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While wages and incomes are rising now and appear to have broken the iron grip of the surplus labor pool, the growth pattern requires this structural demand-side shift toward more disposable income, greater government consumption, and high-return investment.
But the rule has since broken down.
A Free Lunch for AmericaBERKELEY – Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure.
When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them.
If she loses, the current nationalist wave would be broken, at least temporarily, giving Europe a second chance.
With that guarantee broken by Lehman Brothers’ collapse, every financial institution immediately sought to acquire a much greater capital cushion in order to avoid the need to draw on government support, but found it impossible to do so.
Given these developments, many Western observers have come to believe that the BRICS are broken.
There have, of course, been many examples in history in which currency unions or single-currency states have broken up.
More radical thinkers insist that California is ungovernable and should be broken into two or even three states.
Why these Washington politicians are idle while their state slides towards ruin says much about what’s broken in American politics.
Though church doctrine still holds that marriage is a union between a man and a woman that cannot be broken, his language of tolerance toward homosexuals and the divorced is earthshaking, if not quite groundbreaking.
Broken by history and not wishing to be ravaged by war again, Europeans have embraced compromise and renounced the direct use of force in international relations.
Absent a change in trader beliefs, the current oil price spike will be broken only by a recession that exhausts consumers’ capacity to buffer higher prices, or when the slow process of substitution away from oil kicks in.
Will this long history of authoritarian rule now be broken?
In October 2016, PPI growth turned positive, suggesting that the debt-deflationary spiral may have been broken.
Mandelstam succumbed to the pressure, but he was not broken.
Of course, if cooperation is to work, Russia must earn back the trust that it has broken, demonstrating its commitment to abide by the treaties and international norms of behavior to which it has agreed.
But this typically happens only when an extended political and policy stalemate must be broken – and it often comes at a high cost in terms of public violence and loss of life.
And, according to the BIS, while the renminbi has finally broken into the top ten currencies in foreign-exchange markets, it still accounts for only 2.2% of all transactions, just behind the Mexican peso’s 2.5% share.
Almost everyone agreed that the old paradigm of neoclassical economics was broken, but there was no agreement on what can replace it.
And William Calley, who commanded the platoon that massacred hundreds of Vietnamese civilians at the village of My Lai in 1968, has now broken his media silence and apologized for his actions.
First, the Karzai government must overcome credibility issues related to the broken promises it made in the past to former Taliban who laid down their weapons.
The hottest years since record-keeping began in the nineteenth century were 2005, 2010, and 2014, and last year’s record will almost certainly be broken again this year.
These measures alone will not ensure that all of democracy’s broken promises are fulfilled.
The causes are fascinating, and there is reason to be optimistic that the vicious cycle can be broken, transforming the balance of hope and opportunity between developing and developed economies.
But recent history teaches us that European rules are made to be broken.
This means addressing the Middle East’s broken politics, including both its causes (such as the geostrategic rivalry between Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and Shia-led Iran) and its symptoms (including the civil wars spreading through the Arabian heartland).
In any case, the EU is not at the point where it can discuss such radical steps, as its top priority still must be to fix what is broken: a half-baked banking union, a non-functioning Stability and Growth Pact, excessive regulation, and an empty immigration policy.
We now know that the professor had broken into his own home, with the help of his chauffeur, because the door was jammed.
Though the dynastic trend in Indian politics may be bending, it is far from being broken: This year, the BJP has nominated technocrat Jayant Sinha for the seat being vacated by his father, former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha.
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