This essay was originally published in a Strategic Studies Institute journal, Parameters, Winter 2013-14.
Imagine crusade waged in financial cyberspace: electronic, remote, fought in hypervelocity with millions of engagements per second, and with nations forced to erect surplus systems, sacrificing billions in mercantile potency for presence capacity. Financial crusade strikes can besiege critical industries; delink countries from a tellurian marketplace; pennyless emperor economies in a space of a few days, and means mass exoduses, starvation, riots, and regime change.
Financial crusade can support US routine objectives by aggressive regime elites, collapsing trade, removal unfamiliar banking reserves, dwindling mercantile production, spiking inflation, pushing unemployment, augmenting amicable and labor disturbance and accelerating race migration. Financial crusade can support a warfighter by wanton an enemy’s capability to furnish and discharge fight materials, comment training, operations, or proxies. Financial crusade can amplify and accelerate a repairs inflicted by mercantile warfare. Financial crusade spoofing operations can support comprehension collection by isolating and mapping predicament response patterns of particular adversaries, organizations, nations, and regime elites.
The aim of financial crusade is, utterly literally, to lame opponents by shortening their ability to financial prolongation or distribution, finish transactions, or control a consequences of a transaction failure. If precisely employed, financial crusade can revoke a targeted society’s will and congruity by forcing on it, in sheer terms, a daily prerequisite to select between “guns” or “butter.” This quandary highlights and magnifies a real, immediate, and personal consequences of apparatus allocation. Deployed within an inland society’s domestic framework, financial crusade can lower a sequence between opposition constituencies, shortening governmental congruity and inciting polite unrest.
Financial crusade is not a new concept. While many particular routine actions had financial aspects, maybe a initial pristine financial crusade debate in United States story occurred in a Eisenhower administration. It was stirred by a Soviet allege and termination of a Hungary Revolution on 4 Nov 1956 and sparked by a seizure of a Suez waterway by NATO allies, Britain and France, in Operation Musketeer on 5 November.[1] President Dwight Eisenhower dynamic he could not effectively conflict Soviet troops involvement in Hungary, while permitting European troops involvement in Egypt.[2] Diplomacy had not assured a British or a French to withdraw.[3] The United States was wavering to meddle with troops force opposite NATO allies. As an alternative, Eisenhower employed financial warfare. With usually 3 descent strikes, a United States achieved a evident routine aims of forcing Britain and afterwards France to repel from a Suez Canal. The 3 financial crusade strikes were: (1) restraint a International Monetary Fund (IMF) from providing Britain with $561 million in standby credit; (2) restraint a US Export-Import Bank from fluctuating $600 million in credit to Britain; and (3) melancholy to dump America’s land of pound-sterling holds unless Great Britain withdrew from a Suez.[4] The credit besiege froze Britain’s ability to steal and forced it behind onto a disastrous income flow, effectively bankrupting it. The pound-sterling hazard significantly lifted a viewed risk of traffic in British currency. That threat, if executed, would have directly influenced British ability to trade internationally.
By 1956, Britain was grossly overleveraged and contingent on serve ubiquitous borrowing to say a customary of living. The United States owned $3.75 billion in British debt as a outcome of a Anglo-American Loan Agreement of 1945, while a whole unfamiliar banking haven of Britain in Oct 1956 was homogeneous to $2.2 billion.[5] To financial a WW II efforts, Britain had borrowed extensively from Commonwealth members and by 1945 due roughly £14 billion, customarily to India, Argentina, and Egypt. Unable to repay in full, Britain froze a principal balances in these accounts.
The sell-off of US-held pound-sterling bonds, if executed, would have been catastrophic. The ensuing boost of British banking in dissemination would have deflated a value of a pound-sterling. This deflation would, in turn, have compulsory Britain to empty a unfamiliar banking pot to buy pound-sterling holds to say a currency’s relation opposite a US dollar. If it pennyless parity, and authorised a devaluation of a currency, Britain would not have a purchasing appetite or a unfamiliar pot to cover a food and appetite imports. Additionally, Commonwealth comment holders would substantially have funded serve credit until all before debts were settled. Without credit, Britain would have faced a enlarged liquidity predicament and insolvency.
