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The
notion
is absurd – John Maynard Keynes long ago spoke of gold as a “barbarous relic” – but the problem of anchoring global monetary policy and ensuring its alignment with developments in global supply is nonetheless real.
To begin, we must expand our whole
notion
of culture to embrace new areas - fashion, architecture, design, photography, even computer design - which have been largely excluded from serious European debate.
In a nutshell, Keynes struggled against the
notion
that if only countries would cut their deficits, "confidence" would be restored, investment would return, and the economy would again attain full employment.
ORLANDO – One of the most common popular misunderstandings about the causes of terrorism is the
notion
that terrorists must be “insane” to behave as they do.
Germany’s stance marked the first open challenge by a leading European power to the
notion
that the monetary union is irrevocable.
Plato thought that three conditions must be met in order for us to “know” something: the
notion
in question must actually be true; we must believe it (because if we do not believe something that is true, we can hardly claim that we know it); and, most subtly, it must be justifiable – there must be reasons why we believe the
notion
to be true.
The
notion
that, at its core, Europe should be focused on something as mundane as tweaking fiscal rules seems disappointing, to say the least – especially as the continent confronts an intensifying humanitarian crisis, caused by the influx of refugees from war-ravaged countries like Libya and Syria.
Peaceful unification was a religious notion, a Christian utopia.
It is not difficult to imagine why the
notion
of a borderless, peaceful world in which political divisions and conflicts were overcome was deeply appealing after WWII.
It might not be so bad if there were even a grain of truth to trickle-down economics – the quaint
notion
that everyone benefits from enriching those at the top.
But, without any
notion
of power-sharing, this is easier said than done.
The theory behind the massive economic stimulus efforts that many governments have undertaken rests on the
notion
of the “output gap.”
Guards armed to the teeth surrounded him, yet he firmly supported the
notion
of democratization.
The international system rather quickly adopted (and transformed) this notion, and numerous humanitarian military interventions followed--in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor, and Sierra Leone.
The
notion
that lenders should always be repaid, regardless of how and to whom they lend, is indefensible.
Nevertheless Presidents Clinton and Chirac, Prime Ministers Blair and Shroeder, cling to the
notion
that ground troops will only enter the fray in what Clinton euphemistically calls a "permissive environment."
While simultaneous interpreters – who occupy a high-paid profession – may scoff at the
notion
that machines will threaten their positions any time soon, the success of machine learning in highly complex strategic games like Go suggests that machines’ ability to learn should not be underestimated.
The Bank’s policy work has re-affirmed the
notion
that rural producer organizations are fundamental building blocks of agricultural development.
We showed that this
notion
was ill-founded: even small imperfections of information could have profound effects on how the economy behaved.
Yet he acted on the popular
notion
that anti-Semitic attacks by Arab youths in Europe are part of a cycle of reciprocal violence that yields a kind of moral equivalence.
Yet Trump’s dishonesty runs even deeper: his entire nationalist political platform is based on the mendacious
notion
that America needs to be made great again.
Many elements in this set of interests are traditional; a
notion
both reassuring -- Russia is becoming predictable, at last -- and troubling.
America remains indispensable; alas, it has allowed the
notion
that it is unavailable for duty to take root.
It is time for US leaders to place the well-being of the high-tech wealth machine – which cost US taxpayers tens of billions of dollars to build – above the illusory
notion
that the only route to safety is unfettered access to the world’s digital traffic.
The Sunni Arab parties initially rejected any
notion
of a confederated state, but in time they came to believe that the Shia parties would never share power voluntarily.
The entire credit system in the US – and in much of the rest of the world – is based on the
notion
that there are “risk-free assets,” namely US government securities.
Of course, such a move would carry considerable political costs in Germany, where many taxpayers recoil at the
notion
of assuming the debts of the fiscally profligate southern countries, without considering how much Germany would benefit from a stable and dynamic monetary union.
The US, moreover, should actively seek a path back to the Six Party Talks, resisting both the fatalistic idea that North Korea can never be persuaded to roll back its nuclear program and the dangerous
notion
of simply waiting for the North Korean regime to come begging, if not collapse.
Israel’s right-wing education minister, Naftali Bennett, said that Trump’s victory is an opportunity for Israel “to retract the
notion
of a Palestinian state in the center of the country.”
The
notion
of an unstoppable wave took for granted that both the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election in the United States were triumphs for populism, rather than for establishment conservatives.
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