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The combination of tighter credit conditions in the advanced economies and dimmer economic prospects in low-income countries is hitting investment flows.
That is a lower inflation rate than even the Bundesbank achieved during its celebrated pre-euro history, and it is a tighter target than virtually all other central banks pursue.
Global investors have become more risk-averse in response to expectations of tighter monetary conditions in the United States and Europe, as well as concerns about China’s slowing growth and its negative effects on global demand and commodity prices.
The Changing Geopolitics of EnergyTOKYO – In 2008, when the United States’ National Intelligence Council (NIC) published its volume Global Trends 2025, a key prediction was tighter energy competition.
To be sure, eurozone member states also needed the courage to respond to the crisis of confidence confronting the common currency with concerted action for tighter control of national budgets and improved cooperation.
Increased censorship and intimidation of foreign journalists, together with the imprisonment of dissidents and tighter restrictions on dissent, are an effort to ensure that economic disruption does not give rise to political rebellion.
One reason why some want a tighter group is that the G-20 struggles to achieve consensus.
Rising trade protectionism, tighter immigration policies, and a lack of action on climate change by the world’s biggest economic players – particularly the US – thus pose serious threats to development, which a little extra money for the World Bank cannot offset.
But Mexico withdrew the stimulus promptly as its economy recovered, and has pursued a tighter fiscal policy than Brazil in the years since.
In addition to tighter credit, falling home prices and high unemployment will continue to put a crimp on US consumer spending.
Indeed, tighter liquidity conditions and increased volatility in financial markets are the byproduct of the reversal in the long cycle of foreign purchases.
If a shock is temporary, central banks should not react to it; they should normalize monetary policy, because eventually the shock will wear off naturally and, with tighter product and labor markets, inflation will rise.
The measures include tighter limits on home purchases by non-locals in cities with excessive price gains, a reinforced 20% capital-gains tax, mandatory 70% down payments, and a 30% benchmark interest-rate premium for second mortgages.
Second, Germany insists that any slowdown should be met with greater discipline and tighter austerity, not countercyclical policies.
The importance of these structures is that they insulate the central bank’s monetary-policy independence from corruption by the tighter accountability requirements that inevitably come with banking supervision.
One of two things will happen: either tighter containment of Iran through sanctions on oil exports will produce positive results and weaken Iran, or containment will fail, leading the US inexorably toward a new war in the Middle East.
If the US wants to place size limits and tighter capital requirements on banks, it should be free to do so.
Casualties have increased during the past few years as the occupying forces imposed tighter controls.
And the Kremlin’s hold on Belarus would be even tighter should Yamal close down.
There are a time and place for tighter budgets and higher interest rates, especially when monetization of large government budget deficits fuels inflation.
Nevertheless, much tighter constraints, with serious and enforceable penalties, must be placed on permissible budget positions and their transparency if the euro is to survive.
Moreover, slowing economic growth, tighter prudential regulation, and increased liability have made banks much more risk-averse, driving them to demand a significantly higher risk premium from borrowers, who must now not only provide collateral, but also find third parties to guarantee the loans.
This raises concerns among public opinion that migrants rejected by some countries could flood those that do not impose tighter restrictions.
The current trend implies deteriorating conditions for their teachers as well, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, as academics face tighter restrictions on scholarly exchanges with the West.
Sooner or later, however, developed economies will revert to tighter monetary policy, which will make developing-country bonds less attractive.
Indeed, the need to compensate bondholders for risks could provide market discipline: when financial firms operate in ways that can be expected to produce increased risks down the road, they should expect to “pay” with, say, higher interest rates or tighter conditions.
But responding with tighter regulation at the federal level seems premature, even for these specific activities – let alone for the broader tech sector.
Europe needs structural reforms and tighter fiscal management, not inflation.
Brazil needs a new growth model, based on four key elements: tighter fiscal policy, looser monetary policy, a reduced role for state-owned banks in credit provision, and measures to lower Brazil’s astronomical private lending costs.
So pressure outside the US and Britain to put the hedge fund industry on a tighter regulatory leash is hardly surprising.
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