In his response to a Suez Crisis, Eisenhower waged a complicated financial crusade campaign. Without credit-fueled prerequisite spending, Britain could not import indispensable oil and food. It would also have broken Britain’s trade and a ability to form material by trade surpluses, and fall a ability to import products during a prerequisite to say a customary of living. These financial strikes operated over US authorised office and where spontaneous US change had failed. Eisenhower’s actions were outward compulsory or strange war. Financial crusade so supplanted normal crusade in tackling a British and French seizure of a Suez Canal.
This Suez Crisis instance illustrates a significance of bargain a descent capabilities and defensive necessities of financial warfare. The United States successfully waged financial crusade opposite a third many absolute republic on a world during that time; it is expected a United
States will be targeted by financial crusade in a future.
What is Financial Warfare?
Historically, financial piracy has been during best a auxiliary outcome of mercantile warfare. That has changed. With a presentation of integrated tellurian financial markets, financial crusade has spin a viable, distinct, and eccentric means of raised power. As Yale Professor Paul Bracken explained: “The mercantile complement deals with a tough and soothing outputs of a economy–that is, products and services. The financial complement deals with income and credit.”[6] Accordingly, mercantile crusade is unerring to attacks on a enemy’s ability to furnish and discharge products and services; financial crusade is cramped to attacks on a credit and financial foundations that underlie prolongation and distribution. Financial crusade is a manly means of appetite projection since precluding a nation’s ability to cost and to exchange; to form material and control risk; causes prolongation and placement to cease. Without prolongation and distribution, a economy grinds to a hindrance and a counter is dis-armed. Financial crusade so uses income and credit to conflict (defend) an competition (or a friend).
In practice, financial crusade identifies systemic areas of opacity, group and asymmetry in information, risk and reward; focuses on those areas with a high family grade of centralization and leverage; and determines a ranges of arrangement and diversification that offer a biggest ionization to contamination and cascade failure.[7] Offensive financial crusade seeks to operative outcomes from altering counter capabilities to formulating “Black Swans,” that are large-scale events of large effect that start distant from a means of statistical distributions (fat-tailed events) and accordingly are indeterminate and irregular.[8] Defensive financial crusade seeks to decentralize; de-lever; revoke opacity, asymmetry, and skewness; or erect additional capacity, strength, and layers of excess to disastrous outcomes. The vigilant of financial crusade is to extend a critical and tactical rendezvous of a rivalry from a kinetic conflict space to a financial marketplace. It engages an opponent’s financial structure, or operations, by regulating a 3 principal functions of finance: material formation, material liquidity, and risk-management:
•Capital arrangement is a accumulation of genuine material surpluses by open and private resources and borrowings to emanate or enhance destiny mercantile activity.
•Capital liquidity is a transaction of material resources during volume, fast but detriment of value, between buyers and sellers and among a forms, e.g., line to currencies, dollars to yen, holds to bonds, etc.
•Risk supervision is a routine of optimizing bearing to financial volatility.[9]
Financial crusade engagements start during both a tactical and critical levels. Tactical wins, losses, and draws contingency be used coherently to allege strategy. In financial warfare, there is an combined dimension best articulated by a judgment of micro and macro. A micro financial rendezvous is a unaccompanied use of one organic avenue, material liquid-ity, material formation, or risk management, to impact a singular transaction. Macro financial engagements typically start during complement arrangement points between an counter and a global, bilateral, or multilateral markets. For example, terminating Protection and Indemnity (PI) word for one boat precludes a use for hauling third celebration load internationally. This is a micro risk-management engagement. Removing an whole country’s PI word uses a macro risk-management rendezvous to close down a nation’s international, blurb nautical load industry. The disproportion lies in either a exploitation of vulnerabilities is particular or systemic, and either a exploitation occurs within a complement or during a interface between systems.
If tellurian financial is an inevitable member of tellurian trade, afterwards a corollary—global financial warfare—is equally inescapable. Every nation concerned in a tellurian markets has, by necessity, harmonized in some grade during both a micro and macro levels with tellurian financial standards and structures. These harmonized ubiquitous standards are critical to a proficient and fit functioning of tellurian trade, which, in turn, is essential to many inhabitant economies. The flipside of that silver is that these harmonized standards offer avenues of proceed to salary financial war.
