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The lesson is clear: the US should end its obsolete embargo.
The top-down, strongman model that seems to be in ascendance today does not portend the future; rather, it is a last gasp from an earlier time – a nostalgic rehash of an obsolete model.
Among his most controversial campaign statements were some suggesting that NATO was obsolete, a position that bodes ill for his attitude to other multilateral organizations and alliances.
Instead of acknowledging geopolitical shifts, and adjusting their relationship accordingly, US and Russian officials remain committed to an obsolete post-Cold War dynamic.
By persistently adhering to a planned economy and obsolete ideology, North Korea is trapped in a vicious cycle, suffering from unstable food supplies and low, or sometimes negative, economic growth.
Not wedded to central bankers’ obsolete doctrines, he has made a commitment to reverse Japan’s chronic deflation, setting an inflation target of 2%.
After the financial crisis, when emerging-market economies continued to grow robustly, that definition seemed obsolete; now, with the recent turbulence in emerging economies driven in part by weaker economic-policy credibility and growing political uncertainty, it seems as relevant as ever.
Obsolete dreams of grandeur should not be allowed to interfere with a realistic and fair distribution of power in the international arena.
Instead, she made flailing efforts to protect the increasingly obsolete diesel technology base of Germany’s car producers.
When this happens the old ruling classes find it difficult to see themselves as obsolete.
That is why barter economies are so inefficient – and thus obsolete.
Perhaps skilled workers will try to band together to get governments to pass laws and regulations making it more difficult for firms to make their jobs obsolete.
The artificial intelligence revolution will be hugely disruptive, but it will not make humans obsolete.
In Israel, has the realization of a new strategic threat made debates about land and settlements seem obsolete?
Latin America’s Leftist MirageEver since Deng Xiao Ping’s remark that “it’s not the color of the cat that matters, but whether it catches mice,” it has been clear that the old Cold War divisions of left and right, communism and democracy, were obsolete.
In the 1990’s, these ex-communist countries had to face temporary income slumps as most of their industrial production became virtually made obsolete overnight.
As national governments took responsibility for the European objective of fiscal sustainability, annual budget targets imposed by the EU would become obsolete, at which point that should be abandoned altogether.
Large firms are relatively risk-averse not only because they are bureaucracies, with layers of management required to sign off on any innovation, but also because they are reluctant to back innovations that threaten to render obsolete the products or services that currently account for their profits.
Moreover, the high-quality population data needed for credible estimates may not be available due to their “sensitive nature,” or because they never have been collected (sometimes the case in developing nations), or because refugee movements have made data obsolete.
Many of the existing partnership arrangements that NATO has at its disposal, particularly the Partnership for Peace, are obsolete.
In a much-cited 1983 article, the great economist Wassily Leontief worried that the pace of modern technological change is so rapid that many workers, unable to adjust, will simply become obsolete, like horses after the rise of the automobile.
Back in the 1970’s and 1980’s, many feared that players would become obsolete if and when computers could play chess better than humans.
Unfortunately, China’s obsolete ideology plays a key role here.
When the rules of the global monetary game are unclear, inadequate, or obsolete, countries cannot abide by them, and some may attempt to exploit them to their own advantage.
In this sense (and only this sense), short-term thinking that induces change and movement away from obsolete technology – here and throughout the economy – may well facilitate long-term prosperity.
When artificial intelligence-enabled driverless cars become cost-effective and reliable, Uber and taxi drivers alike will become obsolete.
The Web is making large traditional political parties as obsolete as bank branches or bookstores.
The inefficiency of the world’s financial system is not simply a result of obsolete rules and structures; profit-seeking is also a major factor.
A century later, it is clear that the old order has become obsolete, given that it no longer provides any semblance of stability.
The dilemmas arising from these circumstances demand new solutions, not obsolete Cold War-era concepts.
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