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The immediate answer is that national banks will now use the scheme to borrow cheaply from the ECB and invest in short-term sovereign bonds, using the interest-rate spread to create a profitable “sovereign carry trade.”
If the United States really did adopt Trump’s plan, the result would be an immediate and unmitigated disaster.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney famously remarked, “deficits don’t matter” – meaning that there were no immediate political consequences of running a budget deficit and pushing up the national debt.
As a community of nations, we face three immediate tests in the coming year.
Obama’s bold proposal received an immediate and enthusiastic reception in Europe.
Having said this, there would be immediate upside potential, owing to better resource allocation, more harmonized investment regimes, stronger standards, and the elimination of outdated non-tariff and regulatory barriers.
In the immediate aftermath of World War I, a triumphant America withdrew from global responsibility, with tragic consequences for the balance of power in a Europe that was left to face its inner demons alone.
European Union governments and institutions must ask themselves not only whether they have lived up to their responsibility to provide immediate assistance to refugees today.
But, while history is replete with murderous regimes applauded by cowed and deceived masses, the greater risk for democratic nations is that their citizens withdraw into apathy and short-term thinking for immediate gratification.
The scale of investment needed to make what is known as "Moore's Law" hold has grown exponentially along with the density of transistors and circuits, but "Moore's Law" remains in force, and engineers see no immediate barriers that will bring the process of improvement to a halt anytime soon.
According to Greenspan, immediate action needed to be taken to avert this looming disaster, which would impede the Fed’s ability to conduct monetary policy!
Neither, evidently, can central bank governors, at least when they opine in areas outside their immediate responsibility.
In the past, immediate access to telephony devices has been irrelevant to the FBI, because the authorities had unfettered access to communications as they traveled to and from a phone.
The immediate uproar is over the exceedingly generous pay and promotion package that Wolfowitz awarded in 2005 to his girlfriend as compensation for leaving the Bank to pave the way for his arrival.
The immediate cause of the protests was a new fuel tax.
Given that international law is crucial to protect smaller states by keeping major powers in check, the immediate question is what happens when simmering tensions with China’s Asian neighbors– and with the US – finally boil over.
Despite hopeful blips in an economic indicator here and there, too many countries lack both immediate growth and longer-term growth engines.
Bush and Blair made four claims:Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction;those weapons pose a grave, immediate threat;UN inspections were not eliminating that threat;the threat could best be eliminated by war.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced its birth while rejecting an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon.
International aid organizations, working with state and federal governments, should go beyond addressing the immediate causes of poverty to also develop long-term strategies for helping agricultural communities survive bad harvests.
Central authorities seemed to sense an immediate need to quell criticism of its controversial population-control efforts.
During the crisis and its immediate aftermath, when banks’ efforts to rebuild capital constrained new lending, ultra-low interest rates kept some firms’ heads above water, and their managers retained employees, despite making a relatively low return.
Turkey’s neighborhood policy is devised to reintegrate Turkey into its immediate neighborhoods, including the Balkans, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Instead, we seek Turkey’s historic reintegration into its immediate neighborhoods, thereby correcting an anomaly of the Cold War years.
Smaller, more agile power-generation units would be linked to a sophisticated monitoring and control system to ensure immediate startup and generation following outages.
Judging by the Brexit referendum, the immediate effects could include financial-market turmoil and a shock to consumer and investor confidence.
The immediate danger is not just further deterioration in failed states such as Yemen, Syria, and Libya, but also direct conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
The international community would have to increase available manufacturing capacity, create new distribution channels, and reserve storage capacity for stockpiling products that have no immediate application.
In the short run, the top priority is income support for the poor and the unemployed, who are the immediate victims of crises and the underlying imbalances and structural problems, which take time to remove.
But a matching omission is that prompted by our societies’ increasing political unsustainability, not because of the immediate financial problems like those afflicting Europe and threatening the world, but because the modern media have made visible to all the disparities in the fortunes of the rich and the poor.
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