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It is true that the US Treasury’s ability to borrow will reach its legally authorized
limit
in early August.
In Taiwan, outgoing President Chen Shui-bian is stirring the independence pot, knowing that the Olympic spotlight will
limit
Beijing’s ability to respond forcefully.
Mubarak should also endorse a
limit
of no more than two successive five-year terms for any president.
China’s economic power over the US is now substantial, and will
limit
not only America’s influence in the financial markets, but also its capacity to use military power.
Klaus, Zeman and their parties also agreed to work together to
limit
presidential power and the independence of the Central Bank by changing the Constitution, as well as to change the electoral law in their favor.
In that case, one could imagine the replacement of representative democracy with political regimes that
limit
citizen control to the executive.
The best way to prepare is to
limit
the use of credit in boom times, prevent individuals and companies from borrowing too much, and set high capital requirements for all banks and other financial institutions.
To stay below the two-degree limit, the world’s governments must embrace a core concept: “deep decarbonization” of the world’s energy system.
Another name for this approach is “transfer union,” which implies relentless economic austerity and declining living standards, because strong countries – first and foremost, Germany – are determined to
limit
their liability for bailing out deficit countries by making all transfers conditional on tough budget retrenchment.
The army’s temptation to
limit
change reflects the conservative profile of its hierarchy, the extraordinary privileges it enjoys, and the economic interests with which it has been tied.
Others see in the decision to postpone the taper an effort to pre-empt the negative effects on the economy of a possible congressional debacle over government funding and the debt
limit.
Moreover, with extreme political partisanship causing a government shutdown and threatening a debt-ceiling debacle, it would be understandable for the Fed to try to
limit
the impact of a dysfunctional Congress on consumer demand and business confidence.
Individual countries pledged to
limit
their emissions in the near term, with provisions for future monitoring and periodic reviews of targets.
Furthermore, countries like the United States would not agree to
limit
their emissions if they feared that carbon-emitting industry would simply migrate to developing countries.
China has played a helpful role of late in encouraging North Korean cooperation with demands to
limit
its nuclear capabilities.
That’s why the temptation for Bush and Blair to
limit
further political damage at home by prematurely declaring victory in Iraq is so dangerous.
Ensuring that domestic demand decelerates to a more sustainable pace is necessary to moderate the upward pressure on prices that threatens the credibility of the inflation-targeting monetary-policy framework – indeed, in April, the 12-month consumer inflation rate breached the upper
limit
of the central bank’s tolerance band.
First, more than 100 countries assembled in Marrakech, Morocco, to complete a unique UN agreement to
limit
global climate change.
The history and political culture of Egypt suggest a natural
limit
to the Brotherhood’s appeal if Egyptians can bridge their most important differences, maintain order, and restore economic growth.
And such co-existence would rule out a robust or long-lasting economic recovery, because it would
limit
the credibility of individual rights.
The banks argue that more effective regulation would
limit
credit and slow the pace of economic recovery.
Even though the US government’s debt
limit
was raised in the nick of time, the process was – and remains – fraught with risk.
Just ten years ago, the natural-gas industry was so sure that domestic production was reaching its
limit
that it made large investments in terminals to import liquefied natural gas (LNG).
To be sure, inflation targeting was once essential to
limit
runaway price growth.
The scale of the challenge is immense, with the flow of refugees extremely difficult to monitor and channel, let alone
limit.
Is there a way to
limit
free trade that does not lead to trade wars?
(Any products needed from a surplus partner would be exempted from the partner’s export limit.)
Under CFT, a trade surplus country can reduce its exports to the set
limit.
But if the surplus country tried to exceed its export
limit
without paying the fine, its surplus exports would be blocked.
After all, the last big partisan fight (in 2013) over funding the government and raising the debt
limit
gained little for the Republicans who instigated it – other than significant damage to their reputation for responsibility.
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