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Both Hamas and Hezbollah are bound to conclude from Israel’s emotional collapse at the fate of one young soldier that its helplessness in dealing with psychological and sentimental dilemmas opens the way to its eventual strategic defeat.
At the same time, there is no such clear upper bound to inflation.
So with inflation rates near their long-term lower bound, the expectation should be for higher , not lower, inflation rates over the longer term.
If the America’s problem is not a pothole but an abyss, the whole world is bound to fall into it.
If that is not occasionally punctured, things are bound to end in tears.
Whoever plays a three-dimensional game by focusing on only one board is bound to lose in the long run.
It was bound to go off the road.
Unfortunately, the OAS – though bound by the Inter-American Democratic Charter – has failed to act, revealing that it is not prepared to address the gray areas of electoral fraud.
The US government often declares these days that it is not bound by any “arbitrary” numerical target such as 0.7% of GNP.
In America, the Federal Reserve is bound to become much more politicized as a result.
The balance between saving and investment could be achieved, Summers argues, only with a nominal interest rate that is below the zero lower bound.
It thrives in societies that are not bound by laws that apply equally to all, or even by any formal laws at all.
If you are a closed and inward-looking country, you are bound to need lots of psychologists.
That demand brought the quest for peace back to its fundamentals, where the question of the refugees is bound to play a central role.
For example, because not all countries are signatories to these agreements, vessels can choose which flag to fly to avoid being bound by regulations (a “flag of convenience”).
There is no longer any reason to let the zero bound on nominal interest rates continue to hamper monetary policy.
If future generations feel themselves bound by such provisions, they are, Bentham thinks, enslaved by long-dead tyrants.
Bentham’s objection to such attempts to bind posterity applies not only to the union that created the UK, but also the one that formed the US: Why should the current generation consider itself bound by what was decided hundreds of years earlier?
For example, the Rhineland model used many measures of social policy that had built-in growth trends that were bound to make them unaffordable.
Thus, the Rhineland model's once-robust institutions of social justice were bound to be squeezed.
As there is a zero lower bound to the nominal interest rate, the central bank may well find itself unable to drive the interest rate/inflation differential to a low enough level, which may result in a slump and even a downward spiral.
But this is not a systemic problem; and, in fact, a rise in gold prices would close part of the gap between demand and supply for safe assets that has emerged due to the zero lower bound on interest rates.
That supposition liberated the Fed from fear of the dreaded “zero bound” that it was approaching in 2003-2004, when, in response to the collapse of the equity bubble, it lowered its benchmark policy rate to 1%.
The implication was clear: substantial monetary and fiscal stimulus is critical for economies that risk approaching the zero bound.
Any doubt as to what form that “substantial stimulus” might take were dispelled a few months later, when then-Fed Governor Bernanke delivered a speech stressing the need for a central bank to deploy unconventional measures to mitigate deflationary risks in an economy that was approaching the zero bound.
But such exhortations to Chinese or Russian authorities are bound to fall on deaf ears.
Their attempt to replace an imperfect but popular law with a pseudo-reform that would deprive more than 24 million Americans of basic health care was bound to fail – or sink Republican members of Congress in the 2018 mid-term elections if it had passed.
Notwithstanding Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s commendable gestures at Sharm el-Sheikh in 2007, the summit’s achievements are bound to be short-lived.
That is precisely why these violations must be made costly: to signal to Israeli voters that the cost of occupation is bound to rise.
As with any economic process, globalization has a distributive dimension, which means that it is bound to generate frustration for some groups of people.
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