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For almost seven decades, the US and its allies have repeatedly intervened (or supported internally-led coups) to oust governments that were not sufficiently under their thumb.
The rule of thumb for monetary policymakers has long been that if inflation is below official target ranges, short-term interest rates should be set at a level that spurs spending and investment.
Instead of relying on rules of thumb about when to raise or lower rates, we need to do some creative, analytical thinking.
Even a solitary superpower should follow this rule of thumb: try multilateralism first.
A good rule of thumb for the average growth rates of the G-7 countries would be to attribute about one percentage point in productivity gains to the growth rate of the working-age population.
If financial markets lose that confidence – if they conclude that the Fed is too much under the president’s thumb to wage the good fight against inflation, or if they conclude that the chairman does not wish to control inflation – then the economic news is almost certain to be bad.
By reappointing a Fed chair chosen by someone else, a president can appear to guarantee financial markets that the Fed is not too much under his thumb.
As a rule of thumb, diplomacy can be expected only to work with facts on the ground, not to create them, and the facts on the ground stand in the way of a regional settlement.
The normal rules of thumb would say that the market is now expecting 8.75 years of near-zero short-term interest rates before the economy returns to normal.
Remember how the Argentines were able to thumb their noses at the pro-market “Washington Consensus” in favor of an interventionist “Buenos Aires consensus”?
Weak neighbors are states that the Kremlin can control, so why not expand Russian power by letting Ukraine slide into protest and anarchy if by doing so it brings that country back under Putin’s thumb?
This rule of thumb implies 30-year rates in the 4-5% range.
The first historical rule of thumb is 10% on the dollar for each percent of GDP's worth of unsustainable current-account deficit.
The second historical rule of thumb is that currencies on the decline tend to overshoot: near the bottom, international currency speculators require a substantial risk premium out of the fear that the currency crash might trigger something even worse.
But the historical rule of thumb is that the chances of a fast, hard landing have now surpassed 25%, and continue to climb.
If a country can support debt totaling 80% of GNP (a rough but reasonable rule of thumb), then we need approximately 50% “haircuts” on this existing and forthcoming debt (reducing it to 75% of its nominal value).
A rule of thumb is that a minimum wage that is above 55% of the median wage will impede job creation (and economic growth);Puerto Rico’s minimum wage is 77% of the median, owing to the federal mandate.
In fact, the first rule of thumb in combating today’s inequality should be that simplistic egalitarian policies are not a permanent solution – and may, in fact, have adverse long-term consequences.
Give people rules of thumb, not product manuals.
With the ECB in its current tightening mode, “better too late than too early” must be its rule of thumb.
Wages in Korea, indeed, became twice that prevailing in Britain and banks remained under the thumb of government.
Despite decades of careful data collection and mathematical and statistical research, on many large questions we have little more than rules of thumb.
These rules of thumb work (at least tolerably so) as a result of evolution.
The FSB favors keeping the media under the Kremlin’s thumb.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his government appear to have overlooked that China covets Indian territory and may thus be pleased that Russia has set a precedent for a powerful country to thumb its nose at international law and seize part of a neighboring country.
One rule of thumb, offered 70 years ago by the historian Ernst Kantorowicz, is that those who advance an idea have an obligation to “their conscience and their God” to be sincere about it.
Even the existence of mundane uncertainty gives rise to conventions and rules of thumb that embody the best of human experience in dealing with the unknown.
That is what I – and all of Ukraine’s democrats – want for our country: a society of opportunity, under the rule of law and not under the thumb of cronies and oligarchs, in an open Europe.
One legacy of Western Europe’s experience in the 1980’s is a rule of thumb: each year that lower labor-force attachment and reduced capital stock as a result of declining investment depresses production $100 billion below normal implies that productive potential at full employment in future years will be $10 billion below what would otherwise have been forecast.
A better rule of thumb would be: beware of regimes that claim to guarantee the West’s geopolitical interests.
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