Claim
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This eventual need to reduce the monetary base is an implicit
claim
on a central bank’s assets; thus, the increase is rightly considered a liability on its balance sheet.
Because the holders of the distributed funds have no
claim
on the central bank, the increase in the monetary base should not be viewed as a liability, but as an increase in the central bank’s net worth.
The Commission is not the first to make such a claim, but its report brings together an abundance of evidence to demonstrate the seriousness of the problem.
Thousands of coral reefs, seagrass beds, and other shallow-water ecosystems are rapidly being destroyed and buried as China’s leaders rush to stake their
claim
to the region.
China’s
claim
to the Spratly Islands and a large portion of the South China Sea is based on the so-called nine-dash line, a demarcation extending far south of its territory that has been repeatedly contested since it was first proposed after World War II.
Many fear that this is a global phenomenon with similar causes everywhere, a key
claim
in Thomas Piketty’s celebrated book Capital in Twenty-First Century.
For deficit reduction, Clinton can
claim
credit.
America meets all the Maastricht criteria for monetary union, which no actual EU member (save Luxembourg) can
claim.
The argument for Palestinian statehood is anchored in a fundamentally moral
claim
for national self-determination.
Negotiations on Greece’s ongoing crisis look more like they are being conducted by the United States and Argentina – countries that are not at war, but that have few ties and no common future – than by EU members who
claim
an enduring solidarity.
But boosters of caste politics
claim
that it is not economic deprivation but the social backwardness from which these castes have historically suffered that makes caste reservations necessary.
Again, Washington lobbyists have bought into the absurd
claim
of trade experts such as Fred Bergsten that the gain from Doha, as it stands now, is a paltry $7 billion or so annually.
For example, instead of dismissing Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah’s boasts of victory, many commentators around the world repeat and endorse his
claim
that Hezbollah fought much more bravely than the regular soldiers of Arab states in previous wars.
Nor is Hezbollah keen to see the end of Israel’s occupation of the Sheba Farms on the Lebanon border undermine its
claim
to the formidable independent military force that it has built with Iranian and Syrian help.
Unfortunately, we have heard leaders – especially from the US –
claim
before that they recognized the problem.
The
claim
is that such a tax will help repress the forces that led to the financial crisis, raise a surreal amount of revenue to pay for progressive causes, and barely impact middle-class taxpayers.
The
claim
is that the US can collect more than five times the amount the UK collects on its narrow tax – an amount equal to more than 10% of revenue from personal income tax.
But Trump’s
claim
is consistent with his intense focus on “deals,” as if trade negotiations were a one-off transaction for the next luxury property or package of distressed debt.
While fairness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, Trump’s
claim
is difficult to justify.
Africa’s AIDS pandemic is well known; its malaria pandemic, which will
claim
three million lives and a billion illnesses this year, is not.
Moderate Arab governments understand full well the issue at stake in this war: it is about regional hegemony in the case of Syria with Lebanon and Palestine and, on a wider level, Iran’s hegemonic
claim
to the entire Middle East.
Defenders of markets sometimes admit that they do fail, even disastrously, but they
claim
that markets are “self-correcting.”
Many Modi supporters
claim
that the demonetization policy’s problems are a result of inept implementation.
But screening’s benefits are not as straightforward as supporters
claim.
Exports outside the Euro area
claim
only 15-16% of Europe's total output, and will be even less when (and if) Sweden and the UK join the Euro.
The
claim
is not simply that the US is, as Bill Clinton put it, the “indispensable nation,” whose global power makes it a party to all major international issues.
CAMBRIDGE – With November’s election in the United States fast approaching, the Republican candidates seeking to challenge President Barack Obama
claim
that his policies have done nothing to support recovery from the recession that he inherited in January 2009.
If anything, they claim, his fiscal stimulus, the bank bailouts, and US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s aggressive monetary policy made matters worse.
Those who
claim
that this spending does not boost income and employment (or that it causes harm) apparently believe that as soon as a teacher is laid off, a new job is created somewhere else in the economy, or even that the same teacher finds a new job right away.
The only thing that would hold the left together would be the
claim
that there should be more redistribution: but to whom, and according to what mechanism?
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