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Mugabe and his henchmen have stashed millions of dollars abroad in the past year according to
plausible
press accounts.
And the FDIC has developed some
plausible
plans specifically for dealing with domestic financial firms.
Both schools of thought share a focus on fundamentals, unlike a third – and, in my opinion, highly
plausible
– view: that the asset-price volatility we have been seeing has little or nothing to do with changes in fundamentals.
Later, academic researchers identified more
plausible
reasons why the US might be able to run large deficits without great risk, as long as investors’ desire for diversification, safety, and liquidity sustained global demand for US assets.
But, as
plausible
as this line of reasoning may sound, the historical evidence repeatedly refutes it.
So on the three most
plausible
principles of fairness that can be applied to climate change – equal shares, need, and historical responsibility – the US should make drastic cuts to its greenhouse-gas emissions.
That would be
plausible
if American corporate ownership were concentrated and powerful, with major shareholders owning, say, 25% of a company’s stock – a structure common in most other advanced countries, where families, foundations, or financial institutions more often have that kind of authority inside large firms.
But psychology also matters in speculative markets, and perhaps that image of the Greenland ice disappearing makes it seem all too
plausible
that everything else– land, water, even fresh air – is running out too.
The largest is the Gaullist RPR party; but since it tries to draw its main inspiration from the ideas of General Charles de Gaulle, who died nearly 30 years ago, it has difficulty devising a
plausible
identity for itself.
Individually, these are each highly
plausible
scenarios, and collectively they would hit the US trade deficit like a perfect storm.
There are three
plausible
reasons.
An American war against Iran is
plausible
only as a response to a blatant and immediate Iranian challenge to vital US interests, such as a major terrorist attack, an invasion of an ally in the Gulf, or disruption of the free flow of Middle East oil to the West.
But the monetary-policy story, while plausible, is not ironclad.
Each of the world’s major central banks can make
plausible
arguments for caution.
Talking up previous fiscal extravagance made a bond-market attack on heavily indebted governments seem more
plausible
(and more likely); the confidence fairy promised to reward fiscal frugality by making the economy more productive.
Positive watersheds – opportunities to engineer seismic shifts in international or regional political affairs through nation-building, or to use economic and military assistance to prevent
plausible
negative watersheds – demand an equal level of commitment.
But higher education has a responsibility to prepare students for every possible scenario – even those that today appear to be barely
plausible.
Yet none of us has offered a
plausible
or coherent alternative.
So it is
plausible
that the solar-driven ocean warming between 1900 and 1950 started things off by shifting the equilibrium toward higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere, accelerating global warming since then.
Today there are two
plausible
ways to proceed against a deposed tyrant.
In the face of a housing crisis, it is
plausible
that lenders would again panic, deciding that they cannot depend on untested processes to stabilize the banks and withdrawing their overnight loans.
As Americans and others look at this Gordian knot of public policy problems, we should learn one thing from the example of Tony Snow: the vision of an “ownership society” espoused by Bush is simply not
plausible.
It is worth recalling that California is the world’s sixth largest economy, a fact that makes it a
plausible
interlocutor for environmentally conscious countries.
But Syria’s fragmentation is not the only
plausible
scenario.
The argument that education matters for the economy is
plausible
because, at one level, it is obviously right.
The risk that a systemic financial crisis will drive a more pronounced US and global recession has quickly gone from being a theoretical possibility to becoming an increasingly
plausible
scenario.
No economist wielding
plausible
estimates of discount rates and expected benefits would have supported the construction of the Sydney Opera House – or any of the iconic municipal buildings gracing many cities worldwide; utilitarian concrete cubes would have been far more efficient.
The counter-terrorism objective is more inherently
plausible
than that of political stabilization, and domestic politics in the US, Australia, and elsewhere probably require the prominence that it has received from Western leaders.
It is about the coupon rate on the offering, 7.9%, which is considerably higher than most other
plausible
alternatives.
It is
plausible
to complain, as many commentators do, that the European Union is taking too long to sort out its essential internal reforms.
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