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The group’s first task is simply to win the right to put a candidate on the ballot in all 50 US states to run against the
conventional
slate of one Democrat and one Republican.
No one at this point seriously believes that Iran is maintaining an active program to develop nuclear weapons, though not long ago it was almost
conventional
wisdom that the country was close to having them.
During the East Asia crisis of the late 1990’s, he saw firsthand the failure of the
conventional
wisdom pushed by the US Treasury and the International Monetary Fund.
Akerlof and Kranton propose a simple addition to the
conventional
economic model of human behavior.
A decade ago, the
conventional
wisdom was that the world was a uni-polar American hegemony.
As supplementary steps, the report suggests negotiating limitations on missiles, strategic missile defense, space-based weapons, and biological weapons, as well as holding talks on eliminating
conventional
weapons imbalances."
Now, in response, the European Central Bank (ECB) has stepped up its stimulus, joining the Bank of Japan and a couple of other central banks in showing that the “zero lower bound” – the inability of interest rates to become negative – is a boundary only in the imagination of
conventional
economists.
But it suited a wealthy, noisy braggart who barreled into the race attacking
conventional
politicians as “stupid” and insisting that he alone could get things done.
But the buildup of
conventional
military forces – driven in large part by the enormous military might deployed globally by the US – must be addressed as well.
As we engage in furthering our
Conventional
Forces in Europe (CFE) agreement, we should seriously consider reducing the burden of military budgets and forces globally.
Nor are they “easy to win.”Quite the opposite: like
conventional
wars, trade wars are impossible to win.
This flies in the face of
conventional
thinking, which continues to claim that mandating carbon reductions – through cap-and-trade or a carbon tax – is the only way to combat climate change.
This failure reflects the dominance of
conventional
economics, which has produced closed-minded group-thinking within the global central banking community.
That is no surprise, as European central bankers are the most
conventional
in their thinking and have been the most obsessed with inflation.
An obvious explanation is the power of
conventional
thinking.
Nonetheless, at the IMF and in advanced countries, the prevailing view remains that capital controls are a last resort – to be used only after
conventional
macroeconomic and financial policies have been exhausted.
For now, this means promoting
conventional
conservative values like discipline, deference, duty, and sacrifice.
Cuprates superconduct at much higher temperatures, but, more importantly, they possess some exotic properties: they are formed by doping electrical carriers into a host material that is a magnetic insulator – the last place one would look for a
conventional
superconductor.
Just before entering a gas station, Brazilian drivers calculate whether
conventional
gasoline or ethanol is cheaper (bioethanol has 30% less energy content than traditional gasoline), then choose between a gasoline and an ethanol pump.
In terms of big challenges, the
conventional
wisdom is that few things are left to discover.
In December, the OSCE-Summit in Lisbon will discuss the new security order and new rules for
conventional
arms control in Europe, both designed to reassure Russia.
The
conventional
approach to the balance of payments assesses the current account as a function of comparative macroeconomic conditions and exchange rates, and then considers the financial account as a consequent balancing item.
Blue is the New GreenABU DHABI – In recent years, an increasingly loud chorus of environmentalists, civil-society actors, and international institutions have been demanding that
conventional
“brown” economic development, which depends on fossil fuels, be replaced by a lower-carbon “green” growth model.
A conclusion we drew was that, at the very least, the path of an economy, measured by
conventional
macroeconomic variables of unemployment, inflation, and output growth, is not fully determined by aggregate demand.
Another round of wars and peace treaties produced the kleindeutsch German Empire of 1871, and there were only three primarily German-speaking states left in Europe – the German Empire, Austria-Hungary (a dynastic unit, otherwise known as the Habsburg Empire), and the Swiss Confederation – none of which was a
conventional
nation-state.
And as
conventional
politicians continue to take rearguard action against populist upstarts, they will likely embrace more fiscal-policy easing – or at least avoid tightening – to reap near-certain short-term economic gains.
How will the allies respond to the threat of a
conventional
military attack by – or instability in – North Korea?
They arguably add little to three prior sanction resolutions that ban the export of nuclear and ballistic-missile technology and
conventional
arms, and that freeze the assets and travel of a handful of Iranian officials.
To test this idea, we treated a human ovarian cancer, grown in mice, with
conventional
high-dose chemotherapy.
And, as a newly released US Defense Department report shows, Pakistan – “China’s primary customer for
conventional
weapons” – is likely to host a Chinese naval hub intended to project power in the Indian Ocean region.
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