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His budget would also increase taxes on corporations, and would end the current payroll-tax “holiday,” imposing an additional 2% tax on all wage earners.
Of course, this does not mean that the EU could or would want to conquer the rest of the world in the name of imposing its values, rules and culture on the rest of humanity.
Since taking office, he has been true to his word, withdrawing from one international agreement after another and imposing import tariffs on friends and adversaries alike.
For example, when UPS complained to Brussels about Deutsche Post cross-subsidizing its courier services the Commission limited the remedy to imposing an accounting separation between the market and non-market activities of the German Post Office, something very different from a break-up.
If the average natural rate is currently two children per household, then imposing this restriction will ultimately be welfare-reducing: households that would like to have more than two children will not be able to, while the restriction would be irrelevant to those who want fewer than two children.
But now, by imposing penalties on excess reserves left on deposit with central banks, negative interest rates drive stimulus through the supply side of the credit equation – in effect, urging banks to make new loans regardless of the demand for such funds.
Increasingly, passive support for Putin and his policies is no longer enough; the regime demands expressions of wholehearted approval, while imposing rules for government-approved behavior.
Despite these imposing obstacles to progress, there are reasons to believe that a cultural shift is afoot: researchers from geographically distant labs are forming non-traditional “federations” to combine their data sets, work on them collaboratively, and post the results for other scientists to analyze.
In essence, this is a back-door debt restructuring: Europe’s bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) would lend the money for Greece to buy back its own debt in the secondary market at deep discounts, thereby imposing a loss on private bondholders without the need to declare a default.
A recent Congressional bill has called for imposing a 27.5% punitive tariff on Chinese imports.
So far, the only US presidential candidate who has recognized the need for such a future-oriented approach is former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who has proposed modernizing reforms of Social Security and Medicare that avoid imposing high costs on middle-income Americans and a heavier debt burden on future generations.
Last year, Bush showed little reluctance in imposing steel tariffs--in clear violation of WTO rules.
By imposing them, Europe would finally take a real step towards stopping the killing in Darfur and extending meaningful help to its people.
In the nineteenth century, the stable hegemon was the United Kingdom, with the British Empire imposing the global public goods of free trade, free capital mobility, the gold standard, and the British pound as the major global reserve currency.
In the twentieth century, the United States took over that role, imposing its Pax Americana to provide security to most of Western Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.
The wayward Kuchma is far more deserving of Europe imposing safeguards to ensure his good behavior.
But if leaders end up pursuing an extreme form of short-termism – by, say, passing big tax cuts with no accompanying revenue increase, weakening public institutions, or imposing tariffs or engaging in other forms of protectionism, without accounting for retaliation by other countries – the gains will not last long.
A significant earnings premium would reduce malfeasance by imposing a potentially large economic cost on corrupt behavior.
For unless these changes are made, how can businessmen know how to ascertain the lawfulness of the actions of Chinese officials, such as imposing fees or penalties, refusing to award contracts, or imposing conditions on contract approvals?
Moreover, Trump did not start a trade war by imposing high tariffs on imports from major US trade partners such as China, Germany, and Japan.
It was believed at the time that formalized rules – imposing mandatory limits on deficits, debt, and inflation – would be enough.
To be fair, the Fund’s reputation for imposing austerity is mostly an illusion.
The French argued for European economic governance alongside the monetary union, but that looked to others as imposing too much French planisme .
Because beggar-thy-neighbor policies create benefits by imposing costs on others, they, too, need to be regulated at the international level.
The American Comeback KidVIENNA – As is customary at the start of a new year, imposing statistics and trend forecasts are being trumpeted worldwide.
So, rich countries are imposing what economists call an “externality” on poor countries: by changing the global climate they may be causing havoc in the most vulnerable places on earth.
On the one hand, they should help pay for any damages they indirectly inflict on poorer countries (scientists will be needed to establish or disprove such linkages), and on the other hand, they should take serious and long-term actions (such as reducing the use of fossil fuels) to limit the environmental costs they are imposing on themselves and the rest of the world.
When Japan responded by taking over southern French Indochina, the US retaliated by imposing an embargo on oil exports to Japan.
Meanwhile, Germany’s insistence on imposing losses on bank creditors in Cyprus is the latest symptom of bailout fatigue in the core.
He failed, because he gave in to petty protectionist interests, imposing a timber embargo against Finland and Sweden, a fish embargo against Norway, and various agricultural embargos against Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and others.
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