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But the IMF does offer a fast option.
That brings us back to the inflation option.
Silence is not an option.
And it is why bullying Japan is always a good option: China’s rulers do not necessarily hate Japan, but they are afraid to look weak in the eyes of their citizens, who are taught from kindergarten that foreign powers want to humiliate China.
The Trump administration’s extensive leeway to pursue this option does not bode well for global trade.
If he pursues the latter option, a sharp increase in the number of disputes could overwhelm the WTO’s “court,” which is already stretched thin.
Such an amendment would make the status quo the default option if the government failed to satisfy Parliament with the new arrangements negotiated over the next two years.
The only option left was a coalition comprised of old oppositions, which, given the absence of a respected institutional framework, will make a return to stability slow, difficult, and perilous.
Despite talk of the government negotiating a deal with the captors, this option, too, would be fraught with danger.
This option could vastly shorten the list of products that will need to be banned outright.
The first option is the American way, which also demands that the buyers bear the risks inherent in public or private securities.
The second option is the socialist way.
At the very least, we should be clear that military intervention is the third-best (that is, worst) option.
The latter option is the surest way to make America poor again.
The Bush and Obama administrations both understood that wise policymaking in crisis circumstances requires selecting the least bad option, accepting the inevitable anger and criticism, and implementing the decision quickly.
One option was to defer important policy initiatives (in health care, energy, and the environment, including climate change) and focus political capital and fiscal resources on restoring growth and employment.
Obama chose the second, more expansive, option, which generated more or less the opposite dynamic: benefits became risks.
A better option is the IMF’s Special Drawing Right (SDR), which the second amendment of the body’s Articles of Agreement asserts should become the world’s “principle reserve asset.”
But simply permitting the crisis to continue is a terrible option.
Had he been given the option to hand over all his wealth for one dose of modern antibiotics, he probably would have.
As part of its recruitment strategy, its members often force the children to kill members of their own families and communities in gruesome ways, to ensure that returning home does not seem like an option.
France’s bet on nuclear power is a more proven option.
The report also states explicitly that decriminalization of marijuana consumption is a legitimate, reasonable, and feasible option, though it does not recommend such a policy.
To insure that this realization takes place, the separatist option must be closed.
Perhaps it is a matter of simple political self-preservation: in the US, maybe more than elsewhere, changing one’s mind is derided as flip-flopping, and considered a worse option than sticking to a failed policy.
Allowing the UK to remain involved in formal EU decision-making is not an option, as it would diminish the value of membership.
With respect to the third option, it has been two and a half years since a slim majority of Britons voted to leave the EU, and recent polls now find that a majority would prefer to remain.
Happily, the British public is unlikely to accept that option.
Finally, calls for Europe to become a strategic counterweight to the US are purely aspirational; in reality, no such option exists.
Europe’s only good option is to engage with the US administration as closely as possible – which doesn’t mean playing down deeply worrying statements made by Trump.
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