Principal
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At the start, the Fed assumed that it was facing a first-mode crisis – a mere liquidity crisis – and that the
principal
cure would be to ensure the liquidity of fundamentally solvent institutions.
James Madison, who would become the Constitution’s
principal
author, couldn’t borrow to buy land in frontier Virginia, because lenders lacked confidence that Virginia courts could enforce repayment.
Last October, in a speech to the 19th Party Congress, President Xi Jinping made the same point from an ideological perspective, reframing the so-called Marxian
principal
contradiction around the pitfalls of “unbalanced and inadequate” development.
GDP-linked bonds, with coupons and
principal
that rise and fall in proportion to the issuing country’s GDP, promise to solve many fundamental problems that governments face when their countries’ economies falter.
For the past three and a half decades, the
principal
shocks have not been inflationary, like the 1973 and 1979 oil crises, but rather deflationary, like the US savings and loan crisis in the 1980s and 1990s, the 1997 Asian crisis, the 2000 dot-com bust, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the 2007 subprime collapse that began in the US, and the 2010 European debt crash.
In fact, it is responsible for many of our
principal
political ills.
The monks have retreated, and an eerie normalcy has returned to Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar’s
principal
city and former capital.
In his vulgar use of Holocaust metaphors to portray the Iranian threat, he sounds more like the
principal
of a Jewish ghetto about to be annihilated by an agitated mob than the prime minister of the most powerful country in the Middle East.
Why is Trump taking measures against one of America’s main allies instead of its
principal
strategic adversary, China?
The first concerns Trump’s
principal
objective, which remains unclear.
Until Russia becomes a magnet for US investment and a proper economic foundation is built to support this relationship, it will have to rest on two
principal
pillars: security cooperation and energy partnership.
In 2003, only four countries had two data points for 16 or more of the 22
principal
MDG indicators; by last year, that figure had soared to 118 countries.
Having “absolved” Serbia from the
principal
crime, the ICJ offered a sort of “consolation prize” to Bosnia, affirming that the killings in Srebrenica had the character of genocide – a conclusion already reached by the ICTY.
In a recent memoir, Gareth Evans, a former Australian foreign minister and the
principal
author of the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine that is now the basis of international thinking on when a war of humanitarian intervention is justifiable, has dismissed that claim.
The Soviets were so eager for an agreement that they accepted provisions that, barely noticed at the time, incorporated the
principal
post-WWII international human-rights norms.
As of today, the Six-Party Talks is the
principal
framework to open up the future of the North.
Indeed, the politicization of history remains the
principal
obstacle to reconciliation in East Asia.
Already, Bangladesh’s Awami League government, which returned to power this year after a controversial election that was boycotted by the
principal
opposition party, has embraced an unprecedented level of cooperation with India on security and counter-terrorism issues.
It is the
principal
barrier to the development of democratic politics.
Back in the 1820s, Russia emerged not only as the
principal
victor in the Napoleonic wars, but also as the most conservative – or, more accurately, reactionary – force in Europe.
The SDR was introduced 40 years ago to supplement what was then seen as an inadequate level of global reserves, and was subsequently enshrined in the IMF’s amended Articles of Agreement as the future
principal
reserve asset.
So, instead of becoming the
principal
reserve asset of the global system, the proportion of SDRs in global reserves shrank to a tiny fraction, rendering the SDR the monetary equivalent of Esperanto.
In order to make the SDR the
principal
reserve asset via the allocation route, close to $3 trillion in SDRs would need to be created, an unrealistic proposition.
In Latin America’s seven
principal
economies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela), which together account for almost 90% of regional GDP, annual economic growth averaged 6% in the third quarter of 2006, while industrial output was up by 8%.
Similarly, although the one-size-fits-all monetary policy contributed to Greece’s excessive indebtedness, and to Spain’s real-estate bubble, eurozone leaders have consistently sought to re-align interest rates, for example, by compelling holders of Greek debt to accept “haircuts” (write-downs on principal).
At the top was creating an open, innovative, and dynamic market-driven global economy, in which all countries can (in principal) thrive and grow.
Here is where the two
principal
parties vying in Germany’s upcoming election differ.
But a key northern European quality speaks to one of Monti’s
principal
concerns: trust.
It can close the two countries’
principal
border crossing, an important route for food, fuel, and other goods headed for Iraqi Kurds.
The EU’s main objective in institutional terms, regarding its relations with Russia, should be to ground the institutions of the new European order around the EU as a
principal
policy actor and not on the individual member states.
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