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The main argument in favor of dropping an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and a second bomb on Nagasaki three days later, has always been that it would hasten an end to World War II.
The attacks actually saved many more Japanese and American lives, the argument goes, than they claimed.
Implicitly, this argument recognizes that Hiroshima was not a military target.
Read an extended version of this argument in George Soros's blog post, "A European Solution to the Eurozone's Problem."
The argument for preserving a sculpture of Hitler in a public place, assuming that such a thing still exists, does not get stronger as time goes on.
Given the Northern Rock and Bear Stearns bailouts, overplaying the “moral hazard” argument here sounds hypocritical.
Still, European governments typically complain about the lack of fiscal resources to support R&D (a far fetched argument given the miniscule share of research spending in the oversized European budgets) and, whenever the European Commission allows them, they subsidize innovative firms, or those that they think are more likely to invest in R&D.
Reforming the international monetary system, therefore, means reforming the governance of the multilateral financial institutions – an argument that China emphasized during its G20 presidency last year.
This is an exceptionally weak argument, and a politically suspect one, too.
This argument seems to make eminent sense, both economically and politically.
If stockholders know that holding a company’s stock will eventually allow them to benefit from a lower tax rate, the argument goes, they will be more willing to withstand a drop in that company’s quarterly earnings.
Again, the key argument was the need to avoid a repeat of Japan’s “lost decade.”
My argument is as follows.
Moreover, a major argument in favor of inflation targeting – that it has contributed to a decline in inflation since the early 1990s – is questionable, at best.
One common argument is that governments should protect biodiversity because of its untapped potential for the pharmaceutical industry.
Ironically, in 2007, in response to an earlier SEC proposal to grant shareholders’ access to proxy, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen ampamp;Katz, a law firm famous for its anti-shareholders’-rights positions, used the opposite argument: “No real-world crisis has shown that the current system needs radical revision.
In fact, experimental data supports the argument that what goes on during recess periods is “educational” in the traditional sense.
But Bernanke’s argument is not entirely convincing.
But this argument is far from airtight.
Djukanovic prefers an illegitimate federal government because it strengthens his argument for secession.
Until the Reinhart/Rogoff paper, the main argument for fiscal retrenchment rested on concerns about the sustainability of public debt.
The Reinhart/Rogoff paper appeared to provide the perfect argument in support of rapid consolidation, which is why it was cited intensively in policy discussions.
Meanwhile, Europeans (especially the French) complain about the big US deficits, and de Gaulle's argument that the rest of the world is paying for America's wars is in fashion again.
Read an extended version of this argument, with a response by Adair Turner.
How plausible is this argument?
Indeed, Subramanian’s most provocative argument is that China has already surpassed the US in terms of economic dominance – but we have not yet woken up to this new reality.
This, rather than the fear that the ECB might end up buying the bonds of untrustworthy governments, is the real argument against QE in the eurozone.
This is not an argument for remaining aloof; as bad as things are, they can always get worse.
A second argument against further monetary-policy action is that it should be considered only as a reward for budgetary austerity and structural reform, areas in which politicians continue to underperform.
In both cases, the main argument for not removing the debt overhang came from bankers, who claimed that it would create havoc in financial markets for two reasons.
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