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The resulting economic slowdown has undermined the government’s capacity to maintain inflated asset prices and avoid
pockets
of credit distress.
The bailouts are prolonging the crisis because they amount to an attempt to keep asset prices at a level above the market equilibrium, creating a unilateral downward risk that is limited only by the deep
pockets
of the relief funds.
We have put Big Brother in our
pockets.
But the lethal mix of poverty, youth unemployment, and the mesmerizing spectacle of millions of petrodollars flowing out of the delta and into the
pockets
of the powerful, casts a long shadow.
But reorienting their businesses toward the Chinese domestic market requires far more than government policies that put more money in consumers
' pockets.
Stupendous growth hides deep
pockets
of poverty.
As prices rise, people don’t want to hold cash in their
pockets
or their bank accounts – its value is melting away every day – so they step up the pace at which they spend, trying to get their wealth out of depreciating cash and into real assets that are worth something.
Instead, Obama could, for example, have suspended the payroll tax for a year, getting money directly into people’s
pockets
quickly and decreasing the need for firms to lay off workers.
To continue with the privatization of the natural monopolies that will give a criminal and corrupt elite another chance to fill their pockets, may require extinguishing even the vestiges of democracy that existed under Yeltsin, thus pushing Russia on the way to a “liberal dictatorship.”
Through legislation or direct voter initiatives, approximately eight million workers have already won minimum-wage increases in recent years, and an additional $5 billion has made it into workers’
pockets
since 2017.
These remittances are not wasted on weapons or siphoned off into Swiss bank accounts; they go straight into local people’s
pockets.
In Thailand, almost every politician or official had his hands in the pocket of some bank or business; every bank had officials in its pockets, too.
Isn’t it obvious to investors that they are voluntarily transferring their clients’ funds to the
pockets
of bankers?
The “Draghi put” – the notion that the European Central Bank, with its deep pockets, would and could do whatever necessary to save the euro and each of the crisis countries – seemed to have worked, at least for a while.
Instead of working to achieve the diplomatic objective of defeating al-Shabaab, Kenya’s military, politicians, and well-connected businessmen have been lining their own
pockets.
Rain gardens – small
pockets
of native vegetation planted in natural depressions and low points – can resolve this problem by collecting and filtering rainwater, so that it can be reabsorbed by the Earth, resulting in recharged aquifers and increased biodiversity.
Even after central banks have pushed government bond prices as high as they can go, they should keep buying government bonds for cash, in the hope that people whose
pockets
are full of cash will spend more of it, and that this will directly pull people out of joblessness and into employment.
They know that their cities are also vulnerable to urban violence, in so far as they have
pockets
of social inequality, including marginalized and excluded young people.
If eurozone growth wildly outperforms expectations in the next few years, banks’ balance sheets would strengthen and German taxpayers’
pockets
would deepen.
If the court approves the deal, the settlement would put billions of reals into the
pockets
of savers.
The Treasury, on the other hand, is under pressure to produce tax cuts that have bipartisan support, which means putting money into the
pockets
of people who go out and spend, here and now.
Huge amounts of corporate money from Coca-Cola and Adidas went sloshing through the system, all the way to the roomy
pockets
of Third World potentates and, allegedly, of Havelange himself.
If this information were to reach the government of Paraguay – which has its own methods for collecting data – we could identify
pockets
of poverty sooner and customize programs to help each family.
Whatever other goals lay behind the Iraq war, the Bush Administration seems keen to line the
pockets
of its cronies and to capture increased control over Middle East oil and pipeline routes.
The information was technically accurate, but the menacing impression of
pockets
of radioactive apocalypse was not.
And categorizing countries by their development level is losing its usefulness, given that some of them combine first-class global companies and
pockets
of economic backwardness.
It doesn’t go into their
pockets
(at least not in the US).
Though we cannot afford to ignore the fact that, according to United Nations estimates, there will be 2.4 billion more mouths to feed worldwide by mid-century, another population problem also merits serious attention: large
pockets
of demographic decline.
Different monies are not only a nuisance for tourists who arrive home with
pockets
full of unspendable foreign coins.
President Akhmat Kadyrov, the murdered Chechen president, was right to suggest that 80% of this money ends up in the
pockets
of Moscow and regional firms who benefit from the Chechen conflict continuing.
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