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Incidentally, it is plausible that the cyclical behavior of the SWFs is responsible for the underperformance of their holdings.
Over a quarter-century ago, I showed that, under plausible conditions, trade liberalization could make everyone worse off.
Nevertheless, it is not difficult to sketch a plausible economic past for a UK that, hypothetically, entered the eurozone in 2000.
Plausible as these arguments are, it is time to revisit them.
The idea of making all decisions unilaterally may sound nice, but it simply isn’t plausible in today’s integrated world.
But such a gain is hard to bank on, and there is no plausible way that reform pays for itself.
Intervention is even less plausible.
Households, corporations, financial institutions, and governments are all facing balance-sheet constraints, which it seems plausible to assume, are holding back expenditure and investment, elevating savings, and contributing to a broadly deflationary environment.
But MEPs then failed to propose a plausible female alternative, leaving the ECB understaffed for weeks during the eurozone sovereign-debt crisis.
The most plausible explanation is that, as organizations with non-elected leaders and limited transparency, central banks tend to function as clubs whose largely male membership hire and promote familiar types; governments usually reinforce this by simply rubber-stamping the banks’ preferred candidate for the top job.
While an increase of this magnitude would be plausible if a forecaster had previously expected tax rates to increase in 2011, it would not have been reasonable to forecast 2.5% growth in the first place with that assumption in mind.
We cannot prove that a wave of environmental innovation will have a similar effect, but the studies of the parts make such an outcome highly plausible.
It is intuitively plausible that refugees could be drawn to countries with faster, more generous asylum procedures.
Two plausible scenarios follow.
If, as seems increasingly plausible, British voters chose to leave, the result would be a profoundly destabilized EU – and a shattered UK.
Again, it was a combination of events – pressure from the United States, the impending Olympic Games, and the presence of plausible opposition politicians – that did it.
That said, a scenario in which the Muslim Brotherhood usurps the revolution does not seem plausible, if only because this might lead another strongman on horseback to take over.
Given the evident rapport between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, it is plausible that they could strike a deal to end the fighting in that devastated country.
Against the backdrop of these two equally plausible scenarios, we will know only in a few years whether December’s Bali declaration on climate change was just rhetoric or the start of a global effort to counter it.
No other factor comes close to providing a plausible explanation.
At this moment, such "ultimates" as the creation of self-replicating molecular life, the mapping of the beginning of our cosmos and the neuro-physiological understanding of consciousness, are plausible.
The only plausible explanation is the need to clear the way for his re-election as president, whatever the cost.
These are all plausible scenarios.
The only plausible inflationary scenario presupposes that when economies recover, central banks do not raise interest rates sufficiently in the coming boom, keeping too much of the current liquidity in the market.
That may have been plausible, but the two banks also wanted to demonstrate publicly that they had better balance sheets than their weaker rivals.
But if economic conditions worsen, as seems plausible, action will become unavoidable.
Surely, a similar restructuring is the most plausible scenario in Europe as well.
And May’s government has proposed no plausible alternative solution for managing the relationship between two different customs regimes without a border.
It is plausible – though not a certainty – that an economy dominated by large public expenditure and public employment is capable of greater stability.
But is it plausible to raise taxes in the face of such sustained low growth?
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