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It is probably bad in the short run, but who knows about the longer term?
Indeed, even if we make the transition to a cleaner world by 2050, we will need to determine how to meet a booming global population’s insatiable appetite for energy in the longer term – an imperative that renewables alone cannot meet.
In the longer term, convergence of unit labor costs is needed.
It is also the problem that plagues Turkish democracy, despite its longer track record.
The ESM is a sure way to bring Europe to its knees, because the longer bailout loans continue, the longer the GIPS’ current-account deficits will persist, and the more their external debts will grow.
The Fed injected $3 trillion over a slightly longer period.
Over the longer term, most economists agree that governments, especially in advanced industrial countries with aging populations, should be concerned about the sustainability of their policies.
And, in the longer term, we would have a viable international model of how to tackle severe sovereign-debt problems.
The good news is that the intellectual vacuum on the left is being filled, and there is no longer any reason to believe in the tyranny of “no alternatives.”
Keynesian economics worked: if not for stimulus measures and automatic stabilizers, the recession would have been far deeper and longer, and unemployment much higher.
Nearly half of the unemployed have been out of work for six months or longer.
The longer these disturbances persisted, the greater the threat to a global economy already challenged by structural weaknesses, income and wealth inequalities, pockets of excessive indebtedness, deficient aggregate demand, and insufficient policy coordination.
As Europe has learned, the longer one waits, the higher the cost – and the lower the chance of success.
Our countries and peoples have, throughout history, lived under a common umbrella for far longer than we have been divided.
In the near term, Italy’s ongoing banking crisis could flare up again and threaten European stability; in the longer term, Italy may have to leave the eurozone, which would put the single currency itself at risk.
In the longer term, Italy’s eurozone membership could be at risk.
The longer world leaders reduce Syria’s problems solely to sectarian conflict, the more unpredictable and dangerous the situation there could become.
They should then become incrementally more severe the longer and the more seriously the rules are breached.
The question now is whether the Middle East as we know it will remain intact for much longer.
Europe's slump in the 1980s was longer and deeper than America's.
Over the longer term, however, the upward trend in dividends and share buybacks as a percentage of corporate investable funds is a symptom of mounting shareholder pressure on corporations to focus on short-term returns at the expense of long-term investments.
But even if government intervention can affect exchange rates in the short run, in the longer run, it is market fundamentals that matter.
Only the Third Republic (1875-1940) lasted longer than the current Fifth Republic.
Chinese growth is set to slow over the longer run, as well.
At the same time, a surge of extra-parliamentary mobilization occurs: more and longer strikes and more and larger demonstrations.
Of course, we know that a different approach will be needed in the longer run.
In any case, that developing partnership between national and international justice means that tyrants and torturers - past and future - can no longer blithely assume lifelong impunity.
Overcrowded classes in often inadequate physical surroundings without necessary equipment have led to ever longer periods of study, a deterioration in the quality of degrees, and much unhappiness among both students and professors.
Once we reach the point at which it is no longer news to have a woman or a non-Japanese serving as a CEO, Japan will have reinvented itself and recovered its true spirit of risk-taking and innovation.
Whether China can maintain this capability over the longer term is a mystery to outsiders and Chinese leaders themselves.
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