Bound
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Inextricably
bound
to consciousness, it is an experience that all living creatures with advanced nervous systems share.
With no institutionalized democratic legitimacy, the PA is
bound
to rely on its security forces and on those of the occupier, Israel, to enforce its will.
Undershooting the inflation target is also dangerous because inflation expectations and interest rates will decline over time, which makes it more likely that the ECB will reach the zero lower
bound
when the next downturn occurs.
A technologically stagnant agricultural society is
bound
to be an extremely unequal one: by force and fraud, the upper class push the peasants’ standards of living down to subsistence and take the surplus as the rent on the land they control.
By contrast, mainstream economists argued, a technologically advancing industrial society was
bound
to be different.
When this new power is a nation of 1.3 billion people living under an alien political system and ideology, its rise is
bound
to cause even more uneasiness.
The two best ideas for dealing with the zero
bound
on interest rates seem off-limits for the moment.
The optimal approach would be to implement all of the various legal, tax, and institutional changes needed to take interest rates significantly negative, thereby eliminating the zero
bound.
Unless central banks figure out a convincing way to address their paralysis at the zero bound, there is likely to be a continuing barrage of outside-the-box proposals that are far more radical.
For example, the University of California at Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen has argued that protectionism can be a helpful way to create inflation when central banks are stuck at the zero
bound.
The legacy of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, like that of the Vietnam War before them, is
bound
to teach the US caution in the use of military might.
Then, in Auschwitz, the Pope said: "I speak in the name of everyone whose rights go unrecognized and violated anywhere in the world, I speak because I am bound, we are all bound, by truth."
The EU’s institutions will now confront a legislature marked by growing disaffection, while rising Euroskepticism is
bound
to have a profound impact on national policies.
A dissident as president is
bound
to be unorthodox.
Even if the left wing of the European left – like the most liberal of America’s Democrats – voices concerns that Obama has selected a far too centrist cabinet, a classical form of anti-Americanism is
bound
to recede in Europe.
But the emerging Obama doctrine suggests that “elections alone do not make true democracy,” and that, as has been the case in the Arab world, any abrupt move to democracy is
bound
to produce chaos.
At least one of them is
bound
to be part of the governing coalition.
By the time the book was printed, bound, and distributed to bookstores, that figure was already out of date.
Not only did reckless monetary accommodation set the stage for Japan’s demise; the country’s central bank compounded the problem by taking policy rates to the zero
bound
(and even lower), embracing quantitative easing, and manipulating long-term interest rates in the hopes of reviving the economy.
First observed by John Maynard Keynes during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the liquidity trap describes a situation in which policy interest rates, having reached the zero bound, are unable to stimulate chronically deficient aggregate demand.
Not
bound
by procedural rules or legal strictures, the G20 could respond quickly when needed.
The Middle East is
bound
to remain a cauldron of geopolitical unrest; but, even here, Trump’s preference for local strongmen over “democracy promotion” could restore a degree of stability (at the cost of human rights).
US global leadership is therefore
bound
to shift away from free trade, globalization, and open markets.
This “new normal” for oil reflects new realities: China’s economic growth – and so its demand for oil – is
bound
to be lower; the world’s energy efficiency will increase, not least because of commitments made in December at the Paris conference on climate change; and disruptive innovation is making shale oil and gas, along with renewable energy sources, far more competitive.
My choice would be to have it explain the case for waiting more forthrightly: “Getting off the zero
bound
is hard, we want to see inflation over 3% to be absolutely sure, and then we will move with reasonable speed to normalize.”
I refuse to accept the view that Ukraine is so tragically
bound
to the starless midnight of communism’s legacy that we can never see the bright daybreak of peace and true European unity.
Inevitably, every concrete step out of the EU is
bound
to lead to deeper factionalism.
There is evidence that in the wake of a financial crisis, when monetary policy becomes ineffective – for example, because nominal interest rates are at the zero
bound
– deficit spending can have an unusually strong stabilizing impact.
A liberal society is a society in which people holding different moral opinions are
bound
together through a common rule of law.
If the traffic never moves, “there is
bound
to be trouble and, perhaps, disaster.”
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