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In my view, it is difficult to make a strong case for a significant sustained increase in earnings growth in this environment, meaning that growth alone would not justify current equity valuations.
Others are more concerned to use it to justify failure or even aggression; this is history as self-pity.
A proper assessment of the medium-term risks would have helped to justify my conclusion in December 2008 that “It will take every tool in the box to fix today’s once-in-a-century financial crisis.”
The puzzling circumstances of the IMF head’s sudden departure announcement do not justify a business as usual approach to his replacement.
Nor does the closed-door succession process at the Bank, where the US continued its sixty year lock on the Presidency, justify continuing European monopolization of the Fund job.
In turn, Fed officials have sought to justify their actions, which is also the way a democracy should function.
Fed officials, for their part, must better justify their actions.
Successful regime change requires a long-term commitment of military force, of civilian experts trained to build a modern society, and of money and attention – and even then there is no assurance that the results will justify the investment.
But universities have always been hard-pressed to justify their existence in such immediate cost-benefit terms.
Some leading economists in Argentina justify this reversal by arguing that the world now has an “Obama IMF,” one presumably friendlier and more attuned to local problems than the “Bush Fund.”
These words prompt a sad smile;Leonid Brezhnev used precisely the same phrase in August 1968 to justify the Red Army’s intervention in Czechoslovakia to help beleaguered Communist hardliners there crush the Prague Spring reform movement.
But, even if that were true, it would hardly justify the sudden elimination of all support.
The fact that leaders’ ends may sometimes justify violating norms about honesty does not mean that all lies are equal, or that we must suspend our moral judgment in such cases.
Do Spectacular Earnings Justify Spectacular US Stock Prices?
“ Saas” has so thoroughly captured the public imagination in Afghanistan that, in this deeply conservative Islamic country where family problems are often literally hidden behind the veil, it’s an Indian TV show that has come to dominate (and sometimes to justify) public discussion of family issues.
Finally, it is hard philosophically to justify forcing Luke to pay “income” tax for Nexus but not for the harvester that Nexus operates.
There is an alternative to a robot tax that is easy to implement and simple to justify: a universal basic dividend (UBD), financed from the returns on all capital.
Although the doctrine of laissez-faire does not contradict the principles of the open society the way Marxism-Leninism or Nazi ideas of racial purity did, all these doctrines have an important feature in common: they justify their claim to ultimate truth with an appeal to science.
Historically, beliefs have served to justify specific rules of conduct.
Blair’s government moved the Labour Party a long way to the right of its traditional priorities of protecting the underprivileged, and to justify the change he re-named the party “New Labour.”
These nefarious forces’ environmentalist “dogma has been used to justify increasing the regulatory power of states over the economy.”
But, although Hezbollah’s preparations are likely to ensure its survival, it would be hard-pressed to justify to the Lebanese public a strategy that led to two ruinous wars in the span of five years.
And by no means do all those who work to protect the rights of others invoke the horrors of the Third Reich to justify Anglo-American armed intervention.
The obvious answer is that the report was intended to justify, rather than inform, the policy.
And he seems to question the high stock-market valuations for “unicorns” – companies valued at or above $1 billion that have no record of producing revenues that would justify their supposed worth and no clear plan to do so.
But while a small number of innovative professors are using such methods to reinvent their courses, the tremendous resistance they face from other faculty holds down the size of the market and makes it hard to justify the investments needed to produce more rapid change.
Similarly, much like the misleading “ticking time bomb” scenario has served to rationalize torture, the “imminent massacre” argument is used to justify immediate intervention.
France’s U-turn generated the set of arguments that would justify the creation of the euro.
These two factors justify Bernanke’s reappointment, but the faintness of praise is indicative of the deeper problems that his leadership has exposed.
In the 1990’s, placating financial markets was also invoked to justify the reappointment of Bernanke’s predecessor, Alan Greenspan, and it is now perennially invoked to block change at the Fed and other central banks.
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