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To be sure, there is no such thing as perfect safety, and, historically, waves of terrorism have often taken a generation to recede.
Indeed, today's bout of fiscal stimulation seems historically better founded than the brief episode of stability in the 1990s.
By mid-century, Japan’s population could shrink by 30% unless it attracts 17 million immigrants – a hard task in a country historically resistant to immigration.
But, despite the dire state of public finances, the desperate need for growth and jobs, and historically low interest rates, the authorities are doing nothing to encourage investment.
Historically, attempts at modernization in Russia, even when they look real, as with Stalin’s industrialization or Yeltsin’s market reforms, ultimately result in a Potemkin village-like state of affairs, because Russian society cannot change fast enough or with the patience necessary to see the changes through.
Asset prices– stocks, commercial real estate, and even oil – are, historically, at high levels around the world.
Historically, real rates have jumped around a lot, showing little correlation with asset prices.
Historically, the post-crisis consolidation phase has been one in which banks are inclined to be cautious and hesitant.
Historically, it has been difficult to convince Asians that international trade is not a zero-sum-game, with Asia invariably the losers.
But the determination of countries that have historically been centers of commercial surrogacy to stop the practice underscores the naiveté of that position.
But we can never discover species-wide laws, because we can never operate outside of our historically and culturally specific understanding of what it is to be a human being.
US estate taxes have historically been higher than European; they peaked at 77% in the 1950s and 1960s.
Historically, China has had an open development model, with imports running at 28% of GDP since 2002 – nearly three times Japan’s 10% import ratio during its high-growth era (1960-1989).
At the beginning of the current credit crunch, many historically minded people picked 1907 as the key precedent.
Historically, agriculture has driven economic performance in many countries, generating growth that has been shown to be at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as growth in other sectors.
By contrast, property booms and busts have historically been the most dangerous, because the total value of real estate wealth usually dwarfs equity values, and because real-estate booms are often debt-financed.
Historically, a 10% fall in the dollar translates into only a one-percentage-point rise in inflation.
Historically squeezed between its two giant neighbors, China and Japan, South Korea had long been perceived as an underdog with a fuzzy cultural identity.
Moreover, there was a historically important and ethically oriented humanism in China as early as the fifth century B.C.
Others argue that when the state forbids the veil, there is a net loss of freedom for women because wearing a veil - both historically and in current times - creates a buffer that allows women to circulate freely in society.
They have immense regulatory powers to require that the banks under their supervision hold capital, lend to classes of borrowers that have historically faced discrimination, and serve the communities in which they are embedded.
During the last two decades, consumption drove these countries’ economic growth, reaching historically high GDP shares.
Egypt had to grant Israel only political recognition, but the Palestinians are being asked to recognize Israel’s moral legitimacy by accepting Jewish links to the Holy Land and hence admitting the Jews’ millenarian claim for a state in a land that the Palestinians believe is historically theirs.
Historically, ASEAN has played a pivotal role in facilitating regional relationships, giving rise to the notion of “ASEAN centrality” in Asia.
Ustadz So had taught them that Thai rule over this historically Malay region was illegitimate, that Thai officials were cruel and heartless, and that the time had come for the Muslim population to rise up and expel the Buddhist infidels.
Perhaps the allure of belonging to a growing reserve currency will make sustained recession and austerity feasible in ways that have seldom been seen historically.
Hezbollah, which led the armed struggle against Israeli occupation, was to disarm and re-invent itself as a political force, representing the Shiite community that was historically marginalized by Lebanon’s ruling Maronite, Sunni, and Druze elites.
While the world economy is booming for the fourth consecutive year, with a historically unprecedented growth rate of about 5%, the French economy is limping.
In Georgia, the country where support for European and Euro-Atlantic integration has historically been the most solid, a recent poll showed that 31% of respondents supported joining Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pet project, the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) – up from 16% just one year ago.
Historically, such V-shaped recoveries have served the useful purpose of absorbing excess slack and providing a cushion to withstand the inevitable shocks that always seem to buffet the global economy.
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