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Frankfurt and Paris, the most plausible European competitors, languish in tenth and 26th place, respectively.
It seems plausible that two years is long enough for retraining, after which the employee might command a higher wage without a government subsidy.
It is rare in history that such widely different but plausible paths stem from a common point.
I’ll make the optimistic but plausible assumption that the economy will fully recover over the next decade, lowering the unemployment rate from the current 10% to about 5%.
But in a situation where many fields of social life -- such as education, health, and social services -- need quick and radical change, unleashing the free market to do its work offers the only plausible avenue for change.
Is it plausible that the Serbian authorities remained in the dark while the killing was in progress and reported in the press all over the world?
It is entirely plausible that Thaksin did help finance the protest.
But it is neither useful nor very plausible to assume that Kim Jong-un and his military advisers are mad.
Given all of this, one hopes that opposition from political figures like Clinton amounts to naught – an entirely plausible outcome, in Clinton’s case, because the TPP should be enacted before the presidential election in November 2016.
Another, more plausible theory is that over the past fifteen years there have been various external challenges or shocks that have hit the country simultaneously.
How plausible is this argument?
In short, laissez-faire and international technocracy does not provide a plausible alternative to the nation-state.
In the Middle East, the Iraq war is widely interpreted as a war for US control of Persian Gulf oil – a rather plausible view given what we know about the war’s true origins.
The most plausible such offset was, of course, appreciation of the real exchange rate, which could occur only through inflation or, more plausibly, a stronger dollar.
Most, however, overlook the most plausible explanation, which is Trump-related uncertainty.
In fact, neither scenario is plausible.
Worse yet, policymakers have no plausible idea about what can be done about it.
Although the links between economic fundamentals and currency movements are elusive, it seems plausible to expect that a more hawkish path for the Fed would mean living with a stronger US dollar.
Unless the Iranian regime is terminally humbled in the course of its showdown with the West over its nuclear program, the more plausible scenario is that Shia-dominated Iraq moves closer to Iran’s strategic orbit rather than become part of America's regional designs.
Such outcomes are at least as plausible or likely – if not more so – than a massive earthquake and tsunami causing widespread damage to four Japanese nuclear reactors and their adjacent spent-fuel ponds.
Once it became clear that the epidemic would not be rapidly contained, several firms quickly arranged for clinical trials of potential treatments and vaccines, indicating that they already had the ability to produce plausible candidates.
Expected benefits would increase further if we included the chance that potentially higher climate sensitivities would exacerbate damages, even though doing so would require including similarly plausible lower climate sensitivities, which would push in the opposite direction.
The Powell doctrine stipulates that the US should use military force only when a vital national-security interest is at stake; the strategic objective is clear and attainable; the benefits are likely to outweigh the costs; adverse consequences can be limited; broad international and domestic support has been obtained; and a plausible exit strategy is in place.
Trump’s response – that those leaders are the ones who made the world “such a dangerous place” – sounds just plausible enough to justify ignoring their warning.
In my view, there are four plausible scenarios.
It requires plausible leadership and the reasonable hope that things will get better before long.
This, the official doctrine of most developed countries today, contains at least five major fallacies, which pass largely unnoticed, because the narrative is so plausible.
When such aspirations seem plausible, the system gains added democratic support.
That leads to a second and more plausible explanation, which is psychological and behavioral in character.
It may seem plausible that a “domestic retreat” could be justified by a contracting range of opportunities in foreign markets, rather than by a desire to stabilize domestic economies.
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