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If asked whether you are better off today compared to a year ago, you would answer in the affirmative if your money income (that is, its dollar, pound, euro, or yen value) rose during the previous 12 months.
Perhaps we needed the preoccupation with austerity to teach us the
value
of a balanced growth agenda.
It cannot be denied, however, that the path to acknowledging their existence and
value
can be painful.
Developed countries have already recognized the
value
of strong public-private partnerships in education.
In particular, the temptation for governments to use inflation to reduce the real
value
of public and private debts may become overwhelming.
Even as Russia’s economy collapses – with the ruble having lost more than half of its
value
against the dollar since June, interest rates rising to 17%, and inflation reaching double digits – Putin retains an 85% approval rating.
Research shows that no more than 20% to 30% of Chinese exports to the US reflect
value
added inside China.
While companies may, in theory, recognize the
value
of bringing together talent from a variety of backgrounds, they tend to recruit candidates with a familiar set of skills, experiences, and qualifications.
Against this background, photos of Liu’s smiling face as she arrived at the airport in Helsinki, on her way to Berlin, are a welcome development, highlighting the
value
of protecting the rights of even one person.
Within a few years, the Deutschemark’s
value
had plummeted, leading to hyperinflation and economic stagnation.
As a consequence, the euro is rising not only against the US dollar, but also against Asian currencies, whose central banks intervene in foreign exchange markets to fix their currencies’
value
against the dollar.
Many European banks’ balance sheets are now as contaminated as those of American banks, and no one is sure who is holding – or hiding – the junk, and how to
value
it.
To be sure, term limits have their
value.
The Ifo climate indicator for Germany, based on monthly surveys of 7,000 firms, jumped upwards in the second half of 2005, reaching its highest
value
since the boom year 2000, with businesses’ assessment of the current situation and expectations improving.
Given such low yields in most of the world, investors will be eager to take advantage of the relative
value
opportunity offered by rising US interest rates.
Moreover, the real (inflation-adjusted)
value
of the renminbi is now rising quickly, owing to inflation differentials and Chinese wage growth, particularly in the country’s export sectors.
The
value
of all ODA in 2006 was $126 billion, less than half the
value
of private remittances, even though it includes assistance from OECD and non-OECD countries, as well as from China.
Agriculture, predominantly on a small scale, accounts for about 30% of sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP and at least 40% of export
value.
To be sure, an unexpected slowdown in economic activity or a strong rise in the
value
of the euro could postpone the inevitable rate hike.
But, even if that happens, the experience, data, and knowledge gained will be of immense
value
to the Brotherhood.
Japan’s woes are rooted in real-estate and equity bubbles, which were fueled by monetary expansion aimed at stimulating domestic demand after the 1985 Plaza Accord drove up the yen’s
value
and hurt Japan’s exports.
That is no small matter in a country that places such a high
value
on homogeneity.
Its
value
is arbitrarily determined by the collective psychology of the mass of investors; it goes where, on average, they think it will.
In a modern economy, money has a well-defined real
value
because governments accept it as payment of taxes and issue debts in defined monetary amounts, and because central banks ensure that total monetary creation, by either the state or the private banking system, grows at a pace compatible with relatively low and stable inflation.
In some sense, money is an arbitrary social construct; but its
value
and ability to serve crucial economic functions are rooted in the authority and institutions of the currency-issuing state.
At any time, however, groups of individuals can choose to believe that some commodity – a specific type of seashell, or gold, or tulips – will be a far better store of
value
than money, and that its
value
in money terms is bound to rise.
In theory, the latter could allow Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to be not only an arbitrary store of value, but also an anonymous medium of exchange for large-value transactions, just like suitcases full of high-denomination dollar bills, with no mark identifying the owner, but now in digital form.
By contrast, property booms and busts have historically been the most dangerous, because the total
value
of real estate wealth usually dwarfs equity values, and because real-estate booms are often debt-financed.
On the contrary, for the last two and a half years, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has been intervening in currency markets for the opposite purpose: to prevent the renminbi’s
value
from falling too sharply against the dollar.
Rather than allow the renminbi’s
value
to decline as fast as markets would dictate, the PBOC has stepped in to limit capital outflows and offset depreciation pressure.
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