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Cyprus also holds a more general lesson: Given the extreme reaction of financial markets to the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, it had become axiomatic among European policymakers that no bank should be allowed to become insolvent.
The duly elected National Assembly, where the opposition holds a two-thirds majority, has been unconstitutionally stripped of power by an unconstitutionally appointed Supreme Court.
To the extent that this scenario holds, the next few years will follow the same multi-speed dynamics that we have seen recently.
Deciphering the structure of the web of contracts holds the key to understanding how an economy behaves, including its dynamic non-linear adaptation to internal and external forces.
Moreover, the Bank of Japan owns government bonds worth 90% of GDP, and ultimately returns to the government as dividends all the money it receives from the government as interest on the bonds it holds.
This is not to discount the need for such projects; the renewable-energy sector, in particular, holds enormous opportunities for cooperation.
It is time for us to take stock of what those dynamics portend, and take seriously the lessons historical memory holds.
Lukin is an exponent of the “realist” doctrine of international relations, which holds that sovereign states will always try to regulate their relations according to the principle of the balance of power.
This explains why, with more than half of his term left, the man who led a popular movement to unseat former President Alberto Fujimori holds a mere 7% popularity rating today - the lowest ranking of any Peruvian leader since 1980, when democracy was re-established.
Russian leaders may have misinterpreted as a sign of weakness Europe’s representation at last month’s EU-Russia summit by two Portuguese politicians – European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso and Prime Minister Jose Socrates, whose government currently holds the revolving EU presidency.
And let us not forget that China holds a massive volume of US Treasury bonds which, if pushed too hard, it could use to try to destabilize the US government bond market, which is essential to the health of the global financial system.
She linked that stance not only to the US Constitution’s First Amendment, which protects freedom of expression and freedom of the press, but also to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which holds that all people have the right “to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
In September, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative, former US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recognized that “lack of secondary education holds back the aspirations of so many girls and their families.
This trend holds even for those sectors dominated by imports from China, where labor costs are on the rise.
The US election’s unexpected outcome holds four key lessons, applicable to all advanced democracies.
A written agreement to demobilize more than ten thousand paramilitaries by 2006 has been agreed, and plans are being laid – including a transitional period of limited immunity from arrest so long as the cease-fire holds and the time spent under this agreement will be counted against any eventual prison sentences imposed – to reintegrate them into civilian life.
But, more important, it holds out the prospect that a people can chart its own path, free from external pressure – a particularly attractive proposition for countries that remain scarred by their colonial pasts.
The same holds true for Britain and Australia, where public opposition to war counted for naught.
The extraordinarily high proportion of foreign labor within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries is often considered problematic, because, as some see it, it threatens local cultures and national identities, holds down wages, and impedes the development of domestic skills and talent.
After the Bush presidency, that rule no longer holds, if it ever did.
Or the deposits can be consumer paper issued by KKR Atlantic Financing, and the loans can be CDO sub-prime mortgage tranches that KKR Atlantic holds in its portfolio.
In 2011 and 2012, the United Kingdom stood out among the advanced economies in this regard; but the pattern holds even for Germany.
The free press is both the mortar that holds in place the bricks of our country’s freedom, and the open window embedded in those bricks.
But the Ivory Coast’s dilemma is notable both because the country’s decline came from a relatively greater height, and for the lessons it holds concerning how states fail.
China holds dollars that it receives from its exports to America, while the US, by keeping its market open to Chinese products, helps to generate growth, employment, and stability in China.
Bloomberg claims that Sandy is the costliest storm in US history, and holds implications for “the survival of the human race,” this is simply wrong, as any recollection of the costs of Hurricane Katrina would show.
While Bloomberg claims that Sandy is the costliest storm in US history, and holds implications for “the survival of the human race,” this is simply wrong, as any recollection of the costs of Hurricane Katrina would show.
In purely geopolitical terms, Russia holds the stronger hand.
But neither argument holds water, as the Chinese know perfectly well.
In theory, monetary authorities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay adhere to the modern orthodoxy of inflation targeting, which holds that price stability is the main (perhaps the only) goal of monetary policy, the short-term interest rate should be the only instrument used to achieve the inflation target, and the exchange rate ought to float freely.
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