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Governments will hesitate to recommend re-profiling for fear, justified or not, of destabilizing the international system, and will encourage the IMF to lend large
amounts
instead.
Greece’s Two CurrenciesATHENS – Imagine a depositor in the US state of Arizona being permitted to withdraw only small
amounts
of cash weekly and facing restrictions on how much money he or she could wire to a bank account in California.
The GDP derived from the ocean
amounts
to $2.5 trillion, or 5% of the world’s total GDP.
Restoring the ocean thus
amounts
to an unparalleled business opportunity.
It
amounts
to the public degradation of another actor, a denial of its bid for status, and the establishment of a clear hierarchy.
Ever since these pipelines were effectively handed over to nominally private companies in murky deals, earnings from transit fees have gone missing, along with vast
amounts
of gas, while little maintenance has been carried out.
Since malaria kills between 1 and 2 million people per year, this
amounts
to around $40 - $80 of research spending per malaria death per year.
An alternative, Hawkins-like approach to economic development would take massive
amounts
of data about the world and ask what is likely to succeed next in a country or a city at a given point in time, given what is already present and in light of the experience there and everywhere else.
Economics should offer “very approximate guesstimates,” requiring “only modest
amounts
of modeling and computational effort.”
According to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, this shift is so profound that it
amounts
to the beginning of a new epoch: the Anthropocene.
While Trump has blinked on China by putting on hold his promised sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports to the US, he has attempted to coerce and shame US allies like Japan, India, and South Korea, even though their combined trade surplus with the US – $95.6 billion in 2017 –
amounts
to about a quarter of China’s.
Most important, by enabling the monetization of unlimited
amounts
of government debt, the policy would undermine the credibility of the authorities’ targets for price stability and a stable financial system.
The world press is filled with stories about honey laced with industrial sweeteners, canned goods contaminated by bacteria and excessive
amounts
of additives, rice wine braced with industrial alcohol, and farm-raised fish, eel, and shrimp fed large doses of antibiotics and then washed down with formaldehyde to lower bacterial counts.
While we may lament the loss of manufacturing jobs through “outsourcing,” we certainly do not lament exporting massive
amounts
of pollution to China.
According to a recent report on the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, prepared by Better Markets, an advocacy group that pushes for stronger financial reforms, the cost to the US economy of the financial crisis – caused by financial institutions’ reckless risk-taking –
amounts
to at least $12.8 trillion.
In Sweden, it
amounts
to 33.5% of “dependent employment” (total employment excluding the self-employed), and 32.9% in Denmark.
In India, that percentage may be even higher, as increasingly ubiquitous 4G services and increasingly cheap Internet-enabled smartphones have recently enabled millions to get online – and offer up significant
amounts
of personal information.
In most of the advanced world, investment
amounts
to little more than 15% of GDP, compared to close to 45% for China.
Tortured reasoning about phrases like “use of force” or “exclusively defense-oriented policy”
amounts
to an open invitation to confusion, both in the military and to countries in the region.
Partly by design and partly by chance, about a decade ago China found itself consistently accumulating large
amounts
of foreign reserves by running a trade surplus and intervening to buy up the dollars that this generated.
For Trump, going to Davos
amounts
to no more – or less – than taking the show on the road.
When they were growing rapidly – especially compared to the advanced economies – they attracted massive
amounts
of capital.
Earlier this month, Citigroup took advantage of this formative political moment by seizing an opportunity to score a tactical victory – but one that
amounts
to a strategic blunder.
At a stroke, Citi executives demonstrated both their continued political clout in Washington and their continued desire to take on excessive
amounts
of financial risk (which is what this particular legal change permits).
This
amounts
to 1.7% of the world’s agricultural land.
We have spent nearly 8bn euros in reconstruction and humanitarian assistance in the region since 1991;EU financial assistance to the region during those years
amounts
to 17bn euros.
But online talent platforms aggregate much larger
amounts
of information efficiently, increasing the “signal density.”
As Senator Mark Warner graciously acknowledged, “The Senator from Delaware sounded an early warning signal that the massive
amounts
of investments that had been made by certain firms to try to get what appears to be a fractional millisecond advantage in the trading process might come back and haunt us all...I’ve been proud to follow his lead.”
Ironically, the ECB will have to cut interest rates sooner, and by greater amounts, because its inflationary bias is sending the euro to dangerous levels for the current state of its economy.
The attendees called for what
amounts
to a moratorium on the gene editing of embryos leading to a pregnancy, concluding that it would be “irresponsible to proceed” until the risks were better understood and there was “broad societal consensus” about the research.
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