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The aim was to reduce private credit spreads (the difference between yields on private assets and those on government bonds of similar maturity) and to boost, directly and indirectly, the price of other risky assets such as equities and real estate.
Investment-to-income ratios were higher as well for open economies, by an average of 5.4% compared to closed economies, thereby boosting growth
indirectly.
Equity holdings are somewhat more concentrated, but many middle class Americans have still benefited
indirectly
through their pension funds.
Silicon Valley’s achievements are, arguably, a function of a unique cultural legacy rather than government policy (though government has
indirectly
underpinned some of its most successful startups).
This realization – that the European taxpayer does not have to save every troubled bank – might have a very beneficial effect, because Germany’s resistance to a banking union is motivated by the fear that German taxpayers would be forced to underwrite
indirectly
the losses of banks in the distressed countries of the eurozone periphery.
The five senior generals who led the coup appointed, directly or indirectly, all 160 members of the Consultative Assembly that drafted the new constitution, and they retained a veto over the final document.
The driving force, however, can only be an understanding that EU enlargement must be regarded as a win-win situation for all countries involved directly or
indirectly
- including Russia.
Since 1979, these MEPs have been elected direct rather than
indirectly
from national parliaments.
The other prong, promoting the rule of law, international cooperation, and the principles of open society has to be pursued indirectly, by reforming the international financial system and by paying special attention to Russia’s near-abroad.
Moreover, supplier countries often pay for that medical education directly or indirectly, without ever receiving any of the benefits.
It would also
indirectly
address the Israeli government’s demand that the Palestinians recognize a “Jewish state.”
In particular, if the firm’s equity capital erodes, the government should not provide funds (directly or indirectly) to increase the cushion available to bondholders.
Most European countries directly or
indirectly
regulate the prices of pharmaceuticals, similar to how electricity or water prices are regulated in US markets.
In the populist imagination, both the very top and the very bottom of society are not really a part of it: they are directly or
indirectly
supported by outside powers (think of pro-European liberal elites in Central and Eastern Europe); more obviously, they are immigrants or minorities, like the Roma.
Even if the UN Security Council could establish an ad hoc tribunal to try the abuses of American officials in Iraq, this would still address only the guilt of individuals, not the problem of each American's own responsibility for having participated, directly and indirectly, in a culture that generated the torture of prisoners.
Indeed, the majority of commercially available drugs owe their origins directly or
indirectly
to the diversity of plant and microbial life.
The futures markets on home prices will allow investors around the world to invest in US homes indirectly, by buying interests in them through these markets.
If market-driven recapitalization is too slow, and closing failing institutions is impossible, a more extreme alternative is to inject public capital directly into the banks (rather than indirectly, as now, by propping up the value of the sovereign debt that they hold).
To the west, people fear immigration, job losses, and having to pay for enlargement - either directly, in increased contributions to the EU budget, or indirectly, through subsidies that go, for example, to Polish Galicia rather than to Spanish Galicia.
But the Fed’s legitimacy – and its ability to make sensible policy – is not boosted by having major banks represented, directly or indirectly, on a board that chooses and oversees a key policymaker.
Forget, or try to forget, the quarter-million deaths for which Bashar al-Assad is responsible, directly or indirectly, since choosing to respond with violence to a peaceful uprising of the Syrian people.
As Summers and others argue, globalization has brought large gains to the world economy as a whole, but seldom have the winners compensated the losers, directly or
indirectly.
This “money-for-influence” model of governance
indirectly
impairs the IMF’s capacity to criticize the economies of its most important members (let alone police compliance with their obligations).
Images of ScarcityNEW HAVEN – Could the television image we’ve all seen of the Greenland ice cap crumbling into the ocean because of global warming somehow –
indirectly
and psychologically – be partly responsible for high oil and other commodity prices?
Nokia in Finland, for example, imports 12% of its cell-phone components from Japan, and thus could be
indirectly
affected by the disaster.
In fact, hardline demands by the country’s US government creditors after World War I contributed to deep financial instability in Germany and other parts of Europe, and
indirectly
to the rise of Adolf Hitler in 1933.
Reinforcing both countries’ military capacities
indirectly
reinforces those of the EU.
During the Cold War, successive US presidents were perfectly happy to send in troops, directly or indirectly, to ensure that friendly governments prevailed in the Americas (and beyond).
Directly, it can do nothing; indirectly, it can do a lot.
If Latin American governments did not cooperate with the US, they would be directly or
indirectly
disciplined.
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