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If one company takes the lead on developing new drugs to respond to antibiotic-resistant pathogens that the WHO has identified as urgent priorities, it will free others from their
conventional
strait jackets, and force them to stop thinking so narrowly about quarterly returns.
Moreover, even under the most optimistic scenario, the US and the world will still be relying mainly on
conventional
fossil fuels until the hydrocarbon era comes to an end (which few of us will live to see).
The main culprit in this
conventional
view is China, although the International Monetary Fund is a close second.
America’s third mistake was to overestimate how effective
conventional
military power would be in dealing with the weak states and networked transnational organizations that characterize international politics, at least in the broader Middle East.
At least part of the problem is that it is dealing with complex social forces that are not organized into centralized hierarchies that can enforce rules, and thus be deterred, coerced, or otherwise manipulated through
conventional
power.
Israel made a similar mistake in thinking that it could use its enormous margin of
conventional
military power to destroy Hezbollah in last summer’s Lebanon War.
Both Israel and the US are nostalgic for a twentieth-century world of nation-states, which is understandable, since that is the world to which the kind of
conventional
power they possess is best suited.
This is why the exercise of
conventional
power has become frustrating.
But that earlier effort entailed a major adjustment in interest rates via
conventional
monetary policy.
By conflating QE-induced wealth effects with the effects on borrowing costs that arise through
conventional
channels, Bernanke conveniently sweeps aside most of the risks described above – especially those pertaining to asset bubbles and excess leverage.
Brady Bonds For the EurozoneWASHINGTON, DC – Today’s
conventional
view of the eurozone is that the crisis is over – the intense, often existential concern earlier this year about the common currency’s future has been assuaged, and everything now is back under control.
Given Russia’s
conventional
superiority in the Baltic region, NATO would not have to worry that such an effort would inadvertently end up weakening the region’s security.
Thus, we have the unseemly spectacle of the ECB hesitating to cut interest rates for fear that, having exhausted
conventional
policy, it would have to turn to unconventional measures like quantitative easing, which would antagonize German public opinion even more.
Sridevi – who, after a 15-year hiatus, had made a spectacularly successful return to the silver screen in two mega-hits in the last six years – led a modest and
conventional
life with her husband, film producer Boney Kapoor, and their teenage daughters.
It possesses the world’s third largest national economy, sophisticated industries, and the best-equipped
conventional
military forces among Asian countries.
Oil prices stabilized after a somewhat temporary overshoot, trading increasingly robustly for a while on the back of two
conventional
market reactions.
Although open-ocean aquaculture should still require less diesel fuel than commercial fishing – and could run on renewable energy sources like solar, wind, or waves – offshore aquaculture is more energy-intensive than
conventional
fish farms.
Only after the fact, since the fall of 2009, has it become
conventional
wisdom that those intra-union current-account deficits, accumulating over a decade, were untenable.
Tellingly, Benedict quoted Gilles Bernheim, the Chief Rabbi of France, who has expressed similar views on the threats to
conventional
family life.
From what we can surmise from this case – and many others like it – they are the semi-urbanized products of a highly
conventional
rural society where the roles of men, and especially women, are tightly regulated.
And the US Department of Defense is developing a robust program of long-range
conventional
strike weapons, which China and Russia cite to justify their efforts to strengthen their offensive nuclear forces.
The
conventional
wisdom is based on simple economic and geopolitical logic.
Think of climate change; the risks of nuclear energy and proliferation; terrorist threats (qualitatively different from the dangers of
conventional
war); the collateral effects of political instability; the economic repercussions of financial crises; epidemics (whose risks increase with greater mobility and free trade); and sudden, media-fueled panics, such as Europe’s recent cucumber crisis.
While such an apocalyptic scenario is unlikely to occur, it cannot be ruled out, especially given that a cyber conflict, unlike most
conventional
military conflicts, can be initiated unintentionally, taking even the party responsible by surprise.
Failure to comply would then justify less
conventional
mechanisms to halt the suffering and destruction of Venezuela.
In 2007, the volume of shadow-banking transactions in the US exceeded that of
conventional
banking assets.
But, since one country’s trade deficit is another’s surplus, US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has argued for turning the
conventional
logic on its head: rather than resulting from a savings shortage, the US trade deficit is the result of a global savings glut – especially in China.
According to the
conventional
wisdom, the authorities consistently intervened not only to try to boost the market after the collapse, but also during its year-long run-up, when the Shanghai Stock Exchange composite index more than doubled.
Second, I described how emerging data could suggest measurement problems with the
conventional
wisdom that more rapid trading in financial markets is making them more oriented to the short term than ever before.
Rather than continue to allow misguided
conventional
thinking, centered on German economic ideology, to impede effective action, the ECB must pursue quantitative easing (QE) “for the people” – an adaptation of Milton Friedman’s “helicopter drops” strategy – to reverse deflation and get the eurozone back on track.
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