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Their manifesto was A Project for the New American Century, their mouthpiece the Weekly Standard magazine, edited by Bill Kristol . Among the signatories of PNAC were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld the present Defence Secretary, as well as Wolfowitz and Lewis Libby, chief of staff for Cheney when the latter became Vice-President. PNAC called for higher defence spending, the promotion of democracy and freedom around the world, and the creation of a world order «friendly to our security, prosperity and values». George W Bush’s victory in 2000 gave them power; 9/11 and the «war on terror» gave them their cause. It is not the same as the Fed or the Bank of Japan buying up larger quantities of US or Japanese debt.

• The contributors to this roundtable correctly note that my book was simultaneously a book of its time and an effort to draw on and contribute to theories about the relationship between the potential for the use of force on the one hand and patterns of international politics on the other.
• Thus, assuming a gradual rise in UST yields and continuing portfolio inflows into EM debt, our baseline view assumes high yield sovereign credit remains attractive and is set to compress versus investment grade thanks to a higher spread buffer (Z+524bp or 6.3%).
• Rabin, however, was not discouraged and continued his efforts to build support for the plan.
• The term used to describe the activities the fund manager undertakes to limit the risk of a loss in a fund.
• They therefore wish to see the EU budget expand further with more borrowing and argue that the public debt-purchase programmes should continue to keep their interest rates closer to German rates.
• Where the fund manager uses their expertise to pick investments to achieve the fund’s objectives rather than copy the investments in a market index.

But recall as well, summer 2013 proved barely a blip in the long-term equity bull-market and there is no reason to think that any bond tantrum-induced equity correction this summer would be more than that, just a correction. A taper need not result in an outsized tantrum if it is seen as the Fed taking action to reduce the inflation risk. And if the Fed chooses to “twist” the QE by reducing the size done while risk-weight-lengthening the maturity of purchases, the impact of tapering could be considerably lessened.

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Many EM countries have also improved their fundamental positions compared to 2013. With the EM currencies looking more sound this should provide some cushion to local bond markets. ECB activity in CSPP has and will continue to be substantial, keeping spreads supported and primary markets open for refinancing. Back in 2018, CSPP purchases were falling off the edge while reinvestment levels were minimal.

In 2013, the size of that tantrum was 150bp, as the 10yr rose from 1.5% to 3% over the course of 5 months. Turning to the current US 10yr yield — the move from the low at 50bp to just under 1% was mostly a recovery from extremes. The subsequent break above 1% was an acknowledgement of reflation, and now we are at above 1.25%. Our end-year target is 1.75%, and along the way, there could well be a tantrum-style push. The faster this happens, the worse is the mood of the bond market and the more intense is the tantrum; the so-called taper tantrum. Remember, as the Fed tapers, policy is still exceptionally easy, as the Fed is still buying billions of dollars of bonds per month, just less than the previous month, and less again in subsequent months.

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U.S. Dollar exchange rates were swept lower in across-the-board declines on Thursday after the Federal Reserve signalled a slower pace toward a normalisation of its monetary policy and as a recovery in Asian financial markets helped to support international risk appetite. So does this mean the nuclear revolution was a myth, or at least was greatly overstated? When it came to their international behavior, both Soviet and American leaders acted on the premise that all-out war would be an unimaginable disaster. As far as the conduct of international politics is concerned, this was crucial. As President Ronald Reagan and First Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev said at their initial meeting at Geneva in 1985, “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”110 No leaders could have said this in the pre-nuclear era.

On the other, it must bound by a mandate establishing the ultimate goals of monetary policy, which cannot be set but politically due to their inherently normative nature. US$-denominated EM sovereign credit has become sensitive to interest rate swings, with modified duration having risen to 8.9 years (up from 7.9 years in end-2019). Valuations are particularly stretched for investment-grade sovereigns (Z+109bp or a 2.34% yield based on Bloomberg Barclays Indices). Thus, assuming a gradual rise in UST yields and continuing portfolio inflows into EM debt, our baseline view assumes high yield sovereign credit remains attractive and is set to compress versus investment grade thanks to a higher spread buffer (Z+524bp or 6.3%). While EM LCY debt levels are mostly higher than pre-2013, the fact that the sharp rise in debt in 2020 was a global trend should give EM countries some leeway.

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Second, and more central to his book, Jervis is not entirely clear on whether MAD is the necessary outcome of nuclear competition between superpowers and, related, how robust MAD is once it is achieved. The flavor of Meaning is that MAD is the expected outcome of superpower competition and is immutable. Nevertheless, Jervis is more cautious on this point than he might initially appear. For example, he argues that a “defensive shield that could protect society against nuclear attack … is impossible in this century if not forever.”42 The difference between a couple of decades and forever, however, is potentially quite significant. If the latter, the nuclear revolution theory would predict, at most, mild nuclear competition. Competition is not precluded though, if the impossibility of effective strategic defense depends on the state acting to offset an adversary’s strategic defenses.

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The interest received from a bond, which is usually expressed annually as a percentage based on the investment’s cost, its current market value or its face value. An asset that notionally carries no risk of non-payment by the borrower such as a high-quality fixed income security issued by a government or cash. When central banks raise interest rates or sell securities on the open market to decrease the amount of money in circulation. When central banks lower interest rates or buy securities on the open market to increase the amount of money in circulation.

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Nothing in this document is intended to be, or should be construed as, regulated advice. Reliance should not be placed on the information contained within this document when taking individual investment or strategic decisions. Whilst the short-term performance of the IPOs listed above was very strong, we note over the next 2 years, on average they ended up being 68% lower than the IPO price and some 98% lower than the peak value. Indeed, only one, Booking Holdings, has had an enviable existence on the equity market, albeit, it languished between 2001 and 2009 at below IPO price levels.

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Third, negotiations between Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians regarding the peace arrangements between the three partners. As to the latter phase, Rabin explained that Israel could not accomplish peace on its Eastern front without Jordan, but that it could also not accomplish peace solely with Jordan. Therefore, there is a need for the participation of all three parties in those discussions, in which Jordan and the Palestinians would be two equal partners. In the next phase, Rabin added, the elected Palestinians would enter into negotiations with Israel over creating ‘expanded’ autonomy or self-rule for the Palestinians for an interim period.