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Germany has now opened its purse, acting as Greece’s prime rescuer.
So far this year, healthy companies have slowly been loosening their purse strings – a notable departure from the risk-averse behavior that has prevailed since the global financial crisis.
Governments must establish an enabling environment for the private sector to create jobs, and officials cannot consider the public purse to be a private bank account.
In democracies, courts are heard, and obeyed, even if their judgements affect the original parliamentary power of the purse, as in recent German cases concerning the pension entitlements of particular groups.
Oversight and the power of the purse will be their most powerful tools.
As Frederick Mackeson, a British colonial officer, observed of the tribesmen in 1850, “their fidelity is measured by the length of the purse of their seducer, and they transfer their obedience according to the liberality of the donation.”
The nature of the trouble in higher education is similar to that affecting all the public services: a massive growth in demand that can no longer be met from the public purse.
While they grudgingly loosened their purse strings to support Greece, the underlying motives were too shortsighted, and the resulting approach was strategically flawed and abysmally coordinated.
If the government tries to cut its deficit, households and firms will have to tighten their purse strings, resulting in less total spending.
The economic activity generated just by their launch would generate new tax revenues that more than cover the cost to the public purse.
This may explain why the government’s Brexit strategy proposes sustaining subsidies, to be paid for directly from the British public purse.
The latter permanently ask for more, while the former zealously try to defend their purse.
But the much-needed structural reforms to limit leverage and contain the risks that the financial system periodically imposes on the real economy – and the public purse – have only belatedly gotten off the to-do list, and the prospects of enacting them are difficult to estimate.
Indeed, when Kasparov next had to defend his title against a human challenger, match organizers found it much more difficult to raise a suitably large purse than in pre-Deep Blue days.
The European parliament is also not yet a real parliament, with control of the purse and oversight of the executive.
This view clearly influences Republican office-holders, who fear the partisan beast that mans their campaigns’ phone banks and holds the purse strings.
And governments would almost certainly have to back some lending banks, too, so the claimed benefits in terms of insulating the public purse would not be realized.
After a lifetime of living in relative poverty for a superstar (even though he frequently appeared on the cover of major magazines), Fischer finally found himself playing in a match with a $250,000 purse.
It may not wield the power of the sword or the power of the purse.
Without committing itself to any substantive assistance, the Chinese government has publicly demanded that the European Union grant China the coveted status of “market economy” if it expects China to loosen its purse strings.
But he must not loosen the strings of the public purse too much.
The EU redistributes billions of euros from rich to poor members: more poor members mean more claimants on that purse.
The increase will fall on employers, not the public purse, and so the reduction in credits and benefits is a net gain for Her Majesty’s Treasury.
The reason is simple: Privately-issued assets without the backing of a government with the power of the purse might look safe in normal times; but, following a shock, they could quickly be reassessed as risky.
After all, they no longer had the power of the purse or the advantage in economic training.
A million dollars in $100 notes fits into a briefcase, a million dollars in €500 notes (each worth about $565) fits into a purse.
Given this, it seems likely that many in Macron’s administration take the European agreements very seriously, even too seriously, and are repelled by the idea of vigorous spending cuts, because their power is related to the size of the purse they control.
But the precise rules about purse strings determine how this argument will play out.
But a fundamental principle of the US Constitution is that Congress controls the purse strings – meaning that discretionary spending, such as outlays for a border wall, is subject to the formal appropriations process.
In particular, because efficiency is not the primary consideration, Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) might purse low-return projects.
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