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The US and China are in a race to be the world’s worst polluter;America has long won the contest, but in the next few years, China will claim that
dubious
honor.
But, though that notion may win some applause, implementing it would be shortsighted, impractical, and economically
dubious.
Unwilling to confront that issue, the eurozone authorities are consumed with tweaking trivialities like the degree of “flexibility” in the fiscal rules and the ECB’s
dubious
plan to purchase asset-backed securities.
It does not help that Putin’s foreign-policy gambits have become increasingly
dubious.
For Europe’s governments, fostering champions increasingly means providing benefits to non-national customers and employees – a
dubious
use of taxpayer money.
But, amid enduring poverty, rising inequality, and lackluster growth in many developing countries, the success of past anti-poverty policies and programs appears
dubious.
Of course, the mother of all bailouts is the absurd blank check the United States government is granting the giant home mortgage lending agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which hold or guarantee $5 trillion in mortgages that are looking increasingly
dubious.
Lastly, he may want to reassess his signature policy, the Belt and Road Initiative, which is increasingly being criticized as a mechanism for China to export its debt to other indebted countries, often through investments in white elephants and other
dubious
projects.
Despite his mounting legal problems and increasingly
dubious
legitimacy, Trump has continued to wreck the post-war international order that America helped to create.
Special interests would not be peddling such
dubious
pabulum if they felt confident about the economy’s future.
Meanwhile, those on the right are
dubious
about the current system’s effectiveness, and believe that Western-style reforms, with elements of democratic constitutionalism, should be pursued.
While that claim is
dubious
under current circumstances, it can be refuted only in practice, and can be assessed only after the program has been activated for at least a year.
While experimental monetary policy is now widely accepted as standard operating procedure in today’s post-crisis era, its efficacy is
dubious.
Since last November, MBS has had hundreds of members of the Saudi elite – including princes and businessmen with international profiles – arrested on
dubious
grounds, and with no regard for the rule of law.
This is bad economics and
dubious
politics.
It would, however, have a more lasting impact on democratic development than a
dubious
process by which a limited number of people go to the polls to elect an ineffectual central government.
The organic movement’s claims about the sustainability of its methods are
dubious.
But the incessant, extended media coverage of the investigation suggests that the MPD has provided – and possibly even leaked – information from the investigation to journalists, a routine but legally
dubious
means of gaining public support.
Instead, these respectable supporters have gradually been replaced over the years by a shady new class of rich Japanese, who have risen through loan-sharking and other
dubious
businesses.
Many European banks may not have understood this, yet they still shied away from revealing these
dubious
investments on their balance sheets.
Today, that consensus is clearly missing (whether it ever truly existed is dubious).
Neglect of agriculture should, perhaps, have been expected in the government's rush to modernize; what was unexpected was the government's increasing reliance on
dubious
fiscal strategies.
Even so, the advice is
dubious.
Common sense points to the need for the OECD countries, the IMF, and the World Bank to sever their
dubious
complicity with sub-Saharan African leaders and support policies that are in the long-term interest of the West and the world.
Against that background, spending $200,000 to give a patient in an affluent country a relatively short period of extra life becomes more than financially
dubious.
But the company’s rapid ascent has been accompanied by a steady stream of revelations of
dubious
behavior, from violating customers’ privacy and deceiving local government regulators to mistreating drivers.
It does not need to waste scarce money on diplomacy of
dubious
value--not when the country lacks an agency dedicated to helping Argentine businessmen sell their goods abroad.
Even now, Hungary and Romania feel peer pressure and face sanctions from their EU partners when they engage in
dubious
electoral practices, compromise their courts’ independence, or discriminate against minorities.
This distinction is
dubious.
Equally
dubious
are the justifications given for a shared eurozone budget.
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