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The United States is likely to be hard-nosed in trade negotiations with the UK, but benign, placing Britain in the middle of the queue, rather than at the back, as President Barack Obama threatened.
There are two scenarios – one benign, the other vindictive – for what another of my Berkeley colleagues, Laura Tyson, has called “progressive federalism.”
In the benign scenario, people will club together in different states on the basis of their preferences for big or small government, public or private provision of services, and international cooperation or isolationism.
We Americans are about to find out in which US, benign or vindictive, we now live.
In addition to this difference in the relative magnitude of imports, the benign price effect of low-cost import competition is much larger in Germany’s competitive retail landscape than in the more traditional, and uncompetitive, retail systems of Italy or Greece.
Indeed, the Lebanon metaphor is too benign.
Its presence is enough to support a benign self-fulfilling prophecy.
One example is the belated recognition that seemingly inert and benign halogenated hydrocarbons were interfering with the ozone layer.
Businesses would move to countries where the regulatory climate is the most benign, exposing other countries to risks that they cannot afford to run.
A third, newly emerging reason for an Asian approach to human rights is more benign.
In order to replace these chemicals with others that are more benign, the equipment in which they are used – like freezers, coolers, and units for foam plastic production – must be substituted for new ones.
But it’s much cheaper, although forbidden, to use the old equipment and refill them with CFC’s when needed than to buy new machines and use the more environmentally benign but more costly alternatives.
At the nanometer scale (about 50,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair), matter behaves in unusual ways: weak materials become strong, inert materials become active, and benign materials become harmful.
Finance is one beneficiary, thanks to benign regulation and huge investment in infrastructure in the City of London and Canary Wharf.
We do not regard debt restructuring as benign, let alone desirable, and we do not advocate making it automatic or driven by numerical triggers.
And it was viewed as benign by central banks convinced that the attainment of price stability was sufficient to ensure a lasting “ Great Moderation” of economic volatility .
Much of this costly divergence from the earlier projections can be attributed to the benign view of fiscal consolidation that UK authorities and the IMF shared.
Both sides need to engage in the vital enterprise of turning the border that separates them into a benign space of transnational development and stability.
After all is said and done, the ending could in fact turn out to be surprisingly benign and, ironically, similar to what exists now.
It would be rash to assume that the outcome in Russia would be as benign as Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution.”
In this environment, the Fed can well afford to maintain its stance of benign neglect toward the dollar.
Some may have been sufficiently indoctrinated to feel that the Great Leader really was a benign father figure to whom they owed everything.
This would have capped the number of centrifuges at a low level, kept enrichment below the possibility of weaponization, and converted enriched uranium into benign forms of nuclear fuel.
As global economic activity shifted and the structure of all economies evolved with it, the distributional effects were overwhelmingly benign.
Compared to Indian capitalism, capitalism’s ethical failures elsewhere look especially benign.
But the problem with populism is that it is rarely benign.
Obama’s Middle EastJERUSALEM – President-elect Barack Obama’s plans for the Middle East, the region where his predecessor’s policies shattered America’s standing around the world as a benign superpower, represent a welcome departure from President Bush’s grand design to redress the region’s ills through “constructive chaos.”
Many optimistic observers of China, often mollified by their close relations with the Communist regime, bet on a soft transition from despotism toward an open society, but recent events don’t support such a benign interpretation.
The goal in this area should be to create international arrangements that encourage benign uses of cyberspace and discourage malign uses.
Draghi’s intervention marked the start of a new cycle: the doom loop reversed, and became a benign credit cycle in which lower risk premia allowed both banks and governments to refinance at lower rates, making more credit available to the economy and thereby fueling a recovery that increased government revenue.
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