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Today, peace with Syria might facilitate an Israeli peace with Lebanon down the road, but that will not be an automatic outcome.
In the developed world, we are surrounded by all kinds of technological staples – iPads, smoothie-making blenders, automatic vacuum-cleaning robots – that our parents neither had nor imagined that they would need.
And the US fiscal system collects roughly two-thirds of all taxes at the national level, which implies an automatic and substantial net fiscal transfer to states with temporarily falling incomes.
Indeed, as higher profits and their automatic redistribution via the UBD boosted incomes, more funds would become available for the welfare state.
In a genuine currency union, wealth transfers and automatic stabilizers mean that such discrepancies do not pose a problem.
Tax transfers should also act as an automatic stabilizer in the case of asymmetric shocks.
Second, floating exchange rates imply that devaluation is an automatic adjustment mechanism, so it occurs without the appearance of an explicit burden-sharing choice and the accompanying potential for political gridlock.
Winning a Prize has never been an automatic process, a reward that comes for having attained a magical level of achievement.
The shooting, by automatic weapon fire, took place in broad daylight in a largely Roma neighborhood, where the grandmother of one of the victims lived.
Such a popular uprising would be brutally suppressed, strengthening both sides’ intransigents in the short run and undermining America’s automatic support for Israel in the long term.
The main threat to the euro is precisely the eurozone’s lack of a modicum of political unity – a Federation Lite that makes solidarity possible, and even automatic, when it is needed.
Here, automatic enrollment, unless workers opt out, has proved effective, boosting employee participation to more than 90%.
Indeed, recent research indicates that automatic enrollment is much more effective than tax incentives for increasing retirement saving.
As Obama has proposed, employers that do not offer retirement plans should be required to offer automatic contributions to their workers’ IRAs through regular payroll deductions.
Contributions would be made through automatic payroll deductions by employers at a default rate of 3% of gross pay, but employees could opt out or adjust their contribution rates.
Some are mandatory, some have automatic enrollment, and some rely on matching government contributions to encourage participation.
In the US, making saving easier and more financially rewarding through better-targeted tax incentives, matching government contributions, automatic IRAs, and state-wide retirement plans would help boost retirement savings, especially for low- and middle-income households.
One hopes that future reviews will take place at times when more sensible leaders are in charge, and perhaps will eliminate the automatic sunset clause.
This would serve as a sort of automatic stabilizer.
For a normal country, the national income-tax system constitutes a huge automatic stabilizer across regions.
Europe, of course, has no significant centralized tax authority, so this key automatic stabilizer is essentially absent.
We do not regard debt restructuring as benign, let alone desirable, and we do not advocate making it automatic or driven by numerical triggers.
The automatic and discretionary fiscal relaxations of 2009 played a vital role in offsetting falling private sector demand and attempted deleveraging.
Better yet, if much of the next round of stimulus is devoted to automatic stabilizers – such as compensating for the shortfall in state revenues – then if the economy does recover, the spending will not occur.
It is sometimes argued that automatic haircuts should not be part of the European rescue mechanism, given that even the International Monetary Fund often provided its help in previous sovereign-debt crises without applying them.
The eurozone urgently needs a crisis mechanism with automatic haircuts for cases of impending insolvency.
That is because, as David Glasner, an economist at the Federal Trade Commission, has pointed out, attempts to erect an automatic monetary system – whether based on the gold standard, Milton Friedman’s k-percent rule, or the Stanford University economist John Taylor’s “rules-based monetary policy” – have all crashed and burned spectacularly.
The IT revolution and associated “swarm” technologies enable the foremost solution: a “digital airspace” that is wholly automatic in terms of air traffic control, navigation, and vehicle operations.
Automatic aircraft operation is already becoming commonplace – especially in the military – but further increases will require a similarly automatic airspace.
Given that eurozone members rejected even the idea of automatic sanctions for countries with excessive deficits, they are not likely to countenance such a wide ranging loss of sovereignty.
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