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British voters line up behind the truck drivers when protests are launched against hikes in the
price
of petrol, not least through the introduction of higher energy taxes.
At the end of the 1970’s, monetarists bet that only a transitory and modest increase in unemployment could rein in the creeping – and trotting – inflation of the industrial west, and that in retrospect the cost of returning to effective
price
stability would be judged worthwhile.
In short, they fear that all of the sacrifices made for
price
stability will have been in vain.
Europe needs a monetary policy that views aiding employment growth in northern Europe as more important than continental
price
stability.
And it has the authority to bolster the ECB’s credibility and thus its efforts to ensure future
price
stability and prevent financial contagion.
Central banks should put a floor under the value of a country’s banking system by committing to buy shares in an index fund of bank stocks at a predetermined
price.
This
price
commitment would take effect in times of financial panic.
By offering to buy shares in the mutual fund at a minimum preset price, the central bank would provide a way of channeling funds into the financial system in times of crisis.
The Fed’s commitment to buy shares of the mutual fund at a preset
price
would have caused investors to put new capital into the stronger banks to take advantage of the central bank’s
price
support.
But whether the Fed tries to counteract it by raising interest rates more aggressively than its current forecasts imply, or decides to move cautiously, keeping short-term interest rates well behind the rising curve of
price
growth, bond investors will suffer.
As a result, if the
price
of soy continues to fall, subsidies – a source of corruption and patronage – will be an increasingly heavy burden for public spending.
That exceptional spirit benefited her husband, but the country’s institutions paid a high
price.
From a climate perspective, the temperature rise over time is arguably more a function of the size of the fossil-fuel resource base and the efficiency of extraction at a given energy
price.
At the same time, the global financial crisis triggered a shift in the relative
price
of assets worldwide.
Venezuela – its own kind of El Dorado – will pay a heavy price, once Maduro has drained it dry.
Similarly, where structural reforms should rein in
price
growth by encouraging competition, leaders like Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, finding it increasingly difficult to marshal support for unpopular measures, are watering down already-modest proposals to enhance labor-market flexibility.
It is hard to believe that any increase in aggregate demand will boost the housing market – which, remember, was buoyed by visions of steady
price
appreciation that few seem likely to hold today – sufficiently to re-employ all these workers.
In a similar vein, Stephen S. Roach, former chief economist of Morgan Stanley, argues that the Fed has already made a “fatal mistake” by keeping interest rates so low for so long, thereby transforming monetary policy “from an agent of
price
stability into an engine of financial instability.”
This was followed by an extended version of the assisted-growth model in the advanced countries, largely revolving around unconventional monetary policy; in the United States, this implied several rounds of quantitative easing, which is simply the government borrowing from itself – a form of
price
control.
With a
price
tag of around $40 billion per year, the cost of that support is, to be frank, a bargain.
To prevent this, they opted for yet another economic dead end: currency and
price
controls.
Pakistan, after joining the US, as an “ally” in the war on terror now appears to be paying a high
price
domestically for becoming a “rented state.”
The
price
to be paid for this political squeamishness is exacted in blood.
In both cases, Berlusconi won, but he has paid a heavy
price.
And, unfortunately, Yemeni civilians have paid a high price, with an estimated 10,000 killed since the conflict began.
Chen has paid a terrible
price
for living up to the ideals of the profession.
Adjusted for inflation, gas has not been this cheap for the past 35 years, with the
price
this year 3-5 times lower than it was in the mid-2000’s.
Climate economists repeatedly have pointed out that such energy innovation is the most effective climate solution, because it is the surest way to drive the
price
of future green energy sources below that of fossil fuels.
The high
price
for refusing such a proposal has to be made absolutely clear to the Iranian leadership: should no agreement be reached, the West will do everything within its power to isolate Iran economically, financially, technologically, and diplomatically, with the full support of the international community.
This pattern reflects the Fed’s own obsession with
price
stability, which encourages preemptive interest-rate increases to head off inflation, but restrains equivalent preemptive reductions to head off unemployment.
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