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A 1996 law imposes economic sanctions on any foreign company that does more than $20 million of business with Iran.
Under Hollande, France’s Socialists favor achieving that renewal through a process of social dialogue that convinces rather than imposes, that focuses both on revenue measures and on boosting government efficiency, and that may adopt some of northern Europe’s more successful “flexicurity” policies, which combine greater labor-market flexibility with strong social protection.
Beyond the human suffering, this imposes high economic costs.
More broadly, there is increasing recognition that the patent system, as currently designed, not only imposes untold social costs, but also fails to maximize innovation – as Myriad’s gene patents demonstrate.
A good model for this is the United Kingdom’s “regulatory sandbox” for financial-technology companies, which imposes lower regulatory requirements on emerging players until they reach a certain size.
Middle-income families also insist on buying homes, despite the highest multiple of home price to income among advanced economies and a housing-finance system that imposes high borrowing costs.
First, domestic violence against women and children imposes a social cost of $8 trillion each year, making it a huge – and vastly underreported – global issue.
If the IMF imposes fiscal contraction or a misguided strategy for restructuring the financial sector (as it did in Indonesia), then the economy will be weakened and this will lead to a further erosion of confidence.
This has changed the terms of the debate for the worse, and has led to hopelessly wishful thinking: Perhaps the UK won’t actually lose much market access if it imposes immigration restrictions on EU nationals.
If the US imposes a 25% across-the-board tariff, the rise in the cost to American buyers – assuming no change in the prices charged by Chinese exporters – would be $125 billion.
This means that if the Trump administration imposes tariffs, it will turn the US into a high-cost island for industrial inputs.
Why impose restrictions on a dealmaker who earns a large fee for arranging a merger that imposes no risk on the bank after the transaction has closed?
Both would achieve these ambitious cuts by the same method: a cap-and-trade system that imposes limits on industry emissions and forces businesses to buy rights to any additional emissions.
The US subsidizes corn-based ethanol, and imposes tariffs on sugar-based ethanol; hidden in the tax code are billions of dollars of subsidies to the oil and gas industries.
In Lebanon, the danger of one community monopolizing power over others is avoided because the Lebanese constitution imposes permanent power-sharing arrangements on all major communities.
His efforts to thwart Ukraine’s European future will continue, as will his efforts to hollow out our democracy and replace it with a Kremlin echo chamber, unless the world imposes such a high price for his imperial ambitions that the Russian people refuse to bear it.
The New Economy may be wonderful for economic performance, but it imposes adjustment, pace of change and strain on many people which appear to be out of proportion to their ability to cope.
Suppose, conversely, that the US imposes new import barriers in response to its current-account deficit.
But the view that defending free speech imposes a duty to disseminate specific content is deeply problematic.
In an increasingly borderless global economy, the nation-state system that we have inherited imposes too many restrictions on the free movement of people, many of which are counterproductive.
If France imposes the tax unilaterally, trading in equities and derivatives will simply migrate to Frankfurt.
Because CFT imposes limits just on the trader’s surplus, any attempt by the surplus country to decrease the value of its imports from the US would automatically decrease the value of its allowed exports.
At the same time, the tax legislation passed by the Republican-controlled Congress in December 2017 imposes an unprecedented tax on those university endowments valued at over $500,000 per student.
Initial reactions to North Korea’s nuclear test were uniformly critical, culminating (thus far) in UN Security Council Resolution 1718, which condemns the test, demands that North Korea resume full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and imposes a range of military, political, and economic sanctions.
The principal objection raised by those who met in Moscow is that the ETS impinges on non-EU countries’ sovereignty, because, by capping their airlines’ carbon allowances for flights to and from the EU, it imposes its rules on their turf.
This should give food for thought to those who maintain that deflation imposes unbearable economic costs.
The structure of the eurozone imposes limits on the use of both fiscal and monetary policy.
Being the most powerful nation gives America privileges, but it also imposes obligations.
When a government agency imposes a rent ceiling, it prohibits landlords from charging more than a set amount.
If pursued to the limit, such adjustments can make any debt affordable – after all, a perpetual non-interest-bearing debt imposes no burden at all – while still enabling politicians to maintain the fiction that no debt had been written off.
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