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But if households instead become optimistic about the pace of recovery, they might choose to cut back on their saving in order to maintain consumption, despite weak earnings.
In fact, the multiplier effect can even be negative during economic expansions when central banks maintain zero-interest rates and households expect taxes to rise when interest rates do.
At the end of July, the Bank of Japan announced that it would maintain its current negative interest rates and bond-buying program.
And no one can maintain supreme power for as long as he has without being corrupted.
France and Britain maintain this capability because they continue to have foreign-policy relevance.
The greenback’s worldwide popularity enables the US to project power around the globe – to maintain military bases and facilities in over 100 countries, to keep naval battle groups afloat from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, and to help defend allies from Europe and the Middle East to Japan and Korea.
Politicians’ desire to keep interest rates low in order to reduce unemployment is often in tension with the Fed’s concern to act in a timely manner to maintain price stability.
Khrushchev had assented to Ulbricht’s plea that only a physical barrier would maintain the viability of the East German state.
But Gorbachev, though still a believer in communism, refused to maintain the Soviet empire at the barrel of a gun.
For all the Sturm und Drang about refugees, Merkel and the CDU maintain a towering lead over all other parties in the polls.
During the Cold War, the concept of MAD helped, counter-intuitively, to maintain peace, as both the Soviet Union and the US knew that, if they deployed any of their 30,000-plus nuclear warheads, the other would mount a devastating retaliation.
Despite the adversarial nature of the relationship, both sides would have some economic incentives to maintain a working relationship.
Finally, the Brexiteers seem unconcerned about the security implications of going it alone, because they assume that the United States will maintain its role as global policeman, not to mention continued protection from NATO.
Exercising it will require EU member states to maintain a common position, supporting the efforts of the United Nations special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, to work with all relevant players – including the EU, the United States, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia – to achieve peace in Syria.
During his presidential campaign in 2000, George W. Bush promised to renounce nation-building adventures abroad, to maintain fiscal discipline, and to treat greenhouses gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
The third false lesson is that if we could only maintain confidence in the financial system (and by extension the wider economic system), the system itself could be trusted to survive and prosper.
Viewing such aid to local NGOs as undue interference in their affairs, a growing number of governments in the global south want to maintain or recover full control over cash flows from abroad – especially if they are destined for civil-society actors, which, because of their international connections, are viewed as having divided loyalties.
In the short run, the IMF could help coordinate additional loans from countries such as the US, Japan, and China, to help maintain economic and political stability in the developing world.
There was an idea, originally derived from Ricardo and Marx, that the capitalist class needed a “reserve army of the unemployed” to maintain its profit share.
Industry could be safely left in private hands, provided the state guaranteed enough spending power in the economy to maintain a full-employment level of investment.
And the low interest rates needed to maintain full employment would lead in time to the “euthanasia of the rentier” – of those who live off the rents of capital.
Indeed, though Saudi Arabia’s institutional structures certainly will maintain considerable continuity, some would describe this apparent stability as stagnation.
In this process of energy integration, the banking union offers clues about how to secure common interests and maintain a balance among the EU’s main institutions – the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Council, and the ECB.
With the US and many other nations now hooked on buying from China, Chinese policymakers no longer need to maintain an undervalued currency.
Scholars have identified a “template of denial” that perpetrators of such crimes use to maintain the status quo.
A new global growth strategy is needed to maintain global economic progress.
But, as Turkey builds closer relations with the US, and its competition with Iran stiffens in both Iraq and Syria, it will also have to deal with a more assertive Russia, which is eager to prove itself in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean – and to maintain its foothold in Syria.
So more government spending is needed to maintain public services at the same level - and to keep unemployment down.
It wants to keep prices lower to maintain the global economy’s oil addiction and deter technological substitution of alternative energy sources.
But leaving the system unchanged will maintain the global economy’s vulnerability to future bouts of speculation that we cannot afford.
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