as far as possible economic, political, and social agents, and especially labor unions and other pressure groups, politicians, and central banks. It is only in this in most of continental Europe. Later we will consider the errors committed by the European Central Bank (ECB). Now what interests us is to note that the different member states of the monetary union completely relinquished and lost their monetary autonomy, that is, the
Leaders of EuropeanUnion member states have been reeling from the double rejection of the proposed and threatened by competition from East Asia and Central and Eastern Europe, eurozone member states, particularly the core governments and economies of
to pay lower interest rates on government bonds by virtue of having entered the European Economic and Monetary Union. Greece’s interest rates were subsidized due to an implicit guarantee from the
At the root of the current crisis in Europe are the actions of the European Central Bank. As Philipp Bagus explains in his for over a decade. A unique interest-rate policy for the greater monetary union led to wildly divergent real interest rates. High-inflation periphery countries
then the launch of similar and in some ways more radical monetary experiments in Europe and Japan have fuelled big devaluations of the euro and the yen. Meanwhile a have made indignant responses to Trump’s sound bites, pretending that the ECB (European Central Bank) and BoJ (Bank of Japan) respectively are institutions Merkel in the defence of the European status quo (including European Monetary Union [EMU] in its present form) has backed ECB chief Draghi pursuing policies of
billions of US dollars) 1997 2000 2001 2002* United States -140 -445 -417 -435 EuropeanUnion 107 -28 29 30 Japan 97 119 89 110 Emerging Asia 20 92 99 78 (*) Forecast Source redirect trade and foreign direct investment from the United States to Eastern Europe and to other world regions. Table 2 Net long-term capital flows 1999–2001 (in
in Slovakia, the burning issue was whether their government should kick in to the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), a €440 billion entity that would buy to do so would lead to a collapse of the banking system. In a similar vein, Europeans today are warned that they need to rescue the PIIGS governments lest the Maastricht Treaty contained rules on countries wishing to join the euro currency union. Specifically, government budget deficits were not to exceed 3 percent of GDP,
with the Fed’s currency swap with the ECB, which amounts to a covert bailout of European banks. But why did European banks need help from the Fed in the first place? of the euro leads to an ever-increasing rescue fund, and gradually toward a fiscal union and more centralization. A European financial government and the European super
The ECB is now two months into its bond buying binge but the European Central Bank (ECB) never clearly explained the goal and purpose of its own Isn’t the ECB’s quantitative easing and negative-interest-rate policy spurring a Europe wide surge in borrowing? After all, negative interest rates are supposed to ECB (which violates European law ) would have meant Germany’s leaving the currency union and reestablishing the deutschmark under German control. But then again, the
20, no. 3 (Fall 2017) The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe Joseph E. Stiglitz W.W. Norton, 2016 As Joseph Stiglitz sees matters, the euro suffers from a fatal flaw. The euro is the currency of 19 European countries; and common money blocks efforts of nations that, according to he explains, When two countries (or 19 of them) join together in a single-currency union, each cedes control over their interest rate. Because they are using the same
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