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NATO officials persuasively argued that their collective-defense commitment could not be delegated to a non-NATO member.
Eagleburger argued forcefully with the White House, ultimately without success, that the president should lead the US delegation to the funeral.
Without higher aggregate demand, he argued, structural reform could be ineffective; and higher demand requires fiscal stimulus alongside expansionary monetary policy.
It works, the BoE has argued, by reducing medium-term interest rates, increasing asset prices, and inducing shifts in investor preferences that indirectly stimulate investment and thus demand.
Briefly, I argued that “bad” trade deals are irrelevant to the problem of diminishing economic opportunities, and I outlined how American trade – in fact, industrial – policy should address manufacturing.
Thus, even at the zero bound of nominal interest rates, it is argued, central banks still have weapons in their arsenal.
It is often argued that with less austerity, domestic demand would be stronger.
Moreover, it could be argued that if more knowledge is not added to exports, it will be hard to achieve sustainable economic development based on natural resources.
Rather, the question was argued in terms of culture and faith, with Jewish beliefs and customs deemed incompatible with modern, enlightened Western values.
One of the writers of the constitution, Frederik Motzfeldt, argued that Jews would never assimilate themselves with the people of any country.
Likewise, he argued that it was an oversupply of money that caused inflation.
In June 2006, William Perry, a former defense secretary, and Ashton Carter, a future one, argued in The Washington Post that if North Korea deployed on its territory a nuclear-armed missile capable of hitting the US, the US should attack and destroy it.
Others argued that terrorists were all victims of clinical paranoia or some other psychosis.
Eventually, it is argued, the US and the international community will recognize the value of Iranian cooperation.
Singaporean diplomat Tommy Koh has argued that his country’s relatively high Gini coefficient – the 29th highest in the world – does not tell the full story.
But even the International Monetary Fund argued that contractions, such as cutbacks in government spending, were just that – contractionary.
Officials argued that no heavy artillery fire was ever directed at civilians or hospitals, that any collateral injury to civilians was minimal, and that they fully respected international law, including the proscription against execution of captured prisoners.
In Lima, he argued that the so-called “separation principle,” whereby monetary and financial stability are addressed differently and tasked to separate agencies, no longer makes sense.
A central bank, he argued, needs a very simple mandate that allows it to explain its actions clearly and be held accountable for them.
Microprudential regulation, she argued, is the first line of defense: if all banks are lending prudently, the chances of collective excesses are lower.
As I have argued before, the endgame to the financial bailouts and fiscal expansion will almost certainly mean higher interest rates, higher taxes, and, quite possibly, inflation.
Feminists have long argued that rape must be treated like any other crime.
Before the protests began in Egypt and Tunisia, many people argued that there was no real urgency to political reform, and that those who were calling for change did not understand the public mood – things weren’t as bad as the dissidents made them out to be.
Even for Greece, the IMF argued, debt dynamics were not a serious concern, thanks to anticipated growth and reforms.
In the Guantanamo Bay case, by contrast, the Bush Administration argued that a ruling for the detainees would undermine the war effort by diverting manpower and material from the battlefield to the courtroom.
Larry Summers recently argued that in a dynamic context, the evidence for elasticity of substitution greater than one is weak if one measures the return net of depreciation, because depreciation increases proportionately with the growth of the capital stock.
Reviving a famous broadside by Milton Friedman back in 1970, Simons argued that a company’s only mission is to “compete and win.”
Similarly, it is argued that golden rice will not be adopted, because most Asians eschew brown rice.
David Goodhart, former editor of the journal Prospect, has argued the case for restriction from a social democratic perspective.
A century ago, the British geopolitical theorist Halford Mackinder argued that whoever controlled the world island of Eurasia would control the world.
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