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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.
In any viable long term arrangement, the level of benefits relative to wages should be reduced, retirement ages should be raised to international norms, and eligibility for special pensions (disability ones in particular) should be tightened to cover only the truly in need.
When developed-country monetary policies are eventually tightened, some of the capital is likely to depart.
Inflation follows, so policy is tightened and growth slows.
But why has the PBC tightened monetary policy so much?
Domestically, it tightened funding conditions and, at the same time, provided liquidity to domestic banks, along with regulatory forbearance.
Yet according to Human Rights Watch, “Thailand’s military junta tightened its grip on power and severely repressed fundamental rights” last year.
As a result, credit is tightened, balance sheets deteriorate (especially if companies or banks have borrowed in a foreign currency), investment contracts, and growth takes another hit.
For five months, as the ECB’s noose tightened, we resisted German and IMF demands for further austerity.
If, as I suspect, the Trump administration turns to tightened sanctions (including secondary boycotts) and dialogue, leaders in Seoul will be able to adjust accordingly.
Despite having largely respected the agreement during the first few years after the handover – though it rather quickly started dismantling the arrangements for ensuring democratic accountability – China’s grip on Hong Kong has tightened considerably.
India also tightened the diplomatic screws on its recalcitrant neighbor, persuading other members of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation (SAARC) to call off a planned summit in Islamabad as punishment for Pakistan’s bad behavior.
Following Kim’s response, sanctions should be tightened even further, to stop all trade with North Korea, including halting all fuel imports.
Recent attacks on Israeli embassies around the world appear to signal Iran’s reaction to the covert war being waged against it, and to the tightened sanctions, which are aggravating the effects of the regime’s economic mismanagement.
The EU, meanwhile, tightened legislation last year to ban all trade in goods used for torture or capital punishment.
Other emerging countries, like Peru, have tightened domestic prudential regulations with the same aim in mind.
So one question is whether existing sanctions can be extended and tightened; here, China and Russia must determine their priorities.
Yet international institutions, including the IMF, fear the sudden market corrections that naturally arise from changes in inflation or interest-rate expectations, and continue to argue that monetary policy must be tightened very slowly.
He tightened legislation aimed at throttling civil society, pursued lawsuits against protesters, and blocked the activity of Alexei Navalny, a promising opposition politician.
In June 2013, when the PBOC unexpectedly tightened monetary policy, domestic interbank interest rates shot up to 25%.
First, international policy coordination by the G-20 must be tightened by creating a permanent secretariat to make policy proposals and recommendations concerning macroeconomic and financial developments.
The Shanghai index peaked on June 12, when the China Securities Regulatory Commission tightened margin requirements.
Correa, who has tightened the screws on his country’s press, hardly stands as the flag-bearer for the libertarian tradition of the press that Assange, the poster boy of “stateless” journalism, represents.
In an attempt to rein in M2, which could indicate that the economy is overleveraged, the central bank tightened conditions for commercial bank lending, so that, for any given increase in M2, less credit is extended.
It was only at the end of the 1970’s that the Fed, under its new chairman, Paul Volcker, tightened monetary policy and caused inflation to fall.
Making matters worse, the monetary authorities have tightened the credit supply, in an effort to deleverage the Chinese economy.
In this context – and in view of the robust economic growth recorded in 1999 and 2000, the still-booming stock markets, and the continued accumulation of excess liquidity – the ECB’s Governing Council progressively tightened policy, thereby keeping upward risks to price stability from materializing.
This statement, made in passing, wrongly implied that Japan’s regulations at the time were notably lax, heightening the paranoia about what were already some of the world’s most strictly radionuclide-regulated food supplies (even before restrictions were further tightened).
At the same time, the cap on payroll taxes for upper-income workers could be raised, and distorting tax deductions, like that for mortgage interest, could be tightened for upper-income households.
Today, global liquidity conditions have not tightened as markedly or as rapidly as in the bust phase of previous cycles.
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