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So far, the trade deficit has improved; but, with sterling down roughly 25% on a trade-weighted basis for four years, the upward part of the J seems a little distant.
Historians have long emphasized the importance of such “path dependence” – that events in the distant past continue to shape outcomes in the present.
Recently I traveled in distant regions of Russia, where I grasped the enormous disconnect between the center (Moscow) and Russia’s periphery, between rulers and ruled.
He asked me several questions – about the role of international NGOs, as I recall – that seemed fairly distant from my areas of expertise.
Many people see the country as on the edge of an abyss, with peace a distant dream.
The Polish economist Michal Kalecki, a co-inventor of Keynesian economics (and a distant relative of mine), predicted this politically motivated ideological reversal with uncanny accuracy back in 1943:“The assumption that a government will maintain full employment in a capitalist economy if it knows how to do it is fallacious.
Throughout most of US history, for example, populists have supported easy monetary policy as a way to help the little guy against distant bankers with hard hearts devoted to hard money.
It might be a distant dream, but dreaming is what New Year’s is all about.
Germany ranks a distant second, with 21% of those surveyed saying they would prefer a permanent position.
“The whole object of the accumulation of wealth,” he wrote, “is to produce results, or potential results, at a comparatively distant, and sometimes at an indefinitely distant, date.”
But when the ultimate determinants of values today become so dependent on a distant future that we cannot see clearly, we may not be able to think clearly, either.
Syria’s people may have no predilection for violence, but the birth of freedom, once witnessed, is not easily forgotten – or trumped by state handouts and vacuous statements by a distant, self-isolated leadership.
Fifty years of communist misrule have left what was once the most advanced city in Asia a distant also-ran.
With democracy in most of the region still a long way off – indeed, perhaps a more distant prospect now than five years ago – US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice repeats her mantra that the dead civilians of Beirut, Sidon, Tyre, and Gaza represent the “birth pangs” of a new Middle East.
With the Brexit deadline of March 2019 approaching, May’s “transition” extending into the distant future, and all of the tangible promises of Brexit receding like a desert mirage, both parliamentary and public opinion are shifting.
The question is whether the global public will demand action to protect young Nigerian girls’ basic rights and freedoms, or merely continue to condemn distant brutality while acquiescing in it on a nearby street corner.
And countless children – mainly girls in Africa – are unable to get an education because they must fetch water from distant, often unsanitary, sources to meet their family’s needs.
The “democratic energy” of Norway may constitute too distant a goal, but Russia’s role as a predictable energy supplier requires ending the reign of corruption.
This is far better than setting lofty goals for the distant future while giving little reason to think that they would be met.
The risk that anti-EU parties may come to power in Italy, France, and the Netherlands – among others – is rising, but still remains a distant possibility.
Indeed, the distant future looks bright, but much depends on how we get there.
The more distant and neutral to the European project Germany becomes, the more its partners, especially France, must behave like engaged and responsible Europeans.
Wilders finished a distant second in the Dutch election, but he nonetheless managed to push the winner, Prime Minister Mark Rutte, to adopt a more intolerant stance toward immigrants.
But, in both cases, the lender was distant and anonymous.
Sanders’s Silence on IsraelBOSTON – No foreign country features as prominently in American presidential election campaigns as Israel, and those aspiring to occupy the world’s most powerful political office, whether Republican or Democrat, routinely proclaim their support for that tiny and distant country.
NATO is, in a way, going global, as it forges partnerships with countries as distant as Japan and Australia to engage in security activities in places as remote as Central Asia, Africa, and the Arctic.
A common fiscal policy remains a distant dream, as does a genuine political union.
But, in the distant future, when the financial crisis and the euro’s troubles are long forgotten, we will still be facing the consequences of climate change.
Mobile broadband is already connecting even the most distant villages in rural Africa and India, thereby cutting down significantly on the need for travel.
When financial regulations are devised by a coterie of global regulators in distant venues, it is bankers and technocrats who gain the upper hand.
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