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Yes, the Bundesbank fiercely opposed the ECB’s conditional support of debt-distressed eurozone members and backed legal challenges to Draghi’s innovation, the outright monetary transactions (OMT) scheme.
This hybrid system clearly impedes credit allocation from catalyzing development, while creating and sustaining vested interests opposed to reform.
This is not surprising: In the US, where almost five million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since the adoption of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and where real wages have stagnated, a majority of voters across the political spectrum are opposed to more such treaties.
The Bush administration is fiercely opposed to lifting the embargo, pointing out that in the event of a military clash over Taiwan, US troops would face weapons provided to China by America’s own allies.
Yes, the Russian Orthodox Church supports the country’s law prohibiting “gay propaganda”; likewise, the right-wing Ugandan and Nigerian nationalists backing their countries’ anti-gay legislation insist that they are asserting local, as opposed to Western, values.
Of course, Turkey remains opposed to an independent Kurdistan.
When Adenauer took Germany firmly into the Western alliance, he was not only opposed in parliament (by the Social Democrats), but also by a popular majority that thought his policy would make reunification with Soviet-controlled East Germany impossible.
His re-election would hardly be an issue; on the contrary, those who opposed him will be in trouble.
In fact, as far back as 1993, I have been asking union leaders, members of Congress, and lobbyists who have opposed trade deals why they do not expend the same level of energy on other important issues – including many where common ground could easily be found.
A poll by the International Republican Institute in August showed that 47% of Pakistani voters supported a Bhutto-Musharraf alliance, with 37% opposed.
Notably, nearly a third of Bhutto’s own party opposed such a deal.
The bitter medicine that Germany and the ECB want to impose on the periphery – the second option – is recessionary deflation: fiscal austerity, structural reforms to boost productivity growth and reduce unit labor costs, and real depreciation via price adjustment, as opposed to nominal exchange-rate adjustment.
Owing to today’s technological advances, the share of total income accruing to labor (as opposed to capital) is declining worldwide.
The United States opposed Pakistan’s development of nuclear weapons, but was slow to act, owing to its desire in the 1980s for Pakistani support in fighting the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan.
He will be challenged not only by the now shell-shocked Democrats, but also by Republicans who opposed his candidacy, whether openly or covertly.
We now have a Palestinian leadership legitimized by elections, one that appears to be opposed to using terrorism as a tool to achieve political aims.
For example, some economists opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (a 12-country trade deal that would have covered 40% of the global economy) on the questionable grounds that it would have harmed American workers.
For example, if the required majority of shareholders adopts such a plan, the court should protect the rights of the minority of creditors who may have opposed it.
And it was the argument made by supply-siders who opposed US Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker’s high-interest-rate policy in the early 1980s – an argument that spurred President Ronald Reagan to appoint two Fed governors to challenge Volcker in 1985.
At the very least, it would bring a sense of coherence to the actions of politicians, and those opposed to this search for a new European equilibrium – mostly Marxists and populists – would need to compete with a new vision of their own.
Trump, in particular, is channeling the same populist anger on the right that fueled the rise in 2010 of the Tea Party, which opposed both the government’s bailout of the banks that had caused the 2008 financial crisis and President Barack Obama’s health-care program.
International pension funds, mutual funds, German corporate pension plans, as well as insurance companies already play a leading role on the German stock market, and calls for corporate managers to focus on increasing shareholder value (as opposed to the older, more consensus-oriented corporate policy) are getting louder -- not only on the trading floor, but also in the boardroom.
After all, it is extremely inconvenient to have in Greece a government that is so opposed to the types of policies that have done so much to increase inequality in so many advanced countries, and that is so committed to curbing the unbridled power of wealth.
One wonders why, if he is so opposed to easy monetary policy, he didn’t convey that to Fed governors at a time when the message might have done some good.
Indeed, the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman and US Tea Party icon Ron Paul are diametrically opposed on virtually every issue but Bitcoin (both deeply dislike it).
Greece vehemently opposed its tiny northern neighbor – with only two million inhabitants – using the name Macedonia and symbols from the days of Alexander the Great in its flag and crest.
Republicans nearly unanimously opposed the stimulus.
China opposed India’s bid (strongly supported by the United States) for membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group.
Mao launched the Cultural Revolution (1965-76) to take revenge against those who opposed his mad programs.
The three Benelux countries, along with a few other smaller EU nations, are opposed to the new European president being from a large nation.
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