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Contingent capital, a device that grew from financial engineering, is a major new idea that might fix the problem of banking instability, thereby stabilizing the economy – just as devices invented by mechanical engineers help stabilize the paths of
automobiles
and airplanes.
In 1900, the world did not have ready access to electricity,
automobiles
and aviation, or telecommunications.
Examples from the last two centuries include such transformative products and innovations as railroads, automobiles, and airplanes; telegraph, telephones, radio, and television; air conditioning; and, as just noted, the various technologies responsible for the IT revolution, including both mainframe and personal computers, routers and other hardware devices, and much of the software that operates them.
In South Korea, the government and business leaders worry that a stronger won, which recently rose to its highest level against the yen since August 2011, will hurt key export sectors, including automobiles, machinery, and electronics.
As more devices, ranging from
automobiles
to pacemakers, are placed online, malicious hackers could turn the “Internet of Things” (IOT) into “the weaponization of everything.”
Even if the world runs out of oil and gas in the coming years, coal will prove to be plentiful, and solid coal can be converted at relatively low cost to liquid fuels for
automobiles
and other uses.
New hybrid automobiles, pioneered by Toyota, use both gasoline and electric power to boost gasoline efficiency by approximately two-fold.
Indeed, the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in 1997 designated 15 major sectors – including automobiles, chemicals, energy assets, and environmental measures – for early liberalization.
Though a small group of collectors invests speculatively in antique or specialty cars, the idea of speculating in
automobiles
just is not in the public consciousness.
And yet, while the country remains a world-beating exporter in industries like automobiles, it is an also-ran in the Internet realm.
Beyond across-the-board tariff reductions, policymakers will also need to designate sensitive and excluded products in a way that promotes regional value chains, including in agro-processing, chemicals, and automobiles, as well as in the services/logistics inputs that constitute up to 60% of the value of final products.
In the US, progress is somewhat more decentralized, though new national policies have been adopted, including Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for
automobiles.
Airplanes, for instance, didn't reduce demand for automobiles: people fly when they would not otherwise have driven.
Steel-consuming companies (such as manufacturers of automobiles, machine tools, and farm equipment) are now severely disadvantaged relative to their foreign competitors.
At a rally in August, Trump reiterated threats about imposing a 25% tariff on
automobiles
– particularly those from the European Union.
In contrast to a steam engine or an old-fashioned automobile, whose operations were easily comprehensible, modern
automobiles
or airplanes are so complicated that their operators have no idea how the technology they are using actually works.
For starters, the Trump administration could offer stronger incentives for foreign investment in major sectors like
automobiles
and infrastructure.
Each time, the Yen weakened, making Japan’s exports – particularly electronics and
automobiles
– more competitive internationally.
In the 1980s, Japan was not seen as a laggard but as a juggernaut who would soon dominate world markets in automobiles, semiconductors, electronics, even finance.
Most people would expect life-saving medications to be treated differently from consumer goods such as smartphones or
automobiles.
This has long been the case: Railroad networks, aviation, automobiles, semiconductors, satellites, GPS, hydraulic fracturing, nuclear power, genomics, and the Internet would not exist but for such partnerships (typically, but not only, starting with the military).
Oil exports and output of
automobiles
– Iran’s leading manufacturing industry – had each declined by two-thirds, and restless industrial workers were demanding back pay.
The first challenge that Copenhagen faces in reaching its zero-emissions goal is the lack of cost-effective alternatives for some sources of CO2, particularly
automobiles.
If Westerners benefit from less expensive Chinese-made cell phones and consumer electronics and South Korean-made automobiles, then so much the better.
There are at least three options: shift to non-carbon energy sources such as solar or nuclear energy; capture and dispose of the carbon dioxide emitted at carbon-based power plants; economize on energy use, for example by shifting to hybrid
automobiles
and trucks.
The manufacture of electrical products, such as chips and passive devices, has quite often been shifted completely to Asia, while even
automobiles
that are still assembled in Germany rely heavily on components produced in Eastern Europe.
Another reason is that many of the manufacturing opportunities in Africa happen to be in globally competitive sectors such as
automobiles
and transport equipment, refined petroleum, computers, and office and industrial machinery.
The key insight is that roughly 75% of our fossil fuel use goes for just a few purposes: to produce electricity and heat at power plants, to drive automobiles, to heat buildings, and to power a few key industries such as refineries, petrochemicals, cement, and steel.
Automobiles
can be engineered for much greater mileage through hybrid technology combining battery power and gasoline.
This translates into a higher proportion of plastics in the remnants of shredded end-of-life
automobiles
– a contaminated mixture of plastics and non-plastics that is usually disposed of through some combination of landfilling, incineration, and secondary recycling.
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