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If they abandon macroeconomic discipline, as Hungary and possibly the Czech Republic may be doing, they alone will face the consequences.
All that Samuelson showed was that any exogenous change could harm a trading economy; he did not argue that an appropriate response to that unfortunate situation was to abandon free trade.
Yet arrive it did, and over the last decade commodity-rich countries like Brazil, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa enjoyed its abundant benefits with abandon.
Mounting anger within the Pakistan Army, whose soldiers exchanged fire with American troops two months ago, would make Musharaf's isolation total, perhaps forcing him to abandon the American-led coalition.
Experience has spoken: we have to abandon today the dream of federal Europe as a counterpoint to the United States; the majority of Europeans don't want this.
In the long run, however, the country could increasingly be tempted to abandon the single currency.
Before China and the US overstep each other’s boundaries, they should abandon the concepts of “primacy” and “containment” in favor of a concert of Asian powers capable of resolving their differences.
Instead, it is time to abandon this unrealistic goal in favor of an achievable, targeted, and cost-effective approach.
If we fail, we will abandon them to emptiness, unemployment, and the malicious ideologies of terrorism.
Following literally what the sociologist Anthony Giddens called the “sleepwalking scenario,” the UK decided to abandon the EU without a truly honest and informed debate about what was at stake.
The Trump administration needs to abandon its complacency and pursue competitive coalition-building.
Eventually, she will be obliged to abandon her studied ambiguity, and she will probably pay a price for doing so.
Fear that the US would abandon the gold standard sent the dollar plummeting on world markets.
The British were forced to abandon gold convertibility in April 1919 – a tactical withdrawal intended to pave the way for Britain’s return to the former $4.8665 parity with the American dollar.
No one with any connection to reality could seriously believe that the governments of China, Israel, Pakistan, and Russia will simply abandon their nuclear weapons because public opinion has turned against them.
Indeed, the Obama administration has signaled its intent to abandon elements in its ties with India that could rile China, including a joint military exercise in Arunachal and any further joint naval maneuvers involving Japan or other parties, like Australia.
It is past time to abandon the fiction that the ultimate source of fiscal discipline is a set of strictly enforced EU rules.
They have no desire to abandon a hard-won target that has succeeded in keeping inflation expectations well-anchored for so many years.
Phasing in nominal-GDP targeting delivers the advantage of some stimulus now, when it is needed, while respecting central bankers’ reluctance to abandon their cherished inflation target.
The US eventually had to abandon its fantasies about Western-style Arab democracy, but it ironically left the Iranians carrying the torch of democracy in the region.
Such changes put pressure on universal banks to abandon riskier investment-bank activities in order to operate more freely.
Nonetheless, though predictions that China would abandon its exchange-rate controls in order to uphold monetary autonomy have proved wrong over the last decade, this time may be different.
Even the revised deals with US allies are intended partly to isolate China, thereby forcing it to abandon its mercantilist trade practices, such as forced technology transfer.
But the fact is that North Korea’s refusal to acknowledge its 2005 commitment to abandon its nuclear program effectively renders any prospective dialogue moot.
For the moment, however, the behavior of long-term US interest rates implies an almost unshakeable confidence among investors that inflation will never again become a serious threat, despite President Donald Trump’s decision to slash taxes, boost government spending, and abandon deficit limits in a US economy already nearing full employment.
Legally cornered, Musharraf has now decided to abandon constitutionality, removing the leading judges of the Supreme Court and provincial high courts and putting curbs on the media.
But because men pervert a truth there is no reason to abandon it.
After all, no one would argue that we should abandon research on a promising cancer drug because it is unproven.
In 1919, John Maynard Keynes told the statesmen of post-World War I Europe to abandon their vindictive patriotism for the sake of building a future of peace based on European integration.
The obvious solution is not to abandon the franc's euro peg, but to change the cantonal financing mechanism.
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