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In October 1990, the UK joined the euro’s precursor, the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), which kept the exchange rates between Europe’s major currencies within tight bands, which were increasingly tightened before locking the various currencies into a single one.
Uruguay suffered cruel stagnation from the middle 1950s to the 1970s, brought about by rampant protectionism, irresponsible public finance, and tight exchange controls.
In recent years, tight monetary policy and increasingly strict controls on the real-estate sector have caused the growth rate of fixed-asset investment to fall, from more than 25% annually before 2008 to around 20% today.
This means allowing the economy to continue to slow, while maintaining relatively tight macroeconomic policies that force local governments and the business sector to find new sources of growth.
The complaint, however, will not be that monetary policy is too easy, but that it is too tight.
Many developed countries are also failing to invest in high-return assets, but for a different reason: Their tight budgets and rising debts are preventing them from investing much at all.
The big difference between Asia's successes and failures is that some countries engaged in globalization, and others closed their doors tight.
Some focused on the “conservative”: they expected the Bush administration’s fiscal policy to keep a tight rein on spending and to eliminate many programs in order to finance significant tax cuts.
Because supervisors’ decisions affect individuals’ property rights – and their actions or omissions can put taxpayers on the hook to bail out banks – governments, parliaments, and the courts are bound to hold the watchdogs on a tight leash.
Indeed, its government has proved to be a strong supporter of Myanmar’s president, Thein Sein, as he seeks to free his country from China’s tight embrace.
Since then, the IMF and the Bank have kept franc-zone budget deficits under tight surveillance, which has limited the direct impact of sovereign-debt worries on these countries.
To be sure, China’s government keeps a tight rein on the economy.
Historically, flat yield curves have been associated with tight money and high-interest-rate policies.
But tight national restrictions do not seem to prevent migration; they only alter the geographical orientation of flows and fuel increases in illegal immigration, thereby inflating the size of the informal economy.
Indeed, illegal immigration is larger when restrictions to legal migration are tight.
This approach is especially appropriate at a time when many European countries are struggling with sluggish growth and face tight fiscal constraints.
Tight constraints on the quantity of such monetization would be essential, but the alternative is not no monetization; it is undisciplined de facto monetization, accompanied by denials that any monetization is taking place.
The direct explanation is that the Bank of Japan kept monetary policy tight, so that the currency did not weaken alongside the economy.
While government ran large deficits, the Bank of Japan kept the money supply tight.
As a result, large enterprises – mostly SOEs, which enjoy considerable financial subsidies and liquidity – accounted for 43% of total bank loans in 2011; small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), which face financial repression, including higher borrowing costs and tight liquidity, accounted for only 27%.
Tight national caps on Target balances could provide the right incentive to comply.
Even though it had to pay interest premiums and was running a current-account deficit, Mario Draghi (the leading contender to take over the ECB this autumn) kept his central bank’s lending under tight control throughout the crisis.
Please hold on tight to this rope.
Moreover, Rouhani has pursued a tight fiscal policy that deepened the recession and delayed the recovery.
There is the risk of overstimulation, with fiscal deficits fueling large current-account deficits and debts, which suddenly become unsustainable when money gets tight.
The situation in the eurozone is particularly unstable, owing to citizens’ growing alienation from a distant, technocratic elite; the absence of conventional economic adjustment mechanisms (exchange rates, inflation, public investment, and so on); and tight limits on fiscal transfers, which send powerful signals about the real boundaries of cohesion.
This tight budget is supposed to force shake-ups in UN management.
Any change in government in Havana would leave him in a tight spot.
The relatively tight labor market is causing wages to rise at an accelerating rate, because employers must pay more to attract and retain employees.
To mitigate such risks, the international community could maintain its traditional policy of sitting tight and hoping that governments retain control of their nuclear infrastructure.
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