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Two years ago, the silence was broken briefly by Ken Attafuah, who directs Ghana's truth and reconciliation commission, charged with investigating rights violations during two decades of dictatorships.
Just as Spain (not Germany) remains the benchmark in European football, so Europe speaks broken English at best.
But the monetary-policy transmission mechanism is broken, and liquidity is not making it to the real economy.
Suddenly, the entire debt-financed system was broken.
The UN and NATO are widely perceived as damaged, if not broken, by their failure to agree on what to do about Iraq.
The economy’s credit circuits are broken.
It has broken an unwritten agreement that has upheld the Internet’s role as a space for global information-sharing and free discussion.
If Basel becomes a talking shop, without the ability to set firm standards, another key link in the chain will be broken, and it will be harder for the UK to argue that if London’s banks meet international standards, they should be granted equal treatment in the EU.
The Limits of Oil’s ReboundLONDON – For the first time since last October, the price of a barrel of oil has broken through $50.
The range of usable territory – the spectrum – is administered by governments as though it were real estate, and is broken up according to wavelength, with an amount apportioned for cell phones, other bits for military pilots, and so on.
To be sure, there is a role for unconventional policies like quantitative easing (QE); when markets are broken or grossly dysfunctional, central bankers need to think innovatively.
The latest error, as with most of the earlier ones, stemmed from wishful thinking – and, once again, it is Greece that has broken the reverie.
Repeatedly, a fragile peace has broken down because of the lack of economic follow-up.
The logic is that conditionality will ensure that countries are solvent, while OMTs will restore trust to a market that has broken down because investors fear that the countries concerned will exit the eurozone.
But this mechanism, the so-called Phillips curve, seems to have broken down.
With Trump in charge, that rudder is broken, and the entire system could be left stranded in dangerous waters from which it will be very difficult to escape, even after he is out of power.
A democrat who opposed ballot rigging in his town, his body was broken by mafia networks in “safe” Turkey, in a succession of torture sessions for ransom.
Indeed, if Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s founding father, had been right that Muslims are a separate nation, Bangladesh would not have broken away from it, and the country’s relations with its neighbor Afghanistan would be free of intrigue and violence.
The former, represented by the United States, has broken down, and the latter, represented by China, is on the rise.
What is lacking, however, is a general recognition that the system is broken and needs to be reinvented.
Nevertheless, many anticipate that this year’s election will catalyze change, and that the cycle of greed and corruption that is weakening South Korea’s economy will finally be broken.
But, over the last decade or so, that relationship has broken down.
The Destruction of the Republican PartyBERKELEY – It has been one and a half years since Donald Trump was elected to the US presidency, so now is as good a time as any for Americans to take a deep breath and contemplate their broken political system.
Instead of repeating like a broken record that “this has nothing to do with Islam,” it is time to admit that the US has become yet another theater in the battle between the Islam of the radicals and the Islam of enlightenment and the rule of law.
Only the Gestapo, during the Nazi occupation, had ever broken this rule.
Likewise, Wall Street’s banking behemoths are unlikely to be broken up.
Of course, the world has come to expect broken promises and capriciousness from Trump.
Once the link between “reform” and growth is broken – as it has been in Greece – his argument collapses.
So far, the US and Russia have not only broken off bilateral negotiations; mutual nuclear agreements have also come under threat.
Any financial institution that is too big or too interconnected to fail, or could quickly become so, must be closely regulated and monitored for risk and capital adequacy in real time, or be broken up into smaller firms.
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