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Accounting for the value individuals place on longer and healthier lives, net returns on investments in immunization soar to some 44 times the cost.
But there is an unresolved self-contradiction in China’s current policies: restarting the furnaces also reignites exponential debt growth, which cannot be sustained for much longer than a couple of years.
But let’s look beyond 2014 and ask what will happen to US economic growth over the longer term.
If history is any guide, markets can be severely destabilized by one-day drops, which make powerful stories that have more psychological salience to investors than much larger drops that occur over longer time intervals.
A New Chance for CyprusROME – The Greek crisis may seem unending, but there are hints that a problem festering in Europe for far longer – the division of Cyprus – may be moving toward resolution.
In an even larger area – and for a much longer time – consumers reject the products.
The multitude of narrow AI applications that could affect jobs in sectors such as health care, education, and construction will take much longer to spread.
In Juliana v. United States, the plaintiffs argue that because they will have to live with the repercussions of global warming for much longer than anyone else, on average, the government’s failure to protect the environment violates their constitutional rights to equal protection under the law and due process.
Voice may also decrease if new possibilities emerge: a new potential partner means that there is no longer any pressure to discuss and improve relations within the existing arrangement.
Indeed, a recent McKinsey survey revealed not only that Europeans aspire to a more vibrant economy, higher incomes, and better public services (especially health care and education), but also that they are prepared to accept tradeoffs, including longer hours and reduced social protection, to achieve them.
In the longer term, Europe will face serious demographic challenges.
This, together with the fact that China has cut lending to Russia since the Crimea invasion, suggests that, in the longer term, the Chinese envision Russia as a natural-resource vassal, not an equal ally.
But then, yet a few decades later and reinforced by longer life expectancy and sharply lower birth rates, the system goes bust: tax inflows are insufficient to balance the outflows in the form of payments to retirees.
But, like the cotton revolution, the true measure of the social and political transformations wrought by the PC will become clear only after a much longer time.
Everyone agrees that the country’s public debt is too high and needs to be reduced over the longer term.
The longer the US obsesses over its own political dysfunction and attendant economic stagnation, the less likely it is to bear the mantle of global responsibility and leadership.
But, in Britain’s defense, its citizens have had a longer and more successful democratic history than have most continental Europeans.
But she wondered how much longer that would last.
Meanwhile, investors with longer time horizons going after significant returns would not be much deterred by the tax.
So capital would still move in the right direction over the longer term.
This would pave the way for the EU to create a common DGS in the longer term – a political decision with far-reaching consequences, owing to the fiscal burden-sharing that it implies.
Bachelet’s own commitment to replace the constitution – an authoritarian holdover that she compares to a house that no longer fits the national family’s needs – will now compete with other urgent priorities.
Another problem is that the longer leaders are in power, the less they like being told that they are wrong.
But the longer she stayed in office, the more she assumed that she knew best.
But the loss of jobs in the most recent recession was more than twice as large as in previous recessions, so a slow recovery has meant a much higher unemployment rate for a much longer period.
In the longer term, the project aims to create a research cohort of more than a million volunteers whose shared genetic data, biological samples, and lifestyle information will form the foundation for precision medicine in a large number of human diseases.
If nothing else, that current path unacceptably accentuates the differences between member states in a way that is politically and economically unsustainable in the longer term.
As the late Rudi Dornbusch (who preceded me as the author of this series of commentaries) used to say, unsustainable capital inflows always last much longer than economists, who tend to focus firmly on the fundamentals, believe possible.
The fact that so much of the risk from a decline in the dollar falls on those investing in America means that the capital inflow has already gone on much longer than any fundamentals-watching economist--including me--would have believed possible.
But, over time, the longer central banks create liquidity to suppress short-run volatility, the more they will feed price bubbles in equity, bond, and other asset markets.
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