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And oil for future delivery in 2020 still costs well below $70, creating an unusual market condition called “deep backwardation,” which was last seen in the autumn of 2014 and often presages a steep price decline.
Rising gasoline costs have already reversed almost half the gains from this year’s tax cuts for middle-class Americans.
Internally, bankers had enormous potential to benefit from risky moves, but were insulated from the costs of failure.
But hints of new fiscal imprudence or of backsliding on long-term debt consolidation and reduction can drive up borrowing costs dramatically.
In these circumstances, the additional costs of debt service easily outweigh any gains that might come from some measure of fiscal relaxation.
Moreover, nothing was done in anticipation of the end of terms-of-trade gains in resource-rich countries like Russia, Brazil, Indonesia, and South Africa, which have been facing rising wage costs and supply-capacity limits.
By using smart farming techniques such as drought-resistant seeds, intercropping, composting, and crop diversification, farmers can blunt the effects of extreme weather at very low costs.
Nevertheless, a consensus has developed internationally that yielding to such extortion costs even more lives.
On the other hand, there is limited enthusiasm for establishing yet another ad hoc international tribunal – in addition to those now at work for ex-Yugoslavia and Rwanda – because of the costs.
Adequate private insurance can be boosted in the future through public education, improved insurance institutions, and lower insurance costs.
With his transactional approach to politics, Trump seems to focus more on the costs of having a global reserve currency than on the advantages.
It drives participants into opposite corners, setting them up for conflict – an outcome that should be avoided at all costs.
For their part, EU member countries should recognize that they, as sovereign actors, chose integration, because the benefits of pooling their sovereignty outweighed the costs.
It is time for countries to abandon the notion that there is some magical form of sovereignty that will allow them to escape their responsibilities as EU members without incurring serious costs.
But, with a resurgent Taliban stepping up attacks, the war has raged on, exacting staggering costs in blood and treasure.
In short, China can afford the costs of rebalancing.
Even if we did not incur the same costs as the US over the past decade – the hundreds of billions of dollars spent, and the many young people killed or injured – we have paid the price that regional uncertainty always imposes: lost trade, lost growth, refugees, and violence.
In the face of these costs, the overblown and sometimes clearly dishonest claims about the war are an obscenity.
The Trade Costs of Leaving the EUBRUSSELS – The “Brexiteers” – those who want Britain to leave the European Union – argue that their goal would be virtually cost-free and have no effect on the United Kingdom’s global trade.
The EU, too, would incur costs, albeit much smaller as a share of its overall economy.
Despite the costs, a “hard” Brexit would, at a minimum, discourage other EU members from following the UK’s lead, thereby shoring up European stability and helping Britain maintain its national security, which may be the most important consideration in the long run.
People also believe that tax increases cannot realistically be purely temporary expedients in an economic crisis, and that they must be regarded as an opening wedge that should be avoided at all costs.
They also have substantially lower out-of-pocket medical costs than the uninsured, including the elimination of “catastrophic” out-of-pocket costs.
The cuts would also increase the costs to hospitals that provide care that is not reimbursed.
It is not surprising that the prospect of adding these costs for tens of millions of patients to states’ budgets and to hospital costs causes state governors and hospital administrators to protest when Congress proposes cutting back on the Medicaid program.
It may not even know which of its projects fail, because evaluating them, and learning from mistakes, requires staff – and that adds to administrative costs.
By 2050, production costs will fall to 2-4 cents per kilowatt-hour.
Updating them would paint a realistic picture of the costs and impact of our energy production and consumption on the world’s climate, reveal the importance of renewable energy to economic development, and enable better planning of energy infrastructure.
For starters, construction costs for solar power plants are finally low enough to produce electricity at a competitive, stable price for more than 25 years.
The Fraunhofer study shows that differences in capital expenditure are as important for costs per kilowatt-hour as differences in sunlight.
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