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And, unaccompanied by a credible medium-term fiscal strategy, it unnecessarily excited the apostles of fiscal doom.
And is it credible to place the blame overwhelmingly on the US, as Gorbachev and certainly the Kremlin are inclined to do?
No credible government or international organization accepts Russia’s description of the annexation as a legal democratic act by the Crimean people.
All parties are right to worry about the affected populations, but, more than any sophisticated diagnostic equipment, what is needed is credible information, presented in a digestible format, to counter Chernobyl’s destructive legacy of fear.
In such cases, limited and credible intervention should suffice to flip the trend, but there is no guarantee.
Annan is also pressing for a more effective and credible international machinery for defending human rights.
This stopped short of establishing a credible fiscal authority for the eurozone.
So, because US President Barack Obama’s administration has not bothered to follow credible procedures in making its nomination, much less select a better candidate, a failed World Bank president will get another crack at the job.
At the beginning of the year, when Rousseff’s second presidential term officially began, her administration’s priorities were clear: implement a credible fiscal-adjustment program that would take the primary budget balance (which excludes interest payments) comfortably back into surplus and reduce the growth rate of public debt to sustainable levels.
In short, Brazil lacks a credible fiscal and monetary anchor.
Finally, the current financial turmoil highlights a long-standing but urgent problem for Europe: the lack of credible arrangements for the management of cross-border banking crises.
But the Senate is without a credible majority, rendering Italy ungovernable.
Despite considerable Israeli disgust with Netanyahu’s party, allies, and policies, no credible rival exists.
"I asked French and German leaders, but never received any credible answer."
Any credible bailout plan must require creditor banks to accept that they will lose at least half of their money.
Without his determination, backed by a highly credible show of military force and skilful diplomacy, Iraq's military programmes would not now be exposed to a scrutiny more intense than that applied to any other would-be proliferator in the world today.
The credible threat of war has been essential to achieving this extraordinary feat.
Similarly, the threat of US military strikes did little to concentrate Kim’s mind: even Western analysts do not find that threat credible.
And we should develop a credible European Defense Union within NATO, which would strengthen cooperation across the EU and alleviate eastern member states’ security concerns.
Specifically, if governments were able to treat infrastructure investment just as companies treat capital expenditure – as balance-sheet assets that are depreciated over their lifecycle, rather than as one-off expenses – such investment could then be exempted from Europe’s deficit rules without opening the door to profligate spending or easing the pressure for credible plans for long-term fiscal-consolidation.
If the Fed could be highly credible in its plan to hold down the ten-year interest rate, it could probably get away without having to intervene too much in markets, whose participants would normally be too scared to fight the world’s most powerful central bank.
In 2017, 71% of respondents globally considered government officials not credible or only somewhat credible, and 63% of respondents had the same dismal view of CEOs.
EU leaders are weak, divided, and seemingly incapable of setting out a credible vision of the future benefits that European integration could provide, without which they cannot rally popular support and convince recalcitrant governments to bear their fair share of current costs.
Trump’s fiscal plans, which involve massive tax cuts without credible reduction in spending, could cause US interest rates to spike, fueling turmoil in financial markets.
The apology would have to be straightforward and credible, unlike his recent statement, in which he effectively denied the genocide by referring vaguely to “the events of 1915” and trivialized the Armenians’ suffering by equating it with that of “every other citizen of the Ottoman Empire” at the time.
Government debts never have to be repaid, provided they can be extended in a cooperative manner or bought up with newly created money, issued by a credible central bank.
But that rule succumbed rather quickly to violent money-demand shocks, though Friedman’s general argument – that a credible commitment to low inflation requires favoring rules over discretion – remains very influential.
If so, a lasting solution will have to include credible measures to raise eurozone growth rates.
The eurozone has proven itself unable to develop a convincing economic strategy to revive economic growth, reduce public debt to normal levels, and raise credible liquidity walls around its distressed sovereigns.
The canonical case for democratic delegation arises when there is a paramount need for credible commitment to a particular course of action.
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