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A pro-saving US policy agenda should draw on the following: longer-term fiscal consolidation, expanded IRAs (individual retirement accounts) and 401Ks, consumption-based tax reform (such as value-added or sales taxes), and interest-rate normalization.
Where structural policy is concerned, we need a better architecture for overseeing and safeguarding individual countries’ competitiveness, and for eliminating imbalances.
The traits needed to win Academy Awards, for example, may be similar to the traits of an individual who pursues a large number of sexual partners and relationships requiring little commitment.
In the UK, by contrast, the biggest penalties have come in the form of compensation payments made to individual mortgage borrowers who were sold Payment Protection Insurance.
Some of the money, especially in the UK, has gone back to individual customers.
Some political leaders seem too preoccupied with their own disagreements with individual decisions to see the larger interest in preserving a European institution that commands widespread admiration.
Generally, a centralized, top-down approach – one that comprehends the entire system, identifies choke points, and makes changes to eliminate them – will be more efficient than simply letting individual drivers make their own choices on the road, with the assumption that these choices, in aggregate, will lead to an acceptable outcome.
If states were levying individual taxes on top of the GST, the national market would again be divided and distorted, with checkpoints returning on state frontiers to assess the value of the goods on their way out.
For example, he offers significant financial inducements to individual jihadis, as well as their families, in return for political obedience.
But on the level of individual societies, I believe that inequality does loom as a serious political-economic problem.
The problem is not just individual “tax havens”; there is also a need to capture corporate profits that companies’ move internationally with complex devices such as “transfer pricing” and “tax-base shifting” to minimize their tax bill.
And the world’s increasing interconnectedness has contributed to increased volatility, as individual countries struggle to address challenges ranging from food security to financial reform.
A better approach would be to regulate individual banks, branches, and even loans, while limiting the Fed’s interventions to those that serve its original purpose of ensuring an adequate monetary base and acting as lender of last resort during panics, like the 2008 financial crisis.
It is within our power to recover or reinvigorate our freedoms and our societies, not by individual efforts, but by joining forces with likeminded people all over the world.
Individual countries’ economic fortunes are determined largely by what happens at home rather than abroad.
In particular, in addition to individual life-saving efforts, strategies should be implemented to reduce the risk of infection in port cities and other centers of economic activity.
When a woman gives birth to a child with a congenital syndrome deriving from the Zika virus, the response should be grounded in the dignity, value, and rights of each individual.
That could lead to growing unemployment, poverty, inequality, instability, and other factors that threaten not just individual countries or regions, but the entire international community.
For an infected individual, those costs include treatment and hospital expenses, transportation to and from a health clinic or hospital, time spent out of work, and insect sprays or bed nets to protect against more disease-spreading mosquito bites.
And yet individual fishermen have little reason not to catch as many tuna as possible, as any animal that escapes their net will likely end up in another’s.
The alternative approach – embodied by the Kyoto Protocol – is to implement quotas limiting individual actors’ permissible greenhouse-gas emissions.
So Latin America is now constantly presented with “extraordinary” situations that supposedly require a certain individual, such as a great, benevolent cacique , to occupy the center of the political scene and govern with an enormous discretionary capacity.
The steps that need to be taken internationally for such a system to take root have already been mapped in what was achieved by individual countries over recent decades, when institutions, such as central banks and regulatory agencies, were created to help manage the rapid growth of private banks and financial markets.
After all, many problems that now affect individual countries are, in fact, transnational, and cannot be addressed by one country alone.
Another similarity between Japan’s current crisis and the recent financial crisis is that the false risk assessment was largely due to the asymmetric distribution of social welfare and individual cost implied by more effective risk mitigation.
In this ideal world, insurance for individual plants would be linked to factors that can and cannot be influenced, such as location in a densely populated area and the local population’s risk-averseness.
Furthermore, risk assessment should be linked to individual plants’ risk factors, such as location in a seismic zone, secondary containment, safety redundancies, etc.Plants in densely populated areas with lower safety standards, for example, would face higher insurance costs, which could lead to a self-selected phase-out of the riskiest plants.
First, it is virtually impossible to assess individual plants’ risk profiles correctly.
Moreover, it is misleading to single out the most misguided comments by individual governors in the context of an active intellectual debate over policy.
It is legitimate to criticize individual policymakers who exercised poor judgment, and they should have a mark on their record.
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