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I feel bad that in our economy, which is always growing, I had to spend the
equivalent
of $5.00 US dollars.
I first saw it when it was released in 1976 and, at the time, I played little league (well, the Canadian equivalent).
Overall, true to its name, the reaction it evokes on watching is
equivalent
to burst of a bubble.
Fan-magazine
equivalent
of a biography, in this case a television-budget glimpse into the early life of actress and vocalist Judy Garland (née Frances Gumm).
This program first aired in the Uk about April last year (2006) and i sat down with a few friends, one of which was a major in the British army another is a TA officer (Uk
equivalent
of the national guard) who served in Iraq during the initial invasion.
With dollar financing by the Federal Reserve available to large institutions, the Fed became the
equivalent
of a world central bank.
The modern
equivalent
of that learning about trade policy would be to think about mechanisms to ensure long-term improvement in fiscal policymaking.
But now congressional Republicans are refusing to adapt the unemployment system to this reality; as Congress went into recess for the holidays, it gave the long-term unemployed the
equivalent
of a pink slip: as 2014 begins, the roughly 1.3 million Americans who lost their unemployment benefits at the end of December have been left to their own devices.
Separatist movements in far-flung places like Tamil Nadu and Mizoram have been quietly defused by a simple formula: yesterday’s secessionists become today’s chief ministers (the
equivalent
of provincial or state governors) and tomorrow’s opposition leaders.
There is only one precedent for non-EU members being able to negotiate access to the internal market
equivalent
to that enjoyed by EU members.
This percentage is lower today than in 1970, while in the United States the
equivalent
number has increased from 65% to 78%.
Reformists, as they are known today, are the
equivalent
of “People of Intellect.”
If one borrows the
equivalent
of three years' income to buy a house, a mortgage rate of 6% means that 18% of one's income goes to interest payments, which may be tolerable.
Here, the launch of the European Economic Recovery Plan – the initiative for an EU-wide fiscal stimulus
equivalent
to 1.5% of GDP, endorsed by the European Heads of Government in December – constitutes a major step forward.
Fifteen years ago, the consensus was that America's Social Security System was in huge trouble, that it needed the
equivalent
of an engine rebuild.
Today its problems look, as the Brookings Institution economist Peter Orszag says, much more like the
equivalent
of a slow tire leak: you have to fix it eventually, but it isn’t very hard to do and repair it isn’t terribly urgent.
If Social Security is a slow tire leak, then the post-2020 General Fund is an urgent brake job, Medicare and Medicaid are a melted transmission, and the budget deficit is the
equivalent
of having just crashed into a tree.
The benefit,
equivalent
to 40% of the minimum wage, has almost wiped out extreme poverty for children in Poland, reducing it by an estimated 70-80%.
The mortality reductions, measured in additional years of life, will be nearly
equivalent
to what could be expected if the world eliminated both HIV and malaria.
Far from engaging in Holmes’s free trade in ideas, Krugman has been the intellectual
equivalent
of a robber baron, exploiting his power to the point of driving decent people away from the public sphere – particularly younger scholars, who understandably dread a “takedown” by the “Invincible Krugtron.”
So, instead, I would suggest the intellectual
equivalent
of an antitrust law.
The US imports the
equivalent
of 16% of its GDP.
It is true that a helicopter drop would be functionally
equivalent
to a direct government transfer to households, financed by central banks’ permanent issuance of money.
As a result, by 2020, China’s consumption of energy generated from sources other than fossil fuels will be roughly
equivalent
to Japan’s total energy consumption.
In a country like Russia, half of whose budget revenues are derived from taxes on oil, setting up an oil fund is the
equivalent
of a commitment to balance the budget over the cycle.
With a 20% corporate tax rate, that would be
equivalent
to a 20% import tax.
Companies that export goods would be able to exclude the export earnings from taxable income,
equivalent
to a 20% export subsidy.
This would be the
equivalent
of imposing a cost of more than $4,000 on each inhabitant every year, by the end of the century.
If the other 53 emerging economies we looked at matched the productivity growth of their 18 high-performing peers, the global economy would be $11 trillion richer by 2030 – the
equivalent
of adding another China.
But exports are
equivalent
to only 13% of GDP, far below the level in India (24%) or Mexico (33%).
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