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The administration’s China policy is as reckless as it is feckless.
Two developments averted the nightmare of reckless nuclear proliferation.
Cardinal Dziwisz of Cracow argued that there could be no place in Poland “for retribution, revenge, lack of respect for human dignity, and reckless accusations.”
The alternative – for each country to go its own way, as the British have chosen to do – would be reckless.
That could happen in the US if Washington continues to favor policies that condone the reckless excesses of the recent past and inhibit the deleveraging and balance-sheet repair that America’s zombie consumers now need for post-crisis healing.
Indeed, there is a worrying aspect to the new plans: they must tread a narrow path between reckless freedom for financial institutions, which contributed to the recent global financial crisis, and over-caution, which can suffocate innovation and create inefficiencies.
Unless they step up, they risk lending credence to Trump’s reckless claims that the Europeans are merely free riders, exploiting an “outdated” alliance at the expense of American taxpayers.
Nowhere was this more apparent than in the 2010 microfinance crisis in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh – a hub of MFI activity – when a decade of explosive growth, fueled by aggressive and reckless lending practices, came to a head.
China enabled the US to sidestep the mounting perils of subpar saving, reckless fiscal policy, and weak household income growth.
Reckless monetary and regulatory policies turned the humble abode into an ATM, allowing families to extract dollars from bubbles and live beyond their means.
First, fiscally conservative congressional Republicans will object to a reckless increase in the public debt.
And one should not forget Andrew William Mellon’s infamous and reckless advice to former US President Herbert Hoover on the eve of the Great Depression: “liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate.”
Man-made environmental change is caused by reckless land use, overgrazing, depletion and contamination of surface freshwater resources, overuse of groundwater, degradation of coastal ecosystems, inefficient or environmentally unsustainable irrigation practices, waste mismanagement, and the destruction of natural habitats.
To dismiss the FMLN’s historical achievement as simply an act of justice or a foreseeable event in a tiny backwater would be reckless.
The same perverse outcome could be expected from the reckless fiscal policies proposed by other politicians.
The one thing that could precipitate the demise of the dollar would be reckless economic mismanagement in the US.
Such restrictions, of course, cut both ways – potentially limiting personal expression, but also constraining disguised and reckless vigilante attacks.
The main misgivings about Trump – among Republicans, Democrats, and Independents alike –are that he is not informed enough about the issues to be president and, even more worryingly, that he is abnormally self-absorbed, impulsive, and reckless.
The reckless construction of condominiums without buyers and airports without passengers had to stop.
In Europe, the pre-crisis boom in real-estate investment was fueled by reckless credit flows from Northern to Southern Europe.
The other view is that to proceed with the new policies before the new institutions are in place would be reckless.
Mutualizing debts before European institutions have a veto over fiscal policies would only encourage more reckless behavior by national governments.
One camp argued that it would be reckless to create a monetary union before economic policies had converged and institutional reforms were complete.
After all, the current Administration’s denigration of “old Europe” was not just a rhetorical aside, but a centerpiece of its reckless approach to foreign affairs.
Yet when he decided to diversify and focus on India, many criticized him as being reckless, because India was so unfamiliar to Japanese companies.
Considering that China’s total debt reached 282% of GDP last year – surpassing America’s debt level – further reckless lending to local governments and private enterprises from the shadow banking sector would hold the economy hostage to the growing risk of a financial crisis.
From the US perspective, China’s reckless behavior in the South China Sea, unrestrained cyber attacks against American targets, protectionist economic policies, and escalating political repression at home have demolished the belief that a globally integrated China would be a responsible and cooperative partner.
Beyond regulatory improvements, preventing payment incentives from rewarding reckless risk taking, and building Chinese walls between originators of securities and rating agencies, we need to discover what made this crisis so difficult to predict.
Unfortunately, Europe’s policymakers have twice let themselves been misled by politically convenient views of the crisis – first in 2007/2008, by supposing that the financial contagion came from the US, and nowadays, by blaming reckless fiscal policy in the southern eurozone.
But Germany’s thrifty savers – households, banks, and insurance companies – are furious about ECB policies that tax them (and others in the eurozone core) to subsidize the eurozone periphery’s alleged reckless spenders and debtors.
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