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When the report eventually came out, it acknowledged that “excess” volatility had “adverse consequences” for individual economies, as well as for the smooth functioning of the international adjustment process.
But it will not be smooth sailing.
In addition, financial globalization would allow poor nations to smooth out the boom-and-bust cycles associated with temporary terms-of-trade shocks and other bouts of bad luck.
While packaged in smooth diplo-speak, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s new proposal for European security has the less-than-hidden goal of stopping and rolling back Western influence.
In addition to military decommissioning, the Good Friday Agreement brought together antagonistic communities by mandating smooth trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, under the aegis of the EU customs union.
On the contrary, advanced economies need many skills, and high-quality technical education, especially if followed by effective apprenticeship programs, can create smooth transitions from school to work.
Because they do not happen often, they are far removed from the smooth center of the probability distribution from which baseline scenarios are drawn.
While the euro faces strong headwinds, the dollar’s early sailing wasn’t always smooth, either.
We also know little about how smooth the exit from quantitative easing will be.
Taxpayer bailouts, on the other hand, are seldom smooth and inevitably compromise central bank independence.
While a central bank should ensure the smooth operation of the payments and financial system, it makes no sense for this task to be contingent on governments’ negotiation of a reform program with the European Union’s rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), as is the case with OMT.
Tillerson’s short but ostensibly friendly visit to China has been praised by many for its contribution to a smooth transition of the bilateral relationship.
Now, he is starting to lose the support of Republicans who had hoped that he would smooth his rough edges and grow once in office.
However, no political process has created a smooth path toward such an ending.
The former Soviet satellites were offered the alluring prospect of joining the EU and NATO, which helped smooth the way for radical political and economic reforms.
Smooth convergence of risk premiums for inflation, exchange rates, and, perhaps most importantly, debt default with those prevailing in the eurozone are crucial for alleviating possible shocks to the financial system.
Unfortunately, the frictions that disrupt the machine’s smooth operation are human beings.
The official answer is that debt relief will come soon, paving the way for Greece’s smooth return to the money markets.
But none of this guarantees smooth sailing for these governments.
The world seems set for smooth sailing.
Within the framework of multilateralism, countries must make the effort to smooth over their differences and deepen their relations: we must conquer the inertia that moves us towards old thinking – and old alliances.
In exchange, private banks must live up to their collective responsibility to smooth the deleveraging process and limit the systemic impact of their actions.
And Putin has already taken beauty tips from another leading West European Lothario, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, with Putin’s 2010 facelift making his visage as smooth as that of the frequently Botoxed Berlusconi.
And a non-fact is that the next 12 months will be smooth sailing.
In theory, government stockpiles might be able to smooth price fluctuations.
But speculators more often act as detectors of changes in economic fundamentals, or provide the signals that smooth transitory fluctuations.
Mazowiecki backed Balcerowicz, and the success of economic reform underpinned Poland’s relatively smooth political transition.
The price of a smooth transition was also that many members of the Communist regime – including Jaruzelski – were not held accountable for their crimes while in power.
Third, trade reforms can help smooth international macroeconomic fluctuations and contribute to an orderly resolution of global imbalances.
And he is right to emphasize that all have made terrific progress and now offer great opportunities for the rising middle class, which wants to accumulate savings, borrow more easily (for productive investment, home purchases, education, etc), and, more generally, smooth out consumption.
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