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Appropriate accounting, separating expenditures for recapitalizing banks from ordinary expenditures, such as those needed to run hospitals and schools, would make clear that these expenditures are not by themselves inflationary.
For ordinary North Koreans, who are suffering the most under the current system, such a transformation could not be more urgent.
His program spoke to genuine concerns of ordinary people--defending lifestyle-liberalism against religious orthodoxy, for instance; advocating feminism and economic liberalism against benighted prejudices; and strengthening security against terrorism.
To acknowledge the fact that the broken educational and skills-building system is responsible for much of the growing inequality that ordinary people experience would, however, detract from the larger populist agenda of rallying the masses against the very rich.
At first, reform of the state incited hostility among both bureaucrats and ordinary citizens.
When mainstream politicians, newspapers, and churches rail against Israel, many Swedish Muslims inevitably see this is a green light for them to unleash their own hostility toward ordinary Jews.
Trump’s inaugural address suggested that the rest of the world has thrived at ordinary Americans’ expense.
Government ministers use international meetings to mouth platitudes, while ordinary citizens’ voices are muted.
But I also believe that he is trying to develop his economy, and I offer policy advice because I believe it may benefit ordinary Ethiopians.
The rebels lack any coherent political agenda and command little, if any, support among ordinary Colombians.
The fact is that there remains a vast lacuna between the intellectual argument for more integration and its practical appeal to ordinary people in Cork or Thessaloniki, who find it difficult to trust the EU and its leaders.
But last weekend, she did it again, telling The Guardian that, “unlike a lot of people who are truly well off,” she and her husband “pay ordinary income tax,” and that their wealth came only “through dint of hard work.”
By contrast, minimizing the primary-surplus target would encourage the government to pursue structural reforms and help restore Europe’s image for ordinary Greeks, thereby countering the populist, conspiracy-theory arguments that are sabotaging negotiations.
Beyond such general skepticism, there is a clear and growing gap between the views of ordinary citizens and the government’s policy approach – the so-called “Berlin consensus.”
It is not the only factor, but rising food prices helped to spread revolutionary fervor from a small group of activists to much of Egypt’s population in 2011, and again this year in June, when the most frequent grievance against former President Mohamed Morsi concerned not his ideology but his indifference to ordinary Egyptians’ needs.
The wealthy and powerful can circumvent financial sanctions, though at a cost; ordinary citizens cannot so easily escape the impact of international-pariah status.
During a crisis, these markets attract public attention and scorn, but, as the economy steadies, ordinary people lose interest, leaving the financial industry to control its own destiny with legislatures.
Moreover, by the early 1960’s, the social psychologist Stanley Milgram had shown that ordinary Americans would go to extraordinary lengths in obeying malevolent authority.
The empowerment of ordinary Egyptians has fundamentally changed things.
Taking advantage of this lending, ordinary people, from taxi drivers to hairdressers, can become millionaires by playing the market on the side.
But the construction industry, worried about its profits, has been harshly critical of the rules, as have ordinary people who have been denied credit, and thus must struggle to find suitable housing in a small rental market.
But increased capital flight will also affect something that ordinary Russians know and care about: the ruble’s exchange rate.
But ordinary people were put under tremendous pressure to adjust quickly, and sometimes painfully.
The protests are clearly the result of ordinary citizens becoming fed up with corruption, the lack of any semblance of rule of law, and arbitrary treatment.
If no viable solution is found, no agency or individual will be willing to serve as the receiver in ordinary bankruptcy cases.
In issuing contingent capital, banks would have to pay a higher interest rate than they would on ordinary long-term debt, because debt investors will face the true cost of capital, not the government-subsidized cost.
The Blind Alley of Monetary PopulismSWARTHMORE – In the United States and elsewhere nowadays, populist politicians often claim that easy monetary policy is hurting ordinary workers, thereby exacerbating income inequality.
British Prime Minister Theresa May, for example, declared earlier this month that low interest rates were hurting ordinary working-class people, while benefiting the rich.
Old Europe has entered into a severe and intractable crisis of the welfare state as ordinary Europeans have come to know it.
In 2014 alone, ordinary people suffered from heat waves in Australia, floods in Pakistan, and droughts in Central America, while the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet has been shown to be irreversible.
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