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In both cases, the underlying problem is insufficient aggregate demand.
Since then, the Orthodox Church (in Russian, Pravoslavie, literally the “right worship”) has been considered the only correct form of Christianity in Russia, with other denominations dismissed for their support of individualism and insufficient reverence of the human soul.
But then, yet a few decades later and reinforced by longer life expectancy and sharply lower birth rates, the system goes bust: tax inflows are insufficient to balance the outflows in the form of payments to retirees.
Insufficient spending was never an issue.
And even 150,000 pairs of foreign boots on the ground were insufficient to stabilize the country after the horribly ill-judged US-led military intervention in 2003.
If the primary surpluses are insufficient, temporary measures will only postpone the inevitable debt debacle.
These structures provided executives with incentives to give insufficient weight to the possibility of large losses, which in turn motivated executives to take excessive risks.
Cutting growth rates by 40-70% is surely a recipe for stagnant societies with insufficient growth to satisfy private wants and public needs.
The Fed’s economic manuals, including technical models and historical analyses, shed insufficient light on today’s economic situation.
But insufficient diagnostic rigor can result in over-diagnosis.
With insufficient profits to use for investment, nonfinancial corporations will become increasingly dependent on external finance.
Consider Greece, where the Fund’s response was clearly insufficient.
This should help to solve the problem of insufficient demand for real estate, which could have led to the collapse of China’s economy.
But this constant need for reassurance, for the limiting of risk and involvement to the minimum necessary, provokes a fear that at some point Germany and others will judge their partners’ assurances insufficient and the risks run in helping them intolerable.
Investors outside the US can see the magnitude of the trade deficit, calculate the likely decline in the dollar required to eliminate it, and recognize that the interest rate and equity return differentials from investing in the US are insufficient to compensate for the risk that next month will be when capital inflows into America start to fall.
They are insufficient to stop abuses (after all, sanctions were threatened before the elections) and risk pushing Zimbabwe's economy deeper into crisis, hurting millions of innocent people, especially during a period of intensifying hunger and drought.
Another study revealed that women dieters with insufficient calcium who took a calcium and vitamin D supplement had more fat loss than those who did not.
But today an insufficient number of doctors plagues many of these facilities, particularly in remote areas, where absenteeism also is high.
But the hard truth is that current funding for research and development to address the health needs of the world’s poorest people is insufficient.
But if a social consensus arises that the judiciary is insufficient to guarantee or safeguard individual rights as well as the division of power between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government, that lack of trust could lead to social dismemberment.
The longer these disturbances persisted, the greater the threat to a global economy already challenged by structural weaknesses, income and wealth inequalities, pockets of excessive indebtedness, deficient aggregate demand, and insufficient policy coordination.
But diminished international standing and growing regional isolation have been insufficient to induce Pakistan’s dominant military to rethink its stance on terrorism.
But even a 5%-of-GDP budget would be insufficient to play a meaningful macroeconomic role.
The interest-rate increase decided this week will soon appear insufficient, and will have to be followed by further hikes and a large increase in unemployment.
The traditional determinants of states’ power relative to other states – geography, demography, economic heft, and military might, coupled with the availability of resources and technological proficiency – remain important; but they are often insufficient to confer actual influence in international politics.
By removing the barriers to employment that women face – whether practical obstacles, like insufficient childcare services, or social constraints – Japan could substantially increase women’s workforce-participation rate, creating an invaluable buffer against the growing labor shortage.
Policymakers and financial regulators lately have been seeking to reduce funding costs for businesses, which have been piling on risky debt in recent years, as insufficient access to official loans has pushed them to the shadow banking system.
Just consider what must be overcome: economic divergence and deepening recessions; irreversible balkanization of the banking system and financial markets; unsustainable debt burdens for public and private agents; daunting growth and balance-sheet costs in countries that pursue internal devaluation and deflation to restore competitiveness; asymmetrical adjustment, with moral-hazard risks in the core and insufficient financing in the periphery fueling incompatible political dynamics; fickle and impatient markets and investors; austerity fatigue in the periphery and bailout fatigue in the core; the absence of conditions for an optimal currency area; and serious difficulties in achieving full fiscal, banking, economic, and political union.
Real progress, I believe, has taken place, but it is insufficient and asymmetric.
Yet, despite these developments, overall progress remains insufficient.
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