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European officials will argue that their problem is more difficult.
Meanwhile, US officials encouraged their Turkish counterparts to seize border territory from ISIS.
Greek officials have repeatedly tried to discuss the need to restructure the debt by slashing interest rates, extending maturities, and perhaps cutting the face value of the debt as well.
The fitful and disorderly unwinding of QE0 is most likely overwhelming the effects of reassurances by Fed officials that they will maintain a large balance sheet.
What we do know that Chinese officials have never faced a challenge of this scale with such a potential to both win and lose face.
What is clear in all of these cases is that the stakes are so high that it simply cannot be left to the judgment of WikiLeaks and media outlets to make the necessary calls without consulting relevant officials.
Sensibly, US officials facilitated such consultations, on a “without prejudice” basis, in some of the early WikiLeaks cases.
It is also bound to inhibit officials – all but the bravest tend to be inhibited anyway – from conveying foreign criticism of government policy or personalities that might find its way into the media.
Moreover, US officials claim that the regime mounted a clandestine cyber attack on Sony Pictures, allegedly over objections to “The Interview,” a slapstick movie premised on an assassination attempt against North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
For more than a year, the regime has been carrying out a purge of high-level officials, beginning with the execution of Kim’s uncle, Jang Song Taek, in 2013.
Given that local officials’ career prospects depend on maintaining high growth rates, the emphasis on infrastructure development is likely to continue, despite sustainability concerns stemming from the massive consumption of water, energy, and land that such investment entails.
With the United States now in recession (and the possibility of a deep recession not that remote), it is striking how positive ECB officials sound about the European economy: Europe’s “economic fundamentals are sound,” the economy is “robust,” economic performance is “just below potential,” and so on.
The ECB should be preparing Europeans for what many of its own officials admit in private: Europe has not “de-coupled” from the US.
Because German banks hold much of the debt owed by peripheral banks and governments, officials have focused on this financial link between Germany’s economy and those of troubled eurozone members.
I am sure the IMF would never seek to manipulate a search engine, but I imagine that the Fund’s public affairs officials are happy if as few people as possible can access the 2006 version.
In Europe, officials are also turning to stealth taxes, particularly financial repression, to resolve high public-debt overhangs.
Now, officials must promote further progress by reaffirming their support for the right to safe drinking water and sanitation.
To be sure, Fed officials did not do a great job of managing expectations in the weeks preceding their September policy meeting.
Another is that officials worried about excessive financial tightening after Bernanke’s mention in May of a possible taper, jeopardizing the economy’s gradual recovery.
Cameras were allowed in; senior officials were seen and heard.
The recognition of the flawed logic behind reinstating border controls is probably why police officials have remained guarded in discussing the issue.
Having received carte blanche from Qatar’s political leadership to support the Arab revolutions, Al Jazeera became fully engaged in live coverage of events in Tunisia, and then in Egypt, by relying on social-media networks away from the eyes of local security officials.
Under US President Ronald Reagan and his vice president and successor, George H. W. Bush, the situation was complicated further by the Iran-Contra scandal, in which senior Reagan administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran between 1985 and 1987, despite an arms embargo.
American officials call this “manipulation,” arguing that market forces would have resulted in a sharper renminbi appreciation than has occurred.
American families are hurting, and elected officials want to pin the blame on China, thereby deflecting attention from the difficult task of rebuilding saving, restoring competitiveness, and living within the country’s means.
Already, individual OAS member states have imposed targeted sanctions on officials affiliated with the regime’s aggressive drug-dealing faction – the sub-group responsible for murdering young people in the streets and torturing some 300 political prisoners.
How else to explain the fact that, year after year, European officials’ forecasts of their policies’ consequences have been consistently wrong?
Brazilian officials know that they can achieve this goal only by acting independently – but without diverging too far from the positions of the current permanent members.
Most officials now concede the existence of systemic risk as a form of “pollution,” meaning that banks and other financial firms do not necessarily internalize the full costs of their structures and activities.
Some officials remain highly captured.
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