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Northern Europeans with money to invest were willing to lend on extraordinarily easy terms to those in the south who wanted to spend, and ample pre-2007 spending made employers there willing to
raise
wages rapidly.
And the summit in Abu Dhabi has provided a clear plan to get there by 2018 – a strategy that complements other efforts to
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immunization coverage for diseases such as measles, pneumonia, and rotavirus.
The second adverse effect of deflation is to
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the real interest rate, that is, the difference between the nominal interest rate and the rate of “inflation.”
Nevertheless, their expansionary actions have helped to
raise
long-term inflation expectations toward the target levels.
The banking sector has been deemed “cured”; demand for Spanish bonds has soared; and the country can once again
raise
capital at reasonable interest rates on the market.
Europeans, who were called on to improve productivity and
raise
domestic demand, reformed their economies at a glacial pace, while China maintained its export-led growth strategy.
The claim is that such a tax will help repress the forces that led to the financial crisis,
raise
a surreal amount of revenue to pay for progressive causes, and barely impact middle-class taxpayers.
True, all taxes are distorting, and the government has to
raise
money somehow.
These findings
raise
two key questions.
At any rate, they all
raise
the same question: In 2024, will the leader of Russia be Putin 5.0, or someone else?
On October 24, people in nearly every country will be taking action to
raise
awareness of the need for an international treaty to bring our atmosphere back to 350 ppm of CO2.
They are always able to
raise
tax rates in order to service their debt.
If trade agreements in the twenty-first century are about setting rules that
raise
the standards of international commerce, it does little good to establish those rules one treaty at a time.
Before Britain's next election, an even more worrying admission may be forced on Chancellor Brown: the need to
raise
taxes to meet his own fiscal rules.
Even in his era, businesses found that they could increase profits more easily by conspiring to
raise
prices than by producing innovative products more efficiently.
At a time when the US is already in a nuclear standoff with North Korea, the last thing it needs is to
raise
a similar risk in the Middle East.
Whereas pandemics appear suddenly, spread rapidly, and
raise
enormous fears of an impending threat, TB has been spreading slowly but consistently for tens of thousands of years, patiently waiting for new opportunities.
On average, developing countries
raise
17% of their GDP in taxes, compared with 34% in OECD countries.
Even when the Fed starts to
raise
interest rates (some time in 2015), it will proceed slowly.
Some at the Fed – Chairman Ben Bernanke and Vice Chair Janet Yellen – argue that policymakers can pursue both goals: the Fed will
raise
interest rates slowly to provide economic stability (strong income and employment growth and low inflation) while preventing financial instability (credit and asset bubbles stemming from high liquidity and low interest rates) by using macro-prudential supervision and regulation of the financial system.
“When a regime’s legitimacy is derived from its performance,” he argues, “any crisis – and how the party responds to it – can
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existential questions about the regime’s right to rule.”
Because these countries are keen to maintain their share in the world's biggest market, they often absorb the effect of a drop in the dollar by cutting their profits rather than
raise
prices.
But with presidential elections looming, no US government would cut spending or
raise
taxes.
If a country that has been borrowing like a drunk suddenly sees its credit dry up, it will tighten its belt –
raise
taxes, cut spending, or do both – with or without an international lender of last resort.
At the International Monetary Fund, the focus is on reforming its member countries’ fiscal systems in order to
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more revenue from taxes on carbon-intensive fuels and less revenue from other taxes that are detrimental to economic performance, such as taxes on labor and capital.
If they take their fiscal deficits (and a potential monetization of these deficits) seriously and
raise
taxes, reduce spending, and mop up excess liquidity, they could undermine the already weak recovery.
To join the high-income club, embodied by the OECD, China will have to
raise
that figure to at least 45% (depending on how real income is measured) – a level achieved, so far, by 36-40 economies.
The decision on Kosovo may not imply the prospect of renewed large-scale conflict, but it does
raise
serious questions for Europe’s relations with Russia and the United States, as well as for stability throughout the Balkans.
Securing a loan from the International Monetary Fund has become the principal objective of economic management, coupled with other anxious attempts to
raise
financing.
Ever since 1825, central banks’ standard response in such situations – except during the Great Depression of the 1930’s – has been the same:
raise
and support the prices of risky financial assets, and prevent financial markets from sending a signal to the real economy to shut down risky enterprises and eschew risky investments.
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