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He never shrank from taking on Washington or letting officials there know what he thought.
In the interest of regional peace, both major powers must stop letting historical resentments obstruct a more harmonious and prosperous future for the Asia-Pacific region.
There is an alternative simply to letting the market decide, the French Assembly insists.
Because bubbles tend to inflate gradually over a number of years before their abrupt collapse, letting them run a little further seems politically astute.
Should a country with weaknesses in its financial system simply avoid letting capital in?
Both China and the West must now avoid letting exaggerated fears create self-inflicted prophecies.
Yet too often, the world is letting mothers down.
The US could further that objective by letting it be known diplomatically that it will not object if others allow Cuba to return to the IMF.
It can easily imply importing solutions to non-existent problems, while letting real problems fester.
There are obvious dangers in letting technological progress alone drive this change.
Many Chinese experts also agree that ending the wholesale subsidization of industrial behemoths and letting market signals play a stronger role in investment choices is in their country’s best interest.
Russia, freed from its ethnic and mental straitjacket, was letting its most resourceful, entrepreneurial, vibrant, and yes, cynical, citizens climb to the top.
“It’s time to rebuild Michigan, and we are not letting them take your jobs out of Michigan any more,” he told cheering crowds in Detroit in 2016.
Some are talking about letting people own their social security contributions, in the form of personal retirement accounts, their health care through health savings accounts, and their education through educational savings accounts and school vouchers.
Third, the IMF should end its credit squeeze policies, letting interest rates come down, and restoring the flow of working capital to enterprises.
After the demonstration, China’s government adopted a hands-on approach, letting the people of Hong Kong know who the boss really is.
More specifically, the Afghan attack was an example of letting military means determine policy ends.
Small economies closely integrated with their trading partners might set exchange rate targets, or fix their exchange rate to the currencies of their trading partners, but large and relatively closed economies like the US, EU, and Japan, do better to focus on their own business conditions, letting markets determine the exchange rate.
It does not take a prophet to predict that the latest chapter of the euro crisis will leave Germany’s austerity policy in tatters – unless Merkel really wants to take the enormous risk of letting the euro fail.
There are better ways to enhance stability, from strengthening prudential supervision to taxing and controlling destabilizing capital flows and letting the exchange rate adjust.
The second option is to pay wage subsidies instead of wage replacement incomes to allow for the wage dispersion necessary for full employment without letting the incomes of the unskilled fall.
For now, though, instead of whining about high commodity prices, governments should be shielding only their very poorest citizens, and letting the price spikes serve as a wake-up call for the rest of us.
At these moments, it is easiest to accommodate the movements by letting all prices rise, but to differing extents.
Apparently, Dutch doctors are letting their patients die the old-fashioned way, rather than use the expensive new techniques to prolong their lives.
But the current US leadership is going too far in the other direction, including by raising the threshold for stress tests to $250 billion and letting non-banks off the hook, which increases the risk of an eventual recurrence of the 2007-2008 financial crisis.
Lands legally recorded as wilderness will encourage more fire; and a reluctance to put firefighters at risk in remote settings – as well as cost concerns – argues for backing off and letting the next ridge burn while offering point protection for threatened communities.
But now that we are measuring indicators like child mortality more precisely, people are able to see the impact that aid has in stark terms – that it means the difference between, say, giving people access to HIV treatment and letting them die.
But the immediate short-run alternative – letting Greece (and potentially others) fall by the wayside – would carry a substantial price.
Putting an Australian mining executive behind bars for ten years, squeezing out Google, keeping the European Union at bay for an important dialogue, and letting a mid-level official wag his finger at US President Barack Obama at the Copenhagen Climate summit is not, after all, the best way to convince partners of your constructive intentions.
Similarly, letting people compare their energy use with that of their peers could prompt them to save hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs each year, to say nothing of reducing carbon emissions.
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