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That’s the thinking behind one of my favorite customer-care proposals: that lost luggage should get its own air miles – thus making the customer feel that the airline acknowledges the error and is suffering along with the customer.
It is an indication of how polarized the US political climate has become that it is impossible to imagine similar proposals coming out of Republican circles these days.
But the danger is that those who are attracted to inspirational rallying cries and sweeping proposals will lack the patience required to identify which side to support in the numerous complex battles over financial regulation that take place every year.
Not only has the problem of short-termism been woefully exaggerated, but the policy proposals for addressing it are severely lacking.
CDR proposals include artificial trees that use chemicals to capture the CO2, and then pump it underground or under the ocean; planting fast-growing trees and then burying them; and fertilizing the ocean with iron to make plankton grow faster, hoping they will fall to the ocean bottom.
But progress soon stalled, with Russia rejecting US proposals for further reductions, especially of tactical nuclear weapons – an area in which Russia dominates.
Trump is now aligning some of his policy proposals with mainstream Republican ideas, but he is also clearly determined to retain his distinctive identity.
But, judging from recent proposals in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union to reform the financial system, it is far from clear that the second lesson has been learned.
Admittedly, there are some good things in these proposals.
Instead, the reform proposals have opted for a mixture of higher capital requirements for leading banks and pre-funding of deposit insurance by a special levy on banks.
There seems to be little appetite for proposals to vary capital adequacy requirements counter-cyclically.
Admittedly, there are difficulties with all proposals to restrict the scope of “risky” banking, especially in the context of a global economy with free capital mobility.
Parties’ programs changed with the public opinion polls, and their economic proposals were either too complicated or too muddled for voters to grasp.
After the Argentine crisis, President George W. Bush’s administration vetoed proposals to create a mechanism for sovereign-debt restructuring.
Such practical proposals address key global issues, including international terrorism, strengthening of mechanisms for arms control, arms reduction, and non-proliferation, efforts to contain attempts by North Korea and Iran to develop nuclear weapons, encouraging transparency in China’s military, restraining Russia’s imperial ambitions, and building a global ballistic missile defense network against missiles that could be launched by rogue regimes.
At first glance, the almost constant bombardment of integration proposals in Latin America makes it appear as if the region’s presidents are trying to outdo each other in seeing who can come up with the greatest number of proposals.
Contributing to this loss of dynamism is the flood of proposals rushing out of Venezuela, including the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA, with its own standing army), the Trade Treaty of the Peoples (TCP), the Bank of the South, and the South Atlantic Treaty Organization (OTAS).
When Populism Comes Home to RoostROME – Debates about the euro usually contain proposals for complex financial arrangements to build “resilience” against the next economic shock.
Dozens of international plans and proposals collapse one after the other.
But the assumption that Trump’s policies will lead to higher prices and wages doesn’t square with the details of his proposals.
Given the impracticality of winning support for proposals based on population management or limits on individual wealth, analyses using the Kaya Identity tend to bypass the first two terms, leaving energy efficiency and carbon intensity as the most important determinants of total emissions.
Similarly, where structural reforms should rein in price growth by encouraging competition, leaders like Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, finding it increasingly difficult to marshal support for unpopular measures, are watering down already-modest proposals to enhance labor-market flexibility.
The report consists of 20 proposals to be decided on at this year's NPT review conference, and ends with proposed decisions to be taken after 2025.
Fifth, Obama announced a new series of stimulus proposals just weeks before the mid-term elections.
Still, proposals to de-escalate military tensions – perhaps accompanied by a peace treaty and a broader framework for managing relations in the region – represented a welcome development, especially in the eyes of the South Koreans and the Chinese.
According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, an independent body that evaluates tax proposals before Congress, Americans earning more than $1 million per year will see their annual tax bill fall by an average of $12,865 over the next decade.
For example, most proposals involve some kind of fiscal union, which would inevitably entail the partial transfer of fiscal sovereignty from national governments to the European Union.
Rather than waste time debating proposals that have no chance of being approved, economists and policymakers should be working within the parameters established by the German court.
The parliament has been able to claw greater power for itself because it is the only mechanism Europe has for questioning and challenging EU policy proposals, and ironing out the sometimes clumsy and high-handed diktats of Brussels’ officialdom.
But Obama needs to provide stronger leadership on financial reform, where, as with health care, there is a welter of conflicting proposals.
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