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When Bin Laden’s close collaborator Ayman al-Zawahiri asked al-Zaraqawi to avoid targeting Shiites, al-Zaraqawi instead escalated the violence against them.
Most of my close colleagues at work are similarly foreign-born.
The economics behind efforts to close these energy gaps are relatively straightforward.
Since the start of the crisis, the Bank of England has pumped $325 billion into the British economy, the Fed has expanded the US monetary base by close to $1 trillion, and the People’s Bank of China originated a record amount of $1.4 trillion in loans.
Credit growth has already fallen close to zero in many countries and is contracting in many others as debts levels are reduced for households and companies.
The calculations can be tweaked, but it is difficult to generate anything close to the dramatic figures of 40-50% undervaluation that had been bandied about by some researchers.
Of course, another consequence is that the US unemployment rate is close to post-war peaks and will remain high much longer.
The close of the Second World War ushered in a Cold War, with a precarious peace based on the threat of mutually assured destruction.
The era of cheap or zero-interest money that led to a wall of liquidity chasing high yields and assets – equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities – in emerging markets is drawing to a close.
Back then, the Communist Party was still powerful, and maintained close ties with the Soviet Union.
Indeed, at the beginning of the year, there was hope that US domestic demand would be strong enough this year to support GDP growth of close to 3%, despite the stronger dollar.
So when Trump signed an executive order to bar anyone from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US for 90 days, and to close the door to refugees from Syria indefinitely, she avoided any strong statements.
Even in the wake of the global economic crisis, Colombia’s economy has been growing at an average rate of close to 5%, while benefiting from unprecedented inflows of foreign investment.
Either he renews his country’s commitment to a close partnership with the EU, with all of the prosperity that this would entail, or he continues to push Turkey toward a future of despotism and isolation, in which he would receive the occasional comforting phone call from the Kremlin – but little else.
More than half of this growth increment can be met by adopting best practices that companies around the world already use, while technology can close much of the remaining gap.
China and others will develop some of these capabilities, but, according to many military analysts, China is not likely to close the gap with the US soon.
If the tariffs really are about national security, they must be placed on imports mainly from close allies like Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the EU.
Given the progress made in expanding vaccination programs in recent years, this revelation represents a unique opportunity for the global community, particularly as we begin to close the lid on polio.
As long as we allow cross-border banks at or close to their current scale, our political leaders will be unable to tolerate their failure.
China, a close ally of the government in Khartoum, is now carefully weighing its oil interests and its strategic concerns in the South.
But Milton Friedman ran a close second.
If shareholders want to tell directors what to do – say, borrow more money and expand the business, or close off the money-losing factory – well, they just can’t.
Moreover, Europe’s malaise threatens many of these countries’ political stability as well, given the close connection – especially in China – between the legitimacy of existing arrangements and the continuation of rapid economic growth.
Such a mindset naturally puts a huge premium on close and harmonious transatlantic relations, to the point that, for Europeans, closeness and harmony become the objective itself, without reference to what ends they might serve.
This is a different level of intelligence, more analytical, where close collaboration adds significant value.
Over the last two decades Europe experienced a dramatic expansion of financial markets at the expense of its traditional system of financing based on close relationships between large banks and established firms.
What is required is de-politicized fiscal and macroeconomic surveillance, stricter and more binding budgetary rules, smoother recourse to sanctions for breaching them, and close co-ordination of economic policies.
Later on, the Stability and Growth Pact added a requirement that, over the medium term, government accounts should be "close to balance."
Close to the Belomorkanal, one of the Gulag's major construction sites, a large mass grave was uncovered at Sandarmokh.
But, as both traditional Keynesians and FTPL followers would note, quantitative easing – which amounts to an exchange of money for its close substitutes (zero-interest bonds) – becomes less effective in stimulating demand over time.
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