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Nonetheless, it roundly failed to anticipate the problems that the
scheme
would cause, and to use its autonomy to improve implementation and minimize negative effects.
Observers in the West and the developing world question whether the solutions China is offering are genuine public goods; many suspect that China’s “one belt, one road” initiative, for example, is a self-serving, unilaterally imposed
scheme.
Common banking supervision, a centralized resolution framework, and a mutualized deposit-guarantee
scheme
were understood to be necessary pillars of the eurozone.
The deposit-guarantee scheme, for example, shows no sign of progress, and the debates on the single resolution fund and its lack of a public backstop to deal with large-scale banking distress are going nowhere.
This would mean expanding the money supply by buying member countries’ government bonds – a realization of ECB President Mario Draghi’s “outright monetary transactions” scheme, announced in August 2012 in the midst of growing uncertainty about the euro’s future (but never used since then).
The German Constitutional Court believes that the OMT
scheme
exceeds the ECB’s mandate, though it has temporarily tossed that political hot potato to the European Court of Justice.
For example, they could facilitate the provision of affordable insurance for farmers or create some type of mutual-assistance
scheme.
Such a scenario will be possible only with the involvement of the UN Security Council, which might consider running a
scheme
based on the Iraqi oil-for-food program.
Despite tight monetary policy and foreign exchange regulations, the
scheme
has boosted trade and investment while reducing intraregional indebtedness.
But the OMT
scheme
has not been reinforced by a reduction in key interest rates, which would boost inflation in core countries with external surpluses and thus help to close the competitiveness gap with the periphery.
Indeed, the state’s cap-and-trade carbon program is the model for the carbon-trading
scheme
that Chinese officials are currently considering.
Similarly, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s proposal to build an inter-oceanic canal in his country (with a shady Chinese businessman supposedly footing the massive bill, which could amount to anywhere between $55 billion and $100 billion) is largely believed – though without proof – to be a money-making
scheme
for his family.
For example, Lula's Workers' Party, which rejected pension reforms submitted by the previous Cardoso administration, expects Lula to preserve far more of the
scheme
than former President Cardoso believed possible.
The Commission’s competition lawyers announced that they would look into all national clauses, but GM’s recovery and the slow implementation of the German
scheme
ended up undermining the Magna solution.
The Modi government’s irresponsible, thoughtless, and badly implemented demonetization
scheme
in 2016 was a disaster for the economy, shaving 1.5% off GDP growth and devastating the rural poor and wage workers, whose subsistence depends on daily flows of cash.
In other words, the “outright monetary transactions” (OMT)
scheme
announced by ECB President Mario Draghi last July has served as the proverbial “bazooka” – a gun so powerful that it does not need to be used.
From years of analyzing the abnormal, I’ve developed a keen appreciation for the myriad peccadilloes that are quite normal: the dull co-worker whom others
scheme
to avoid, the eleventh-hour passing of the buck, the ex you promised to ‘stay friends’ with but never wrote to again, the small but telling things that really get under your skin.”
But the real problem is that the global economy is badly overleveraged, and there is no quick escape without a
scheme
to transfer wealth from creditors to debtors, either through defaults, financial repression, or inflation.
This is where the proposed UK
scheme
differs.
The country’s new populist government – comprising the Five Star Movement and Lega Nord – intends to increase the country’s debt substantially to pay for its proposed tax cuts and guaranteed-income scheme; and it might threaten to abandon the euro altogether if the EU refuses to play along.
The International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale uses a seven-level ranking
scheme
to rate the significance of nuclear and radiological events: levels 1-3 are “incidents,” and 4-7 are “accidents,” with a “Level 7 Major Accident” consisting of “a major release of radioactive material with widespread health and environmental effects requiring implementation of planned and extended countermeasures.”
Raising the retirement age to shore up a statutory pension
scheme
is often denounced as unfair, because people with physically demanding jobs, such as nurses and manual laborers, cannot be expected to work until they are 70.
Under this scheme, each worker would have an individual account balance (treated as an IRA from a tax perspective), but the assets that secure the plan’s benefits would be held in a pooled trust, with a real return guaranteed by private insurance and paid out as an annuity upon retirement.
Obama’s slogans are examples of “dead metaphors”: they are not part of an overall conceptual
scheme.
The European Financial Stability Facility, the European Stability Mechanism, and the European Central Bank’s “outright monetary transactions”
scheme
are all forms of collective insurance.
Under the dating
scheme
that they used, the same year can count as a consolidation year, a pre-consolidation year, and a post-consolidation year, and it turns out that some of what they treated as large spending-based consolidations were, in fact, never implemented.
While the European Central Bank’s bond-purchasing
scheme
has calmed financial markets to a considerable extent, some European economies – including Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal – are still at risk, because they are not growing fast enough to narrow their deficits and stem the growth of their national debts.
But, in addition to being fair, this
scheme
also has practical benefits.
The EEU would thus have a chance to develop beyond a Russian neo-Soviet integration
scheme
and become a unified and dynamic economic area.
Unfinished business includes a deposit-insurance scheme, as well as the creation of a senior tranche of safe sovereign assets, or eurozone-wide risk-free securities.
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