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Just before the EU finally tightened its sanctions at the end of July, Marietje Schaake, a Dutch MEP, observed that almost every European country had “voluntarily handed over power to Mr. Putin, allowing him to play countries against each other.”
Traditionally, its governments have pursued expansionary policies during economic booms and tightened their belts in downturns.
Though the sanctions are not backed by China, they are already having a powerful effect, and the expectation that they will be tightened further is a huge concern for investors and the Russian government.
Even when the AIDS crisis was ravaging Sub-Saharan Africa in the early 2000s, global patent rules were not just maintained, but actually tightened further, until pressure from civil society finally forced the expansion of access to affordable treatment.
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.
Having been burned by the crisis, banks have tightened their lending standards, and will now be subject to more stringent capital and liquidity requirements.
After the peak, lenders tightened their standards.
Ultimately, one must always ask why lending standards were loosened and then tightened.
Hu’s government has also tightened controls over the media.
The problem in the eurozone from 2007 on was that some of Europe’s largest banks had borrowed heavily in dollars and, when credit conditions tightened, could not easily obtain the dollars needed to continue funding their operations.
In fact, it was not countries experiencing the worst economic downturns and the highest unemployment rates that raised tariffs and tightened quotas most dramatically in the 1930’s.
In the 1930’s, the countries that raised their tariffs and tightened their quotas the most were those with the least ability to manage their exchange rates – namely, countries that remained on the gold standard.
Economic sanctions may seem like a simple and inexpensive way to register disapproval for foreign hacking; in Russia’s case, existing sanctions against its largest banks and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest associates could be tightened.
Another feature of the economic environment that could undermine revenues is the sanctions that the United States and Europe have imposed on Russia – sanctions that could be tightened if hostilities escalate.
But “US efforts to get China to shed these objectives sound hypocritical when the United States seems to be opting for excess stimulus itself....[I]f the People’s Bank and the Fed tightened in coordination with most central banks, domestic [Chinese] concerns about competitive depreciation would be muted...”China’s policy of export subsidies through currency manipulation was always bound to become unsustainable in the long run because it was bound to generate substantial domestic inflation.
It is thanks to the spike in the CDS market that the Greek government tightened its budget and improved its fiscal position.
But even that was not sufficient for Britain’s leaders, who tightened the law further in 1898, making it even harsher than the sedition law in England.
Since 1995, there were 26 reforms of migration policies in the EU-15: two-thirds tightened regulations by increasing procedural obstacles faced by visa applicants, reducing the duration of work permits, or making family reunification more difficult.
Finland tightened its immigration regulations in 2004, following closely the restrictive stance taken by Denmark in 2002.
And the Bank of England announced on February 7 that UK rates could “be tightened somewhat earlier and by a somewhat greater extent” than had previously been forecast.
They tightened margin requirements in January, and again in April, when they also facilitated short-selling by expanding the number of eligible stocks.
Nine thousand new Israeli settlement housing units have been announced in Palestine, the number of roadblocks within the West bank has increased, and the stranglehold on Gaza has been tightened.
What remains of the effort to prevent a repeat of the crisis are tightened EU controls on national budgets and, regarding the treaty change to be considered, the continuation of the rescue package (which previously was due to expire in 2013), probably under a different name.
One by one, the Central Banks raised interest rates and tightened credit policies to try to slow the loss of gold reserves.
The labor market has tightened, with unemployment standing at 3.5% and the job-to-applicant ratio above parity.
Many of them thus tightened monetary policy in 2011, with consequences for growth in 2012 that have carried over into this year.
But the more that Hamas and others attacked Israelis, the more the Israelis tightened the siege on Gaza.
Nevertheless, the EGF’s rules need to be tightened, lest the scheme comes to be regarded as a political gimmick.
Laid-off construction workers tightened their belts, as did homeowners.
The European Union, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan all have prominent roles in the global supply chain for semiconductors, and some have already tightened security on the flow of semiconductor IP to China and on the acquisition of semiconductor companies by Chinese investors.The PCAST report recommends that the US adopt similar tactics, calibrating export controls and inward investment limits according to China’s behavior.
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