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Indeed, the Basel Committee plans to require more capital in the future, though the new requirements will be delayed,
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to concerns about the cost and availability of credit to sustain the recovery.
Perhaps the transmission mechanism would be through US banks, many of which remain vulnerable,
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to thin capitalization and huge portfolios of mortgages booked far above their market value.
Indeed, the European Union’s future still seems acutely uncertain,
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mainly to a mismatch between rhetoric and reality.
None of these initiatives would work, however,
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to a simple, inconvenient truth: to this day, Europeans view each other in “us versus them” terms.
British business leaders and media outlets have also expressed strong support for EU membership,
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to close commercial ties between the UK and the rest of Europe.
The current system, all agree, is deeply flawed: the corporate tax rate is too high by global standards, and the corporate tax base is too narrow,
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to numerous credits, deductions, and special provisions that distort economic decisions.
Things do not move as fast as they want them to, or not at all,
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to conditions that they do not control.
In fact, although near-zero interest rates have reduced debt-service costs, the real burden of debt has actually increased in recent years,
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to declining inflation.
Nonetheless, the eurozone periphery shows little sign of recovery: GDP continues to shrink,
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to ongoing fiscal austerity, the euro’s excessive strength, a severe credit crunch underpinned by banks’ shortage of capital, and depressed business and consumer confidence.
Is there a plausible story in which,
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to different presidential leadership, America would not have achieved global primacy by the end of the twentieth century?
But, since 2008, measured inequality, which was rising even before the financial crisis, has surged,
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largely to the very measures that are so often lauded for preventing another Great Depression.
Big payouts do more than drain public coffers; the mere threat of them discourages governments from pursuing more ambitious climate policies,
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to fear that carbon-dependent industries could challenge them in international tribunals.
In most countries, however, the main focus of conservation efforts should be the agricultural sector, which wastes roughly half of the water that it consumes,
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to inefficient irrigation systems.
But it has long been a flashpoint in battles over expansion of pharmaceutical companies’ global IP rights,
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to its dynamic generics industry and its willingness to challenge patent provisions both domestically and in foreign jurisdictions.
Moreover, rejecting Europe’s arguments out of hand,
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to a suspected protectionist agenda, is not without risk.
Perhaps the most startling projection is that the US will become an energy exporter by 2020, and will become energy self-sufficient 15 years later,
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to the plentiful supply of inexpensive shale gas and the discovery of massive oil reserves everywhere from North Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico.
Though such work may seem wasteful,
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to the number of people and amount of time it takes to secure one major achievement or breakthrough, one such achievement or breakthrough is all it takes to create enough value to boost everybody’s standard of living.
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to the expansion of an open multilateral trading system under the GATT/WTO, trade since WWII has grown 1.5 times faster than global GDP.
Outside the eurozone, even the United Kingdom is struggling to restore growth,
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to the damage caused by front-loaded fiscal-consolidation efforts, while anti-austerity sentiment is also mounting in Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary.
The 2016 race is shaping up as the weirdest in modern times,
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not just to the number of candidates – currently 14, with two or three more expected to announce soon – but also to the unusual nature of many of them.
But that episode was more short-lived, and it did not cause a global slowdown,
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to the small size of the UK economy and monetary easing at the time.
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to new stimulus measures, China’s growth rate has stabilized.
According to the Scottish economist Ronald MacDonald, an independent Scotland should have its own currency, which would behave like a petro-currency,
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to the economy’s dependence on North Sea gas and oil.
For still others, the quality of education is so poor –
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to a lack of adequately trained teachers or appropriate materials – that they are not acquiring even basic reading and writing skills.
In the economic and stock-market upswing, revenues roll in far more rapidly than incomes rise,
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to the extremely progressive income tax (in good years, the top 1% pays about half the state’s income taxes).
Although the Obama administration spoke about “shovel ready” projects when promoting its putative stimulus legislation, the reality was that very little of the money was spent on infrastructure,
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to the long delays involved in implementing such projects.
Governments will suffer, too, as their foreign debt – boosted by fiscal and monetary expansion that yielded little growth – becomes much more burdensome, while the export stimulus from lower exchange rates will be small,
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to the absence of new capacity outside the commodity sectors.
Africa faces a crisis of leadership and governance,
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to a dysfunctional ethos.
The liability side will expand as social insurance grows – but slowly,
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to a fear of underestimating the liabilities being created.
Their market power has increased, yet they know they incur no risk,
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to the aggravated systemic impact of their potential bankruptcy.
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