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But, in the longer term, those limits on federal power will push Iraq toward a sectarian scramble for power and revenue.
The longer the crisis continues, the more obvious it becomes that the common currency and the ECB alone are not enough to defend the Common Market and European integration.
But the country has been suffering a death by a thousand cuts, leaving it weaker and poorer the longer Trump is in office.
Much economic research shows that job skills deteriorate the longer one is away from work; so retraining, information, and re-entry programs are very important.
But in the longer term, with deficits looming, international trade agreements torn up, and totally inadequate spending on vital infrastructure, education, and health care, things could turn out very badly.
Europe’s three key new leaders – Britain’s Gordon Brown, Merkel, and Sarkozy – all belong to a generation that is no longer emotionally moved by the project of European integration.
In the longer term, were shale gas and oil to satisfy US demand, Canadian oil could wean America’s allies from their Middle East oil addiction, giving them new foreign-policy options, too.
Over the longer term, we must help Iraqis rebuild their police and military forces so that they can provide their own safety and security without threatening anyone.
This is especially true when it comes to human resources, but public-sector resources also tend to respond to the same preferences and values over the longer term, regardless of the imperfections in our mechanisms of social choice.
A reduction in working hours per employee translates into quality-of-life improvements like longer vacations and longer weekends.
Thus, while investors can no longer profit by basing their trading decisions on standard anti-takeover provisions, our findings leave open the possibility that an investment strategy based on other features of corporate governance might be worthwhile.
One consequence of this trend is that authoritarian governments can no longer wield control over their citizens as easily as they once did.
I expect a longer and deeper U-shaped recession, lasting at least 12 months and possibly as long as 18 months – one of the most severe US recessions in decades – because today’s macroeconomic and financial conditions are far worse.
In the longer term, the authorities must put in place stricter regulations to ensure that local-government infrastructure investments are sustainable and do not depend excessively on revenue from land sales.
And those who already are its members can now no longer delay what they have sought to avoid for too long: to make enlargement possible without isolating Russia.
This argument is based on the assumption – which extends far beyond sports – that real gender equality will not be achieved until the formation of tastes and habits is no longer subject to gender stereotypes.
Without fanfare, German workers accepted longer hours without increases in pay.
Making matters worse, the official retirement age has not been adjusted to account for longer life spans.
But, while this disconnect could continue for some time if no alternative program emerges, the huge gap between financial markets’ performance and most people’s well-being is unlikely to persist in the longer term.
And, though support for infrastructure investment by China’s trading partners – especially through the “one belt, one road” policy – may help to strengthen external markets in the longer term, this is no substitute for domestic aggregate demand.
That no longer seems likely, and the NTC will now need to begin actually governing the country.
German and other northern European banks that no longer trust their southern counterparts parked their funds at the ECB’s deposit facility, whereas southern European banks used the ECB’s lending facilities to make up for the loss of private interbank funding.
China’s ability to project military power at a longer range will, not long from now, enable Beijing to reach the U.S. bases in Okinawa, the strategic linchpin of the Western Pacific.
Over the longer term, population aging represents a major challenge for a social-security system that already spends, as a share of GDP, as much as developed countries, where the share of the population 65 and over is twice that of Brazil.
But if inflationary pressures do indeed materialize, current growth might last significantly longer than forecasters and markets believe.
I was wrong then; but I might not be wrong for much longer.
“Market pressures …appear poised to stabilize and over the longer run possibly to decrease the US current-account deficit and its attendant financing requirements,” he said.
Over the longer term, a strong currency promotes efficiency in export industries, further insulating competitiveness from exchange-rate effects.
On the contrary, the longer Greenspan plays down America’s dangerous macroeconomic imbalances with happy talk, the more damage they will ultimately inflict on the global economy.
Fiscal austerity and balanced budgets should be priorities in the longer term, but they are inappropriate now.
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