Waging Financial War
The new and huge expansion of tellurian financial markets illustrates a strech of quite financial actions. For example, a normal daily turnover in a unfamiliar banking sell markets (Forex) is over $4 trillion.[10] As such, a Forex daily turnover is larger than a annual domestic product of 215 of a world’s 220 countries.[11] Financial warfare’s capabilities and impact will usually boost as tellurian financial markets grow. With a high-speed, formidable interconnectivity, and a volume of material relocating daily, crusade in a financial marketplace possesses a capability to work alone from and during speeds distant over economic, conventional, or strange warfare.
The United States possesses a dissimilar and measureless ability for financial warfare. As a provider and guarantor of a world’s haven currency, a United States occupies a singular position in tellurian financial markets. The strech of US banking is global. The Federal Reserve estimated that 60 percent of sum US banking in circulation, roughly $450 billion, is hold outward a United States.[12] Accordingly, a United States is a preeminent marketplace for lifting as good as investing capital. By 2010, unfamiliar borrowers had $2.1 trillion in debt superb from US sources.[13] In a generation 2003 to 2007, 55 percent of all rarely rated US securities, treasuries, agencies, and AAA-rated private debt issued, $4.5 trillion, were purchased by unfamiliar entities.[14]
From a routine perspective, financial crusade creates clarity since it creates routine options accessible by financial that were formerly convenient usually by armed force; for example, these options could embody finale effective and fit Saudi financial support to inter-national jihad; shortening Iranian defensive capability; and constraining Chinese mercantile invasion into Africa.
For uniformed troops leaders, credentials of a battlespace now includes informational, cyber, economic, and financial actions. War skeleton can and should surrogate financial-based risk for manpower-based risk when some-more fit or effective. For example, uniformed troops leaders might cruise a use of structured analytics like Critical Factors Analysis (CFA) to brand a centers of an adversary’s defensive capabilities and aim them as good as ancillary components of a adversary’s military-industrial bottom with financial strikes before to air-strikes. The warfighter now has a choice either to bankrupt, bomb, or both. Lastly, commanders in Unconventional Warfare (UW) and Stability Operations (SO) swing huge financial poke within their area of operations. They contingency use financial crusade to erode counter capacity, build ability of counter competitors, and safeguard that advantages of organisation with a United States usually upsurge to inland parties who actively share risk, allied in energy and duration, with a United States. To slight a use of some US capabilities in execution of routine is to overuse, rest on, and risk other capabilities.
If a vigilant of financial crusade is to extend a battlespace into a financial marketplace, afterwards a operational doubt becomes how to do it? The answer is by macro and micro engagements or strikes opposite a 3 principal areas of financial primarily targeting a interface
between a counter and a tellurian marketplace.
Capital Formation Strikes
Inflating or deflating an adversary’s currency, or any middle used to store genuine material surpluses, is one approach to control a material arrangement strike. A before requirement for successfully aggressive an adversary’s material arrangement capability is to map how he moves material and where he aggregates it. This mapping provides, in both extended demeanour and during a accurate point, a adversary’s stream financial ability for appropriation military, paramilitary, or substitute operations, as good as providing poignant comprehension on their war-sustainment capability. Feints and spoofing operations can yield discernment on how and where an counter forms material routinely and underneath duress, as good as uncovering intensity targets.
Capital arrangement strikes ring a physical, cyber, and informational. Physical strikes can operation from ubiquitous to resourceful attacks opposite a telecommunications infrastructure that promote financial information flow. For example, interdicting a programmed teller appurtenance (ATM) communications complement could obviate interbranch and interbank sell material formation. Capital arrangement strikes can aim and delegitimize a investment sponsor, a investment, or those channels used to evaluate, price, transact, and possess it. Strikes destined opposite a channel itself can be used to deter, retard, or obviate a use of that channel by a investment or a sponsor.
