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Former Secretary of State George Shultz, who served under Ronald Reagan, once
compared
his role to gardening –“the constant nurturing of a complex array of actors, interests, and goals.”
Compared
to monetary policy, fiscal policy is infinitely more complex, involving many more trade-offs among competing interests.
Nonetheless, 20-25% of households faced flat or falling disposable incomes from 2005 to 2014,
compared
to less than 2% in the preceding 12 years.
In the atomic and subatomic world, gravity is irrelevant
compared
to what else is going on, all of which can be described by quantum theories.
As such, he might be
compared
to Pyotr Stolypin, another conservative prime minister who famously asked for 20 years of peace and quiet – mostly from liberals and revolutionaries – to transform Russia.
The French National Front did badly in regional elections
compared
to the mainstream and pro-European right.
After all, annual economic growth - at an average rate of 2.5% - may have been markedly slower than during the Clinton years, but it still looks strong
compared
to Europe's anemic 1% growth.
Compared
to these imperatives, there is little to be gained from informing the public about how the economy really functions and about the dilemmas of economic policy.
And they even note that the US economy has been at full employment for just 30% of the period since 1980,
compared
to 70% of the period between the late 1940s and 1980.
To say that emerging markets’ financial and fiscal positions are stronger raises the economist’s traditional question:
Compared
to what?
In reality, the global death toll from all of them, combined, is tiny
compared
to that from major infectious diseases that we hear much less about: diarrhea, tuberculosis, AIDS, malaria, tetanus, or measles.
In Europe, Piketty singles out Italy as the country where the wealth-to-income ratio rose the most, to about 680% in 2010,
compared
to 230% in 1970.
This difference can be explained largely by the fact that 59% of households in Italy own homes,
compared
to only 26% in Germany.
Compared
to the actual temperature rise since 1980, the average of 32 top climate models (the so-called CMIP5) overestimates it by 71-159% (see graph).
In 2010, 8.3% of China’s population was 65 and older,
compared
to 7.5% worldwide, while its GDP per capita was only 47.7% of the global average.
Compared
to previous global downturns triggered by a financial crisis, the global economy bounced back robustly.
Compared
to the past, the current order performed well above average.
Their starting point is the observation that in the post-World War II period (from Harry Truman to Barack Obama), annual GDP growth has averaged 4.3% during Democratic administrations,
compared
to 2.5% under Republicans.
That figure is even more remarkable when
compared
to the 12 years leading up to 2005, when less than 2% of households’ incomes were flat or declining.
In the four years since the global financial crisis struck, the growth rate fell to -1.2%,
compared
to the eurozone average of -0.2%, and it is expected to remain negative this year.
For example, per capita health-care spending in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland exceeds $3,000,
compared
to only $2,300 in Italy, where households must contribute roughly 20% of total health-care spending.
Mankind’s growing influence on the environment was recognized as long ago as 1873, when the Italian geologist Antonio Stoppani referred to the “anthropozoic era,” defined by a “new telluric force, which in power and universality may be
compared
to the greater forces of earth.”
The Myth of “Superstar Cities”In a much-talked-about recent paper entitled “Superstar Cities,” economists Joseph Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai argue that such high-status cities – not only London, Paris, and New York, but also cities like Philadelphia and San Diego – may show an “ever-widening gap in housing values” when
compared
with other cities.
Compared
to other Gulf monarchies, the Kuwaiti royal family has limited powers, though constitutional rules have frequently been ignored—charges of vote-rigging marred the 1967 election, and parliamentary dissolution has dotted the country’s history.
I sit on the board of Yandex, a Russian search company with a roughly 60% market share in Russia,
compared
to Google’s 20% or so.
While the European Central Bank has also been buying government bonds since last spring, the amount is relatively small (€70 billion,
compared
to the Fed’s $600 billion program), and is meant only to support troubled eurozone members, with particular care taken to avoid any impact on money supply.
France’s international reputation was not damaged, and, at home, the left’s performance, especially concerning unemployment,
compared
well with that of other governments.
They have a miserable diet – not least when
compared
with Bush’s Texan neighbors.
Australia, for example, has made voting mandatory, with a small fine for noncompliance; as a result, it achieves 94% voter turnout, on average,
compared
to 57% in the 2012 US presidential election.
Instead, central bankers focused single-mindedly on price stability, though the costs of somewhat higher inflation would have been miniscule
compared
to the havoc wrought by the financial excesses that they allowed, if not encouraged.
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