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Having compromised, the IMF should now stick to its guns and refuse to make its arrangement for Greece operational until it is satisfied on both debt relief and technical
assumptions.
As FDIC Vice Chairman Tom Hoenig put it, “Despite the thousands of pages of material these firms submitted, the plans provide no credible or clear path through bankruptcy that doesn’t require unrealistic
assumptions
and direct or indirect public support.”
It is hard to make sense of such assumptions, and harder still to accept that they could provide a good basis for computing Puerto Rico’s actual repayment capacity.
When we resort to psychologically comforting but misleading
assumptions
about terrorism, we hamper our own understanding of political violence in general – and hence weaken our ability to avert or minimize it.
Moreover, “realist”
assumptions
often turn out to be remarkably implausible.
Nonetheless, even after women gained legal rights – and even as other
assumptions
about women have gone the way of smelling salts and whalebone stays – the condescending Victorian convention of not identifying women who make sex-crime charges remains with us.
The IMF needs to bring much more of this brand of skepticism to its assessment of eurozone debt dynamics, instead of constantly seeking strained
assumptions
that would make the debt appear sustainable.
Instead of clinging to outdated
assumptions
and rigid ideas, the West should work with China to reform the existing global order in ways that benefit all.
The value of the multiplier depends on
assumptions
about the size of the “gap,” “leakages” from the spending stream, and the effect of government programs on confidence.
Moreover, as new drivers of risk emerge and interact, longstanding
assumptions
about disasters are being called into question.
But the idea that transparency will restore public trust in democracy rests on several problematic assumptions, primarily the belief that “if only people knew,” everything would be different.
In the post-1945 period, government finance in rich industrial countries was also overwhelmingly national at first, and the
assumptions
of 1688 still held.
Yet we imagine science as free of unexamined cultural
assumptions.
To understand how this could occur is to appreciate the role of different cultural
assumptions
about the relations between humans and animals and how linguistic hegemony affects science.
Then, under arbitrary
assumptions
regarding growth rates, inflation, privatization receipts, and so forth, they compute what primary surpluses are necessary in every year, working backward to the present.
Instead, we should map out a forward-looking plan based on reasonable
assumptions
about the primary surpluses consistent with the rates of output growth, net investment, and export expansion that can stabilize Greece’s economy and debt ratio.
This re-balancing between the large and small member states is shifting some old
assumptions
in a number of paradoxical ways.
In doing this they seek to crash through the gates of fortress Europe, refusing to be imprisoned by its narrow
assumptions
of national or European identity.
Yet the curious fact is that forecasts based on wildly unrealistic premises and
assumptions
may be perfectly serviceable in many situations.
Developing successful strategies will require abandoning long-held
assumptions
that worked in the past, but that have become counterproductive myths today.
But, contrary to Weber’s assumptions, a growing number of Westerners today regard neither the logic nor the fairness of the rules as obvious.
Very often, the news cycle is driven by
assumptions
about what viewers or readers might like, rather than what they actually want.
Second, for new generations of students, Keynes’s relevance may lie less in his specific remedies for unemployment than in his criticism of his profession for modeling on the basis of unreal
assumptions.
That test has the potential to transform existing
assumptions
about the United States and its global role.
Dozens, often hundreds, of
assumptions
must be made to estimate just the costs of almost any policy.
Well-intentioned analysts can and do differ on what
assumptions
to make and often arrive at very different estimates.
This is even truer on the benefits side of the equation, where the
assumptions
concern not only how to measure returns, but what counts as a return in the first place.
But, as many critics have pointed out, the economic
assumptions
underlying the Trump administration’s benign scenario appear improbable.
It estimates that under realistic economic
assumptions
from the CBO, debt in Trump’s budget would remain roughly at current levels, rather than falling precipitously (as deficits would remain above 2% of GDP, rather than disappear by 2027).
Furthermore, the study shows that relying on
assumptions
that are more in sync with the consensus economic outlook implies a deficit of 1.7-4% of GDP by 2027, with debt at 72-83% of GDP.
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