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And the term “cyber war,” though best defined as any hostile action in cyberspace that amplifies or is
equivalent
to major physical violence, remains equally protean, reflecting definitions of “war” that range from armed conflict to any concerted effort to solve a problem (for example, “war on poverty”).
Some people call for the cyber
equivalent
of formal arms-control treaties.
Energy-hungry China builds the
equivalent
of two to four 500-megawatt power plants every week.
It was the
equivalent
of a “Chapter 11” restructuring of American corporate debt, in which debt is swapped for equity, with bondholders becoming new shareholders.
Since 2006, between 15 and 20 million hectares of farmland, the
equivalent
of the total arable surface of France, have been the subject of negotiations by foreign investors.
Drug cartels and gang warfare may ruin the lives of thousands of innocent people, but they should not be seen as
equivalent
to the ideological revolutionaries who used to wreak havoc in the region, or to contemporary mass terrorists.
For example, in 1997-98 Thailand suffered an outflow of foreign capital
equivalent
to 26% of GDP, despite a solid record of sustained economic growth.
If the high-income non-OECD countries equipped their students at least with very basic skills, they would, as a group, benefit from added economic value
equivalent
to almost five times their current GDP.
Its leaders and acolytes want to teach schoolchildren that evolutionary theory is just another hypothesis about the origin of life,
equivalent
to religious propositions.
In 2009-2010, China also invested heavily in the International Monetary Fund, with the People’s Bank of China announcing in 2009 that it would buy up to 32 billion special drawing rights (the IMF’s quasi-currency) – the
equivalent
of about $50 billion.
Until biological markers for psychiatric illnesses are identified, diagnosis will remain in a 19 th century time warp, relying on the
equivalent
of broad and outdated medical terms like "fever" and "dropsy."
In a related argument, Barry Eichengreen, the Berkeley economic historian, suggests that US monetary policy is now effectively “Made in China,” because China’s efforts to stabilize the renminbi have already tightened US monetary conditions by the
equivalent
of the quarter-point rate hike expected on December 16.
But for that two-thirds
equivalent
to U.S. expenditure, the European states obtain a military capability which can be assessed, at most, at about 20% of American military power.
This pattern reflects the Fed’s own obsession with price stability, which encourages preemptive interest-rate increases to head off inflation, but restrains
equivalent
preemptive reductions to head off unemployment.
By withdrawing from NATO’s integrated military command, France excluded itself from political decision-making within the Alliance and thus became the
equivalent
of the “Harkis”– the local soldiers who served with the French army during the Algerian war: fine soldiers, but with virtually no reward for their service.
In our system, a country exceeding the worldwide average for per capita emissions would pay a specified amount on every ton of CO2 (or its equivalent) above a set threshold.
The world would be $11 trillion richer each year by 2030, with $7 trillion going to developing countries –
equivalent
to an extra $1,000 for every person every year in these countries by 2030.
So, instead of becoming the principal reserve asset of the global system, the proportion of SDRs in global reserves shrank to a tiny fraction, rendering the SDR the monetary
equivalent
of Esperanto.
In fact, Biden’s tour deepened Japan’s security concerns, because it highlighted America’s focus on balancing its relationships in East Asia, even if that means tolerating an expansionist China as the strategic
equivalent
of an allied Japan.
Indeed, the sequence of the new “bailout” envisaged in the July 12 agreement predictably begins with the adoption – before the end of the month – of harsh tax measures and medium-term fiscal targets
equivalent
to another bout of stringent austerity.
Then comes a mid-summer negotiation of another large loan,
equivalent
to 48% of GDP (the debt-to-GDP ratio is already above 180%).
By one estimate, Trump received the
equivalent
of $2 billion of free television advertising, swamping the $100 million in paid advertising raised by his Republican rival, Jeb Bush.
In late 2012, at the peak of the post-crisis austerity debate, advanced economies were in the midst of a multi-year tightening
equivalent
to more than one percentage point of GDP annually, according to cyclically-adjusted primary balance data from the International Monetary Fund.
Brazil doesn’t have the institutional
equivalent
of the European Central Bank to do “whatever it takes” to retain access to credit at reasonable interest rates as it pursues fiscal and structural adjustment.
If we assume that the return on this capital was 4%, this would be
equivalent
to owning $900 billion in foreign capital.
Assuming a 4% yield, this would be
equivalent
to owning $5.7 trillion in foreign capital.
In fact, the difference between what the US “should” be paying if the Piketty calculation was right is about $710 billion in annual income, or $17.7 trillion in capital – the
equivalent
of its yearly GDP.
They come to mark the start of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, to give speeches that tend to receive more attention at home than they do in the hall, and – in the diplomatic
equivalent
of speed dating – to pack as many meetings as is humanly possible into their schedules.
A 60% increase in productivity would create an additional $1.6 trillion in annual output – roughly the
equivalent
of the Canadian economy – and add 2% to global GDP.
Declining investment rates in Japan, the newly-industrializing Asian economies, and Latin America, in that order of importance, have fueled the flood of savings into US government bonds, US mortgage-backed securities, and US equity-backed loans – the capital-account
equivalent
of America’s enormous trade deficit.
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