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To a country that had struggled for decades against British imperialism, however, neither capitalism nor openness to foreign investors seemed a prudent course.
If these banks also have a commercial bank division, they may have an incentive to maintain credit lines beyond a prudent level, because to cut such lines would put at risk high potential future revenues from mergers and acquisitions and stock and bond issues.
At a crucial moment in 2005, while he was a governor but not yet Fed Chairman, Bernanke described the housing boom as reflecting a prudent and well-regulated financial system, not a dangerous bubble.
This is prudent policymaking.
And Germany is slowly acquiescing to a prudent relative expansion in domestic demand.
Other countries appear to have adopted a “Field of Dreams” – also known as “build it and they will come” – approach to private credit markets, In the US, for example, artificially low interest rates for home mortgages, resulting from the Federal Reserve’s policy activism, are supposed to kick-start prudent financing.
Returning control to politicians is no more prudent than handing them the keys to a country’s nuclear power plants.
Some financing for investment must come from local sources, just as the down payment on a home must come from a prudent family’s saving.
It would be prudent to adapt the law to this state of facts, and to give employees, too, a say in their destiny.
Apart from avoiding the excess burden and injustice of taxation, they also have the benefit of inducing banks’ owners to choose a prudent investment strategy, while persuading creditors to scrutinize and select carefully the banks to which they want to lend.
We could then look back at the Great Recession as a bad dream; the market economy – supported by prudent government action – would have shown its resilience.
Such a strategic goal would provide justification for prudent fiscal and monetary policies, and, given Poles’ desire to consider themselves full Europeans, it would boost political support for such policies.
As one former adviser put it, he was “irresistibly drawn to Big Ideas like bringing democracy to the Middle East, Big Ideas that stood in sharp contrast to the prudent small ball played by his father.”
It is more prudent that it voice concern for Europe’s future economic prospects today than face a deceived and angry public tomorrow.
Many countries in Latin America, such as Mexico and Bolivia, undertook such policies in a fiscally prudent manner, ensuring that government deficits would not lead to high debt and macroeconomic instability.
It does not need a president who preaches a politics of division, even if he turns out to be fiscally prudent.
In an environment of economic volatility like the one in which we find ourselves today, a prudent central bank should do everything it can to raise expected and actual inflation, in order to gain the ability to stabilize the economy in any direction.
A smoother international distribution of power, even in a global system that is less than fully democratic, would pose fewer temptations to abandon the prudent exercise of power.
A combination of leadership talent and continuing luck means that, for the first time in decades in France, a prudent optimism may be justified.
As Bush and his team responded to forces that were largely outside of his control, he set goals and objectives that balanced opportunities and constraints in a prudent manner.
But, given the profound uncertainty of a world in flux, as well as the dangers of miscalculation as the Soviet empire collapsed, prudent management trumped grand visions.
But the recent Work Conference failed to consider China’s growth slowdown in this strategic context, placing considerable weight instead on the macro-stabilization imperatives of “proactive fiscal and prudent monetary policies.”
But it would be prudent for the US government to adopt a less assertive approach, and keep the threat of its sizable cyber capabilities as a last resort.
In either of the most probable scenarios, continuity or prudent change, or even if the “outsider” candidate wins, Chile will in all likelihood remain a beacon of democratic stability, economic dynamism, and international engagement in a region too often characterized by political and economic turbulence.
Those borrowers with sound macroeconomic policies will probably retain some appeal for global financial markets; but less prudent governments might suddenly find themselves cut off.
Perhaps prudent loosening of the imminent-harm standard for involuntary commitment in clear cases of severe disorder might be helpful.
(Indeed, with alarm bells sounding throughout the region, the United States’ “pivot to Asia,” widely derided for its clumsy rollout and unintended consequences, now seems wise and prudent.)
Hard pegs in the form of a strict currency board--these states' current arrangement--may be their only prudent policy choice.
History does include some prudent and visionary male heads of state.
India can continue to thrive if it invests in physical and human capital and pursues prudent fiscal and monetary policies.
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