Clinging
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Many of Srebrenica's survivors were
clinging
to the desperate hope that a missing husband or son might still be alive in a remote camp.
Ideologies of privatization that incapacitate effective government, permitting the privileged to save themselves while leaving the poor
clinging
to roofs, must now be challenged.
But most major central banks are
clinging
to the false belief that there is no difference between the efficacy of the conventional tactics of monetary policy – driven by adjustments in policy rates above the zero bound – and unconventional tools such as quantitative easing and negative interest rates.
If history is a river whose course and flow are shaped by the large structural forces of climate and topography, human agents can be portrayed as ants
clinging
to a log swept along by the current, or as white-water rafters steering and avoiding rocks, occasionally overturning and sometimes succeeding.
But there is no such prince; there are only the old ones,
clinging
to power without legitimacy and toying grotesquely with their people’s aspirations.
Instead, they are founded on a shared frustration with the outmoded entitlements to which the US and Europe are
clinging
– entitlements that are diminishing the Bretton Woods institutions’ credibility and effectiveness.
There is also the insidious inference that someone who chooses to call herself Chinese-American is
clinging
to a non-American identity, whereas someone who chooses to call herself, say, Italian-American, is above suspicion.
This is particularly true in Syria, where a criminal regime is
clinging
to power by any means.
Of course, China’s leaders vigorously resisted that evangelism, especially after the collapse of communism in Europe in 1989, often berating the West for “intruding in the internal affairs of China” and
clinging
even more defiantly to their Leninist, one-party form of governance.
Most governments are still clinging, to varying degrees, to destructive fossil fuels, with their volatile prices and devastating environmental impact, even as this dependence destabilizes their economies.
Clinging
to an outdated mindset and tinkering with our existing processes and institutions will not do.
It was too late to rescue those who had been
clinging
to the wreckage.
The bad news is that the vast majority of market analysts, still
clinging
to the old monetarist framework, will accuse the Fed of “falling behind the curve” by letting US unemployment decline too far and failing to anticipate the threat of rising inflation.
The West, too, has fallen into the trap of nostalgia,
clinging
to a late-twentieth-century conception of order in which it makes the rules and can choose whether to follow them.
And, as Havel pointed out,
clinging
to optimism – the belief that things will end well – is pointless.
The US has the highest statutory corporate tax rate among developed countries and is the only G-7 country
clinging
to an outmoded worldwide tax system under which the foreign profits earned by US-headquartered companies incur additional domestic taxes when they are repatriated.
Instead of
clinging
to Enlightenment rhetoric and dogmas, we must recognize the limits of our world, and shift our attention from conquering it toward preserving it.
A dictator who has shown no concern for his people might actually prove quite talented at
clinging
to power.
Maradona: Priest and Victim of a Dark Argentine RitualAt the edge of death, but still
clinging
to life, Diego Maradona seems these days both priest and victim of a tragic Argentine ritual.
Governments such as Modi’s remain “slaves to some defunct economist,” to borrow Keynes’s phrase,
clinging
to macroeconomic policies that will intensify economic ruin as surely as they always have.
Likewise, in his first speech to parliament in 1981, former President Hosni Mubarak – ousted in the Arab Spring uprising in 2011 after
clinging
to his position for 30 years – said, “God knows I never dreamed of this job.”
The bigger the divestment movement grows, the harder it will be to hide in the shadows,
clinging
to the past.
“While we are all floating on the same sea, it’s clear that some are in superyachts while others are
clinging
to the drifting debris.”It is thus all the more essential that we extend a hand to the poor, who are suffering multiple deprivations, with COVID-19 adding to what was already a crushing burden.
But, despite paying lip service to further market reforms, the CPC has been reluctant to implement them, instead
clinging
to policies that favor SOEs at the expense of private entrepreneurs.
We dread
clinging
on in the grip of, say, dementia, and being a drain on resources and the sympathy of others.
The CHP had long failed to provide an effective counterweight to the AKP, because it refused to develop a popular platform,
clinging
instead to its traditional role as the party of rigid secularism.
Workers should not have to choose between facing a period of severe vulnerability as they shift occupations and
clinging
to the same job until it becomes obsolete, just so they do not lose their benefits.
Clinging
to this hierarchical structure is now a recipe for failure.
Sometimes, history seems like a rushing river whose course is shaped by precipitation and topography, and leaders are simply ants
clinging
to a log in the current.
As a result, governments now have fewer options for responding to the crisis, which may be why some are now desperately
clinging
to the unrealistic hope of technological panaceas such as artificial intelligence or contact-tracing apps.
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