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Once tax rates were restored to their previous levels, Obama could present his own tax-cut
package
to Congress – for example, with a proposal in early January that provided greater benefit to lower-income Americans, as he promised during his re-election campaign.
A possible
package
could be something like Cold War “GRIT,” or gradual reduction of international tension: The US assures China of its limited goals and agrees to coordinate its actions with the Chinese.
The prospects for such a China-centered
package
are not high; but if it fails, the US should not panic.
We are about to get a comprehensive
package
of re-regulation focused on capital requirements and leverage, transparency, ratings and other sources of information, incentives, conflicts of interest and limits on the scope of financial firms, consumer protection, and resolution mechanisms.
To overcome the enormous lobbying power of investment banks – and thus help to ensure global financial stability – any tool is helpful, even if it comes wrapped in a
package
of European ideological bias.
Mexico, it is said, was "bailed out" by a 50 billion dollar financial aid
package
from a consortium including the International Monetary Fund, the United States, other countries, and other international agencies.
That system ended on August 15, 1971 when President Nixon, as part of a
package
of economic changes including wage and price ceilings, "closed the gold window," ie, he ended the commitment that the US had undertaken at Bretton Woods to buy and sell gold at $35 an ounce.
For starters, the Basel III
package
of global banking reforms and the European Union’s corresponding Capital Requirements Directive IV rule create disincentives for cross-border financing.
(Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s bold economic-reform package, for example, is couched in terms of “three arrows” – namely, monetary and fiscal policy, and structural reform.)
These substances comprise a complex
package
of carbon chemistry, produced by biology and geophysics operating within a deep rhythm of variation and evolution originating far from our own epoch.
With such vulnerability to adverse currency movements, Hungary was forced four months later to sign an IMF-led rescue
package
worth $25 billion as the financial crisis reached Eastern Europe.
First, while the US had to wait for its new president to take office, China’s government was able to intervene swiftly with a rescue
package.
Third, the new stimulus
package
is mainly aimed at infrastructure, equipment renovation, and industrial upgrading, which have suffered serious under-investment in the past, especially in China’s central and western regions.
But, just as former US Vice-President Al Gore recently refused to share a dais with Uribe in Miami, many members of Congress refuse to approve a trade agreement or an aid
package
that may link them to a government tainted by egregious human rights abuses, complicity with drug lords, or both.
A coordinated and well-timed policy
package
could boost global growth, improve capital allocation, support a more equitable income distribution, and reduce the danger of speculative bubbles.
The various meetings in the run-up to the G-20 summit in China, including the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, would be ideal forums for designing such a package, and advancing its implementation.
Likewise, Hungary recently implemented a
package
of restrictive media laws, eliciting concerns that have yet to be addressed.
Even with a draconian austerity package, totaling 10% of GDP, its public debt would rise to 160% of GDP.
A stimulus
package
of less-than-prudent fixed-asset investment, adopted in response to the 2008 global financial crisis, sustained 9% GDP growth for two years.
The spreads for Ireland and Portugal have also been rising, even though by the end of July it seemed that the gigantic €920 billion rescue
package
put together by the EU, the eurozone countries, the IMF, and the European Central Bank would calm the markets.
In a liberalization
package
just released, the government partially redresses its early mistakes in privatization by clawing back power from the incumbent near monopolies in oil, gas, electricity, and telecoms.
The day after Spain announced its austerity package, its bonds were downgraded.
This trio of policies forms the foundation of what’s known among health-care professionals as the “harm-reduction package.”
The goal is to capture the major underlying policy shift from a highly heterogeneous portfolio of programs – intended to support various goals in various ways and to varying degrees – to a legislative and budgetary
package
designed to serve as a common strategic framework.
Indeed, if there was ever a moment for Congressional approval of the IMF reform package, this was it: the measure would have greatly increased the IMF’s ability to support Ukraine, a key American objective, at a much lower cost than the alternative of a US bilateral credit guarantee.
Perhaps the most dramatic sign of this tension came when Greece’s then-prime minister, George Papandreou, announced a referendum on the policy
package
proposed to allow Greece to stay in the eurozone.
Finally, Greece and Germany need to come to a rapprochement soon after the referendum and agree to a
package
of economic reforms and debt relief.
Anti-Semitism arrived with a whole
package
of European race theories that have persisted in Asia well after they fell out of fashion in the West.
The US has run deficits that high only during World War II and the Great Recession of 2008-2009, when a huge stimulus
package
was implemented to spur recovery.
Without the American climate-change package, the promises made by the US administration only seven months ago at the Copenhagen summit have become worthless.
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