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Managers take more risks in search of higher returns to justify their pay, which at some point will lead to risk mispricing, and a crisis.
That is what happened when conservative American politicians and European Union officials latched on to the work of two Harvard professors – Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff – to justify their support of fiscal austerity.
The question is: what must the cutters and slashers believe to justify their policies?
Attempting to justify his decision, Trump recently tweeted, “Remember how badly Iran was behaving with the Iran Deal in place.
And governments are not alone; the private sector, too, relied on rosy assumptions to justify imprudently high levels of leverage.
It ended the career of Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of the General Staff and a hardliner of the hardest sort, whose inconsistent and unconvincing efforts to justify the downing of the plane proved deeply embarrassing to the Kremlin.
In 2004, speaking to Russian veterans about the Afghan invasion, Putin explained that there were legitimate geopolitical reasons to protect the Soviet Central Asian border, just as in March he cited security concerns to justify his Ukrainian land grab.
That agenda is “Islam,” which many imagine to include all the terrible things that we can read about in the press every day: the stoning of adulterous women under Sharia law in northern Nigeria, the amputation of thieves’ hands in Saudi Arabia, honor killings of women who refuse arranged marriages in Pakistan (or even northern English cities like Bradford and Manchester), the willingness to justify suicide bombings.
The Bush administration invoked false and misleading evidence, most notably forged documents purporting to show that Iraq had sought to buy uranium from Niger, to justify its predetermined decision to invade oil-rich Iraq.
On one hand, the authorities need to pursue him aggressively to justify the purge of someone who was so recently lauded.
The central bankers justify their concern about low inflation by arguing that a negative demand shock could shift their economies into a period of prolonged deflation, in which the overall price level declines year after year.
Moreover, Putin has made ethnic nationalism a defining element of his foreign policy, using Crimea’s Russian-speaking majority to justify his adventure there.
Nonetheless, Liberals and Colorados in Congress used the violence in Curuguaty to justify Lugo’s impeachment, arguing that he had failed to maintain social order and portraying him as a dangerous radical intent on fomenting a rural insurgency.
Never mind the inconvenient truth that the acts may be theologically impermissible; the ends justify the means, and there really is no alternative.
The morbidity and mortality caused by diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, and pediatric pneumonia and diarrhea certainly justify such priorities.
In the war on terror, it seems, Africa's dictators may find it easier to justify continuing tyranny.
But this approach is becoming increasingly difficult to justify.
This will require us to address the inverted narratives of victimhood, which are often recruited to justify intolerance.
The suffering from past wrongs does not justify current and future cruelty.
This left a vacuum in both countries, with Russia’s government struggling to justify an elected autocracy, and China’s one-party dictatorship seeking a new source of legitimacy.
Not only has the term become a shorthand way to malign an entire industry; autocrats are invoking it as an excuse to jail reporters and justify censorship, often on trumped-up charges of supporting terrorism.
President Donald Trump’s Twitter tirades about “fake news” have given autocratic regimes an example by which to justify their own media crackdowns.
To be sure, Germany accounts for the largest share of the eurozone’s external surplus, and three related arguments are typically used to justify the call for German authorities to use fiscal policy to address it.
Sadly, the Republican Party has been hijacked during the Bush years by sloganeers using code phrases like “illegal immigration” and “protecting the middle class” to mask their racism, and “economic incentive effects” to justify tax policies that are blatantly tilted to the rich.
While theoretical arguments can be made to justify recent departures from policy, the reality is that in the post-crisis world, advanced-country central banks’ goals are no longer limited to price stability.
For all the good news about Mexico's infant democracy, its president is beginning to justify the early fears about him: no vision, no Congress to work with, and no team that knows what to do.
Talmon criticized the Israeli right’s belief that one major “event”would radically and permanently change the situation in Israel’s favor, and he repudiated the “religious sanction” used to justify unrealistic policies in the Occupied Territories.
Indeed, while China ratified UNCLOS, it then reinterpreted the provisions to justify cartographic aggression in the South and East China Seas.
But asking others to pay for the legacy of banks’ past irresponsible practices is hard to justify.
Whatever mistakes Georgia’s government made cannot justify Russia’s actions.
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