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But, as John Maynard Keynes never stopped pointing out, the Quantity Theory of Money is true only at full employment.
Barring that, in an age when religions must persuade , they must still “proselytize” within the community – pointing out the truth, the values, and the beauty of the tradition – even if they refrain from doing so outside it.
There has been a lot of finger pointing, with commentators blaming issues like gerrymandering, rising economic inequality, the campaign finance system, and unbalanced journalism.
But, remembering Thucydides’ advice, it will be important not to mistake analysts’ theories for reality, and to continue pointing this out to political leaders and publics.
Whether denunciations of the detentions at Guantanamo and the planned military tribunals are driven by genuine concerns about human rights or by glee at pointing out American hypocrisy, the effect is the same.
Here, too, there is considerable finger pointing.
Andy Haldane, one of the lieutenants Carney inherited at the BoE, has questioned the financial sector’s economic contribution, pointing to “its ability to both invigorate and incapacitate large parts of the non-financial economy.”
Intellectuals of the old left, pointing to persistently high income inequality, have argued that the economic gains made in the 22 years since the return of democracy were more illusory than real.
Defenders of Chile’s current rightist government, pointing to ongoing economic growth and unemployment under 7%, have argued that there is no deep reason for discontent.
As Stanford University economist Robert Hall has been pointing out for three decades, more Americans are employed selling cars than making them.
And even where revenues are otherwise adequate, states have an incentive to spend more on social programs and, pointing to the resulting deficits, ask for additional federal transfers.
To start, Western leaders should stop pointing fingers and take responsibility for their moral and strategic failings.
The Gambler of North KoreaSEOUL – After a painstaking investigation, South Korea is pointing the finger of blame at North Korea for the sinking of its warship, the Cheonan, on March 26.
"India is a very big country," Stalin observed, and then pointing to Sri Lanka said, "What is the name of this little Indian island?""That is not an Indian island, sir," the diplomat replied, "it is a sovereign nation."
The bloodshed in France, however, has changed the calculus completely, pointing toward the possibility of a rapprochement between Russia and the West.
In Bulgaria last March, one of his ministers quipped that “there will always be someone pointing fingers at us, whether or not we buy.”
Wen met a cooler reception in London, where he fumed at the UK for its criticism of human rights in China, calling it “finger pointing,” and urged “respect” for the Chinese people.
As the OECD never tires of pointing out, this is a form of government subsidy to domestic industry more than to the recipient country.
Some observers are pointing to Sechin’s growing importance.
Many economists are becoming even more pessimistic, pointing to Japan as evidence that, after three decades, China’s breakneck growth may be coming to an end.
But barely a month later, the television news cameras are pointing elsewhere, and international leaders are switching off their phones, declining to hear the shrill cries coming out of Zimbabwe.
The US seems to have come as close as one can imagine to getting the proverbial “free lunch” – except that, as economists are fond of pointing out, there is no such thing.
Immediately after the killing, a military police officer allegedly yelled at one of the town residents, “You damned Gypsies!” while pointing a gun at him.
At that time, China – pointing to its own experience with the US – proposed that the US and North Korea each open a diplomatic office in the other’s capital.
The left has dismissed any claim that the CRA played a role in the housing boom by pointing out that it was enacted in 1977, while the subprime boom played out in the early 2000’s.
The International Monetary Fund’s Mission Report of March 2009, pointing to the country’s 30 years of chronic political tumult, concluded that “Lebanon will remain vulnerable to shocks for many years” to come.
Subsequent debates about financial reform in the US reflected this imperative, with some of the US Federal Reserve’s founders pointing out the military and financial applications of the term “reserve.”
Unlike in 2009, the Irish government is protesting the EU authorities’ recent Apple ruling, pointing out that tax policy is in the purview of national governments, not the Union.
A Thai Post MortemCAMBRIDGE: There are lessons from Thailand’s currency debacle beyond the sheer fun of pointing fingers.
For so-called “alarmists,” pointing out what’s wrong with drastic carbon cuts is somehow tantamount to denying the reality of climate change, while so-called “deniers” lambast anyone who accepts the scientific evidence supporting this “mythical” problem.
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