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As matters stand, central banks in developed countries find all sorts of ways to justify their policies, without acknowledging the unmentionable – that the exchange rate may be the primary channel of transmission.
So, if the US does renege on its commitments under the JCPOA, it would be difficult, if not impossible, for Iran’s leaders to justify further concessions.
Today, Russia is using the same logic to justify its cooperation with the Afghan Taliban, which it wants to keep fighting the unstable US-backed government in Kabul.
The threat of terrorism has been used to justify some of the new walls; but the strongest indicator of whether a county will build a barrier is whether it shares a border with a substantially poorer neighbor.
To justify its recommendations, the authors of the Nuffield report suggested two overarching principles that should guide the use of genetic editing.
Claims by some that the United States uses the international seigniorage that it collects to finance global security are unconvincing and do not justify the practice (much less America’s massive military expenditures).
But, based on the evidence currently available, it would be premature to conclude that violence against the defenseless has already occurred – or is imminent – on the scale necessary to justify outside military intervention.
Those criteria are that the atrocities occurring or feared are sufficiently serious to justify, prima facie, a military response; that the response has a primarily humanitarian motive; that no lesser response is likely to be effective in halting or averting the harm; that the proposed response is proportional to the threat; and that the intervention will actually be effective, doing more good than harm.
The most comprehensive economic meta-study shows that total future climate impacts would justify a tax of around €0.01 per liter of petrol ($0.06 per gallon in the United States) – an amount dwarfed by the taxes already imposed by most European countries.
It is worth remembering the real dimensions of the 1930’s Great Depression, with which politicians compare this recession to justify massive government intervention.
What can continue to justify a political entity after the urgent realities and convictions that drove its establishment have faded to the pages of history and civics books or, at best, are the subject of grandparents’ stories?
Russia discovered that when it invoked the “responsibility to protect” doctrine to try to justify its 2008 invasion of Georgia.
Gyourko, Mayer, and Sinai justify their claim by arguing that these cities really are unique.
But that does not justify disregarding the evidence.
No one is accountable to them, and there is no one to whom they must justify themselves.
Moreover, global deleveraging is asymmetric, with Latin American economies growing fast and advanced markets lagging – all of which may call for a real exchange-rate correction and thus justify revaluation of the region’s major currencies.
What stories are investors far from America now telling one another to justify continuing to add to their exposure to the risk of dollar depreciation?
After all, pleas from Crimea for fraternal Russian support appear to justify Putin’s backing for the dithering, venal, and now widely despised Yanukovych.
Meanwhile, the other eurozone members, seeking to justify less financing, also found it convenient to overlook the calamitous impact of austerity.
Indeed, there is now sufficient evidence to justify a full international inquiry into the actions of both sides, potentially leading to indictments before the International Criminal Court.
To justify our intervention, however, we must now assure a better future not only for the people of Kosovo, but for the whole region, including the rump of Yugoslavia which remains in Mr Milosovic's hands.
Men who wish to maintain their control over women will no doubt continue to use culture and religious tradition to justify their dominance.
It is doubtful that the economic rewards for the US would justify taking such a risk.
The temptation to embark on wars that cause more harm than good is not the only danger of using the language of human rights to justify military intervention in political conflicts (which usually involve many other interests that have nothing to do with human rights).
Europe’s fiscal interventions would be easier to justify if they were accompanied by microeconomic reforms targeted at increasing flexibility.
The balance of assets and liabilities does not justify the gloom.
Trump has cited national security concerns in order to justify his tariffs – including the hefty tariffs on steel and aluminum (automotive imports may be next) that he has imposed.
Similarly, some of the results reported by Reinhart and Rogoff have been used by politicians and others to justify fiscal austerity.
Given this commitment, subsidy for the opera raises an obvious question: Since liberals are opposed to the establishment of religion, how can they justify supporting the establishment of one of the great totems of secular humanism — the operas of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and other lesser saints in the secular canon?
A lower discount rate and/or a higher rate of expected earnings growth would justify higher equity valuations.
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