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All the
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connections, in numbers and quantities, were thought, until the last 20 years, to be more or less fixed when we reached adult age.
We lost one-third of our
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GDP.
One of the first things that happens when you institutionalize a problem is that the first goal of the institution immediately shifts from whatever the
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goal was to self-preservation.
Babies born into the wealthiest families would be included as well in the social contract, but they would receive a more
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account of about 500 dollars.
But importantly, mothers are being randomized, so some mothers are randomized to receive a
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monthly cash gift and others are randomized to receive several hundred dollars each month, an amount that we believe is large enough to make a difference in their day-to-day lives, in most cases increasing their monthly income by 20 to 25 percent.
Although Robert Young (playing an easy-going, methodical and very likable cop) and Robert Mitchum (who actually does have the occasional throwaway witty remark) are the
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stars of the film, it's Oscar nominees Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame - as well as Paul Kelly, in the small but pivotal role of Grahame's pathetic husband - who give the film's most memorable characterizations; Ryan proved so convincing as a homicidal racist that he was eventually typecast for a while, excelling in equally villainous roles in such films as ACT OF VIOLENCE (1948), CAUGHT (1948), THE RACKET (1951), CLASH BY NIGHT (1952), THE NAKED SPUR (1953) and BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955).
In the very first scene,
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hero Tamura is told that he can't continue on with his unit, to which he has returned from the hospital.
Kathy Long, the
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hero, has a great body, is attractive, has a great body, fights extremely well, has a great body, and doesn't have an iota of acting talent, but that doesn't matter in a movie like this.
Of the acting, Dominic Zamprogna was OK but bland as the
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hero, whilst Leanne Adachi was pretty irritating as the tough girl of the vamp busting team and Aaron Pearl played another member who wasn't well written or interesting enough to make an impression.
There's a
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plot (derived partly from the Jean-Luc Nancy book of the same name) about a mature man in need of a heart transplant and who seeks a Tahitian son he abandoned long ago; but mostly it's an exploration of the idea of intrusions personal and cultural.
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story about how his fighting keeps causing his loved ones trouble - then fighting.
Getting out of the slammer on the same day is Cliff Taylor, played by the film's
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star, George Raft.
PETER O'TOOLE is the
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star of this brisk farce about an alcoholic action hero (based on Errol Flynn, in case anyone doubts it), given the fictitious name of Alan Swann.
The
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storyline concerns an illegal auto race from Los Angeles to New York that promises the winner 100,000 dollars.
There is, however, a lively debate about whether there was a fourth big mistake: Alan Greenspan’s decision in 2001-2004 to push and keep
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interest rates on US Treasury securities very low in order to try to keep the economy near full employment.
When the International Monetary Fund comes around asking what their
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anchor is, many declare themselves to be inflation targeters.
Emerging-market countries ought to consider targeting
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GDP.
The advantage of a
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GDP target is that adverse shocks of these sorts are reflected equally in output and inflation, rather than imposing the entire burden in the form of a loss in output.
The target path for
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GDP can be set at whatever level of monetary discipline is desired.
LONDON – The global economy faces a chronic problem of deficient
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demand.
This means that
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demand will rise only if governments deploy fiscal policy to reduce taxes or increase public expenditure – thereby, in Milton Friedman’s phrase, putting new demand directly “into the income stream.”
But if our problem is inadequate
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demand, there is one policy that will always work.
If governments run larger fiscal deficits and finance this not with interest-bearing debt but with central-bank money –
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demand will undoubtedly increase, producing some mix of higher inflation and higher real output.
Very small money-financed deficits would produce only a minimal impact on
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demand: very large ones would produce harmfully high inflation.
One thing is certain: Relying on structural reform, on purely monetary policies, or on the fiscal policies available to governments that believe that all deficits must be financed with debt will not reverse the world’s chronic deficiency of
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demand.
Yet there are reasons to fear that there will be such a decline: slower growth means fewer competitive pressures for heightened efficiency; diminished risk tolerance means a lower appetite for innovation and experimentation; and
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interest rates pinned at the zero lower bound means that society’s savings cannot be used effectively.
According to former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, when the desired level of investment is below the desired level of savings despite a
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interest rate of zero, chronically deficient demand constrains GDP and productivity growth, producing so-called “secular stagnation.”
It is the one policy that will always stimulate
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demand, even when other policies – such as debt-financed fiscal deficits or negative interest rates – are ineffective.
And its impact on
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demand can in principle be calibrated: A small amount will produce a potentially useful stimulus to either output or the price level, whereas a very large amount will produce excessive inflation.
If
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demand grows faster than real potential growth, inflation is inevitable; and
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demand growth can be constrained only through a mix of fiscal and monetary policy.
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