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We all pay a price when inequality reaches new heights.
Changing entrenched attitudes could not happen overnight: it required a step-by-step process of confidence-building measures, from the grassroots level to the heights of political power.
Great companies take that cash and invest it in even better products, taking the firm to new heights.
In many of the transition countries, inflation was brought down from majestic heights - 251% in Poland in 1989 - and all now have fully convertible currencies.
It would seem that, in Lenin’s words, the state had regained control of the “commanding heights” of the economy.
Its logical destination was the country with the deepest financial markets, the US, where it raised asset prices to unsustainable heights.
If social inequalities were to reach new heights, their frustration and resentment could manifest itself fully.
Her success clearly shows that African women football players can reach great heights.
It is now ceding the commanding heights of Chinese politics to autonomous representatives of social forces that it cannot control.
In 1996, New York's stock market broke all records, rising to greater heights since.
In this model, the government, while continuing to benefit from the international market, retains power over the economy’s “commanding heights” through strict control over the financial sector, restrictive government procurement policies, guidance for research and development in the energy sector, and selective curbs on imports of goods and services.
Since then, the stock market has reached record heights, commodity prices have recovered, and forecasts of US economic growth keep rising.
Making matters worse, unrestrained government spending further buoyed the economy during the Bush years, with fiscal deficits reaching new heights, making it difficult for the government to step in now to shore up economic growth as households curtail consumption.
As unemployment again rises to catastrophic heights, they will have no alternative, it is said, but to abandon the euro unilaterally.
It is the ultimate proof of the Russian government’s embrace of state capitalism, giving it control over the economy’s commanding heights.
Instead, the episode has merely shown, yet again, that there is no real “number two” in Russia; there is only Putin, controlling the FSB, the courts, and the commanding heights of the economy.
At the commanding heights, economic-policy debates remain dominated by a relatively small group of white men from American universities and think tanks, nearly all of them well-versed devotees of mainstream economics.
From Alexander Pushkin’s poems to Leo Tolstoy’s novels, French influence pervades the commanding heights of Russian culture.
Indians braved the 3,000-meter heights to run a power-transmission line from Pul-e-Khumri to Kabul – giving round-the-clock electricity to the capital for the first time since 1982.
True, central planners no longer set wages, prices, interest rates, and quotas; but party cadres, not market forces, control the economy’s commanding heights.
Former spies now sit atop the commanding heights of Russia’s energy-centric economy, but their role is not all that different from what it was in Soviet days.
US-led China bashing – a bipartisan blame game that reached new heights in the 2012 political cycle – remains a real threat.
Yet the risk premia on non-Treasury assets have soared to barely believable heights: the annual interest-rate premium for holding a CD issued by a private bank now stands at five percentage points.
As humankind’s collective intelligence rose to new heights, the dream of human perfectibility emerged.
The resulting uncertainty about policies and prices might produce a severe adverse shock on the real economy, sending unemployment to even greater heights.
While inflation remains high, at around 10%, this represents a strong improvement from the heights scaled when sanctions were in place.
From telecommunications to railroads, electricity to airlines the old idea that government control the "commanding heights of the economy" looks silly: international competition and the absence of barriers to entry do far more for the viability of a firm than government ownership.
But such a deal became impossible precisely because the Intifada had raised Palestinian expectations to such heights that it became impossible for Israel to meet them.
Bureaucrats, not businessmen, controlled the “commanding heights” of the economy, and India shackled itself to statist controls that emphasized distributive justice over economic growth, stifled free enterprise, and discouraged foreign investment.
If these words ring true today, perhaps it is because when they were written, in 1926, inequality in the United States had reached heights comparable to today.
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