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I remained convinced that a bust was bound to come, but I could not afford to stand by my convictions.
As a result, the coming year is bound to be at least as bloody as the last one.
Given China’s systemic importance in the global economy, uncertainty about its plans and prospects is bound to send tremors through global capital markets.
The anemic recovery in the developed world has occurred against the backdrop of the most dramatic monetary easing in history – eight years of policy interest rates near the zero bound and enormous liquidity injections from vastly expanded central-bank balance sheets.
After all, banks are bound to lend on adequate collateral; and, in the run-up to the crisis, rising house prices provided it.
Leonid Brezhnev used to have his culture and agriculture ministers swap places, as if – bound by the word culture – they were one and the same field of expertise.
While technically correct, this is a ruthless interpretation, since this type of “willing” behavior is bound to leave resentment.
Rating agencies are right in considering them a “selective” default that is bound to result in contagion – and, eventually, in widespread debt restructuring.
In many countries, CACs stipulate that if, say, two-thirds of the investors accept a company’s (or a country’s) restructuring proposal, the other investors are bound to go along.
As the crisis progressed, the single currency began to feel like a straitjacket, and voters increasingly became convinced that escaping it would solve the problems that had emerged while bound by it.
This situation, in which both sides feel trapped, can be viewed as a variant of the famous master–slave dialectic in Georg W.F. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit: both sides are equally bound.
And the process of getting there is bound to require difficult negotiations and hard compromises.
As a result, applying a single standard for assessing investor protection worldwide is bound to miss the mark with respect to widely held firms, controlled firms, or both.
Keynes (and Keynesians today) would think of the crisis as resulting from the opposite cause: under-investment relative to the supply of saving – that is, too little consumption or aggregate demand to maintain a full-employment level of investment – which is bound to lead to a collapse of profit expectations.
Not since Stalin’s show trials of the 1930’s has a defendant so effusively praised a judge who seemed bound to condemn her at a trial where no witness or evidence against her was presented.
Such anxiety is not surprising: US and Japanese defense capabilities are not symmetrical, and that is bound to agitate the more dependent party.
If politicians’ behavior is determined by the vested interests to which they are beholden, economists’ advocacy of policy reforms is bound to fall on deaf ears.
But their commitment to Europe’s military revolution is bound to move them closer to fulfilling them.
A more useful framework would view the state and the market as two sides of the same coin, bound together by the property-rights infrastructure (PRI).
And yet we are all bound by the desire to see ourselves and our loved ones thrive and be the best we can be.
In fact, the allusion to space exploration has another dimension: the achievements of any great are not bound to one’s time or place of origin and can be transmitted to other cultures and generations.
Anything short of this is bound to fail.
Thus, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, who enjoys great respect at home and abroad, is bound to play a pivotal role.
The former magistrate Antonio Di Pietro, whose crusading investigations of political corruption overthrew Italy’s party system in the early 1990’s, is bound to join them.
Finally, it is not even clear that the zero lower bound is primarily responsible for high US unemployment.
Imagine how American managers would react to consultants arriving from Ghana with their "best practice": "It worked in Accra, so it is bound to work in New York!"
Why, then, has Trump allowed his most Sinophobic advisers – US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo – to start a game of chicken against China, which the US is bound to lose?
The Argentine people and their future governments will be bound by a text that precludes the pursuit of justice.
When member states sign up to laws in Brussels, they accept an absolute obligation to be bound by them.
Not only are key issues such as Jerusalem and Palestinian refugees insoluble without an all-Arab consensus, but any country that is left out of the peace process is bound to persist in its role as a revolutionary power bent on regional destabilization.
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