Capital Liquidity Strikes
Capital marketplace liquidity, for example, is systematic assembly of material sell that are a particular sell of material and financial resources between buyers and sellers during volume, rapidly, but detriment of value, and among a forms, e.g., commodities, currencies, equity, debt, etc. Deconstructing or reversing a ancestral arc of material marketplace liquidity’s ceiling swell is a plans for evenly waging financial crusade utilizing material liquidity strikes. The vigilant of material marketplace liquidity strikes, in aggregate, is to aim markets and interrupt their drivers of ceiling efficiencies, speed, volume, and scale, to emanate a downward turn of inefficiencies pushing markets to a quantifiable routine design or collapse. The subdivision between macro and micro in material liquidity strikes mirrors that of material formation. Macro material liquidity strikes aim markets. Micro material liquidity strikes aim particular transactions.
Micro material liquidity strikes destined during a specific transaction can include: precluding a customer from assembly a seller; interfering with or spoofing that transaction’s price; preventing pretension transfer; breaching legitimate marketplace behaviors, or introducing uncalled-for regulatory mandate into a specific transaction. Macro material liquidity strikes can aim marketplace capabilities such as transaction speed. Transaction speed is singular by a speed during that information flows by marketplace channels. Reduce channel speed and transaction speed will accordingly reduce. Reduce transaction speed and marketplace throughput will reduce. Likewise, marketplace consistency, clarity and unity can be targeted by dissimilar strikes shortening channel speeds usually for specific buyers. When a bid ask spreads are small, dissimilar channel speed reductions might obviate specified buyers and sellers from transacting within a timeframe accessible to other marketplace participants. The targeted customer loses a transaction to other, faster buyers. Eventually, targeted buyers exit, eroding trust in a market’s fairness. Trust underlies each market. Erode trust and participants will exit. The rival margins between markets are typically thin. Affect those margins and disadvantaged participants will exit to find other, some-more consistent, transparent, and uniform markets. Additionally, spoofing marketplace participants or deliberately implanting misinformation can conflict marketplace transparency, consistency, and a uniform freeing of data.
Risk Management Strikes
Risk supervision is a routine of optimizing bearing to financial volatility.[15] Providers or facilitators of risk supervision embody word companies, review and accounting firms, rating agencies and credit bureaus, and underwriters of collateral, warranties, and hedges. Removal or rebate of an adversary’s financial risk supervision activities can constrain a ability to plan appetite during a granular turn (micro) or comprehensively during a systemic turn (macro). Eroding or interdicting specific financial risk supervision mechanisms among adversaries and their blurb enablers can check or obviate their ability to furnish and discharge fight materials, plan appetite internationally, support unfamiliar operations or agreeably ready their battlespace by blurb means.
For example, Iran’s wanton oil sales accounts for 80 percent of Iran’s tough banking pot and for 50 percent of a inhabitant budget.[16] , Iran’s continued ability to boat oil, a critical commodity, to Asia gives it poignant mercantile and tactful precedence as good as a financial means to support troops operations. However, Iran’s ability to boat crude, and for that matter to say shipping overall, is contingent on nautical insurance. Without 3rd celebration Protection and Indemnity (PI) insurance, ships can't enter many ubiquitous blurb ports. On Feb 18, 2011, “Iran’s biggest wanton oil tanker user NITC pronounced on Friday a boat insurers had declined to replenish routine cover for a entrance year due to a impact of tightening sanctions in a European Union.”[17] The ability to disaggregate Iran from a tellurian oil marketplace by regulating a elementary risk-management mechanism, in this box PI insurance, illustrates a precedence financial crusade offers.
International nautical PI word mandate illustrate an engaging and under-appreciated aspect of financial risk supervision strikes. Financial risk supervision strikes can implement determined ubiquitous regulatory schemas to conflict counter financial systems, components, or assets. Lacking PI insurance, counter blurb shipping fleets are precluded from many ubiquitous ports. Insurance and credit problems can also conflict a ubiquitous operations of an adversary’s blurb airline industry. Macro risk supervision strikes can implement existent reserve codes or handling manners to learn fake behaviors or expose systemic violations of ubiquitous commerce standards by an counter or their blurb enablers. Weaponizing and exploiting ubiquitous commerce schemas can outcome in delinking whole industries from tellurian trade. For example, augmenting ramp inspections or targeting handling audits during counter blurb enablers could learn violations of reserve standards. Many ubiquitous blurb systems, maritime, aviation, postal, etc. need and make reserve and function standards, quite where fake behaviors can fall a system. International commerce sequence schemas can legitimately be used to extent or pennyless an adversary’s blurb enablers.
