasingly, since the early 1990’s, it had become fashionable to define
price
stability more precisely through the use of inflation targets.
In the original vision of central banking,
price
stability was not at all an obvious purpose, since the value of money was cast in terms of specific weights of precious metals.
The ECB is the first and purest example of a modern central bank that is concerned only with the issuance of money and
price
stability.
Banks can use derivatives to hedge risk – say, by ensuring that oil producers to which they lend lock in today’s prices for their product through derivatives contracts, thereby protecting themselves and the bank from
price
volatility.
The borrower is thus more likely to be able to repay the loan, even if its product’s
price
falls.
Moreover, the high payroll taxes needed to finance these benefits constitute another deterrent to hiring, as does the high minimum wage, which tends to
price
unskilled labor above its potential productivity.
"The people of Iran," the late Ayatollah Khomeini is reported to have liked to say, "did not make the Islamic Revolution to lower the
price
of watermelons."
Like Nixon, they have paid a higher
price
for concealing their misdeeds than they would have for the misdeeds alone.
China’s real-estate
price
bubble is often named as a likely catalyst for a crisis.
In China, there are no subprime mortgages, and the down payment on the purchase
price
required to qualify for financing can exceed 50%.
Because the
price
slump has persisted, by 2015 capital controls were being tightened and currency pegs were being adjusted or abandoned.
A search of news articles from 2000 to 2016 in which the terms “dollar shortage,” “black market,” or “parallel markets” for foreign exchange appeared (shown in the chart, along with an all-commodity
price
index), indicates that dollar shortage concerns escalated in 2008, amid the global financial crisis.
The consumer
price
index (CPI) rose at a 3.5% rate from 1985 to 1995, and then slowed to just 2.5% in the decade to 2005.
But, as these temporary influences fall away in the coming year, overall
price
inflation will begin to increase more rapidly.
The irony is that Germany’s anxieties about
price
stability, which underlie the EU’s embrace of austerity, are entirely misplaced: German inflation could scarcely be lower.
For its part, Germany exacts austerity as the
price
of its participation in the single currency.
The
Price
of Scottish IndependenceNEW YORK – Though the world’s eyes now are on Scotland’s referendum on independence from the United Kingdom, Scotland is not alone in seeking to redraw national boundaries.
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