Privilege
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The dollar’s status as the dominant international reserve currency amounts to what former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing famously described as America’s “exorbitant privilege.”
Unfortunately, the latter scenario seems more likely, and there is ample reason to doubt that America’s “exorbitant privilege” will last.
In any case, it is the sad, solitary
privilege
of human beings to kill our own consciously, as well as to commit suicide.
Tackling Non-Inclusive GrowthMILAN – Several years ago, I had the
privilege
of chairing a commission on growth in developing countries.
In the 1960s, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing famously condemned the “exorbitant privilege” that the dollar’s status bestowed upon the United States.
The connection between rape, male privilege, and female sexual vilification was one of the key insights of feminists in the 1970’s – an insight that they thought had been successfully applied to cultural debate about rape, and to law.
Of course, non-treatment of the past is not the exclusive
privilege
of non-democratic regimes.
Owing to its dominance, the US has long enjoyed what former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing famously described as an “exorbitant privilege.”
Eventually, the dollar would slowly bleed out, and America’s exorbitant
privilege
and global influence would evaporate.
If huge sums can be spent to protect
privilege
by financing election campaigns (as is now the case in the US), the implications of this problem, for both democracy and long-term economic efficiency, could become systemic.
The Europeans--in particular the French--complained about what General Charles de Gaulle termed the "exorbitant
privilege"
of the US dollar.
Protesting the new version of America's exorbitant monetary
privilege
should be seen for what it is: a way of compensating for a real European powerlessness.
The US, benefiting from the “exorbitant privilege” of issuing debt denominated in its own currency, has run current-account deficits for more than 30 years.
Thus, social scientists made the everyday lives of ordinary people respectable, while refusing to
privilege
certain animals over certain - typically disabled or unwanted - humans.
The fact is that most environmentally friendly technologies demand significant upfront investment, meaning that “going green” remains a
privilege
reserved for the few countries that can afford it.
Another accomplishment was the record-high abstention rate: 57% of French voters disdained the rare and precious
privilege
of voting, a
privilege
invented several centuries ago by men who believed in deliberation, reason, and enlightenment.
The benefits derived from the dollar being the world’s main reserve currency constitute the “exorbitant privilege” about which France’s then-finance minister, Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, complained in the 1960s.
Because of the greenback’s continuing attractiveness as a store of value, the US still enjoys that
privilege
today.
The “exorbitant privilege” would be lost, and the US could no longer realistically aspire to preserve its dominant place in world politics.
Witness how otherwise sensible adults are reduced to nervously grinning sycophants when they are granted the
privilege
of touching an extended royal hand.
Exploiting what Valéry Giscard d’Estaing called the “exorbitant privilege” of the world’s reserve currency, the US borrowed surplus savings from abroad on very attractive terms, running massive balance-of-payments, or current-account, deficits to attract foreign capital.
Too often, international economic commitments serve not to fix democratic failures at home, but to
privilege
corporate or financial interests and undermine domestic social bargains.
Having a telephone was a rare privilege: if you were not an important government official, a doctor, or a journalist, you might languish on a long waiting list and never receive a phone.
For years, the pragmatic answer has been the dollar, and to some extent other national currencies, giving rise to complaints of an “inordinate privilege” for the US.
In our own time, the destruction of caste and caste
privilege
is taking another step forward.
But the caste-like
privilege
of white males is doomed.
Last year, I had the
privilege
of presenting these findings at the Global Youth Economic Opportunities Summit in Washington, DC.
But France is also a country where everyone enjoys some publicly-funded privilege, so cuts are a political "no-no."
– the terrible
privilege
of having felt six million shadows pressing against his frail silhouette, in an effort to gain their almost imperceptible place in the great book of the dead.
In any civilized society, ignorance is not illegal and being moralistic is anybody’s inherent
privilege.
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