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In Argentina, unlike in the US, re-election is unlimited, as long as the president does not exceed two consecutive
periods
in office.
As Carmen Reinhart and I predicted a decade ago (and as numerous other scholars have since corroborated using our data),
periods
of 6-8 years of very slow growth are not at all unusual in such circumstances.
Indeed, there have been other
periods
in the long post-2008 recovery when growth returned, only to peter out quickly and become sluggish again.
Though Nature defended itself successfully, the suit cost it a lot of money and tied up many of its staff members for long
periods.
In other cases, protection
periods
would rise considerably.
Mutual and other private-sector funds require minimum terms for investments, and such mandatory lock-up
periods
should be applied to capital inflows as well.
Since the "Velvet Divorce" which separated Slovakia and the Czech Republic, there have been liberal democratic
periods
as well as the illiberal democracy of Vladimir Meciar's regime of 1994-1998.
By examining the voting patterns of people in individual regions of Slovakia in the 1918-1939 and 1990-1998 periods, the Slovak sociologist Vladimir Krivy revealed that municipalities and regions that inclined towards liberal parties in the inter-war period continued to be so disposed when freedom was restored after 1989-1998.
To our surprise, we found that the relative prices of grains, metals, and many other basic goods tended to revert to a central mean tendency over sufficiently long
periods.
We conjectured that even though random discoveries, weather events, and technologies might dramatically shift relative values for certain periods, the resulting price differentials would create incentives for innovators to concentrate more attention on goods whose prices had risen dramatically.
When historians look back at the two periods, they will have to conclude that the relative performance after the Great Recession was nothing short of appalling.
Japan and South Korea both used bank credit to finance high levels of investment in their
periods
of rapid growth.
In
periods
characterized by deflation, helicopter money is as close to a free lunch as economics has to offer.
If Obama’s speech turns out to mark the start of a new era of progressive politics in America, it would fit a pattern explored by one of America’s great historians, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who documented roughly 30-year intervals between
periods
of what he called “private interest” and “public purpose.”
However, in later
periods
the objective was to avoid real exchange-rate appreciation, and, at the same time, to accumulate international reserves and strengthen credibility.
For decades, open conflict and simmering hostility have been punctuated by
periods
of short-lived bonhomie.
But if high interest rates are causing the Euro's rise, why was the dollar appreciating in
periods
when the US Federal Reserve cut rates aggressively?
It is virtually impossible to discern the relationship from the data except in a few isolated
periods.
Many societies survive
periods
of systemic corruption without a social explosion; to do so they need a growing economy to mute public grievances.
And yet, even during
periods
of government repression, savvy journalists have always found audiences for their dissenting views.
Keynes began to examine these questions with the calculus of compound interest and its spectacular outcome when applied to long
periods.
In Vietnam, an estimated 1,000 households farm and trade pythons, and python harvesting in Malaysia provides incomes for low-skilled, low-income workers during
periods
when other employment opportunities are either out of season, or simply scarce because of larger economic factors.
Extended
periods
of sleep deprivation can cause polysensory hallucinations, psychotic-like episodes, and other neuropsychiatric phenomena.
Moreover, there are ambiguities in the trend lines for stock-holding
periods.
But there are differences between now and those earlier
periods.
In work with Vincent Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff examining a sample of advanced economies since the Napoleonic War, we found that
periods
of high debt were paired with long
periods
of weak economic growth.
Any country required by its public-pension policy to transfer billions of dollars to citizens for decades-long retirement
periods
risks bankruptcy or, at best, stagnation.
If we look at five-year
periods
between 1967 and 1986, the number of different teams that qualified for the quarterfinals varied between 28 and 30.
In the next two five-year periods, however, the number fell to 26, and in the most recent period (2000-2004), there were only 21.
The good news is that far-reaching reforms can actually be easier to justify during
periods
of uncertainty, transition, or even crisis.
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