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Growing fear of foreign competition ought to explain a lot of things in the future.
There is another concern that ought to engage both leaders: How will developments in the global economy, especially the transatlantic slowdown and the emergence of religious and other extremist politics in Asia affect not only their own countries’ rise, but also that of Asia as a whole?
In any new deal, non-tariff barriers and government procurement, two sets of instruments often used for hidden and not-so-hidden protectionism in Latin America, ought to follow common standards.
The Ahistorical Federal ReserveBERKELEY – Economic developments over the past 20 years have taught – or ought to have taught – the US Federal Reserve four lessons.
Democrats believe that, because US corporations, wherever they operate, benefit from America’s rule of law and power to ensure that they are not mistreated (often guaranteed by treaty), they ought to pay for these and other advantages.
Not long before he died, Kuznets recommended to a young colleague that one ought study the role of Jews in economic life.
The power to pardon, Hamilton continued, ought to be exercised by one person, because a single person “would be most ready to attend to the force of those motives which might plead for the mitigation of the rigor of the law.”
From the near-consensus on the virtues of a finance-centric model of the world, the economics profession has moved to a near-total absence of consensus on what ought to be done.
Reversing the robotic gigantism of banking ought to be the top priority for reform.
Capital adequacy was a matter of judgment: examiners would figure out how large a buffer a bank ought to have, taking into account its specific risks.
Critics of the agreement ought to be pressed to explain how more sanctions could achieve better results than they have shown thus far.
The alliance’s reluctant warriors ought to consider that risk as they stand on the sideline.
Going public makes sense for another reason: Iran’s people ought to know that any attack on the country was one that it had largely brought on itself.
Mourdock’s position, by contrast, was that, “Bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.”
China's leaders ought to reflect on the fact that their country is no longer the "sick man of Asia."
We are also asking ourselves what we ought to do.
In the process, we may understand that we vote because that is what citizens ought to do, and we excel at our jobs because we strive for respect and self-realization, not just a raise.
Similarly, given the scale of the catastrophe that could result from “dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system,” we ought not to accept a 10% chance – if not many times higher – of exceeding 2ºC.
In practice, the Fifth Committee has exercised the kind of micro-management over personnel and expenditure that ought to be exercised by the Secretary General if the UN is to operate effectively and to have a staff which is up to the challenges facing the organization.
Africa ought to be the global carbon market’s new frontier.
The answer ought to have been obvious.
Before such hydro-engineering projects sow the seeds of water conflict, China ought to build institutionalized, cooperative river-basin arrangements with downstream states.
Rather than opposing immigration, they ought to offer an intelligent migration policy.
It ought to be a wake-up call for all of us.
If they now want to modify the social contract (and assuming that direct democracy remains impossible), change ought to be based on a clear, historically grounded sense of which innovations European democracy might really need – and of whom Europeans really trust to hold power.
Everyone knows that these changes ought to be radical, even semi-federal.
In principle, the Commission ought to be slimmed down after enlargement, with fewer Commissioners than member states.
Equally, big member states ought to have more votes in the Council of Ministers, to reflect their greater populations.
The country’s income has collapsed by a third, inflation is on track to hit one million percent, and millions are starving in a country that ought to be reasonably well off.
They ought to be named and shamed.
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