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one ended in November 2011, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel and then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy leveraged financial-market concerns to force former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi out of office.
The European core won the first
round
when it effectively replaced Berlusconi with Mario Monti, who was very popular in European capitals.
America’s New Trade HypocrisyAs the current “development round” of trade talks moves into its final stages, it is becoming increasingly clear that the goal of promoting development will not be served, and that the multilateral trade system will be undermined.
At the World Trade Organization’s meeting Cancun in 2003, the developing countries stood together and blocked efforts to forge a trade agreement that was almost as unfair as the previous Uruguay round, under which the poorest countries actually became worse off.
This strongly suggests that jobs broadly “follow” sales (or perhaps the other way round), even though, once again, this is true only on average and not for all companies.
As the sun set in the west, a huge and perfect orange ball burning into the earth, the moon had risen in the east, as perfectly full and
round
as the sun, cool and bluish white.
The TPP is already in its 18th
round
of discussions, and, with some rumblings that China may join the negotiations, it appears that the talks will be prolonged significantly.
If we are to keep this de facto regional trade
round
moving forward, we need more than just the TTIP and the TPP to do the peddling.
If China devalues it will incite a new
round
of competitive devaluations across Asia.
If the Japanese yen again falls dramatically, inciting another
round
of regional devaluations;2.If China's domestic market picks up and demand for imports increases significantly, causing a trade deficit;3.
The last thing the Middle East needs is another
round
of reckless US foreign policy.
If, however, the G Major economies issued quarterly announcements of significant upcoming policy changes – for example, a small
round
of quantitative easing by country X, a larger liquidity injection by countries Y and Z, and so on – markets would be reassured that a currency war was not being fought.
In trade, the current
round
of global negotiations has demonstrated that if rich nations want developing nations to cooperate, they will need to let them shape the rules of the game.
Central banks would be tasked with preventing deflation, implying a major
round
of quantitative easing.
Better yet, if much of the next
round
of stimulus is devoted to automatic stabilizers – such as compensating for the shortfall in state revenues – then if the economy does recover, the spending will not occur.
The economics is clear: the world needs all the advanced industrial countries to commit to another big
round
of real stimulus spending.
In the first
round
of the parliamentary election, the UMP won a record-high 40% of the vote.
While voters denied the UMP a landslide victory in the second round, its overall win meant that the governing party retained its legislative majority for the first time in 29 years.
But without even stronger signs from President Kim that another big
round
of layoffs will be supported by government, it is unlikely that the chaebol will do much more restructuring on their own.
While massive liquidity injections were effective in unfreezing credit markets and arrested the worst of the crisis – witness the role of the Fed’s first
round
of QE in 2009-2010 – subsequent efforts have not sparked anything close to a normal cyclical recovery.
The single development target that would have the biggest impact on global prosperity would be the completion of the Doha trade
round.
Economic models indicate that a successful Doha
round
would make the global economy $11 trillion richer each year by 2030, with most of the benefits going to developing countries.
But that does not negate their eventual capacity to help spur a new
round
of crises, when sovereigns who never quite got a handle on their debts are, say, met with unfavorable global conditions.
In the 1870s, another
round
of defaults engulfed 11 states.
Judging by the results of the second and final
round
of France’s regional elections on December 13, it is also an argument that French voters, at least, roundly rejected.
With a cyclical mindset and fiscal space exhausted, a new
round
of quantitative easing (QE2) might be defended as a strategy for mitigating the tail risk of another downturn in asset markets (mainly housing) and households’ balance sheets – and with it the possibility of a deflationary dynamic.
As America went into battle, with deficits already soaring from his 2001 tax cut, Bush decided to plunge ahead with yet another
round
of tax “relief” for the wealthy.
In 2005, when the previous
round
of purchasing power parities was estimated, the method used was to take the national poverty lines of the 15 poorest countries, compute their average, and treat that as the global line.
Yet, in contrast to the last
round
of renminbi depreciation, investors aren’t panicking.
Europe’s Shaky FoundationsBERLIN – Slowly, word is getting
round
– even in Germany – that the financial crisis could destroy the European unification project in its entirety, because it demonstrates, quite relentlessly, the weaknesses of the eurozone and its construction.
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