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They inform corporations’ decisions regarding whom to do business with, and on what terms.
But he made the difficult decisions that led to the elimination of the instigator of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Osama bin Laden – a goal that his predecessor, George W. Bush, in his eagerness to invade Iraq, had lost interest in pursuing.
With Trump poised to make such imprudent decisions, will US voters hold him accountable?
The danger in such an approach is that decisions may not be taken, or that those that are put rhetoric ahead of substance, thereby failing to resolve fundamental political challenges.
The increasing detachment of the budget from the Union’s objectives is sustained by decision-making procedures that authorize the European Council, representing member governments, to take all the important decisions according to a rule of unanimity, with the European Parliament and the European Commission confined to a minor role.
Decisions concerning both the multi-year framework and annual budgets should be taken by majority voting in the Council and Parliament, based on a formal proposal by the Commission, leaving decisions about the overall resource ceiling to the Council of Ministers and member states.
Moreover, it would be useful to synchronize budgetary decisions with the Parliament’s electoral terms.
Decisions about admission should not be determined by the geopolitical interests of others, but solely by the measure of a state’s readiness, tested by objective criteria, to adopt the standards of these groupings and respect their underlying principles.
We must appreciate and encourage those who are making bold decisions.
Tuchman describes how a series of individual decisions, all of which seemed sound when considered in isolation, had the unintended consequence of leading Europe into World War I.
But what is true of international diplomacy – that a series of seemingly reasonable decisions can have cataclysmic consequences if no one bothers to figure out the endgame – is equally true of international finance.
The decisions taken by Europe in the next several days will determine Greece’s fate; wittingly or not, they will determine the EU’s fate as well.
Politicians will base their decisions on global warming models that simply assume that technological breakthroughs will happen by themselves.
Europe’s leaders must make tough decisions in order to resolve the euro crisis and revive growth.
This cannot happen without providing women and girls with the information, education, and services they need to make their own decisions.
Those leaders’ strategic decisions over the last few years, if not longer, have been rather consistently poor, or at least imprudent.
It is also why a free press that reports these problems, congressional hearings that investigate them, and a recent set of Supreme Court decisions that give detainees legal recourse are also so important.
They see the national economy as the sum of microeconomic decisions, and a supranational economy as the sum of national economies.
And the plan needs to be credible if it is to influence myriad business decisions made today.
Scientists must follow a path that is not scientifically predefined, and that requires decisions at every step.
But the mere prospect of such a transition usually postpones some important political decisions and freezes some economic activity, pending the resolution of the accompanying uncertainty.
The deluge of conflicting data relating to various foods’ costs and benefits exemplifies the challenge inherent in making informed decisions.
As Ioannidis put it, “People get scared or they think that they should change their lives and make big decisions, and then things get refuted very quickly.”
Whether or not a perception is accurate is beside the point, because it nonetheless leads to decisions.
The EU’s malaise is self-inflicted, owing to an unprecedented succession of bad economic decisions, beginning with the creation of the euro.
They need to imagine the world of 2050, with its nine billion people, and take the right decisions now to ensure that our children and grandchildren inherit a liveable world.
Ultimately, the big necessary decisions on curbing entitlement growth and reforming the tax code will probably have to wait until after the next election, giving the divided electorate an opportunity to reflect on its own inconsistency and send a clearer message.
But, in a less favorable economic climate, printing money becomes a handy alternative to difficult decisions and painful adjustments, such as tax hikes and deep cuts in government spending.
Given that they all have an equal say in ECB decisions – and that, since 2008, majority voting has replaced unanimity in ECB decision-making – the ECB has begun to resemble the Banca d’Italia far more than the fiercely independent Bundesbank.
Because monetary policy operates with lags, central banks must avoid fixating on the here and now, and instead use imperfect forecasts to anticipate the future effects of their decisions.
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