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The debt becomes de facto perpetual.
But the vanity, greed, and perpetual scheming of the opposition's leaders has left them easy prey for Milosevic's schemes of divide-and-misrule.
He has ascended the throne of the Byzantine emperors on the Holy Mount Athos in Greece, and portrayed his perpetual presidency as a burden he must carry, in service to his country and his people.
Is this a historical aberration, or are Islam’s two largest sects condemned to perpetual mutual hostility?
If she chooses Rouseff’s approach, she will first have to resist the temptation of perpetual re-election.
The reason is simple: Our societies and economies are based on the flawed assumption that perpetual growth is possible on a finite planet.
If this trend continues, in 2050, governance systems will be even more poorly equipped to deal with the fundamental problems of perpetual population and consumption growth or wealth inequality.
Life after DarwinMARSEILLE – Many Greek philosophers perceived the world to be in perpetual motion – a process of constant evolution.
Nevertheless, the public still believed in perpetual growth.
But, though the events of 1989 did not bring about perpetual peace and prosperity, they did set in motion some true success stories.
Why not the IMF?Elimination of the IMF's lending functions would solve the problem of perpetual turf wars between it and the World Bank.
Indeed, these governments promote constitutional reforms that seek to authorize perpetual re-election and supposedly new forms of participation that, in fact, hollow out representative democracy from within.
As a result, bureaucracy is constantly at their heels, leaving them in perpetual need of upheaval and renewal.
And yet, as long as the country remains locked in a cycle of codependence with its creditors, the state of perpetual crisis is likely to persist.
In 1713, another Catholic Frenchman, Charles-Irénée Castel, abbé de Saint-Pierre, published his Project for Perpetual Peace in Europe.
Perhaps policymakers presumed that saving for a rainy day is unnecessary if this time is different and perpetual sunshine is the new normal.
Given that perpetual austerity is untenable and others in Europe can only do so much, without robust growth the options will narrow quickly.
Maintaining the world’s fifth-largest army in a perpetual state of combat readiness is crushingly expensive for one of its poorest countries, with the military budget claiming an estimated one-third of GDP.
Instead of being an international leader in the worldwide war against terrorism, it is sinking into the despair of a perpetual victim.
If the quest is for a way of securing perpetual security or dominance, then the answer is “no.”
But this lurch toward centralized decision-making will produce inconsistent and radical policies, along with perpetual cheating.
The problem is that, with the EU seemingly mired in perpetual crisis, the case for “Brexit” carries significant intellectual and emotional allure.
For that, he would also have to reverse or alter many policies that the US has pursued for decades – beginning with acceptance of Israel’s perpetual occupation of Palestinian territory, which has already gone on for nearly a half-century.
Before a lasting peace can be achieved, the US will need to reflect on the mistakes that characterized its post-Cold War period of hegemony, when its unilateral military adventures and neo-imperial ambitions left it overstretched, highly indebted, and locked in perpetual war.
It is far from a picture of health and stability, with high levels of violence and crime, mass emigration, a slow-growth economy, and perpetual tensions within its center-left coalition government.
I believe that across the globe, America is a symbolic concentration of all the good and bad within our civilization -- from the fantastic development of science and technology, to civil liberty and strong democratic institutions, to the cult of perpetual economic growth and never-ending consumption, to the dictates of materialism and the voiding of human uniqueness by the uniformity of the round-the-clock noise of TV banality.
In effect, this is a formula for perpetual mass capital flight.
The helicopter-money version would be the purchase of zero-interest-rate government bonds that will not be repaid, either because they are perpetual bonds or because they are rolled over every time they mature.
In February, I presented to the Eurogroup (which convenes the finance ministers of eurozone member states) a menu of options, including GDP-indexed bonds, which Charles Goodhart recently endorsed in the Financial Times, perpetual bonds to settle the legacy debt on the European Central Bank’s books, and so forth.
Latin America’s Calm Before the StormMEXICO CITY – The perpetual seesaw in Latin American geo-politics is more vibrant than ever.
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