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But this is Bush's war, and he ought to be held responsible for it.
With John Kerry’s arrival as Secretary of State, the US ought to recognize that such a large Islamic country in a troubled neighborhood should show leadership on human-rights issues.
In a rare challenge to the government, Beijing-based writer Yu Jie, one of the petition's authors, wrote that China ought to support the war on Iraq.
Yes, the IMF ought to develop a voluntary code of conduct for SWF’s, but it should not be used as a weapon to enforce financial protectionism.
The fact that so many investors hold this view ought to make one think twice before absolving monetary policy of all responsibility.
According to standard trade theory, a global labor glut ought to imply an increased rate of return on capital, which again pushes interest rates up, not down.
In view of the similarities between those historical precedents and current conditions in Saudi Arabia, we ought not to rule out the possibility of reform.
The International Monetary Fund’s role as independent arbiter of sound macroeconomic policy and guardian against competitive currency devaluation ought to be strengthened.
Machiavelli argues that a prince ought to be well armed to take action against external powers.
We ought to prepare for the possibility of massive turmoil in our economies in coming years, even if we cannot prove that it will happen, just as we should take steps against global warming, even if some scientists doubt that it is a problem.
On the Republican side, hacks, spin masters, and many people who ought to have known better suddenly developed an extraordinary appreciation for something called the "CPS Household Survey of Employment" as a supposed guide to month-to-month changes in the labor market.
Democrats, for their part, pretended that the tax cuts had already harmed the economy, when they ought to know that the greatest damage is still to come.
It is that if convergence and outperformance were merely a matter of logic and destiny, as the idea of an “emerging-economy story” implies, then that logic ought also to have applied during the decades before developing-country growth started to catch the eye.
They do on a small scale what the Wider European Initiative ought to do on a large scale: promote democratic development by supporting civil society while working with governments when possible.
The same principle ought to guide the EU.
It ought to be possible to persuade governments in those countries to curb such behavior by holding out the prospect of substantial rewards.
They ought to be persuaded - through a judicious mixture of carrots and sticks - that strengthening the rule of law and democratic institutions would work to their advantage.
The emerging-market slowdown ought to be a warning shot that something much worse could happen.
After all that has happened in the intervening years to demonstrate the dangers inherent in these flaws, and a plethora of summits and conferences, a 2008 guide to financial regulation ought now to be hopelessly out of date.
That ought to be a winning combination.
Here are five principles on which all ought to agree, and which would allow us to move forward.
After all, it should not be up to the “global community” to tell individual countries how they ought to weight competing goals.
Democracies, in particular, ought to be allowed to make their own “mistakes.”
John Maynard Keynes put the matter well: “Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts upon the unthinking,” he wrote in 1933.
This is a task that ought to be conducted in the old spirit of healthy suspicion, building in all reasonable safeguards against the possibility of governmental abuse.
Reasonable people understood that Macron ought to be supported against Le Pen.
Before asking “them” to clarify the nature of their attachment to France, perhaps we French ought to make certain that we treat them in a fraternal, equal, and free manner.
John Taylor, undersecretary of Treasury for International Affairs, and a former colleague of mine at Stanford University (as was Ann Krueger), suggested that matters ought to be left to the market.
And, in their heyday, mercantilists certainly did defend some very odd notions, chief among which was the view that national policy ought to be guided by the accumulation of precious metals – gold and silver.
The bailout of the motor industry ought to be the exception, not the rule.
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