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China’s Real Reform ChallengeLONDON – It is often assumed that emerging-economy living standards are bound to converge with those in developed countries.
By seeking to make an example of the UK, the EU is sending the message that it is a union in which some members are bound to lose.
Moreover, the Fed’s approach is severely compromised by the so-called zero bound on interest rates.
Any political attempt to stop this process any sooner is bound to fail.
Achieving these goals is bound to involve a greater regard for social equality, after a period in which the very rich have been able to protect a “Roaring Twenties” lifestyle through cleverly exploiting the “culture wars” – i.e., the populist prejudices of their much poorer fellow citizens.
Exchange rate volatility for the pound is bound to continue until the referendum, and to intensify at moments when a vote for “Brexit” looks more likely.
A policy based on fiction and double standards is bound to fail sooner or later.
Israel is bound to fight against this emerging new American doctrine that equates it with Iran, or even with India and Pakistan for that matter.
They will stress that if the lessons of history are not learned, history is bound to repeat itself.
Political leaders, on the other hand, are bound by the principle of “one person, one vote,” and have a responsibility to take care of both the haves and have-nots, the employed and the unemployed alike.
Of course, economies that depend on foreign investment are bound to be hurt nowadays, because those investors have less capital to invest.
Even if Scotland declares independence, it will – and should continue to be – bound by a dense web of European and global rules and responsibilities.
Put differently, authentic German rectitude cannot be achieved without a form of redistribution that is bound to clash with the interests of, say, a French or a Greek oligarchy too lazy to come to terms with its own unsustainability.
Of course, Al Qaeda-linked jihadist groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has become a potent force on the ground, and the Nusra Front will not and should not be represented in Montreux – not least because they will not feel bound by any agreement.
On the asset side of the balance sheet, the auditors would be bound to note that the Board has done much useful work.
Japanese porn features schoolgirls, often bound.
But others, like India, are bound to see something more sinister afoot, an effort at encirclement.
Some experts argue that, even if the EU does open membership negotiations with the Greek-Cypriot government of Cyprus, as it is virtually bound to do, it must make clear that they cannot be completed without a settlement of the Cyprus question.
For others, globalization is a curse under which poor countries are bound to fall further and further behind.
In particular, China’s breathtaking economic success seems to point to the existence of viable authoritarian alternatives to the Western idea that freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and the market economy are bound together.
That is considered necessary, of course, because central banks have already pushed benchmark policy rates to the once-dreaded “zero bound.”
More important, even though the severe sanctions regime led by the United States is bound to be imperfect – it only hardens further Iran’s resistance to “America’s designs.”
This means that all money earned is bound to be spent, and therefore that at no point in time could there be a “general glut” of commodities.
Conversely, ethnocentric nationalism is bound to distort a people’s relations with the rest of the world.
This day was bound to come.
The situation is deteriorating, and, in the longer term, it is bound to become unsustainable.
It is this reality that has led the Americans to endorse two Israeli positions – recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and intrusive security arrangements – that the Palestinians are bound to reject.
From that point on, the specter of a Jewish minority ruling over an Arab majority in an apartheid state is bound to become a reality, turning Israel into an international pariah, unless a more sober coalition replaces Netanyahu’s suicidal alliance with religious fundamentalists and extreme nationalists.
As a result, they are bound to be disappointed.
But sound economics should also have told us that there were bound to be losers as well as winners, with the losers – and potential populist voters – often concentrated in the same smaller towns and rural areas that form the backbone of the gilets jaunes movement.
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