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Madison’s “scheme of representation” included several innovative elements, two of which apply to the eurozone’s current crisis.
To understand this polity’s absurdity, consider how American political elites would act under Europe’s current system of representation.
As they close in on effective joint banking and fiscal policies incorporating more and more elements of Hamilton’s fiscal federalism, they are increasingly constrained by state politics – exactly as Europe’s leaders are inhibited in the current system.
At this rate, current oil output and oil exports now exceed post-invasion predictions.
In contrast, only Saudi Arabia can flood the market and reduce prices far below their current level.
Current oil revenues are barely enough to cover state expenses, let alone pay for reconstruction, debt, and war reparations.
His current overall disapproval rating is 54%, versus 40% approval, with strong approval from around 25% of the public.
If the world continues on its current trajectory, global temperatures will eventually rise by several degrees centigrade, causing higher sea levels, mega-storms, severe heat waves, massive crop failures, extreme droughts, heavy flooding, and a sharp loss of biodiversity.
The best way to achieve that is not through the current mix of ultra-low interest rates and quantitative easing.
Obama’s current “winter of discontent” genuinely reflects the mixed record of his first year.
If these two countries’ mutual hostility is not reined in, and a fundamentalist Afghanistan continues to provide the strategic depth through which Pakistan threatens its sworn Indian enemies, the current disaster might still breed defeat.
One possible candidate is Said Jalili, Iran’s current nuclear negotiator, or someone like him.
The question, then, is to divide the bill among current and future generations.
Generational balance occurs when a current newborn faces the same tax burden over a lifetime as a representative member of a future generation.
If a future taxpayer is to pay more in net taxes (taxes minus transfers) than a current newborn in order to receive the same level of public goods, then the current generation is not paying for its own consumption but is, instead, imposing debts on its own children and grandchildren.
If future generations in these countries are to receive the same per-capita level of public goods, their net lifetime taxes will be at least 75% higher than the taxes facing current newborns.
Italy’s future generations, for example, can expect to pay 131.8% higher lifetime net taxes if current policies are maintained.
Norway, Portugal, Argentina, Belgium and America all have substantial imbalances, imposing a 50 % to 75% increase in net lifetime taxes for future generations through their current fiscal policies.
In only three countries - New Zealand, Thailand and Sweden - are generational balances negative, meaning that those countries are leaving generations yet born with lower lifetime net taxes than current newborns.
But current generations, wary of increasing their own tax burdens or curtailing their benefits, may not be willing to tackle these issues.
Failure to act now means permitting each new generation that is born to benefit from the same lifetime net tax rate as current generations.
After all, the Union cannot afford to permit current consumption to continue to prevail over the investment needed to ensure future prosperity.
First, the euro has eliminated the possibility of exchange-rate turbulence and speculative currency attacks that more vulnerable economies could have expected in the current turmoil.
America, the BalancedCAMBRIDGE – When the United States’ current account fell into deficit in 1982, the US Council of Economic Advisers accurately predicted record deficits for years to come, owing to budget deficits, a low national saving rate, and an overvalued dollar.
Somalia’s current catastrophe is not unique.
Was the Iron Lady an author of the world’s current misfortunes?
Depending on the location, improved flood protection, irrigation technology, or city planning can reduce both current and future risks for people and businesses.
The current flare-up is largely due to the fact that Fatah, encouraged by the international community’s boycott of Hamas, never really accepted its electoral defeat and Hamas’s right to govern.
Thus, the current conflict is essentially a pre-emptive war by Hamas – aggravated by lawlessness and banditry, clashing free-lance militias, tribes, and families, and a spiral of senseless massacres – to prevent Fatah from being turned by the international community into a formidable challenger to its democratic right to govern.
So perhaps decision makers, faced with the victims of previous policies and the future victims of current ones, would simply be happy that at last they could allocate resources in an optimally efficient way.
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