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China, whose growth performance since 1970 has now broken every record, is well on its way to having the world’s most unequal income distribution.
Now, at last, the taboo that prevented debate has been broken.
The spell was broken when Putin reasserted his grip on executive power.
But the system of taxing global profits is broken – and it is exacerbating inequality both within and across countries.
In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis, the European “social market” model of capitalism seemed like a logical alternative to the Thatcher-Reagan market fundamentalism that had broken down after 30 years of global dominance.
Crime is rampant, the health-care system is broken, and hunger is widespread.
This model became frayed from the 1980’s on, and now appears to have broken down.
Only by building democratic, open societies in which borders and governments diminish in importance can the circle of violence be broken.
As Greece’s finance minister, I proposed a rate reduction for sales tax, income tax, and corporation tax, in order to broaden the tax base, increase revenues, and give Greece’s broken economy a boost.
As if that were not bad enough, the final session witnessed new lows in unruly behavior, with microphones broken, scuffles in the well of the house, and a legislator releasing pepper spray to prevent discussion of a bill he opposed.
They have not used violence, or broken any laws.
Making matters worse, the two countries have, to all intents and purposes, broken off both unofficial and - with scarcely an exception - official dialogue.
It is easy to see the appeal of scrapping today’s global financial architecture, because there is obviously much that is broken.
Worse still, this could even work in Kim’s favor, by buying time for his scientists to master technologies – particularly nuclear-warhead miniaturization – that could then be quickly deployed once the deal is publicly broken.
The only other explanation is that even now, more than three years after the US financial crisis erupted, financial markets’ ability to price relative risks and returns sensibly has been broken at a deep level, leaving them incapable of doing their job: bearing and managing risk in order to channel savings to entrepreneurial ventures.
To acknowledge the fact that the broken educational and skills-building system is responsible for much of the growing inequality that ordinary people experience would, however, detract from the larger populist agenda of rallying the masses against the very rich.
Riots and political protests would have broken out earlier, too.
I do not apologize for rejecting knee-jerk calls for Russia’s expulsion from the G-8, or for EU-Russia or NATO-Russia relations to be broken.
Climate records continue to be broken worldwide.
Why fix what is not broken?
Big shipments are hidden on fishing boats and freighters, then broken up into smallerconsignments that are sent by fast boats up the coast to Morocco or Spain.
But now, just six months later, the promise of education for all refugees is about to be broken, dashing the hopes of millions of Syrians.
And they should recall Nelson Mandela’s dictum: “Promises to children should never be broken.”
But, given what some psychiatrists see as a national emergency, many have broken the rule and spoken or written publicly about their professional assessments of Trump’s mental state.
Juncker’s Commission risks losing its authority from the start if the rules can be bent or broken to accommodate the larger member states’ domestic political priorities.
If the state bowed before the challenge it faced, “France would be no more than a poor, broken toy floating on an ocean of uncertainty,” he warned.
This impasse needs to be broken, either within the coalition or through a new general election in 2019 if necessary.
Indeed, the political turmoil caused by the crisis has broken the back of the old two-party system.
Getting 50 votes for a climate-change bill (with a tie vote broken by the vice president) is almost certain.
The economist Thomas Palley sees it as a means of offsetting growth in income inequality, with access to cheap credit replacing the broken welfare guarantee of social democracy.
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