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But policymakers should look beyond the need to catch up on deferred maintenance.
It may be wishful thinking, but our hope for the new year is that governments will make a more concerted effort to chart a new course from Dalio’s path B to path A.Ronald Reagan PutinOn May 22, two free-market liberals will meet in the Kremlin: one an ex-oilman who is the son of a US president, the other an ex-KGB agent who is the son of a Saint Petersburg maintenance man.
Imagine if an airline slashed its maintenance procedures to a level at which there was a 10% chance that its planes would not safely complete their flights.
The report concludes that a $3.6 trillion investment (roughly one-fifth of the country’s annual GDP) will be needed by 2020 to boost the quality of US infrastructure by addressing the “significant backlog of overdue maintenance [and the] pressing need for modernization.”
Cheaper sensors and better data analytics are already enabling infrastructure operators to track maintenance issues and predict investment obsolescence more accurately, and in real time.
The push towards a modern welfare state accelerated after the Great Depression, when the state took on the responsibility for macroeconomic stabilization – a role that required the maintenance of a large middle class by widening the provision of public goods through progressive taxation of incomes and wealth and fostering economic opportunity for all.
To force Libya to hand over the plotters, compensate victims’ families, and cease terrorism, the Council froze all air commerce in an out of the country, all aircraft maintenance, and all arms shipments, as well as reducing diplomatic representation.
The necessary reforms will open the way for public-private partnerships, which can provide investment for infrastructure development and maintenance.
For the sake of social welfare in the years and decades ahead, we must ensure that these decisions are compatible with the creation and maintenance of healthy, competitive markets.
The civil aviation system works so well because all countries use aircraft manufactured by a few global companies and share standard operating procedures for navigation, air traffic control, airport and airplane security, maintenance, insurance, and other operations.
With its excess of domestic saving and its maintenance of capital controls, China is comparatively insulated from volatility in short-term flows.
Many activities that were previously performed “for free” (often within a household), such as sex, home maintenance, and care for the sick and elderly, are now frequently outsourced and counted as economic output.
Chinese citizens cannot vote, but they can – and do – make their displeasure known, which places a premium on what Chinese bureaucrats call “stability maintenance.”
These principles, agreed upon by the most important foreign players in Syria’s war, include a commitment to secular governance, the eventual defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS) and other terrorist groups, the maintenance of Syria’s prewar borders, the preservation of its state institutions, and the protection of minority groups.
School districts are increasing class sizes as they shed teachers, as well as deferring maintenance projects and curtailing the school-bus service.
Of course, institutional differences between America and Western Europe do exist: in the regulation of labor, in restrictions on land-use and redevelopment, in the tolerance of competition authorities for resale price maintenance and related practices.
The labor movement responded by demanding “work or maintenance.”
Acceptance of maintenance in lieu of work was reflected in the creation of a system of social security: “welfare capitalism.”
In no sense was income maintenance seen as an alternative to work.
As the idea of interruption from work was extended to include the disabled and women bringing up children, so entitlements to income maintenance increased beyond the capacity of social insurance, with benefits paid to eligible individuals from general taxation.
Automation is bound to increase profits, because machines that make human labor redundant require no wages and only minimal investment in maintenance.
Supporters of the US administration might fairly argue that it is undertaking long-deferred maintenance on issues such as income inequality.
Underinvestment in infrastructure (including deferred maintenance) is widespread where the consequences are uncertain and/or not immediate.
Manufacturers in many other branches are using big data to monitor the performance of machinery and equipment, fine-tune maintenance routines, and ferret out consumer insights from social-media chatter.
The protesters know that what they are demanding in the streets today – the maintenance of what they have – is totally unrealistic.
In exchange for the US assuming the responsibilities of system maintenance, serving as market of last resort, and accepting the international role of the dollar, its key economic partners, Western Europe and Japan, acquiesced in the special privileges enjoyed by the US – seigniorage gains, domestic macroeconomic-policy autonomy, and balance-of-payments flexibility.
The first is embodied in the US Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, which provides workers affected by international competition with financial support for retraining, job search, relocation, income maintenance, and health insurance.
In theory, taxing immobile assets is less distortionary, though taxes on structures obviously can discourage both maintenance and new construction.
He rejects the Colombian model, which would put American advisers, instructors, mechanics, agents, and maintenance personnel on the ground in Mexico.
All humanity is faced by this crucial dilemma: to silently watch a suicidal self-propulsion of our civilization; or to become active participants in the maintenance of global public assets, including the most precious one of all – our planet and its biosphere – of which we are a part.
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