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Some central banks, such as the Bank of England in its unsuccessful fight against George Soros in 1992, got burned; when it became clear how much money was required to buck the market, the policy was abandoned.
Unlike the US – which has apparently abandoned economic logic in its search for quick “wins” on trade – the EU is a slow-moving entity that generally prioritizes economic logic above geopolitical considerations and favors long-term agreements.
He abandoned even the social democratic commitment to redistribution of income through taxes and public spending.
This means that the program’s leaks need to be repaired, not that the entire scheme should be abandoned.
This does not mean that it should be abandoned.
And, though state revenues have fallen with recession, forcing a few countries to hike value-added taxes, none has increased income taxes, and none of the seven countries that had in place a flat-rate income tax has abandoned it.
According to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, almost one-quarter of Iraq’s combatant battalions no longer have an “order of battle,” with their equipment lost and their soldiers having abandoned their posts.
The Return of the SilovikiSTOCKHOLM – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan have abandoned their separate talks to join the World Trade Organization.
A day after seeing those scenes on TV in the United States where I was studying for a Ph.D., I abandoned astrophysics and caught the first flight home to China.
The Chinese Communist Party has abandoned all but the rhetoric of Marxism, and lacks any alternative vision for the future of the country.
They exploited the feeling of many citizens that the political classes – which touted the benefits of globalization, while allowing inequality to rise to unprecedented levels – had abandoned them.
Other countries have abandoned nuclear-weapons programs, recognizing that nothing good could possibly come from them.
The FDP abandoned the talks out of frustration that, as its leader Christian Lindner put it, “The four discussion partners have no common vision for modernization of the country or common basis of trust.”
He abandoned the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and withdrew the United States from negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the EU, which would have created a vast North Atlantic common market.
Trump seems to have abandoned earlier proposals for a border adjustment tax, and he may not follow through on all of his protectionist rhetoric.
Since the beginning of this year, roughly 2,500 people have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean, to say nothing of gruesome scenes like the recent discovery of 71 decomposing bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria.
Instead, he and his ex-KGB comrades-in-arms placed themselves above the law, abandoned meaningful social and economic reform, and coasted on high world oil prices.
Under strong pressure from right-wing media figures to keep his promise, Trump made and abandoned budget deals until time ran out.
As a result, Europe has practically abandoned its global geopolitical role, with virtually no evidence of its presence, aside from trade, remaining in East Asia.
Once the left abandoned the language of internationalism – democratic revolution, national liberation, and so forth – it was taken up by neo-conservatives.
Roosevelt abandoned attempts to balance the budget, increased the money supply, and initiated deficit spending.
The DPJ was established in 1998 as a “jambalaya” party, consisting of people who had abandoned the LDP, including Hatoyama himself, and the former Socialist Party.
The Chinese government claims that it abandoned the policy of requiring foreign multinationals to share their IP in exchange for market access two decades ago.
If the alternatives, however, are starvation or children abandoned by their families, then child labour might be tolerated in the context of policies designed to combine growth with a determination to use its fruits to reduce poverty and promote social justice.
That is why, in 1971, President Richard Nixon unilaterally abandoned the dollar’s convertibility to gold, leaving major currencies’ exchange rates to float against one another.
One after another, they abandoned the gold standard, depreciating their currencies.
When containment has been abandoned, America has paid a high price.
Claims that he abandoned his nuclear program in response to the US-led invasion of Iraq have been refuted by Flynt Leverett, director for Middle Eastern affairs at the US National Security Council from 2002 to 2003.
Of course, fiscal caution cannot be abandoned; after all, if governments or the private sector were to spend borrowed or newly minted money freely, the result would simply be more crises, which would hurt the poor most.
And the newly rich kept an increasing part of what they got, as taxes were slashed to encourage them to get still richer, and efforts to divide up the pie more fairly were abandoned.
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