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Money Can't Buy ReformMOSCOW: A big squeeze is on in Moscow, as President Putin seeks to drill the country's wayward regions into line with Kremlin policies.
Soon a squeeze of a different type will be put on the West, as the Kremlin bids for new international loans.
In a squeeze, holders of domestic currency will want to exchange it for greenbacks.
To return to the cinema analogy: investors know that the exit is not large enough to allow them all to squeeze through at the same time.
For the Arab regimes, neither the promise of subsidies nor the threat of repression can squeeze the political genie back into its bottle.
The governor of Greece’s central bank, an arm of the ECB, “predicted” that markets were facing a liquidity squeeze, implying that a Syriza victory would render the banking system unsafe – a statement that would be inane were it not calculated to start a bank run.
The new imperial giant’s velvet glove cloaks an iron fist – one with the strength to squeeze the vitality out of smaller countries.
Mueller is also known to be putting the squeeze on Manafort, a lobbyist and political consultant with a history of helping dictators.
The current 12th Five-Year Plan calls for annual wage increases to average at least 13.4%; this year, wages are rising at an average rate of 18%, which will squeeze out industries characterized by obsolescence or overcapacity.
That argument ended only when it became clear that the Chinese could squeeze no other concessions out of those on the other side of the table.
The people of Hong Kong, meanwhile, increasingly have to wonder whether China will respect their city’s rights – or squeeze its windpipe.
Certainly the People’s Bank of China, which engineered a credit squeeze in June in an attempt to discourage loan growth, seems to believe that financial leverage has risen to dangerous levels.
This was because they had less leverage to be unwound and less footloose capital that could leave in the event of a global financial squeeze.
Now that it has achieved the minimum efficient scale, new entrants cannot easily use competitive pressure to squeeze Uber’s margins.
If organic production were scaled up significantly, the lower yields would lead to greater pressure to convert land to agricultural use and produce more animals for manure, to say nothing of the tighter squeeze on water supplies – all of which are challenges to sustainability.
Confronting FearWASHINGTON, DC – Even as the squeeze in interbank lending has started to ease after the rescue of financial systems across the advanced countries, falling economic indicators have sent stock markets tumbling.
Monetary policy can be used in countries where interest rates remain high, but its effectiveness in a credit squeeze is likely to be limited.
BERKELEY – For more than 170 years, it has been accepted doctrine that markets are not to be trusted when there is a liquidity squeeze.
For more than half that time – say, 85 years – it has been accepted doctrine that markets are also not to be trusted even in normal times, lest doing so lead to a liquidity squeeze or to an inflationary bubble.
It is not that the world economy faces a liquidity squeeze.
For Greece and Portugal, staying in the eurozone will be a tight squeeze.
Until now, the countries of emerging Europe withstood the global financial squeeze remarkably well, coping with the slowdown in important export markets and increased borrowing costs.
If they could reduce the number of national insurers from five to three, they could then increase their market power and squeeze more profits from consumers.
Without such programs, the multinational squeeze goes on.
The squeeze on maize supplies for food will only intensify.
In modern terms, the Romans faced a monetary squeeze.
Along with inadequate capital supply, Greece is suffering from a demand shortfall, as the troika continues to squeeze the country with harsh austerity.
Seen through the same lens, mega trade deals, such as the TPP, would also have an important bearing on pressures that squeeze American workers.
But lenders perhaps knew that, with the Republicans in control of government, they could make bad loans and then change the law to ensure that they could squeeze the poor.
Some reasons are practical; we could “hardly squeeze” all of the people who are unhappy with their regimes into Europe.
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