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As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation continues to
raise
the emotional and political pressure on Trump, the president’s temptation to resort to war could rise dramatically.
(This is as true in Europe today as it is in the US.)Romney is right to
raise
the issue of subsidies, but he badly misstates what has happened in the US during the last four years.
Together with other similar cases, these trials
raise
serious questions about Ukraine’s judicial system and law enforcement agencies.
In Great Britain, too, leading Conservatives have recently proved willing to
raise
taxes and attempted to limit future spending.
After all, the US is set to
raise
interest rates, and the dollar has appreciated against virtually all of the world’s currencies.
Import tariffs will have no effect on that, but they will certainly
raise
costs for American consumers and producers.
This should provide incentive for stronger efforts to
raise
the US score.
I
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all of this because Krugman took a victory lap in his end-of-2014 column on “The Obama Recovery.”
Now is the right point in the cycle to
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banks’ capital requirements as called for under Dodd-Frank.
Some Asian countries
raise
banks’ reserve requirements and homeowners’ loan-to-value ceilings during booms, and lower them during financial downturns.
For example, bringing more female editors into the field of science publishing could
raise
the percentage of women appearing in peer-reviewed publications.
Yet the suggestion that governments should act directly to
raise
the price of lower-skilled labor is likely to be met with sharp intakes of breath and sotto voce comments that I must be mad.
Even where the authorities have taken steps to
raise
minimum wages – the UK since last year, as well as US states like California and New York, which are targeting a $15 hourly minimum wage by 2020 – they are not moving fast or far enough.
Potential Republican presidential candidates have hesitated to take up this issue in public – perhaps feeling that it will inhibit their ability to
raise
money from Wall Street.
The best guess is that Japan will
raise
its value-added tax, now only 5%, far below European levels.
But is it plausible to
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taxes in the face of such sustained low growth?
But the 2007 licensing round appears to have been rushed through to
raise
cash during the dying days of the Obasanjo administration, and it would serve India’s government well to watch this process closely, too.
Some contended that absolute poverty differs from relative poverty, or asked what responsibility individuals have to
raise
themselves out of poverty through education and work?
Nevertheless, this does not
raise
a new ethical problem.
If the adjustments are asymmetric – larger increases when prices fall, and smaller decreases when prices rise – this system would gradually
raise
the overall carbon tax, even as it follows a counter-cyclical pattern.
Despite the obvious benefits of a variable carbon tax, no country has capitalized on today’s low oil prices to
raise
carbon prices in this or a similar form, though US President Barack Obama’s call for a tax on oil suggests that he recognizes the opening low prices represent.
Unlike floating ice, which does nothing to the sea level when it melts, there is enough of this ice sheet above the surface that it could
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the sea level by something like 20 feet if it glaciated into the ocean, inundating coastal cities everywhere.
Even UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned that the unrestrained tide of globalization might not
raise
all boats, but only the yachts – while overturning a lot of canoes.
But the other post-Soviet countries resist, because a customs union with Russia would force them to
raise
their import tariffs, hindering their trade with other countries.
To this day, local governments have to
raise
extra-budgetary funds to finance the rising deficit between revenues and expenditure.
While this horizontal competition has helped China to reach growth targets, central leaders must be supportive of local leaders’ discretionary powers, authority to
raise
funds, and capacity to attract investment.
But at the very moment that other countries were looking to America for a policy model, affirmative action began to
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questions, of which three are particularly important.
A factory might get easier access to funds, and it might see more demand for its products, but, rather than hiring new workers, it might decide to
raise
its prices.
But Obama was right to
raise
the question.
For starters, it remains unclear whether the Federal Reserve will begin to “taper” its open-ended quantitative easing (QE) in September or later, how fast it will reduce its purchases of long-term assets, and when and how fast it will start to
raise
interest rates from their current zero level.
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