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As it stands,
conventional
monetary policy has had – and American-style QE will have – little impact on the eurozone’s core countries.
Mandatory sequestration could make net CO2 emissions from bitumen extraction no worse than those from
conventional
oil wells, and perhaps even better.
Second, they could continue to rely on
conventional
monetary and fiscal policy to pull the economy out of the doldrums.
SINGAPORE – Barack Obama’s election comes at a moment when a new bit of
conventional
wisdom is congealing.
Standard international-relations thinking does not even entertain the question, and those
conventional
ways of seeing the world have blinded us to looking at this crucial question.
Yet the efforts in 2008 to unite the Democratic Party weren’t as successful as the
conventional
wisdom suggests.
But, beyond formal treaties, normative constraints on states also include codes of conduct,
conventional
state practices, and widely shared expectations of proper behavior among a group (which create a common law).
Ultimately, limiting the ECB to its
conventional
tool kit amounts to accepting the risk of a eurozone collapse.
In particular, it was a chance to begin to address what could turn out to be the biggest international challenge the administration faces in the coming four years: North Korea’s unrelenting push for deliverable nuclear weapons, without sparking a
conventional
war on the Korean Peninsula.
These measures, which still pale in comparison to what is granted to
conventional
fossil fuels, will be reduced over time as economies of scale are realized and costs fall.
Owing to high prices for
conventional
energy and abundant sunshine, Italy is the first country to achieve grid parity, or cost-competitiveness, for solar energy.
Using “hold” in this way is both completely
conventional
and deeply misleading.
North Korea has a large
conventional
arsenal that could rain down havoc on ten million South Koreans in nearby Seoul.
Some on the left, motivated in part by revulsion against financial types who are thought to reap unjustified incomes, have joined forces with
conventional
economists, whose almost religious belief in their models has blinded them to the harm their dubious economic theory can do to the real economy and the interests of ordinary people.
The
conventional
explanation – a reduced appetite for risk – is not convincing.
This was true even during the negotiating push, when a debate over the sanctions against Iran’s trade in
conventional
arms and ballistic missiles threatened to open a breach between the partners.
The
conventional
hedge-fund strategy should be going short on Shanghai stocks and long on Tokyo stocks.
Achieving it is an understandable priority for the US, but South Korea must worry as much, if not more, about North Korea’s non-nuclear or
conventional
military forces that threaten Seoul, home to roughly 20% of South Koreans.
More generally, the currency of
conventional
military power in the Middle East would largely lose its value, inevitably resulting in a regional nuclear arms race.
These instruments have all the characteristics of
conventional
bonds, but they are backed by investments that contribute to sustainable development or the fight against climate change.
The world looks to the UN as never before, yet the
conventional
wisdom is that we are not up to the job.
The
conventional
wisdom is, however, wrong; worse, it is dangerous, for we have all seen how quickly it can take hold, distort reality, and then harden like cement.
In December 2009 in Copenhagen, world leaders talked far into the night, and emerged, according to the
conventional
wisdom, with virtually nothing.
The
conventional
wisdom will tell you that the MDGs targets – reducing poverty and hunger, improving the health of mothers and children, combating HIV/AIDS, increasing access to education, protecting the environment, and forging a global partnership for development – are simply unattainable.
Nevertheless, on climate change, poverty, and other issues, the
conventional
wisdom is that the UN should cede responsibility to the G-20.
More broadly, we can improve prediction far beyond the ability of
conventional
computers.
In the economy, the near universal
conventional
wisdom after the collapse of the banking system, was that the market had failed and the state had to step in.
It is perplexing because in
conventional
analyses of which activities should be in the public domain, running the national mortgage market is never mentioned.
First, the banks that used to do
conventional
mortgage lending are in bad financial shape.
America’s Constrained ChoiceNEWPORT BEACH – The
conventional
wisdom about the November presidential election in the United States is only partly correct.
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