Value
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With oil prices steadily rising, the
value
of Russian oil production reached a new peak, roughly ten times the 1999 level, in 2008;Russia invaded Georgia the same year.
Though prices collapsed during the Great Recession of 2009, they quickly recovered, with the
value
of Russian output reaching another peak in 2012-2013 – precisely when Russia’s position on the EU-Ukraine association agreement hardened.
The recent price slide – to $50-60 per barrel, halving the
value
of Russia’s oil production – suggests that history is about to repeat itself.
Western sanctions, which seemed to constitute only a pinprick a few months ago, appear to have inflicted serious damage, with the ruble having lost nearly half its
value
against the US dollar last year.
Recast as after calculating the net present
value
of the stream of future benefits, a realistic Doha outcome could increase global income by more than $3000 billion per year, $2500 billion of which would go to the developing world.
First, investors, recognizing that the dollar is overvalued and that they are likely to suffer large losses when it returns to its fundamental value, could start selling their Treasury bonds, corporate bonds, and mortgage-backed securities.
The second factor that could push US interest rates sharply upward is not fear of a decline in the future
value
of the dollar, but the fact of a past decline in its
value.
A 40% fall in the
value
of the dollar – of which half passes through to increased dollar prices of imports – thus implies a 3.2% rise in the overall price level.
But if interest rates don’t rise far enough, the
value
of the dollar will spiral downward and US inflation will spiral upward like in the 1970’s, setting the stage for the type of extremely painful measures imposed by then Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
This is despite all the evidence of the
value
of early access to IMF financing, before a tough situation deteriorates into a crisis.
For another, the social
value
of water – including its central role in many African religions – has long limited governments’ ability to create a viable funding model for water utilities.
The SDR would offer little protection if the dollar and euro lost
value
over time.
Increased fear of competition from emerging countries is also a natural consequence of the collapse of the speculative bubble in equities in 2000; stock markets in some countries fell to less than half their peak
value.
It is far easier to build consensus around efforts, say, to add the renminbi to the basket of currencies that determines the
value
of the IMF’s reserve asset, the Special Drawing Right – a move that, while appropriate, would do little for medium-term growth.
But even if the US keeps its reserve-currency franchise, its
value
could be deeply compromised.
They were also drawn into a costly and unwinnable arms race with the United States, and fell victim to imperial overreach, throwing money and resources at regimes with little strategic
value
and long track records of chronic economic mismanagement.
As these simulations become more realistic, their training
value
will increase.
Similar stories can be told of other industries, even those that do not require natural resources but rely on global
value
chains instead.
This would drive up the
value
of those assets, increasing household wealth and therefore consumer spending.
Instead, a major if unspoken purpose of the ECB’s low-interest-rate policy has been to stimulate net exports by depressing the
value
of the euro.
The ECB succeeded in this, with the euro’s
value
falling by some 25% – from $1.40 in the summer of 2014 to $1.06 by the fall of 2015.
I have been an advocate of reducing the
value
of the euro for several years, so I think this strategy was a good one.
But, although the fall in the
value
of the euro has stimulated the eurozone’s net exports, the impact on its members’ exports and GDP has been quite limited.
The ECB’s quantitative easing policy can probably achieve higher inflation only through the increase in import prices resulting from a decline in the
value
of the euro.
This is a situation where earnings from oil exports drive up the
value
of the currency, reducing the competitiveness of other domestically produced products.
First elections, in particular, are almost inevitably of limited
value
as foundations of democracy, because they take place in an emotionally charged atmosphere and largely without substantive debate.
Instead, the changes in taxes on imports and exports would lead to a rise in the
value
of the dollar that offsets the direct impact of the border tax changes.
Despite the
value
that smaller companies bring to the region’s customers and economies, first-time business owners too often are on their own.
Largely independent of education or family, those Americans who did
value
stability and security could grasp it in the form of jobs with “a future.”
A new customs component to a highway project between Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City helped increase the total
value
of trade through the Moc Bai-Bavet border by 40% over three years.
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