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The arrangement collapsed because the US did not want to tighten monetary policy and run more restrictive fiscal policy: keeping US voters happy was understandably more important to President Nixon than maintaining a global system of fixed exchange rates.
But a responsible central bank should not cater to irrational fears of inflation in what is in fact a deflationary environment, just as it is not an independent central bank’s role to tighten the thumbscrews for fiscal and structural reform.
Meanwhile, most other eurozone countries have lately been forced to tighten fiscal policy, thereby reducing or eliminating their current-account deficits.
Kim Jong-in, an architect of economic democratization who has been vocal about the need to tighten regulations on the chaebol, is among Park’s leading advisers.
Instead, Greece’s creditors chose to tighten the screws.
If a tightening of margin and minimum capital requirements does not deflate a bubble, regulators can tighten some more.
In countries like Rwanda, people know this only too well, which is why they have been so eager to tighten the net on HPV.
This has enabled the military to tighten its grip on Pakistan further, frustrating domestic efforts to bring about a genuine democratic transition.
Finally, the US should take advantage of its enduring position as Pakistan’s largest export market to tighten the economic screws on the cash-strapped country.
Rather than let the currency depreciate, or tighten its policies, the government opts for foreign-exchange controls, limiting access to dollars to those who “really” need it and thus preventing “speculators” from hurting “the people.”
So we need to tighten the feedback loops and create stronger incentives for behaviors that advance the common good, including that of future generations.
If they succeeded at all, high interest rates would have induced them to tighten their belts, and their current-account deficits, which in the case of Greece and Portugal exceeded 10% of GDP, would have diminished.
Vladimir Putin has successfully used nationalism to tighten his control over Russia and seems to enjoy great popularity.
There is no reason why the major economies -- the U.S., the Euro countries, Britain, Japan -- should simultaneously tighten their monetary policies.
As a result, it is reasonable to expect that Chinese authorities will soon tighten controls on capital flows.
When central banks finally tighten credit, there is a real risk of significant asset-price declines.
How might India tighten its patent system?
If the US compels India to tighten its patent rules substantially, so that they resemble US rules more closely, this outcome could be jeopardized.
Twice in the last ten years, national governments have explicitly given the EU the authority to tighten constraints on their subsidies to failing airline companies.
Thus, as China’s labor-supply constraints tighten, wages should be determined not only by the relationship between labor supply and demand, but also by labor-market institutions.
Thus, the only remaining option, as unpleasant as it may be for some countries, is to tighten budget constraints in the eurozone.
It would either have to tighten sanctions on Russia, potentially tipping Western Europe into recession as Russia responds with counter-sanctions, or accommodate the Kremlin’s expansionist ambitions and jeopardize other countries with Russian-speaking minorities (including the EU’s Baltic members).
The acceleration began in 2013 as labor markets started to tighten.
If the unemployment rate is still very high when product markets begin to tighten, the US Congress will want the Fed to allow more rapid growth in order to bring it down, despite the resulting risk to inflation.
But the explanation that we developed so long ago still fits well enough to encourage the belief that we will not see a crash in the bond market unless central banks tighten monetary policy very sharply (by hiking short-term interest rates) or there is a major spike in inflation.
The optimistic scenario is that private-sector job creation and rapid population aging will cause the labor market to tighten, which will make employment protection a less pressing concern – and make reform more politically palatable.
More important, Padoan has started to implement fiscal stimulus by cutting taxes and maintaining public spending plans, in defiance of German and EU Commission demands to tighten his budget.
If the government tries to cut its deficit, households and firms will have to tighten their purse strings, resulting in less total spending.
Indeed, the scale of capital outflows could be so large that long-term capital will remain cheap even after the world’s major central banks tighten monetary policy.
The fifth option is to tighten fiscal policy and reduce budget deficits with the aim of lowering the high interest rates that drive the inflows.
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