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Beyond the immediate consequences, such an incident could spur citizens to demand
excessively
stringent curbs on technology, risking freedom and prosperity in the quest for security.
In addition to removing the damaging specter of the fiscal cliff – a potentially disruptive economic hindrance equivalent to some 4% of GDP, in the form of
excessively
blunt spending cuts and across-the-board tax increases – greater political effectiveness would serve to remove other uncertainties that inhibit certain economic activities.
Implementation will be very difficult even without
excessively
tight fiscal targets; with them, it may be impossible.
Above all, Europe’s political elites must offer citizens the one thing that might lead to agreement on the EU’s future: an end to over-standardization and the appropriation of national sovereignty through
excessively
detailed regulation.
Putin knows that his old cronies are tired, ineffective, often
excessively
wealthy, and comfortably corrupt, which is not what he needs for a new presidential term.
Whereas Boris Yeltsin has sacrificed his status of "Father of the Nation" to maintain an uncompromising conflict with the opposition, the new president within the same model will have to take into account new trends and to become an
excessively
caring "Father of the Nation" through clenching both supporters and opponents in one firm fist.
But central banks’ successes fueled
excessively
high expectations, which encouraged most policymakers to leave their monetary counterparts largely responsible for macroeconomic management.
Worrying
excessively
about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more good.
At the same time, China’s corporate sector relies
excessively
on debt financing, rather than equity.
Given the prevailing paranoia, fueled by propaganda and genuine ignorance, on both sides of the border, it is possible that our hosts were being
excessively
cautious.
They did not follow up on these offers, seek to verify their implementation, or propose any sequencing steps to ensure that their denuclearization requirement would not be
excessively
frontloaded.
Not surprisingly, stock options create strong incentives for short-sighted and
excessively
risky behavior, as well as for “creative accounting,” which executives throughout the economy perfected with off-balance-sheet shenanigans.
The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is
excessively
ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
Of course, given its
excessively
low salaries and adverse demographic trends, Germany will continue to face difficulties.
Europeans and Asians saw
excessively
loose US fiscal and monetary policy as the major culprit.
If others borrowed too much, doesn’t it follow that Germans lent
excessively?
For them, any excuse will do, and EU Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier has provided them with ammunition by pursuing what many see as an
excessively
restrictive regulatory agenda.
A decade of
excessively
low interest rates has pushed asset prices to extreme heights.
Her assault on
excessively
powerful trade unions, moreover, made Britain governable, at a time when the country seemed to be slipping into drift and disorder.
As these assumptions have proved to be
excessively
optimistic, the standing and sustainability of pro-trade policies have suffered.
The International Monetary Fund is thus absolutely right in arguing that
excessively
front-loaded and synchronized fiscal austerity in most advanced economies will dim global growth prospects in 2013.
Workers, for instance, who have much to lose if the central bank pursues an
excessively
tight policy, do not have a seat at the table.
Nonetheless, much that has happened in the last quarter-century has made it clear that we were
excessively
optimistic, and perhaps naive, about the changes that would take place.
The US has experienced a decade of
excessively
low interest rates, which have caused investors and lenders to seek higher yields by bidding up the prices of all types of assets and making risky loans.
But there is a clear risk that a decade of
excessively
low interest rates will cause a collapse of asset prices and an economic downturn.
And countries, like China, that rely
excessively
on net exports for growth should accelerate reforms, including more rapid currency appreciation, in order to boost domestic demand and consumption.
Indeed, Brown, for whom America remains “Britain’s most important bilateral relationship,” recently blocked his foreign secretary, David Miliband, from delivering a speech that he considered
excessively
pro-Europe.
And it will add far more to the US’s
excessively
high public-debt burden.
The problem is that such policies have led South Korea to become
excessively
dependent on exports for growth.
Economists typically make the point in reverse, when they argue against focusing
excessively
on the losers from freer trade, and they decry the tendency to overlook the beneficiaries on the export side.
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