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Can the United States really afford to wait for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to wrap up his investigation (on the assumption that he’ll find the president guilty of something)?
Likewise, the ECB is preparing to taper its bond purchases in 2018, under the assumption that inflation will rise in due course.
The underlying assumption – reinforced by many European politicians, especially interior ministers – is that there is a tradeoff between security and openness.
For example, anti-arrhythmic drugs were prescribed widely – with the United States Food and Drug Administration’s approval – to heart-attack victims for more than a decade, under the assumption that reducing heart-rhythm abnormalities would decrease mortality rates.
The new standards are compromises that are premised on the assumption that Europeans will continue to eat animal products and do not wish to see a sharp rise in the cost of their food.
The initial discovery arose from the assumption that chimpanzees, so close in evolution to humans, could not be as "individualistic" as Western science supposed.
The same initial assumption led Imanishi in 1952 to suggest that animals might have culture, which he reduced to its lowest common denominator: the social rather than genetic transmission of behavior.
As in Japan, the appreciation sparked destabilizing capital flows into China on the assumption that the renminbi, like the yen before it, had nowhere to go but up.
But this cozy assumption overlooks a tectonic shift in Turkey’s geo-political position.
But recent historians on the Left in India now question this assumption.
Yet, even on the assumption that Putin has no plans to nationalize key natural resource companies, he clearly desires strong state control over these “commanding heights” of the economy.
So perhaps the problem with existing regulatory models lies in the assumption that the entire atmosphere is available for unconstrained use.
Worse yet, two of the cases were timed to humiliate Chen - one on the eve of his assumption of the Democratic Progressive Party chairmanship, the other before his stopover in New York while on a state visit to Central America.
But more nuanced policymaking – often based on the misguided assumption that companies can be trusted, or induced, to self-regulate – has failed.
The assumption here – unstated and highly questionable – is that the US will be able to sell an unlimited amount of government debt at low interest rates for the foreseeable future.
This diagnosis seems to misread the historical evidence from the period between the early 1970s and the late 1990s, and is thus based on a fundamentally flawed assumption about the primary driver of inflation in the global North since World War II.
But the weakest assumption about the benefits of a small state centers around the pace at which institutions develop.
The region’s new map was based on the assumption that the fundamentals of “Muslim Asia” could be transformed by introducing the Western nation-state system.
Most economists object that the very assumption that such a point exists is speculative.
Instead, business schools teach about corporate culture and values, on the assumption that maximum effort can be obtained from workers if they identify with the firm’s mission and goals.
But in his masterful book The Other Slavery, Andrés Reséndez shows how inadequate this assumption is.
The assumption that the German economy will accelerate out of its current crawl is essential to confidence in Europe’s financial safety net, and to a banking union that credibly shares risks across the eurozone.
Beyond that, however, the power of the judiciary stems precisely from the assumption of independence which Hamilton regarded as crucial for their position.
The assumption here is that homosexuals are pedophiles at heart; to be safe in Sochi, they need only to control themselves until they return home to their decadent countries.
Patent rules, for example, reflect the long-held assumption that strong protection provides an essential incentive for businesses to pursue innovation.
Fascism with a Feminist FaceNEW YORK – Western feminism has made some memorable theoretical mistakes; a major one is the frequent assumption that, if women held the decision-making power in society, they would be “kinder and gentler” (a phrase devised for George H.W. Bush in 1988 to appeal to the female vote).
The assumption was that rich countries would reciprocate by curtailing subsidies to their farmers.
Likewise, until 2006, most Americans based their economic behavior on the assumption that nominal housing prices, even if they slowed, would not fall, because they had not done so before – within living memory in the US.
This figure, calculated from the prices of different types of indexed and non-indexed five- and ten-year bonds, is based on the somewhat heroic assumption that all of the markets for these bonds work efficiently.
That creed led to deregulation, globalization, and financial innovations based on the false assumption that markets tend towards equilibrium.ampnbsp;
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