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New Zealand and Ireland followed suit and their economies have been booming ever since.
Too often, because the defenders of the status quo do not ask these questions, one debt crisis is followed by another.
This week's events followed a vote by the Ulster Unionist Party to accept a package worked out with former US Senator George Mitchell during a 10 week review of the Belfast Agreement.
These followed another technical note issued a year ago.
To be sure, Khan’s new government and the IMF will talk of reform; but such talk is never followed up with action.
As a CDC expert explained, CHWs are the key to stopping Ebola, because anybody who shows symptoms of the disease becomes a “suspected patient,” all of whose contacts must be followed for another three weeks.
Periods of failed populism – featuring state controls over prices, exchange rates, and businesses to redistribute wealth – have been followed by economic reform and liberalization (often by the very same ruling Peronist party).
Almost everything that they have done – spending increases, tax cuts, bank recapitalization, purchases of risky assets, open-market operations, and other money-supply expansions – has followed a policy path that is nearly 200 years old, dating back to the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, and thus to the first stirrings of the business cycle.
So he played the fool, campaigning in states that many claimed were a waste of time, while Clinton followed a data-driven strategy.
He knows all about success via strategic defaults, followed by massive debt write-offs and the creation of assets from liabilities.
The islanders say that the refinery then followed up its petition by destroying their homes and small farms – and threatening further violence to those who did not leave.
Japan’s economy, once the region’s leader, was “lost” after its asset bubble burst, whereas China overcame the economic stagnation that followed the Tiananmen Square crisis of 1989 to achieve its current path of strong growth.
International finance economists see a financial crisis as likely, followed by a painful and perhaps prolonged recession in the United States.
The apoplectic rage that followed the Supreme Court’s decision on Obama’s health-care legislation is becoming routine in America’s public discourse, and it is a bipartisan malady.
This was quickly followed by a Beijing summit between Xi and South Korean President Park Geun-hye.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, once at odds over Sarkozy’s criticism of Anglo-Saxon capitalism, have reconciled: predictably, France followed Britain with a bonus tax of its own.
But, despite the scenes of hysteria that followed the death of the “Great Leader” Kim Jong-il, most North Koreans probably dream of joining democratic South Korea (even if many South Koreans fear that prospect).
This followed other minor scandals concerning the misuse of political funds, which had led to two resignations and the suicide of one of Abe’s cabinet ministers.
Destabilization and chaos followed, accompanied by a sense of uncertainty and unpredictability.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, periods of low rainfall over the last 20 years have often been followed by spikes in violence, civil wars, and regime change.
Trump’s legislative victory implies the return of the infamous twin deficits that followed George W. Bush’s tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, and Ronald Reagan’s cuts of 1981-1983.
The United States received its first shock – followed by complaints from the US Congress – when the Chinese computer company Lenovo Group purchasing IBM’s personal computer division.
No longer can the lira be devalued to favor Italian exports to the detriment of the French, followed by a French reaction, etc.
Moreover, financial crises triggered by excessive debt and leverage in the private sector are followed after a few years by sovereign defaults and/or high inflation to wipe out the real value of public debts.
Robert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio is now above 30 – a level previously reached only twice, at the peaks of 1929 and 2000, both of which were followed by stock-market crashes.
How will we confirm that governments and institutions have followed through on their lofty declarations?
What is more likely is that the government has not yet followed through on its commitments.
Ricardo projected “declining returns” on investments in resources, whereby the best (least-cost) resources are used first, followed by the next best, and so on.
Would Europe really be better off today if Germany’s government had followed the paths taken by its French, British, or Italian counterparts in recent years?
But President Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington for the nuclear security summit, which followed a phone conversation between him and Obama, has set the stage for a serious and calm exchange of views on a range of bilateral and international issues, including Iran’s nuclear program.
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