Lastly, on a cautionary note, usually as a United States used financial crusade to change British routine in a Suez, financial crusade might be used opposite a United States in a future. American disadvantage to financial strikes includes interruptions to rarely centralized material arrangement chokepoints like a Fedwire Funds Service and a Clearing House Interbank Payment System (CHIPS) that comment for some-more than 858,000 daily interbank sell totaling $973 trillion annually.[18] Levered derivative US financial products deliver vulnerabilities when risk is ambiguous and group problems exist, as illustrated by a purpose Credit Default Swaps (CDS) played in a 2008 Mortgage Backed Security (MBS) collapse.[19] The outcome was failure and murder of vital bonds as word firms prompted emperor involvement to finance unsuccessful corporations. Ironically, a whole financial complement became reduction strong rather than some-more robust. Lastly, prerequisite fueled (levered) emperor spending increases disadvantage to financial strikes opposite a house by shortening ability for handling disastrous outcomes such as errors in forecasting destiny revenues, constraining stream routine due to undercapitalized past actions, and might incent actions such as nationalization of grant assets, forced loans to a government, or banking devaluations.[20]
Financial crusade is a new means of appetite projection that offers a United States poignant capabilities in further to a normal repertoire. Financial crusade can support US routine objectives by directly aggressive an adversary’s emperor financial structures, particular regime elites, or blurb industries and enablers. Financial crusade spoofing operations can support comprehension collection by isolating, illustrating, and mapping counter predicament response patterns. Employing financial crusade strikes within an inland society’s domestic frame-work can yield precedence aiding a warfighter by shortening a enemy’s capability to comment training, operations, or proxies. Lastly, with poignant bill deficits and ascent inhabitant debt, a United States is rarely receptive to, and contingency cruise investigate and defensive focus of, financial warfare.
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1. Malcom Byrne, Csaba Békés, János Rainer, eds. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents, (New York, N.Y., Central European University Press, 2002): 1, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB76/
2. Peter L. Hahn, “Significant Events in U.S. Foreign Relations: 1900-2001,” EJournalUSA (Washington, D.C.: US Department of State, 2006): 26-30, www.america.gov/media/pdf/ejs/ijpe0406.pdf; “Interview with General Andrew J. Goodpaster,” George Washington University’s National Security Archive, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/coldwar/interviews/episode-8/goodpaster1.html. Eisenhower’s aide, General Andrew Goodpaster, removed that Eisenhower’s staff suspicion NATO could not benefaction a joined front to Soviet charge in Hungary while Britain and France were occupying Suez; Byrne and Békés, Hungarian Revolution.
3. “Memorandum of a Conference with a President, White House, Washington, Oct 29, 1956, 7:15 PM,” Office of a Historian, US Department of State, http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v16/d411; “Message from President Eisenhower to Prime Minister Eden,” US Department of State, Office of a Historian, Washington, Oct 30, 1956, http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1955-57v16/d436;
4. James M. Boughton, “Was Suez in 1956 a First Financial Crisis of a Twenty-First Century?” Finance and Development 38, no. 3 (September 2001): 1, http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2001/09/boughton.htm; Rose McDermott, Risk Taking in International Politics (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001), 162, http://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/0472108670-06.pdf.
