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And each year after the initial downturn had ended, the US economy would recover roughly 40% of the ground between its current situation and its full employment potential.
Nor is it feasible to generate power locally with a diesel unit, owing to high fuel costs and the need for substantial initial investment.
But one solution, based on the local use of renewable energy, requires minimal initial investment and can be expanded over time.
The group is now looking for an initial manufacturer/assembler for the retrofit kits (as opposed to the engines inside them).
In terms of the initial impact on the monetary base, the policies would be the same – an increase equal to 5% of GDP.
But, in a world of fractional reserve banks, there is clearly a danger that the initial stimulus could be multiplied later by the subsequent expansion of private “inside money” purchasing power, as animal spirits return to bank and shadow-bank lenders and borrowers.
In such a system, the danger that an initial OMF stimulus will be multiplied by subsequent credit and private money creation disappears, because the monetary base is the money supply.
The sites – six of which are being funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through an initial $73 million grant for the first three years – are just being established.
A free-market economy and its legal traditions -- both indispensable to the survival of financial centers – certainly helps them to rise, but that initial rise has always been attributable to historical evolution, not government strategy.
In the initial aftermath of the financial crisis, it was widely assumed that currency flexibility gave the United Kingdom an advantage over eurozone members like Spain.
At that point, the CSRC launched a succession of desperate measures: it suspended initial public offerings, allowed companies to stop trading, and limited short selling.
First, different countries have different capacities to sustain public debt, depending on their initial deficit levels, existing debt burden, payment history, and policy credibility.
The good economic data will reinforce initial favorable impressions of Angela Merkel’s new government, which got off to an excellent start at the EU Summit, where Merkel helped to broker a compromise between Britain and France on the Union’s 2007-2013 budget (by adding another €2 billion to Germany’s annual contribution).
From the sender side, the initial reaction may be, “Why can’t I reach this person without paying?”
Such cases of "too much, too early" tend to occur when the initial decision is politically undemanding, and short term consequences limited.
Even when the court had serious reservations – for example, about eurozone membership for Italy and Belgium, where public debt was almost double the Maastricht-dictated maximum of 60% of GDP (Greece had already been excluded from the monetary union’s initial roster) – it ruled in Europe’s favor.
Where, in a purely deductive argument, was there room for nature's surprises, for mechanisms that look nothing like what we imagine in our initial assumptions?
In short, it is the institutions and policies a country chooses -- rather than its resources or initial scarcities -- that mainly determines its per capita income.
China has been highly successful in its initial efforts to shift the industrial structure of its economy from manufacturing to services, which have long been viewed as the foundation of modern consumer societies.
Lee Kwan Yew in Singapore and Mao Zedong and Deng in China gained their peoples’ trust as founders and initial reformers.
It is obviously not ideal that the US has the Volcker rule and [the UK has] Vickers…”He was surely right, but “too big to fail” is another area in which the initial post-crisis enthusiasm for global solutions has failed.
The strategy could also safeguard post-conflict societies after an initial period (of about five years) when the presence of troops is necessary.
Initial restructuring terms often are too timid, relative to the haircut needed to restore solvency.
That was the initial view of David Ricardo, the most influential economist of the nineteenth century.
Meanwhile, initial enthusiasm for restoring Glass-Steagall – breaking up banking functions into separate institutions – has fallen by the wayside.
But the crisis experience suggests that, in times of extreme market tensions, even a sound initial fiscal position may not offer absolute protection from spillovers.
In other words, doctors can – and should – be able to distinguish grief, a normal response to loss, from depression, a mental disorder, after just 14 days, when most people would still be coping with the initial practicalities of a loved one’s death.
But where the line is drawn in the initial year is in some sense not that important.
Without such initial connections, however, it is very unlikely that he or she will become an oligarch.
Saudi Arabia’s initial response to the fracturing of a system that it had underwritten with petrodollars was to increase support for those of its allies that were still standing – Jordan, Lebanon, and Bahrain.
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