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The US and the European Union have a strong stake in keeping open a European option for Ukraine.
After months of discourse with Hungarian government officials, the EU’s only option now is to invoke Article 7 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which could ultimately remove Hungary’s voting rights within the EU.
Invoking Article 7 is not a “nuclear option,” as some have claimed.
The third test whether every non-military option has been explored and found wanting.
Only when that failed did Resolution 1973 embrace the military option.
That may be the only option, if liberalism itself is to survive.
Without free labor mobility, fiscal transfers are the eurozone’s only option to ease debt repayment and, by stimulating economic activity, boost employment.
Its only option is to be better than the competition.
When you go into a situation like this – whether joining a board or entering a market – you always have one option left, which is to walk away.
But if you do have that option, you must be ready to exercise it.
Today, following the North’s third nuclear test, we seem to have entered the most precarious stage yet, with the regime declaring that it will never surrender its nuclear option.
The first option should be deterrence of further aggression through diplomacy.
They surely have a right to defend themselves, whether through foreign-exchange intervention and the consequent accumulation of reserves (a potentially profitable option if capital flows are indeed temporary), imposition of capital controls, or other currency-related macro-prudential policies aimed at countercyclical exchange-rate smoothing.
But we were fortunate in that Nuremberg was not really an option for us.
But policymakers have one more option: a shift to “purer” fiscal policy, in which they directly finance government spending by printing money – a so-called “helicopter drop.”
A religious decision can be a matter of passionate commitment (as in Kierkegaard’s “leap of faith”), or, more commonly, an emotionally low-intensity consumer option (expressed in the telling American phrase “religious preference”).
Thus, the only remaining option, as unpleasant as it may be for some countries, is to tighten budget constraints in the eurozone.
The entire sub-prime market is largely a decade-old innovation – the word “sub-prime” did not exist in any language before 1994 – built on such things as option adjustable-rate mortgages (option-ARM’s), new kinds of collateralized debt obligations, and structured investment vehicles.
The last option – deflation of wages and prices – to reduce costs, achieve a real depreciation, and restore competitiveness is associated with ever-deepening recession.
In this context, ensuring that formal rule-making remains a viable option internationally will require some adjustments.
Ireland was on its own, so it had no option but to implement massive austerity measures, reducing its product prices relative to other eurozone countries by 13% from peak to trough.
The second option is no better.
Muslim women in strict authoritarian societies do not usually have the option of seeking the law’s protection.
But, because euro membership precludes that option, financially sound Northern European countries would once again be called upon to help with European Central Bank loan guarantees and financial transfers, while tolerating the newly added eurozone members’ self-service with the printing press.
And, because medical insurance is unavailable or too expensive, and because bankruptcy protection is not usually an option, too often they and their families end up being pushed into poverty.
A new study, published in February in the journal Health Affairs, suggests that there is another option: in many cases, the medical bills can be preempted by prevention, through the widespread and affordable use of vaccines.
I firmly believe that the military option alone cannot defeat terror.
An option costs ten cents now and pays $1 if the event occurs by the end of the year, but nothing if it does not.
In order to meet his obligations to the option holders if it occurs, he parks the $100 million in one-year US Treasury bills yielding 4%.
At the end of the year, the probability is 90% that the event does not occur, so Oz owes nothing to option holders.
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