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President Barack Obama’s proposed alternative to the fiscal cliff would substantially increase tax rates and limit tax deductions for the top 2% of earners, who now pay more than 45% of total federal personal-income taxes.
The alternative conception assumes that the eurozone is a group of individual countries within a common currency area.
These policymakers know that investment in alternative fuels and eco-friendly technologies will deliver a massive future pay-off in terms of a safer environment, energy independence, and sustainable growth.
There is a remarkably simple alternative that does not require southern Europe’s troubled economies to abandon the euro and devalue their exchange rates.
It is true thatrenewable raw materials are gaining in importance as alternative feedstock,especially in new areas such as the production of enzymes, which reduce energyconsumption by acting as bio-catalysts in low-temperature detergents.
In terms of style and tenor, Khatami’s presidency will almost certainly be less strident than any of the alternative candidates who were allowed to run.
Imagine that, with this question in mind, he had compared the alternative of a lavish lifestyle (with a private zoo and pirate-ship restaurant) with that of living comfortably on the substantial salary to which he was entitled while knowing that he was governing with integrity and doing his best to improve the lives of Ukraine’s citizens.
If he does, he will realize that the alternative to contributing to regional stability is to risk an even greater nightmare.
If Italy’s situation worsened, debt mutualization in one way or another would ultimately end up being the only alternative to large-scale default.
In December, the United States National Intelligence Council (NIC) published its guess: Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds.
The alternative to such engagement is a very roundabout strategy that would achieve more enlightened policies by weakening the ability of the rich to buy votes.
Indeed, China’s slowness to implement an alternative to the investment-led, debt-financed growth model that has prevailed for the last two decades means that its domestic credit risks are the most significant threat to the global economy today.
Reaching an agreement on a post-Assad scenario will not be easy, but no alternative is more promising for Syria and the region.
The alternative course, already being promoted by hotheads in the People’s Liberation Army, is to take a dramatically harder line by, say, renouncing UNCLOS altogether and declaring an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) over most of the South China Sea.
In antiquity, the conflicts between creditors and debtors often turned violent, as the alternative to debt relief was slavery.
For example, the classical prohibition on usury was softened from a ban on charging interest on all loans to a ban on charging interest on loans for which the lender had no alternative use, i.e., for charging interest on “hoards” or cash balances.
The fact that the alternative is a man who seems genuinely to admire him is icing on the cake.
The alternative is a Greek exit from the eurozone.
The alternative – recourse to violence in the face of unequal access to resources – has led to a cycle of political instability in many countries, with the consequent lack of economic development that has come to characterize much of Africa’s recent history.
The Moral Vulnerability of MarketsLONDON -- Today, there seems to be no coherent alternative to capitalism, yet anti-market feelings are alive and well, expressed for example in the moralistic backlash against globalization.
In Asia, especially, filling the vacuum with alternative financing mechanisms has become a high priority.
At the risk of oversimplifying, three alternative “systems” appear to be possible.
The first alternative is a system dominated by bilateral deals, in which international rules and international law are absent.
The second alternative is the current system, in which countries use global multilateralism to enforce common rules.
The History at the End of HistoryFifteen years ago in my book The End of History and the Last Man I argued that, if a society wanted to be modern, there was no alternative to a market economy and a democratic political system.
Not everyone wanted to be modern, of course, and not everyone could put in place the institutions and policies necessary to make democracy and capitalism work, but no alternative system would yield better results.
The only way to avoid such an outcome, it seems increasingly clear, is to devise an alternative framework.
The only reasonable alternative is to make large, complex financial institutions smaller and less complex so that it is possible for them to fail under standard bankruptcy rules.
And prevailing ideology prevents us from thinking about alternative arrangements.
The alternative – the power politics in which Bismarck was engaged – was “petty,” as it was premised upon European fragmentation and disintegration.
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