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Johnson’s successor, Richard Nixon, also lied about the Vietnam War, including his expansion of it into Cambodia.
At that point, global policymakers got religion and started to use most of the weapons in their arsenal: vast fiscal-policy easing; conventional and unconventional monetary expansion; trillions of dollars in liquidity support, recapitalization, guarantees, and insurance to stem the liquidity and credit crunch; and, finally, massive support to emerging-market economies.
The Keynesian fiscal multiplier for large industrial economies or for coordinated expansions is believed to be roughly two – meaning that an extra dollar of fiscal expansion would boost real GDP by about two dollars.
Aversion to fiscal expansion reflects raw ideology, not pragmatic considerations.
Others programs, such as Measures for Justice, are creating the data needed to gauge results, while non-profits like Pew Charitable Trusts, California Forward, and Third Sector Ventures are helping counties and cities find economically effective alternatives to expensive and ineffective prison expansion.
These have been renewed, not only due to the looming expansion of NATO which partly excludes Russia from Europe's security order, but also because of the swift, brutal development of Russian capitalism, which makes Russia unique in Europe and Asia.
And, like any platform, Uber started small, covering its fixed costs through step-by-step expansion.
Ten years after 9/11, however, these franchises are in check, rather than expansion.
During an economic expansion, such as in the 2002-2007 period, governments are tempted to forecast that the boom will continue indefinitely.
Five years after the EU’s “big bang” expansion took in eight former communist countries to its east, the Union is in danger of losing the hearts and minds of its eastern neighbors because of its complacency and long-winded approach to crises.
There is also impressive scope for expanding financial services – from credit assessments to asset management and insurance – on the Alipay platform, and its expansion into other Asian countries via partnerships is well underway.
Recent IMF experience suggests that, through appropriate coordination, private funds could be mobilized for big private-public partnership projects linking demand expansion with infrastructure investment.
The recent expansion of patent protection is designed to prevent these problems and to bring a faster pace of innovation.
Of course, there are downsides to patent law expansion, prime among them the increased incidence and cost of litigation.
Security concerns can no longer be treated as a license for territorial expansion.
We expect that India’s expansion will slow to 5.6% in 2012, from 6.5% last year.
Weak external demand is partly responsible for the falloff in growth, but internal factors – namely, slowing investment and stagnating consumption – are also holding back economic expansion.
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.
While the global economy continues its broad-based expansion, disruptive economic, geostrategic, and technological forces may threaten ASEAN’s gains of recent years.
This demographic expansion is happening just as many existing jobs will be substituted by intelligent automation and AI.
As an executive body, the Commission need not be composed strictly according to a specified pattern, and not all countries - especially after the Union's expansion - need be represented.
It was the Republicans who, in 26 states, refused to allow the expansion of Medicaid, thereby denying health insurance to those at the bottom.
Fallacy 2: Through monetary expansion, the US is manipulating the dollar’s exchange rate in the same way that it accuses China of manipulating the renminbi’s exchange rate.
On the other hand, the dollar’s weakening is a side-effect of US monetary expansion, undertaken after countries like China and Germany refused to spend more to increase world demand, and after no room remained for further fiscal stimulus.
Fiscal expansion is always risky, as it adds to debt and raises dangers later.
Meanwhile, as many had warned at the time, Iran, with its largest historical barrier to expansion gone, now enjoys a significant strategic advantage.
Old-fashioned infrastructure bottlenecks lingered, cramping private sector expansion.
Expansion and Democracy in EuropeEurope is poised on the rim of two nearly revolutionary undertakings: eastward expansion and the possibility of a draft constitution for the European Union.
However, expansion must go hand-in-hand with institutional reforms that improve both the EU's capacity to act and its democratic legitimacy.
That question has practical implications, for if the EU is to manifest itself as a free and open society it must assure its ability to function both effectively and efficiently when expansion takes place.
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