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The argument for a pause is that the central bank may want to wait and see how much damage, if any, the VAT hike imposes on the German economy before continuing on with the process of rate hikes.
Even if monetary finance was more likely to boost inflation than the exchange of debt for interest-bearing perpetuities, this is hardly an argument against it: it is only an argument for going more slowly.
Similarly, much like the misleading “ticking time bomb” scenario has served to rationalize torture, the “imminent massacre” argument is used to justify immediate intervention.
There is a falling-domino argument that suggests that the crises on Europe’s periphery will have a knock-on effect on the Franco-German core.
There is also a lot to be said for making political argument more civil.
Huxley, in fact, got himself into quite a heated argument over whether blood kinship could or could not explain altruism.
The Ferguson controversy is even less relevant, because Keynes’s phrase concerning the long run was not about fiscal policy when he wrote it, and it was not an argument against deferred gratification.
Read an extended version of this argument in Jeffrey Frankel’s blog post, “On Whose Research is the Case for Austerity Mistakenly Based?”
These factors make a good argument for coal as a cheap alternative source of Africa's power.
Education systems are under pressure, but the argument that there is a tradeoff between access and quality does not hold water.
They believe that no purely abstract argument can get us to do anything that we do not want to do.
If a reasoned argument cannot move us, what can?
But the WMD argument was used, because it was the most easily justifiable, given the context.
Cynics view this as merely an argument of convenience, one that has gained in prominence only because the other two rationales for the war collapsed.
More importantly, skeptics also doubt the validity of the administration’s argument linking democracy and reduction of terrorism.
For one thing, it is still too early to judge the merits of the argument.
To them, the argument for leaving the EU is no less about freedom than World War II was.
This continual, rather fetishistic sexualizing of powerful women confirms the argument I made more than two decades ago in my book The Beauty Myth: Women’s appearance is used against them most rigorously – as a diversionary tactic – when real social, economic, or political power is at stake and almost within their grasp.
These results fit badly with the typical argument that short-termism has increased in recent decades.
The ECB’s argument that the OMT program’s primary purpose is to prevent a eurozone breakup is unconvincing to the German court, for only a nearly insolvent sovereign would risk breaking up the union.
If, instead, the ECJ finds a legal argument to validate the scheme – and the German court, sensitive to current financial uncertainties, acquiesces – the ambiguities will be pushed aside, to be addressed later.
The IMF's argument seems to be: if a currency board fails, we will be blamed.
Not that youth has ever been a convincing argument on its own.
The argument goes like this: high consumer debt, slowing population growth, and rising income inequality have weakened consumer demand and stimulated savings, while slowing growth in productivity and output itself has discouraged investment.
Well aware of western doubts about the party, Erdogan travelled immediately after the elections to western capitals, pressing his argument that the change in government had not changed Turkey's fundamental orientation.
But this is precisely the so-called "supply side" argument that the President's father once famously mocked as "voodoo" economics when Ronald Reagan expounded it.
In every economy, the argument goes, there is a market interest rate determined by the financial system, and there is a natural interest rate – the value at which desired savings at full employment equal desired investment at full employment, and at which the economy as a whole desires neither to leverage nor to deleverage.
This argument inspired proposals – most famously by John Maynard Keynes in 1942 – to create “buffer stocks” for the main commodities, which would take supply off the market when prices fell, and add to supply when prices rose.
The “declining terms of trade” argument has collapsed.
His argument was that Asians were used to putting the collective good above individual interests.
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