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After all, the UK forbids
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payment for eggs, whereas in the United States, a highly differentiated market has grown up around “consumer demand.”
European law forbids
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payment for eggs, but the Authority suggests that increasing “expenses” considerably would not constitute an impermissible inducement.
With much of the world facing very low inflation, and even the possibility of
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decline in the price level, the real burden of debt has been increasing.
Those on the religious right have no dilemma: they just hate America and its policies outright, and oppose all things "un-Islamic," including television, films, radio, and even indigenous forms of dance and music.
For far too long, Rajapaska’s government has been evading accountability with an endless stream of diversionary maneuvers (usually involving committees of inquiry intended to lead nowhere, and duly complying), denial of physical access,
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dissimulation, and relentless verbal intimidation of anyone daring to question it.
Millions die each year, either of
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starvation or from infectious diseases that their weakened bodies cannot withstand.
The essential defect of the NPT is now visible in the nuclear dispute between Iran and the United Nations Security Council: the Treaty permits the development of all nuclear components indispensable for military use – particularly uranium enrichment – so long as there is no
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nuclear weapons program.
There are four basic approaches to cleaning up a banking system that is facing a systemic crisis: recapitalization of the banks, together with a purchase of their toxic assets by a government “bad bank”; recapitalization, together with government guarantees – after a first loss by the banks – of the toxic assets; private purchase of toxic assets with a government guarantee (the current US government plan); and
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nationalization (or call it “government receivership” if you don’t like the dirty N-word) of insolvent banks and their resale to the private sector after being cleaned.
In recent years, much attention has been devoted to “fake news” –
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disinformation that spreads widely, often through social media or other online platforms.
Yet this recognition may be part of the problem: though China continues to reassure the West that it is not nurturing imperial or expansionist ambitions, Western political leaders remain dubious, if not
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suspicious.
All revolutions carry unintended costs, and are susceptible to diversion, if not
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corruption.
In some countries, worries about educational competition and brain drains have led to
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academic protectionism.
The police are at best useless and at worst
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employees of the drug lords; the army is less tainted, but unprepared for the role.
At this point, Venezuela descended into
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dictatorship.
But that does not mean that Western entities should reject
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any opportunity for cooperation with Chinese entities and individuals.
A donation from a Chinese state-owned enterprise to, say, a Western academic or cultural institution must be handled with extraordinary care, if not rejected outright, because it could compromise the recipient’s reputation or constrain its freedom.
Moreover, most wholesale prices around the world remain in
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deflation.
That the Communist party leader Gennady Zyuganov didn't rebuke Makashov right away, and that the Duma voted against depriving the general of his parliamentary immunity and special rights (it did, however, pass a resolution against stirring up ethnic conflicts, mentioning Makashov by name) probably reflects mental inertia rather than
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support.
Even then, pressure from Moscow may result in joint Russian-Georgian control of the pipeline, if not its
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sale to Gazprom.
While we have become familiar with China’s ardent interest in natural resources such as oil, coal, steel, copper, and soybeans, we are far less acquainted with other kinds of Chinese investments, including
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acquisitions of foreign companies.
Given deleveraging from high private and public debts, unconventional monetary policies could prevent severe recessions and
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deflation; but they could not bring about robust growth and 2% inflation.
Meanwhile, right-wing parties, like the Republicans in the United States, paid lip service to the social conservatism, and sometimes
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bigotry, of less privileged voters in rural and provincial areas, while doing what was best for big business once they were in power.
While
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military conflict is still considered unlikely, the combination of China’s vague “red lines” and non-specific threats will certainly raise the likelihood of miscalculation and misinterpretation on both sides.
Moreover, Abdullah is unable even to stop Wahhabi satellite TV stations from denouncing the Shia “heretics,” or the hundreds of Wahhabi Web sites that call for the
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elimination of the Shia.
So far, he has refrained from claiming
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that these markets act at the behest of “world Jewry” (the architects, many Turkish Islamists believe, of the 1908 Young Turk revolution and the secular republic that arose after World War I).
First, despite winning the presidency, the AKP lost its
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majority in Parliament.
Indeed, on a 2010 visit to India, Prime Minister David Cameron declared
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that the Kohinoor would have to “stay put,” because “if you say yes to one, you would suddenly find the British Museum would be empty.”
The EU's emerging anti-Russian trade policy is not an antidumping policy; it is
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protectionism.
Given the risk that Trump will face derision and even
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mockery from some quarters, why he has decided to attend Davos remains unclear.
Suddenly, reform became une impérieuse obligation, if not – given the pressure of financial markets – a matter of
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survival.
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