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But can we really expect the old normal – positive long-term interest rates on government bonds – to return?
Maybe it is unreasonable for investors to expect positive rates on safe assets in the future.
Perhaps we should expect to pay central banks and governments to keep our money safe, with positive returns offered only in return for some element of risk.
In 2010, Geoffrey West, together with a team of researchers, discovered that several socioeconomic measures – both positive and negative – increase with the size of the local population.
Despite a slightly positive consumer price index (CPI), the producer price index (PPI) has been falling for 47 months in a row.
Notably, price growth turned positive last month, suggesting that the threat of deflation has been eliminated.
And, two weeks before Martin died, Jolie revealed that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for a BRCA gene mutation – which is correlated with a woman’s being five times more susceptible to breast cancer and 28 times more susceptible to ovarian cancer.
For Jolie, that means often using her iconic status to advance a positive agenda, whether the issue is Syrian refugees in Jordan or breast-cancer awareness.
Even if the positive emotions remain only fleeting (as seems most likely), they were real and palpable.
If France wants to capitalize on the positive emotions of Bastille Day, it needs much more responsible elites, ready to unite in the fight against unemployment and its causes (lack of competitiveness and labor-market rigidity) and consequences (the rise of populist, non-republican forces).
Just over two years later, the situation looks much more positive.
The precise explanation remains elusive, but the prevailing view is that while the advent of new information technology had some definite positive impact on productivity in the 1990s, the gains have not proved sufficiently long-lived or widespread.
So let us try to draw some lessons from a scattering of positive signals and trends in recent months.
For starters, the removal from Syria of the Assad regime’s stockpile of chemical weapons shows that joint efforts can yield positive results.
The establishment of a more inclusive Iraqi government – enabled by the common sense and coordinated efforts of actors within and outside of the country – is also a positive sign, as are steps toward resolving disagreements between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the central authorities in Baghdad.
Only by building upon positive developments and visions can regional peace and stability be restored and secured.
If China joined, or the US rejoined, the pact’s positive impact would be strengthened considerably.
But, provided that the returns are positive, such investments are still worth making.
But ever-bigger business also had a profound social impact, and here the ledger entries were not all in the positive column.
But, in Germany, no positive image of the Bundeswehr’s new role emerged from the end of the Cold War model.
So the industrialized countries need to put a real financing offer on the table as soon as possible to allow time for a positive reaction and announcements of commitments from developing countries.
Other policies aimed at mitigating climate change also have positive effects on health.
They frame immigration as a generally positive development that helps to mitigate the problems of aging populations and labor-market gaps.
The main question is whether the tax rebate that US households will receive in mid-2008 will be consumed – thus leading to positive third-quarter growth – or saved.
If Renzi uses this time as effectively as he has used his first 100 days as Italy’s prime minister, Europe is in store for some much-needed positive change.
The eventual winner, Alberto Contador, is himself alleged to have had a positive test result last year.
So many leading cyclists have tested positive for drugs, or have admitted, from the safety of retirement, that they used them, that one can plausibly doubt that it is possible to be competitive in this event otherwise.
Ricard could, on request, empathize with others’ pain, but he found it unpleasant and draining; by contrast, he described compassion meditation as “a warm positive state associated with a strong pro-social motivation.”
Bloom’s more positive view of the role of reason fits with what I take to be the correct understanding of ethics.
Overcoming Democratic MyopiaNEW YORK – Despite positive indicators, the global economy remains beset with risks.
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