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As a result, savers are being punished, the cost of capital is repressed, and reckless risk taking is being encouraged in an income-constrained climate.
Moreover, it is widely believed that the Arab Spring has encouraged the Palestinian leadership to seek to change the rules of the game.
The Soviet demise encouraged US political elites to construct a “unipolar” view of America’s global position and interest.
If Islamists are to be brought into the democratic fold and encouraged to move towards the political mainstream by getting their hands dirty in the give-and-take of day-to-day politics, then Tunisia may be the right place to try it.
Brazil’s international bank creditors should simultaneously be encouraged to roll over their short-term claims.
Trump went much further during his campaign, when he encouraged followers at his mass rallies to attack the press verbally as “scum.”
The earliest drafts of the legislation actually encouraged commercial surrogacy, mandating that mothers employed as surrogates surrender their babies.
Long term interest rates will rise as savers perceive that discipline is lost, wage increases will be encouraged by pro-labor governments and that means inflation.
Haitians should not be encouraged to seek a solution to their tragic plight simply by crossing the border, but Dominicans should not demonize Haiti as the source of all their problems.
In short, the large states still have illusions, encouraged by their political elites, about what the state can do to guide economic development.
By offering incentives such as value-added-tax exemptions, the law has encouraged cooperatives and other agricultural organizations to collaborate and create economies of scale.
They have been pushed into concentrating on core businesses, and encouraged to swap overlapping enterprises.
It was not until late in the decade, when the banking sector was reorganized and corporate restructuring was encouraged, that Japan made progress on the long, arduous road of balance-sheet repair and structural transformation.
But the Soviet Union’s aging communist leadership, encouraged by the OPEC-generated oil-price explosion and the discovery of massive hydrocarbon reserves in western Siberia, took a different tack, using natural-resource revenues to finance continued military expansion.
Some enthusiastic Europeans encouraged Asians to diversify their reserve holdings.
Since 1945, the terrifying destructive force of nuclear weapons has encouraged political leaders to search for ways to control them.
Austerity’s advocates rely on one – and only one – argument: If fiscal contraction is part of a credible “consolidation” program aimed at permanently reducing the share of government in GDP, business expectations will be so encouraged by the prospect of lower taxes and higher profits that the resulting economic expansion will more than offset the contraction in demand caused by cuts in public spending.
Arguably, the biggest economic impact of Britain’s coal industry in the late seventeenth century was that it encouraged the development of the steam engine as a way to pump water out of mines.
True, back then, monetary authorities were working with old-fashioned Keynesian macroeconomic models, which encouraged the delusion that monetary policy could indefinitely boost the economy with low inflation and low interest rates.
After all, the Chinese economy can no longer rely on external demand and exports to sustain its remarkable growth, and Chinese consumers, who are still poor on average, deserve a break and should be encouraged to spend rather than save.
Many such ventures do not pan out; but – particularly in the United States – such equity-financed rapid-growth companies are strongly encouraged.
Reducing street crime encouraged the police to stop registering certain offenses altogether.
New regulatory authority from Congress has encouraged the view that regulators will soon be able to handle a Lehman-size failure smoothly.
Some Israelis argue that Hamas should be encouraged to establish order in Gaza and provide assurances to its neighbors.
But this has undermined productivity, encouraged speculative activity, fueled asset bubbles, and exacerbated income and wealth inequality.
Add to that the increased production from alternative sources (most consequentially, shale) that higher prices encouraged, and the beneficial demand effects are offset, if not overwhelmed.
The US not only encouraged these changes, but has benefited hugely from them.
Encouraged by improved economic performance, last year the government had the will to introduce a program of in-depth structural transformations.
Indeed, though the US encouraged the trilateral meeting, it seems to worry that successful cooperation would undermine its ability to contain an increasingly powerful China and protect its own interests in Asia.
The big pre-2008 construction boom in Spain did as much harm as subsequent high unemployment, because it encouraged a generation of young people to take high-paying, low-skill jobs in the building industry.
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