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Yet another rescue plan for the European Monetary Union (EMU) is making its way through central Europe, but no one is … profligate spending by some nations but rather the setup of the EMU itself. We then turn to US problems, assessing the …
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Imbalances ; Sectoral Balances Approach ; Modern Money Theory ; Debt Cancellation ; Global Financial Crisis ; Euro Crisis ; EMU …
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The argument put forward in this paper is twofold: first, that the financial crisis of 2007/08 was made global by the U.S. current account deficit. This is because the outflow of dollars from the United States was invested in U.S. capital markets, causing inflation in asset markets and leading...
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One of the main contributions of Modern Money Theory (MMT) has been to explain why monetarily sovereign governments have a very flexible policy space that is unencumbered by hard financial constraints. Through a detailed analysis of the institutions and practices surrounding the fiscal and...
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The Guyana government, from 2015 to 2021, accumulated a large overdraft on its central bank account. It owed this overdraft to a binding debt ceiling limit and fractious political environment that prevented an increase in the ceiling, allowing for the auctioning of Treasury bills to create the...
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A technical analysis shows that the doomsayers who support the euro at all costs and those who naively theorize that a … single currency is the root of all evil are both wrong. A euro exit could be a way of getting back to growth, but at the same … the euro; or, in the case of a euro exit, on the quality of the economic policies that are put in place once the country …
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originated from the financial convergence that followed adoption of the euro. …
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default. It is argued that the current crisis in Europe illustrates why the euro is not a real contender for hegemony in the … near future. -- Dollar ; Euro ; International Currency …
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The euro crisis remains unresolved even as financial markets may seem calm for now. The current euro regime is … the euro are assessed and found lacking. A "Euro Treasury" scheme operating on a strict rule and specifically designed not … to be a transfer union is proposed here as a condition sine qua non for healing the euro's potentially fatal birth …
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depressed euro that boosted German extra-area exports. But the crisis that started in Euroland's so-called periphery has … meanwhile reached the core. With pro-euro sentiments dwindling fast across the European Union (EU), the future of the euro … turn out to be a double-edged sword. In case of a euro breakup, swift appreciation of the new deutschmark would abruptly …
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