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Atlas SlumpsIf the world is to have a decent economic recovery, an upturn will depend on America getting off its back and continuing to fulfill its role as global importer of last resort.
The message of hate continues to appeal to many people, including a few who are ready to resort to violence.
The third was manufacturing investment elsewhere in the world – predominantly in Asia – as the US became the world economy’s importer of last resort.
The second locomotive began sucking fumes two years ago, and is now coasting to a halt, which means that the third – the US as importer of last resort – is losing speed as well: the weak dollar accompanying the housing finance crash makes it unprofitable to export to the US.
Some athletes also resort to so-called blood doping – transfusions of oxygenated blood before an event, which achieves a similar result as EPO.
Billions of people have access to improved drinking water; and many have gained access to sanitation (though a billion people still have to resort to open defecation – a major health risk).
By contrast, in a society where national consciousness is limited to the better educated (for example, the Arab Middle East), they must resort to traditional means of mobilization.
Yes, in principle, there should be a way to fix the ills of the financial system without resort to inflation.
There has been no resort to the type of budgetary gimmicks that many European countries used to meet the deficit targets mandated for participation in monetary union by the Maastricht agreement.
Instead, the US has assumed various unproductive roles, becoming the world’s money launderer, political-risk insurer, and money-holder of last resort.
Public media resources are used to strengthen the executive rather than to serve the public interest, and presidents resort to “gag” laws to silence actual and potential critics.
First, we do not know enough about when, under what circumstances, and in what order governments should resort to these checklist items.
But, in the last resort, it is voters, not markets, which hold governments to account.
Proponents of the single currency object that if Europe has separate national currencies, it will have separate banking systems, each with its own lender of last resort.
The political temptation is always there to resort to inappropriate monetary expansions that bring temporary relief at the expense of harming longer-term growth.
Of course, it is always preferable to attempt to negotiate rather than resort to war.
This role should go beyond the Fund’s traditional tasks of adviser and lender of last resort.
As IMF teams now work across the globe to assist governments in devising programs that can restore confidence, it is clear that the role of lender of last resort is not obsolete.
Sharm el-Sheikh ReduxDriven by a common fear of Islamic fundamentalism, and by a false assumption that it is an illegitimate political force, the Middle East’s so-called “moderates” have once again gathered at the Egyptian seaside resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the traditional venue for emergency regional summits, to rally “moderates” against “extremists.”
The OMT program’s supporters point out that it has calmed the financial markets by affirming the ECB’s readiness to step in as a lender of last resort and buy sovereign debt before a country goes bust.
And its willingness to engage militarily as an early step, rather than as a last resort, has alienated many around the world.
Yet entrepreneurship is often considered a path of last resort.
One troubling aspect of this change is that the new leader may feel the need to resort to brute force more frequently in order to suppress popular resistance.
Zhang opposes the decision by many of his contemporaries (including me) to support the protests in Hong Kong, fearing that the government will resort to violent repression, as it did in 1989.
Given that the eurozone lacks any supra-national fiscal backstop, such as a lender of last resort or a debt-mutualization mechanism like Eurobonds, the home-country bias can be expected to intensify whenever an economy experiences a significant shock.
But a central bank would normally do even more to fulfill its role as lender of last resort.
As a lender of last resort to sovereigns, a central bank must stand ready to purchase sovereign debt unconditionally, in order to neutralize the effects of temporary market disruptions.
The eurozone must allow for selective default on sovereign debt, with the ECB acting as a lender of last resort for solvent governments.
East Asia’s Patriots and PopulistsTOKYO – When faced with domestic worries, politicians often resort to foreign diversions – a simple axiom that is highly useful in assessing the increasingly tense sovereignty disputes in the East and South China Seas.
The Caucasian Dark CircleMOSCOW – The Russian authorities have recently begun showing off the massive security measures being implemented ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
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