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Some opponents of the Iraq War, including me, believe that a fundamental – and deeply misguided – objective of the war from the outset has been to create a long-term military base (or bases) in Iraq, ostensibly to protect oil routes and oil concessions.
The super-rich had one over-riding objective in joining the Bush coalition: tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthiest households.
Psychiatry is separated from other medical specialties by its lack of an objective basis for diagnosis.
Beyond diagnostic disputes in individual cases, psychiatry's absence of objective diagnostic tests implies something more radical.
While such benefits may not appear to be “stimulus,” their mounting effect better serves the objective of raising expectations of future demand and growth.
With this commitment, Ghana is making a bold statement: telemedicine holds the key to expanding universal health coverage, a primary objective of the UN Sustainable Development Goals that Ghana hopes to meet by 2020, ten years ahead of the target date.
Erhard's objective was to counter political pragmatism and activism with an orderly vision of economic and social policy.
Against this background, it is vital not only to ensure that there are enough quality jobs for all workers, old and young, but also to boost productivity among older workers – an objective that new technologies can help to achieve.
Similarly, it led Bush to his declared objective of cutting imports from the region by 75% over the next two decades.
In her recent Congressional testimony, Fed Chair Janet Yellen referred several times to the mandate of maintaining “stable prices”; but she mentioned the Fed’s 2% inflation objective twice as often.
“US inflation continues to run below the Committee’s 2% objective,” she said, and the current “high degree of policy accommodation remains appropriate to foster further improvement in labor market conditions and to promote a return of inflation toward 2% over the medium term.”
Greenspan summarized the consensus: “...we have now all agreed on 2%...”Thus, the Fed’s 2% inflation objective was born.
Increasing the rate of inflation is now the stated objective of Fed policy.
Over the past few decades, most central banks have focused on price stability as their single and overriding objective.
The policy was a success: the discipline imposed by strict and rigorous concentration on a sole objective enabled policymakers to control – and then conquer – inflation.
The ECB’s hawks, understanding the dangers of abnormally low interest rates for a central bank whose primary objective is price stability, had been eager to start raising rates earlier.
Their objective was to create a military buffer between the PLO and Israeli forces that were then fighting in Beirut in order to promote the departure of both.
As an innovator said to me amid the financial crisis, his objective was to take over a market – it mattered little that the targeted market was only 90% of its former size.
The EU’s main objective should be to preserve the distinctive character of this order – ie, the centrality of human rights and the rule of law.
The EU’s main objective in institutional terms, regarding its relations with Russia, should be to ground the institutions of the new European order around the EU as a principal policy actor and not on the individual member states.
Our shared objective is clear: to ensure that Africa not only weathers the immediate storm, but emerges from it stronger.
The objective is not to account for everything, but rather to pinpoint a small number of variables than can explain key factors, albeit neither perfectly nor fully.
For patients who have not responded to conventional treatment, restoring function should replace eradicating pain as the primary objective.
But, in that case, Iranian quiescence, not peaceful relations with an independent Palestine, might be Bibi’s true objective.
As long as communication is conducted truthfully and with respect to values, norms, and objective facts, negotiations will be able to achieve consensus and agreement.
Yet for those in favor of the ECB’s “stability-oriented monetary policy” – a term suggesting that others disregard the risk of monetary instability – the price-stability objective has evidently become too constraining.
It is safe to assume that those who hold this view were highly supportive of the ECB’s hardline price-stability objective.
As a practical matter, the ECB’s price-stability objective, originally designed to protect the eurozone from Italian-style inflation, has ended up protecting it from German-inspired deflation.
It is that strategic objective that underlies America’s recent economic maneuvers, including Trump’s extravagant demand that China cut its trade surplus with the US by $200 billion in two years.
Whatever the cause of these shortcomings, the lesson that US and Europe policymakers should draw is that the objective – facilitating democratization and modernization – remains valid, despite the need for a change in tactics.
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