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When reality proved otherwise, the return of the past was not abandoned, but merely postponed.
Some of the sales in 2001, moreover, reflected purchases that would have been postponed until this year were it not for special offers inducing consumers to buy cars earlier than they otherwise would.
Other public expenditure can be postponed, but delaying climate-change measures is a high-risk, high-cost option.
But it is possible to argue that all of this merely postponed the day when the expected rate of return to capital would fall below the minimum rate of interest acceptable to savers, which would happen as capital became more abundant relative to population.
Moreover, whereas Japan postponed corporate and bank restructuring for years, in the US private and especially public efforts to restructure assets and firms will start faster and be more aggressive.
The Referendum RiskOXFORD – Now that British Prime Minister Theresa May, facing certain defeat, has postponed Parliament’s vote on the deal she concluded with the European Union last month on the United Kingdom’s departure from the bloc, the case for a “people’s vote” – a second Brexit referendum – is gaining ground.
But even as short-term interest rates began to rise, the day of reckoning was postponed, as new borrowers could obtain fixed-rate mortgages at interest rates that were not increasing.
The other is that the US, too, will eventually face its day of fiscal reckoning, and that Europe had no choice but to start it earlier: as the euro crisis demonstrates, things would have been worse had austerity been postponed.
At the same time, much-touted reforms to rebalance growth from fixed investment to consumption are being postponed until President Xi Jinping consolidates his power.
Fairness and Free TradeCAMBRIDGE – The global trade system faces an important turning point at the end of this year, one that was postponed when China joined the World Trade Organization almost 15 years ago.
Chinese policymakers have postponed doing so as a result of domestic pressure to protect China’s own steel and aluminum jobs.
But the moment of financial reckoning has merely been postponed, not averted.
Previously, the question of Europe’s final shape could be postponed or finessed.
Yet disarmament has its own contributions to make in serving these goals and should not be postponed.
Because Pemex, unlike the Brazilian and Colombian state-owned oil companies, will not be listed on the New York or Mexico City stock exchanges, internal reform will be postponed or half-baked.
The earthquake and tsunami have confronted Japan with a profound crisis – but also with a rare opportunity to undertake the comprehensive reforms that the country has postponed for far too long.
To put it another way: by the end of the century, Germany’s $130 billion solar panel subsidies will have postponed temperature increases by 23 hours.
It stems from a pattern of postponed or partial structural reforms, of privatizations that benefit elites but hurt consumers.
As a result, what would have been the first meeting between Obama and Putin after his return to the Russian presidency has been postponed until the G-20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, set for June 18-19.
But what if a breakup can only be postponed, not avoided?
That has not happened yet, so inflation has been postponed.
The parliamentary polls, originally scheduled for April 2 but postponed a week after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) failed to print adequate ballot papers and other election materials, took place in an atmosphere of fear, violence, and uncertainty.
Accommodating today’s institutions to the new global powers is a key challenge that cannot be postponed further in 2012.
Iraq has attempted to forge a political role for itself within the Arab world by participating in Arab summits, but when its turn came to play host, the summit was postponed for a year, owing partly to the Arab spring, but also to some Gulf countries’ refusal to participate in a meeting held in Baghdad.
Orders dropped abruptly – well out of proportion to the decline in GDP – and those countries that depended on investment goods and durables (expenditures that could be postponed) were particularly hard hit.
Given that more than 80% of the national contributions to the fight against climate change from the countries of the global South focus on water challenges, coordinated action by governments and international actors can no longer be postponed.
Even the new Basel 3 banking standards have been diluted and postponed.
This is eroding the external surplus, weakening domestic purchasing power, and causing investments to be postponed.
Using a standard climate model, by 2100, the UK’s huge outlay will have postponed global warming by just over ten days.
In other words, temperature rises would be postponed by a mere 66 hours by the end of the century.
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