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The SCO provides China not only with a platform to confront the existing US-led alliance in the Asia-Pacific region, but is increasingly being used to prevent the formation of a US-led network to restrain China’s advance.
Aside from waning procyclicality, macroprudential policies and capital controls appear to help restrain the intensity of aggregate credit booms and asset bubbles, with policies in place during the boom enhancing economic resilience during the bust.
On the whole, Obama has tried to restrain the warmongers, yet he has given in to them frequently – not only by relying on weaponized drones, but also by waging covert wars in Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere.
Less clear is whether China is prepared to use its influence to restrain North Korea, how India and Pakistan will avoid conflict, and the resolution of Asia’s many territorial disputes.
This is a cause for growing concern, and rightly so: inequality not only can undermine an economy’s long-term growth prospects; it can restrain growth in the short term by depressing aggregate demand.
Rather than attempting to restrain them, policies must address their more disruptive effects in a careful and imaginative way, through education and retraining programs, more flexible labor markets that allow workers to adjust to changes in the economic environment, and well-designed safety nets to support them through the process.
When governments have taken similar steps, they usually have done so after – or at least alongside – the provision of financial injections and efforts to restrain demand.
Nobody outside the US could force it to restrain either its monetary policy, which was becoming increasingly expansive under President Richard Nixon, or its fiscal policy, marked by mushrooming deficits due to the costs of the Vietnam war.
Strangely, it may be easier to gain confidence than to restrain it.
Neither country aims to restrain China in the way the “containment” strategy aimed at an aggressive Soviet Union during the Cold War, but both want to create an international structure that does not tempt China to throw its weight around.
Future historians will, no doubt, scurry to investigate the antecedents of these migrants from Europe and why the British people were willing to sacrifice so much to restrain them from coming.
If it is to be achieved, US officials must restrain themselves from exacerbating old fears by viewing China as a threat.
But when visas are manipulated or access is limited to restrain criticism and encourage self-censorship, even such exchange programs can shade into sharp power.
The Minsk II cease-fire agreement has failed to restrain Russian/separatist forces.
It is host to many of today’s superstar firms, and yet US antitrust regulators have not been able to restrain those firms’ market power.
When inflation is low, the top priority should be to reduce unemployment to the lowest possible level; and there is no compelling reason for monetary policy to restrain job creation or GDP growth until excessive inflation becomes an imminent danger.
The advanced countries, which can best afford to restrain long-term growth, must lead by example.
Burke was a conservative whose insistence on elected representatives’ duty to exercise their own judgment was grounded in the belief that they are likely to be better informed and wiser than their constituents, and will restrain their excesses.
I was closely involved with the DB report from 2012 to 2016, so I had to restrain myself from jumping into the debate on the topic.
Given this, we have only one possibility: to search inside ourselves as well as around us, for a sense of responsibility for the world; for mutual understanding and solidarity; for humility before the miracle of Being; for the ability to restrain ourselves in the general interest and to perform good deeds even if they remain unseen and unrecognized.
The Fed is not prepared to raise interest rates or tighten reserve requirements to restrain economic overheating in Shanghai.
Governments provide no collateral and offer no covenants to restrain profligacy.&
The attempt to restrain the growth of debt does serve to concentrate the mind – it forces countries to focus on priorities and assess values.
But this time, the Chinese government manages to restrain domestic inflation, so America’s trade deficit with Asia stops falling and starts rising again, as does Europe’s, while Latin America finds itself priced out of its export markets.
For starters, it should monitor and restrain sensitive exports to avoid making the security situation more dangerous for the US.
In a money-obsessed society, the only way to restrain this proclivity is by externally imposed sanctions.
They have shown their willingness to act to restrain other states from acquiring weapons of mass destruction; now it is time for them to restrain themselves.
For example, raising banks’ capital requirements when credit is booming could restrain lending and strengthen banks’ cushion against losses, while setting ceilings on loan-to-value ratios could rein in exuberant property markets, thereby heading off excessive risks for borrowers and lenders.
In 1929, the Fed attempted to restrain Wall Street with a policy of “direct pressure,” coercing member banks not to lend to security brokers and dealers.
They would rather sell their oil and invest later, when prices are higher, so they restrain increases in supply.
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