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The Labour opposition under Jeremy Corbyn officially opposes Brexit but seems to derive peculiar satisfaction from the fact that it is proceeding.
There is a danger, given China’s size, that this peculiar “Chinese Exceptionalism” could turn into something truly alarming: a global norm.
Instead, a crippling malaise has engulfed the Kingdom, as Saudi Arabia’s peculiar inertia has produced idle talk of reform that cannot mask the realities of stagnation.
But the peculiar way in which SDRs were adopted limited their usefulness.
Europe is a peculiar combination of geography and history, but the boundaries of the EU – and thus the prospects for its further enlargement – are determined by its absorptive capacity and the adaptive abilities of candidate countries.
That is a peculiar notion of accountability.
This is all the more peculiar given that the victorious parties that emerged out of Solidarity are keen to promote its values, particularly “solidarity” with a small “s.”
France responded with calls for monetary reform that would end the peculiar role of the dollar and tried to revive the largely discredited gold standard.
The wording is peculiar and significant.
A strict framework for allowing, and at the same time limiting, government’s involvement in central-bank decision-making is particularly crucial in emerging markets, given that, in most of them, central-bank independence has contributed not only to the eradication of inflation, but also to institution-building.Central-bank independence is a peculiar institutional innovation.
Falling for GermanyPRINCETON – Germany’s general election in September and the prolonged formation of a new government since then have highlighted a peculiar development.
Singh was always a peculiar godman, eschewing spiritual asceticism for gaudy showmanship and ostentatious living.
Clearly, all history is contemporary history, and what Europeans, in particular, need to learn today from the twentieth century concerns the power of ideological extremes in dark times – and the peculiar nature of European democracy as it was constructed after World War II.
Today, most of the world’s pencils are produced in China – an economy that is a peculiar mix of private entrepreneurship and state direction.
Cynics will suspect that Luxembourg and Norway have managed to sustain this dynamic only because of their peculiar economic structures (a concentration in finance in the former, and in natural resources in the latter).
Their peculiar merger has been evident in many recent US wars in the Middle East and Africa.
The erstwhile leaders of the “Leave” campaign have engaged in a peculiar bout of internecine self-destruction, and some of their followers have started to glimpse the bleak future that both the country and they personally face.
Two Italian economists who teach in the United States, Bruno Pellegrino and Luigi Zingales, have investigated what explains this peculiar situation.
This crash in prices of risky financial assets would not overly concern the rest of us were it not for the havoc that it has wrought on the price system, which is sending a peculiar message to the real economy.
Damaged DemocracyNew York – Even before the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, decided to throttle what little legitimacy was left of Iran’s “managed democracy,” it was a peculiar system, indeed.
A peculiar but perhaps instructive example comes from the world of professional chess.
The political system has become a peculiar hybrid of authoritarian remnants and newly established mechanisms for transparency.
“The French exception” is the product of an encounter between a peculiar political and intellectual history and the rejection of the elites currently in power.
This was peculiar, even at the time.
To be taught models that began by assuming that unemployment didn't exist seemed a peculiar place to begin.
It has not evolved into a “normal” market economy, but rather into a peculiar form of crony-state capitalism.
That risk, coupled with Trump’s increasingly peculiar behavior, has made Washington more tense than I’ve ever known it to be, and that includes the dark days of Watergate.
If British voters agree that the EU’s structure is so flawed that they do not want to be part of it, they are implicitly condemning the peculiar union that is the UK, which includes a fiscal union, but a problematic one.
This peculiar arrangement is a further major risk for economic and monetary union, to add to those of uncoordinated fiscal policies and the lack of a European equivalent of the International Monetary Fund.
A proposal for “full normalization” with Israel coming from an Islamic regime that bases its legitimacy on the austere Islamic doctrines of the Wahhabi seems both peculiar and progressive.
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