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History suggests that the US ought to think twice before continuing its effort to remake Afghan society or its government.
As Turkey faces many regional challenges, his experience as foreign minister ought to serve him well.
There is no universal figure like 60%, but the general principle is that, at a bare minimum, the majority ought to be demonstrably stable.
Any action to redefine a long-standing arrangement on a country’s borders ought to require a lot more than a simple majority in a one-time vote.
Market participants ought to know that they shouldn’t overreact to earnings growth, but they sometimes forget if popular narratives mislead.
So, as tempting as such a relationship may be, the US ought to resist it.
This idea has also given rise to a very strong presumption that if an economy as a whole is under-saving and under-investing, the government ought to help to correct this problem by running surpluses, not make it worse by running deficits that drain the pool of private savings available to fund investment.
Likewise, Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton ought to have recognized in the 1990’s that something like a Marshall Plan for Eastern Europe to help with the transition from communism would have been an excellent investment for the world’s future.
Hence, “the focus ought to be not on policy best practices but on policy best matches with institutional capabilities.”
But competition is one principle that ought to command broad political support, because of the benefits that it tends to deliver for ordinary people.
Corporate America and capital markets ought to reinforce that message, not as a political statement, but as a warning that a US economy that sacrifices the opportunities implied by the sustainability agenda will be less attractive to investors – and thus less prosperous.
On the contrary, the prevailing view was that people ought to be left to look after their own affairs.
Fallibility ought to foster a different attitude.
We have now had 200 years of experience with the Age of Reason, and as reasonable people we ought to recognize that reason has its limitations.
These “profiles in courage,” to borrow John F. Kennedy’s famous phrase, ought to inspire Obama at a time when Presidential leadership is a crying need in Washington on critical economic issues.
So the discussions about what to include in such a new treaty ought to begin immediately, because, even with European leaders under extreme pressure to agree quickly, negotiations will necessarily be a prolonged affair.
The Doha Round ought to profit from some of these fundamental forces that favor open trade and impede protectionism.
Pragmatic governments surely ought to legalize and regulate migration instead.
They have had 25 years’ experience of membership, and by now they ought rationally to know how it works; but it seems that they still do not feel how it works.
But it does seem to me that contemporary apostles of secular stagnation like Summers and Paul Krugman at least ought to be taking the shale-energy revolution into account.
Today ought to be a golden age for center-right parties: Communists and Socialists have self-destructed, free markets are spreading as inexorably as globalization, and prosperity beckons.
“True Europeans” ought to outnumber true Finns and other anti-Europeans in Germany and elsewhere.
Central banks ought to be cultivating younger people, women, and minorities, in order to broaden the range of approaches, skills, perspectives, and expertise that effective monetary policymaking will require in the future.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have unequivocally endorsed the recommendation of the High-level Expert Group on Trade, which Peter Sutherland and I co-chair, that we ought to abandon the Doha Round if it is not concluded by the end of this year.
Financial innovation ought to be allowed to flourish, but not without better checks and balances.
Barack Obama has outlined four conditions that ought to be imposed: an upside for the taxpayers as well as a downside; a bipartisan board to oversee the process; help for homeowners as well as the holders of the mortgages; and some limits on the compensation of those who benefit from taxpayers’ money.
It would provide a practical demonstration of the spirit that ought to infuse the entire EU.
Vajpayee, for his part, has hinted that if Pakistan wants a decent deal, it ought to make one with him, as he might be the last Indian leader for a long time who is willing to compromise even a little on the issue.
Businesses that ought to be expanding and hiring cannot, because the depressed general level of financial asset prices prevents them from borrowing money or selling bonds on profitable terms.
Finally, governments should undertake additional measures to boost financial asset prices, and so make it easier for those firms that ought to be expanding and hiring to obtain finance on terms that allow them to expand and hire.
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