5. Nicholas Miller Trebatk, “The United States, Britain and a Marshall Plan: An research of Anglo-American family in a early postwar era,” Paper presented during XII Conference on Contemporary Capitalism and a National and Political Economy of Brazil and Latin America on Contradictions and Perspectives, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007. The author was a doctoral tyro during a Instituto de Economia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (IE-UFRJ); Adam Klug and Gregor W. Smith, “Suez and Sterling, 1956,” Working Paper No. 1256 (Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Queen’s University Economics Department, 2nd Quarter, 1999), Figure 3: Britain’s reserves: 36, http://www.econ.queensu.ca/working_papers/papers/qed_wp_1256.pdf
6. Paul Bracken, “Financial Warfare,” Foreign Policy Research Institute (2007): 4, http://www.fpri.org/enotes/200709.bracken.financialwarfare.html;Text is paraphrased from “Financial Warfare,” page 4. as creatively published in Orbis, Fall 2007 edition.
7. Constantine Sandis and Nassim Taleb, “The Skin in a Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events,” Social Science Research Network, Jul 30, 2013, 1, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2298292 ; Nassim Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder (New York: Random House, 2012); Matthew Elliot, Benjamin Golub, Matthew Jackson, “Financial Networks and Contagion,” Social Science Research Network, Jan 1, 2013, 2-5, 16-26, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2175056
8. Sandis and Taleb, “The Skin in a Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events,” 1; for a some-more minute reason of “Black Swans” see Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of a Highly Improbable (New York: Random House, 2007).
9. Philippe Jorion, Value during Risk (New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1997), 3-15.
10. Bank for International Settlements, “Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity in 2010 – Final Results,” Dec 1, 2010, 6.
11. Central Intelligence Agency, 2011 World Factbook, “Country Comparison: GDP (Purchasing Power Parity),” https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html?countryCode=xxrankAnchorRow=#xx
12. United States Department of a Treasury, The Federal Reserve Board. “The Use and Counterfeiting of United States Currency Abroad, Part 3, The Final Report to a Congress by a Secretary of a Treasury, in conference with a Advanced Counterfeit Deterrence Steering Committee, pursuant to Section 807 of PL 104‑132,” Sep 2006, 4, http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/rptcongress/counterfeit/default.htm
13. Board of Governors of a Federal Reserve System. “Z.1 Financial Accounts of a United States, Flow of Funds, Balance Sheets, and Integrated Macroeconomic Accounts, D3 Credit Market Debt Outstanding by Sector,” (Washington, DC:The Federal Reserve Board, Mar 10, 2011), 9, http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/current/z1.pdf
14. Ben S. Bernake et al., “International Capital Flows and a Returns to Safe Assets in a United States, 2003-2007,” Board of Governors of a Federal Reserve System, International Finance Discussion Papers, Number 1014 (Washington, DC: The Federal Reserve Board, Feb 2011), 8, http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/ifdp/2011/1014/ifdp1014.htm
15. Philippe Jorion, Value during Risk, 3 -15.
16. Kenneth Katzman, Iran Sanctions, Congressional Research Service, Jun 13, 2013, 53; “Iran Oil Exports Top 844mn Barrels,” PressTV.com. Jun 10, 2010, http://previous.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=130736§ionid=351020102
17. “UPDATE 2-Sanctions Hit Iran’s NITC Ship Insurance Cover,” Reuters, Feb 18, 2011, http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFLDE71H1ZC20110218?sp=true
18. Bank for International Settlements, “Payment, Clearing and Settlement Systems in a United States,” Committee on Payments Systems and Settlement Redbook 2012, Jan 2013, 487-490.
19. Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside a Doomsday Machine (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010). The whole book chronicles how a opacity, agency, and uneven inlet of a CDS marketplace came behind to impact both a writers of this form of insurance, customarily AIG-FP, and a buyers to embody Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, among others.
20. Nassim Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (New York: Random House, 2012); Alexei Barrionuevo, “Argentina Nationalizes $30 Billion in Private Pensions,” The New York Times, Oct 21, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/business/worldbusiness/22argentina.html?; Niall Ferguson, The Ascent of Money (New York: Penguin Press, 2008), 69-73. The 15th century Italian city states of Florence and Venice both compulsory rich adults to loan income [Florence: Prestanze, Venice: Prestiti] to their particular governments; Hiroko Tabuchi, “Joining Switzerland, Japan Acts to Ease Currency’s Strength,” The New York Times, Aug 4, 2011. In 2010-2011, Brazil, South Korea, Japan, and Switzerland all intervened to obviate appreciation of their currencies in sequence to say exports.
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