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Lives versus ProfitsNEW YORK – The United States Supreme Court recently began deliberations in a case that highlights a deeply problematic issue concerning intellectual-property rights.
Most of the credit went to real estate and local infrastructure projects, effectively reinforcing the most problematic trends in China’s economy.
Independence is even more problematic in an age when the cross-border spillovers of national monetary policies have become powerful.
The task of the left is to direct attention to the truly problematic aspects of global economic integration – financialization, the prioritization of capital over labor, of creditor over debtor, of patron over ouvrier – without lapsing into reactionary politics.
The European Union’s common agricultural policy has long been highly problematic.
Perhaps most problematic, though, is that something other than plutocrat-friendly policies is largely responsible for the growing inequality.
While the details of his particular proposal are problematic, to say the least, the concept has real potential.
One of the more problematic is the new European Semester, a cycle of economic-policy coordination that requires member states to submit early in the year their fiscal and structural reform plans, EU-funded and not, choosing from a menu of EU priorities.
Suffocation or near-drowning are similarly problematic techniques.
Opting out of the values and customs of free societies is problematic, but it is ultimately acceptable.
Any resolution of Kosovo’s status is problematic, but the international community should not repeat old mistakes.
Legitimacy is even more problematic regarding recognition, which implies a feeling of community and attachment.
But let us not lose sight of the biggest and potentially most problematic of them all: China.
Even field testing biopharmed plants has proved problematic.
Moreover, problematic elections constitute a specific challenge for the West, which is simultaneously the bearer of a universal democratic message and the culprit of an imperialist past that undermines that message’s persuasiveness and utility.
For the EU authorities, by contrast, a Greek default would now be much less problematic than previously assumed.
Trump, who has been known to disseminate problematic news himself, is no innocent victim of media bias.
It is a fraught proposal, as it resembles Australia’s problematic approach to immigration, whereby migrants are held – out of sight and largely out of mind, often for years – on nearby Nauru and Papua New Guinea.
In such democracies without democrats, "human rights" are more problematic to discuss than procedural formalities, because they are not thought of as "rights" in the legal sense, but merely as pangs of conscience, or else as gifts to be exchanged for something else of value.
The employment consequences in the advanced countries would be problematic, especially given an existing shortage of high-paying jobs.
But a new issue risks bringing about a similarly problematic outcome: By repeatedly repressing financial-market volatility over the last few years, central-bank policies have inadvertently encouraged excessive risk-taking, which has pushed many financial-asset prices higher than economic fundamentals warrant.
This is not to say that the currency re-alignment that is currently underway is necessarily a problematic development; on the contrary, it has the potential to boost the global economy by supporting the recovery of some of its most challenged components.
Moreover, while some EU countries, such as Germany, benefit significantly from China’s economic development, others view competition from China as problematic.
This is all the more problematic given that the 2008 financial crisis laid bare the international reserve system’s inadequacy when it comes to ensuring sufficient liquidity for emerging economies.
More problematic is assuring domestic stability.
On trade, for example, multilateralists will need to work with China to defend the WTO; but they also need to reform the WTO so that it is equipped to curtail China’s problematic trade and investment practices.
But this is clearly problematic, as it puts the entire burden of refugees on the EU’s frontier countries.
In this sense, populism can be a beneficial force, as it challenges a problematic status quo.
But the view that defending free speech imposes a duty to disseminate specific content is deeply problematic.
If British voters agree that the EU’s structure is so flawed that they do not want to be part of it, they are implicitly condemning the peculiar union that is the UK, which includes a fiscal union, but a problematic one.
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