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Only in Germany does a conservative government enjoy support from financial markets -- and that may be explained by the fact that Helmut Kohl's policies are far removed from traditional rightwing policies.
As the account explained, Saudi Arabia provides substantial financing of the armaments, while the CIA, under Obama’s orders, provides organizational support and training.
The CIA’s role has never been explained or justified.
Shortly afterward, a member of South Korea’s National Assembly explained Park’s decision to me.
Part of this can be explained by misunderstandings about the relationship between stock market prices and economic growth.
As the economist Fischer Black explained, an economy matches a population’s desires to the available resources and production technology.
How a single EU supervisor would address the problem of imbalances is not explained, but it is surely a worthy aim.
Mattis’s friends explained in television interviews that what most troubled the retired four-star Marine general and defense intellectual was not just that he could no longer affect policy, but also that his remaining in the cabinet was taken as an affirmation of Trump, a position he could no longer bear.
This can be explained partly by high inflation, which independent analysts put at roughly 25% – more than double the official estimate of 10%.
The Fed has explained that it will sell the large volume of mortgage securities that it now holds on its balance sheet, absorbing liquidity in the process.
As the late American economist Hyman Minsky explained, the higher the share of debt that falls into the speculative or Ponzi categories, the higher the risk that a confidence shock will trigger a sudden wave of deleveraging that quickly morphs into a full-blown financial crisis.
A recent CBO analysis attributes about one-half of the decline in the LFPR from the end of 2007 to the end of 2013 to these cyclical factors, with the remainder explained by secular demographic trends.
Even if one admits that deception may sometimes be necessary, one can still ask about the importance of the goal, the availability of alternative means to achieve it, whether the deception is likely to spread through precedent or example, the damage done to various victims, and the deceivers’ accountability (whether their behavior can be discovered and explained later).
Instead, Yi Gang, China’s director of state administration of foreign exchange, explained that “Chinese investments in US Treasuries are market investment behavior, and we don’t wish to politicize them.”
The decision has never been properly explained to civilian authorities in Latin America and is widely perceived as an aggressive act.
Consider that in 2003, the test scores of 28% of Turkish students could be explained by their socioeconomic standing – in other words, the poorer the pupil, the lower his or her PISA scores.
But the OECD’s 2012 report found that only 15% of lower test scores among Turkish students could be explained by their socioeconomic standing, a better outcome than the OECD average.
That left 95% of the variation to be explained by the effects of culture and individual decisions.
The Anarchy Factor in SyriaTEL AVIV – The failure of the Obama administration, its Western allies, and several Middle East regional powers to take bolder action to stop the carnage in Syria is often explained by their fear of anarchy.
As Kennan explained, when America goes to war over something less than a vital interest, the adversary – for whom vital interests are at stake – will fight long after the war has become too unpopular at home to sustain.
As British economist Charles Goodhart explained in the 1980s, “any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.”
Written during the Second World War, The Open Society and Its Enemies explained what Western democracies stood for and fought for.
If they were clinically insane, nothing more would need to be explained.
This can be explained largely by the fact that the decision comes down to the 15 members of the Security Council, who select the candidate to be rubber-stamped by the UN General Assembly (as has occurred in every case so far).
Your happiness is easily explained: Venezuelan imports, after having collapsed by 75% from 2012 to 2016, are down more than 20% in the first quarter of 2017.
In economic terms, the negligible level of intra-Maghreb trade can be explained by factors such as small market size and low trade complementarity – the weak match, in other words, between exports and imports.
Nonetheless, he explained, “we thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.”
But the SNP’s likely electoral gain is too large to be explained by secessionist sentiment alone.
These divergent attitudes can be explained by the vast differences between European countries’ histories and strategic perspectives.
As the American economist Harold Hotelling explained in 1929, those competing for the middle have an “undue tendency … to imitate each other.”
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