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But there is also something else at work: The causes of today’s predicament are difficult to comprehend and counter effectively.
Such policies have been needed to counter the deflationary pressures caused by the need for painful deleveraging in the wake of large buildups of public and private debt.
In a bid to counter the fly, a team from the world-renowned ICIPE institute in East Africa recently went to Sri Lanka looking for a natural predator.
And the fact is that there is little the traditional oil producers can do to counter shale producers’ likely response to higher prices.
But, as with the cult of physical fitness that took hold during the Industrial Revolution, a new industry of intelligence training will likely emerge to counter mental deterioration.
The rationale for this shift is to use national saints to inspire Catholics – and thereby counter the competition from Protestants, especially Evangelicals.
His embittered attempts to counter American power are equally short-sighted: helping Iran develop its nuclear program and selling high-tech weapons to China are hardly in Russia’s long-term strategic interest.
Regulators must counter the risks implied by structures that are intrinsically destabilizing, as the money market funds were.
If new movements emerge to counter the forces of nationalism and populism, this would not be a far-fetched scenario.
To counter their arguments, opinion-makers should emphasize the expected long-term returns on incremental public investment, not with ideological arguments, but with concrete examples from various sectors in the recent past that have had reasonably good rate of returns.
For example, if we didn’t know whether we would be working long days at a fast-food counter or overseeing the entire organization, we would think differently about compensation structures and the ever increasing gap between the most senior management and the most junior staff members.
This has helped to counter extremist tendencies domestically and provides a conceptual platform for moderate Islam.
Likewise, if economists had listened to their critics who warned about currency manipulation, trade imbalances, and job losses, instead of sticking to models that assumed away such problems, they might have been in a better position to counter excessive claims about the adverse impact of trade deals on employment.
Proponents of OMT counter that the Treaty forbids only direct government bond purchases; indirect purchases in secondary markets are allowed.
But it is an entirely different matter for governments to allow large-scale anonymous payments, which would make it extremely difficult to collect taxes or counter criminal activity.
But removing some public expenditures from the deficit runs counter to sound execution of fiscal policy.
After all, closing the borders to those in need is an extreme response – and one that runs counter to the Christian and European values immigration opponents claim to be defending.
Indeed, an energy tax would not only effectively counter the argument that Europeans are “free riders” when it comes to defense; it would be tantamount to defense leadership.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey would all seek their own “Sunni” bomb to counter the threat of a Shia nuclear empire on their doorsteps.
Air-Sea Battle recalls the AirLand Battle idea that NATO adopted in the late 1970s and early 1980s to counter the growing Soviet threat to Europe.
Economic and political measures, as well as a sustained US military presence, would be more effective than reliance solely on offensive escalation should the US need to counter Chinese actions that threatened important American interests.
Some try to counter this by pointing out that hard work also matters.
But Chinese strategists counter that it is America that is throwing its weight around in East Asia, reinforcing the belief that China will never be secure as long as the US controls the military perimeter that stretches from Japan to Australia.
There is new talk about the resources that may need to be mobilized to counter what is perceived as an increasingly sophisticated threat.
Europe must also counter and reverse micro-level challenges that are becoming more deeply embedded in its economic and financial structure.
At the same time, the need to counter the economic crisis and fight climate change, together with an array of fresh incentives, new directives, and scientific breakthroughs, will lead to substantial progress toward “greening” agriculture, industry, transport, construction, energy, and so on.
Belgium, for example, complains constantly about its lack of representation on the Executive Board, but it has been more interested in demanding equal treatment with the Netherlands in the ECB than pursuing a common strategy with its neighbor to counter the big countries’ unwarranted assumption of permanent seats.
The paradox here is that their actions actually ran counter to their own interests, for, in aging societies, high pension benefits today will invariably mean lower benefits tomorrow.
But all these commendable efforts have failed to counter the phenomenon.
Doubting senators can be subjected to telephone campaigns by the nominee’s supporters (often to counter similar campaigns from the nominee’s opponents), and even to threats from Senate leaders.
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