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So how is it that policymakers have managed to substitute the latter for the former?
As long as no distinction is made between nationalist extremists and fanatical terrorists like Al Qaeda, the latter will be able to masquerade as the defenders of Muslims who are seen as “driven” to resort to suicide bombing because of military weakness.
Prime borrowers with good credit scores and investment-grade firms are not experiencing a credit crunch at this point, as the former have access to mortgages and consumer credit while the latter have access to bond and equity markets.
The latter is worth emulating because admission and continued membership are conditioned on respect for specific democratic standards.
Cynics will suspect that Luxembourg and Norway have managed to sustain this dynamic only because of their peculiar economic structures (a concentration in finance in the former, and in natural resources in the latter).
The latter is inconsistent with being an ally.
Francois Mitterrand turned this situation around by not only striking an alliance with the Communist party (a deal by which the latter became permanently enfeebled), but also by introducing a (by now again abandoned) system of proportional representation, one which allowed the National Front to enter the political landscape of France in force.
Ultimately, only the latter will allow for long-term fiscal sustainability.
The current medical paradigm does the latter.
The European Union’s legitimacy deficit derives from the popular suspicion that its institutional arrangements have veered too far from the former to the latter.
I suspect that it is the latter.
The latter would be well advised to put the need for a growth and productivity policy, rather than simple adherence to fiscal targets, at the top of the agenda.
(Even the former should boost demand, but the latter is likely to be more effective.)
To see just how difficult the latter can be, consider the eurozone.
The former need to restructure their economies and promote new industries, and the latter must address domestic concerns over inequality and distributive justice.
The latter include developing an international food security initiative, cooperating to increase vocational training in fragile states, expanding clean-energy research, investing in global disease-detection systems, and collaborating to explore shale-gas extraction.
Unfortunately for Putin, when the former is called into question by popular protest, the latter can no longer be taken for granted.
What is essential is the right combination of stability and financial aid, even if the latter is unpopular with the German public.
She chose the latter option.
On the contrary, it is caught in a duel between healing and disruptive influences, in which it can ill afford any further intensification of the latter.
And why do the latter not erode the political power of the former?
But the former would tend to reinforce the negative feedback loop between banks and sovereigns, while the latter would likely avoid socializing a rising volume of private debt as the feedback loop is attenuated.
The first term defined the tumultuous middle of the twentieth century, the latter its benign ending.
Many choose the latter.
If the latter, the best course of action would be to save the additional income or use it, as a second-best option, to reduce the national debt.
The latter is the most risky, because it supports the creeping authoritarianism that is a sign of our times.
He bravely opted for the latter.
So the former promises to deliver euros next June 1, while the latter promises to deliver yen.
Not unsurprisingly, the latter has gained more of the world’s attention than the former.
The latter was intended to impose market discipline, and the former, to preserve the stability of public finances by fixing a strict limit on the size of national budget deficits.
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