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Conceivably, policymakers could
raise
taxes to offset such declines.
Little wonder, then, that the Commission has issued a warning that crisis-related fiscal expansion and the aging population
raise
questions about the sustainability of public finances in the EU.
Based on other studies, this would
raise
future annual earnings by as much as 8%.
And the lack of diplomatic tension around exchange rates today makes this a good moment to
raise
the topic.
According to the European Commission’s own estimates, it would
raise
only about €50 billion ($65.7 billion) a year, even if imposed throughout the European Union.
All of these trends reduce wages and employment for low-skill workers in labor-scarce and capital-rich advanced economies, and
raise
them in labor-abundant emerging economies.
Indeed, the last-minute agreement to
raise
the debt ceiling is proof that the politicians did what they were sent to Washington to do: represent their constituencies and only compromise in the interests of the country as a whole.
The solution for many Democrats is to
raise
revenues by taxing the rich.
It would be absurd if Ukraine were to slide into a financial crisis because the EU could not agree on how to
raise
the funds to prevent it.The way to avoid that outcome is to adjust one of the EU’s two instruments for non-eurozone members to meet Ukraine’s needs: The Macro-Financial Assistance scheme, a versatile instrument that can combine loans and direct subsidies; or the balance-of-payments assistance facility, which could complement an IMF program to EU countries.
It would be absurd if Ukraine were to slide into a financial crisis because the EU could not agree on how to
raise
the funds to prevent it.
Given that livestock require much more food, land, water, and energy to
raise
and transport than plants, increased demand for meat depletes natural resources, places pressure on food-production systems, damages ecosystems, and fuels climate change.
So I am convinced that we should
raise
the profile of biodiversity in tackling climate change and food insecurity, and that we need more high-level attention to this subject.
Of course, Congress could spook investors and increase the likelihood of a bond-market attack by failing to
raise
the debt ceiling in 2013.
Equally subject to human power are the animals that we
raise
for food, among them sows confined for their entire pregnancies – four months per pregnancy, two pregnancies per year – in stalls too narrow for them even to turn around.
In an environment of economic volatility like the one in which we find ourselves today, a prudent central bank should do everything it can to
raise
expected and actual inflation, in order to gain the ability to stabilize the economy in any direction.
If interest rates were well above zero, the Fed would have scope to
raise
them further in case of overheating or to lower them in response to adverse demand shocks.
In order to deposit the required new collateral at the ECB, the banks should have had to
raise
fresh capital, with those that failed to do so entering insolvency proceedings.
It was Britain’s rising agricultural productivity in the 18th century, for example, which helped to
raise
nutrition levels and reduce the burden of infectious diseases, that helped to initiate the Industrial Revolution.
I have argued elsewhere that inflation will likely be part of that resolution, as it is improbable that an aging population will vote to
raise
its tax burden and reduce its benefits sufficiently to put Japan’s debt trajectory on a sustainable path.
The way the appointment was carried out – shrouded in secrecy, in order to avoid the involvement of member states – should do more than
raise
eyebrows.
One is that the Fed could
raise
interest rates substantially faster than expected.
President Barack Obama will likely
raise
issues such as the bilateral trade imbalance, the Chinese government’s manipulation of the renminbi’s exchange rate, prevention of nuclear proliferation, recent tension on the Korean peninsula, international cooperation on climate change, and China’s poor human rights record.
Obama will surely
raise
the issue again at the upcoming summit.
The US, for its part, would probably
raise
the 1979 abduction of US embassy staff by Iran’s fledgling Islamic revolutionary regime, and, more recently, its targeting of American troops using Shia militia groups in southern Iraq.
But if they
raise
interest rates relentlessly to meet inflation targets, we should prepare for the worst: another episode of stagflation.
They decided that the best way to handle the panic was to
raise
interest rates so sharply in Asia that the outflow of funds would be reversed by short-term speculators.
The main problem seems to be the paucity of entrepreneurship and low propensity to invest in plant and equipment – what Keynes called “low animal spirits” – especially to
raise
output of products that can be traded on world markets.
In Morocco, the provision of solar photovoltaic kits to isolated villages has helped to
raise
access rates to electricity in rural areas from less than 15% in 1990 to more than 97% in 2009.
The only plausible inflationary scenario presupposes that when economies recover, central banks do not
raise
interest rates sufficiently in the coming boom, keeping too much of the current liquidity in the market.
The IMF told all of the countries to
raise
interest rates to restore international investor confidence.
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