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Oxfam America, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, organized a two-step response to the crisis.
There is also the risk that, given the role of the ECB and the Bank of Japan in shaping their currencies’ performance, such a shift could be characterized as a “currency war” in the US Congress, prompting a retaliatory policy response.
A response to global challenges based simply on schadenfreude may promote a short-term sense of well-being, as people often like to think how lucky they are to have escaped a mess that originated elsewhere.
In fact, he is the sixth most widely cited monetary economist, owing his renown especially to the Taylor rule, a guideline for setting interest rates in response to observed inflation and growth.
Such a response should not be surprising.
As for Poland, the European Commission has launched an unprecedented inquiry in response to recent legislation that, under the pretense of “protecting national sovereignty,” concentrates more power in the government’s hands.
Promoting private insurance may seem an indirect response to the tsunami disaster, but it is a rational – and powerful – response.
The response was quick and vicious.
Many expected that America would call for a collective NATO response.
In terms of counterterrorism, the tragic events in Mumbai present an opportunity to ratchet up intelligence sharing, joint response training, and personnel exchanges to defeat the defining threat of our times.
Suppose, conversely, that the US imposes new import barriers in response to its current-account deficit.
Granted, one could argue that in some cases they overshot – for example, with the second round of so-called “quantitative easing” in the US – but, roughly speaking, the response seems to have been appropriate.
Second, Western central banks should start rolling back the emergency measures put in place in response to the financial and economic crisis.
Although the 2008 financial crisis exposed profound institutional shortcomings, the response – including heightened regulatory safeguards like the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act in the United States and the Basel III banking standards – has failed to bring about the needed transformation.
But the response from EU institutions, namely the European Central Bank and the European Commission, has been negative: candidate countries were told that they first must spend at least two years in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM II), where Euro aspirants are expected to prove their policy mettle.
But this awareness has yet to translate into a unified response.
Now, in response to global challenges – for example, pandemics, financial crises, and climate change – the vast majority of Asian countries understand that collective action does not erode but instead protects sovereignty.
That is a reasonable response.
In response to each challenge, Asians respond pragmatically.
Far from condemning this cruel approach, the international community – and Europe, in particular – offered only a muted response.
A textbook response suggests that a government should adjust fiscal expenditures in response to permanent (or very persistent) drops in export and budget revenues.
“Upon the whole it rests with Congress to decide between war, tribute, and ransom as the means of re-establishing our Mediterranean commerce,” Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson advised President George Washington in 1790, as he pondered a response to continued attacks by the Barbary Pirates on America’s merchant fleet off of North Africa.
In the nearly 200 years that followed, Congress did so only four more times, three in response to attacks on US maritime interests – the Spanish-American War and the two world wars – and the Mexican-American War in 1846.
Yet, thus far, monetary authorities have shouldered much of the burden of the crisis response.
In particular, if the increase in demand is not accommodated by a supply-side response, illegal and often risky migration will tend to grow.
The best response to this argument is that the wrongness of causing needless suffering to sentient beings is not culturally specific.
But Western nations are in a weak position to make this response, because they inflict so much unnecessary suffering on animals.
Standard economic theory suggests that the correct monetary-policy response to such positive supply shocks depends on their persistence.
The security agreement between the US and South Korea mandates a military response.
Ironically, this trend was exacerbated by the policy response to the financial crisis.
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