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Once they peak and begin to decline, lending conditions tighten, and banks find themselves repossessing houses whose value does not cover the value of the debt.
My own state would thrive in such a looser federation, using its increased margin of maneuver to tighten its own regulations and to scale up its social services with the savings in taxes now paid to the federal government.
That is why trade agreements that tighten the rules are in fact mixed blessings for developing countries.
When they do – and assuming that the government does not suddenly tighten its belt (it has no credible plan to do so) – there is every likelihood that America’s appetite for foreign cash will surge again.
Yes, the Federal Reserve could tighten monetary policy.
But I also could live with, “We are worried that if we wait too long, we will have to tighten too hard and too fast.”
To fix its domestic problems, America must tighten its budget, not drive down the dollar's value.
If a country that has been borrowing like a drunk suddenly sees its credit dry up, it will tighten its belt – raise taxes, cut spending, or do both – with or without an international lender of last resort.
If it blindly applies its usualapproaches -- pushing to tighten credit, cut spending, and close weak banks -- creditors might feel that growth is doomed for years.
Indeed, just the opposite response is likely – efforts to tighten sanctions still further.
Even as we look to tighten sanctions on Iran in 2011, we must strengthen our efforts to establish a strong political and diplomatic track.
To rein in rising house prices and pre-empt the inflationary impact of the strongly expansionary fiscal and monetary policies implemented during the global financial crisis, China’s monetary authorities began to tighten financial conditions in January 2010.
And while the major central banks are planning, or have already begun, to tighten monetary policy, interest rates will remain low for now.
But continuing its purchases would tighten the government’s grip.
Over the course of the three G-20 summits held since the crisis, world leaders have agreed to tighten financial regulation slightly, but only for banks, while leaving other market players free of restrictions and scrutiny.
Recent revelations of the Russian government’s involvement in hacking into the Democratic National Committee’s computer system – just two years after North Korea’s hack of Sony Pictures – has spurred a push in boardrooms around the world to tighten their organizations’ cyber security.
A Cautionary History of US Monetary TighteningBERKELEY – The US Federal Reserve has embarked on an effort to tighten monetary policy four times in the past four decades.
As the Fed prepares to tighten monetary policy once again, an examination of this history – and of the current state of the economy – suggests that the United States is about to enter dangerous territory.
It is tempting to conclude that the Fed’s eagerness to tighten monetary policy – despite unfavorable historical precedents and ongoing economic uncertainty – is driven by commercial banks with excessive influence in official policymaking.
Of course, advanced-country central banks hope such asset inflation won’t appear at all, because inflation is being suppressed by temporary supply shocks, and thus will increase as soon as product and labor markets tighten.
While the true NAIRU level is probably lower, and we are likely witnessing a secular decline in the workforce participation rate, the US labor market should still tighten in 2016.
But that underscores a larger point for non-US economies: You never know when the Fed will tighten.
The authorities have taken initial steps to tighten fiscal policy by announcing significant cuts in the approved budget, but it is estimated that even then, central-government spending will rise by about 4% in real terms in 2011 from its historically high level in 2010.
Last year, many investors questioned the ECB's ability to launch a bond-buying program in the face of German opposition, and many others doubted the Fed's willingness to tighten monetary policy, because doing so could choke off the US economic recovery.
And with its General Data Protection Regulation, the EU has sought to tighten restrictions on the use, sharing, and control of personal data.
They even manage to tighten the loan limits or tax measures counter-cyclically, which is the recommended way to help stabilize the housing cycle.
The regime may respond by trying to tighten the noose.
For example, they could tighten the qualifications needed to become a bank director (in the United States, for example, the requirements are not serious).
Politicians are blamed because they did not tighten fiscal policies when needed in order to prevent property bubbles, rein in external deficits, and avert economic overheating.
How do you tighten fiscal policy to make up for more than 100% of GDP in credit-induced spending power in only three years, as occurred in Ireland in 2004-2007 – and in a democracy sporting a fiscal surplus, as Ireland is?
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