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In the US, with its large, domestically driven economy, the equivalent figures are 1% and 3%.
Why We Need “Game of Thrones”PARIS – Today’s popular television programs have become the equivalent of the feuilletons that began appearing in newspapers in the nineteenth century.
On July 6, however, an additional 25% tariff on $34 billion of Chinese exports went into effect, and China retaliated against an equivalent volume of US exports.
We are now talking about real money: nearly $1 trillion of US imports and an equivalent amount of US export sales and foreign investments.
Is there a political equivalent to Airbnb?
The Chinese also see the commercial equivalent of containment in the US-proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, which includes Japan but excludes China.
Instead, we are seeing the foreign-policy equivalent of muscle memory, with the players using familiar tactics, though with no clear objective in mind.
Estimates vary, but the best guess seems to be €50 billion, which is equivalent to a whopping 25% of GDP.
For example, the government of such a country could simply pass a law that forces every holder of a government bond to pay a tax equivalent to 50% of the face value of the bond.
Nigeria is not Africa’s equivalent of what China is for Asia.
This peculiar arrangement is a further major risk for economic and monetary union, to add to those of uncoordinated fiscal policies and the lack of a European equivalent of the International Monetary Fund.
The Fed is buying Treasury bonds and long-term mortgage-backed securities at a rate of $85 billion a month, equivalent to an annual rate of $1,020 billion.
Lebanon, a country of just 4.5 million people, has taken in an estimated 1,116,000 refugees – roughly equivalent to the population of Brussels.
In 1993, the last year before NAFTA came into effect, Mexican manufacturing value added was equivalent to just 7.7% of US manufacturing.
That’s equivalent to the GDP of the world’s seventh-largest economy.
The Portuguese rightly argue that their situation is not as dire as that of Greece, which is already in the economic equivalent of intensive care.
Counting capital gains, Americans have profited to the tune of $300 billion to $400 billion annually in many recent years – an amount roughly equivalent to the entire US military budget.
Meat of any kind is so scarce that the market price of a kilogram is equivalent to more than a week of minimum-wage work.
TIPS, or their equivalent from other governments, provide safe inflation hedges, and explicit currency futures can offset exchange-rate risks.
That is equivalent to a person dying every 4-5 seconds.
This is equivalent to saying that the Brexit vote changed nothing fundamental.
Ever since the breakdown of the so-called Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, France and Germany have been trying to find a European-level equivalent.
But this defense – the adult equivalent of “the dog ate my homework” – quickly fell apart.
Just phasing in more efficient air-conditioning systems would be the emissions equivalent of retiring 2,500 medium-size peak power plants (power plants that come on-stream during periods of high demand, such as during the summer).
In China, switching to climate-friendly refrigerants and boosting the energy efficiency of air conditioning and refrigeration could lead to the equivalent in emissions savings of eight Three Gorges hydroelectric dams.
Britain is convulsed by a scandal about parliamentary expenses that has no equivalent since the attacks on “old corruption” in the early nineteenth century.
States could, in theory, reinvent themselves as the political equivalent of Nike-minimizing in-house activities by contracting out ever more of their functions to providers in the global market.
In its social meaning, however, a predisposition is often defined as equivalent to having the disease.
According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute research study, they could increase global GDP by $2.7 trillion annually by 2025; that is equivalent to adding another United Kingdom to the world economy.
But an emphasis on suppression alone leads to the fire equivalent of a police state, not to a livable landscape.
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