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The rising atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, a byproduct of burning fossil fuels, would warm the planet and change rainfall and storm patterns and
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sea levels.
Similarly, they may opt to
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fuel standards for internal-combustion automobiles rather than to push the needed shift to electric vehicles.
He realized that an extremist would
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interest rates – any real-estate developer’s worst nightmare.
Monetary tightening is widely anticipated in the US, with the Federal Reserve having ended quantitative easing in October and likely to
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short-term interest rates sometime in the coming year.
Some countries, such as Germany and France, are trying to
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their TFR to the replacement level.
Measures to
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the minimum wage and index it to the cost of living are already underway in many parts of the US.
Clearly, more aggressive public marketing programs are required to
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awareness about the EITC at both the state and federal levels.
In a world where robots can increasingly do the work, education and skills are more important than ever – not because they can
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everyone’s price in the labor market, but because they can equip us for lives in which many jobs no longer deliver adequate income, satisfaction, or status.
Of course, such a process is complex, and can
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concerns among residents.
And, because coal- and gas-fired power stations last 50 years or more, such investments
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the risk of either locking in emission levels incompatible with the climate target, or forcing major asset write-offs.
Why try to move to an improbable global wealth tax when alternatives are available that are growth friendly,
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significant revenue, and can be made progressive through a very high exemption.
Corporate-tax expenditures narrow the base,
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the cost of tax compliance, and distort decisions about investment projects, how to finance them, what form of business organization to adopt, and where to produce.
Eliminating accelerated depreciation for equipment would
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the effective tax rate on new investments; repealing the domestic-production deduction would increase the effective tax rate on US manufacturing; and rescinding the R&D tax credit would reduce investment in innovation.
The government, recognizing the need to rebalance growth, began to
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the minimum wage in 2011 at nearly double the rate of real GDP growth, ensuring that the average household had more disposable income to spend.
The Bank of Thailand could not
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interest rates to support external financing without worsening the loan problems of Thai banks, nor reduce interest rates without risking an external funding crisis.
Latin American and Caribbean governments need to know how to
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educational quality and combat domestic violence.
The downgrade could, moreover, force the US Treasury to
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the interest rate on new bonds, in which case China would stand to gain.
If America’s debts had truly become less trustworthy, they would have been even more dubious before the agreement reached on August 2 by Congress and President Barack Obama to
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the government’s debt ceiling.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), for example, has unexpectedly demonstrated both the will and the capacity to
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a fighting force to intervene in regional conflicts, such as the awful civil war in Sierra Leone.
They are likely to shy from policies that
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the cost of energy.
Following the recent G-7 summit in Germany, the leaders of the world’s largest economies issued a pledge to “work together and with other interested countries to
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the overall coordination and transparency of clean energy research, development, and demonstration, highlighting the importance of renewable energy and other low-carbon technologies.”
The last-minute agreement to
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the US debt ceiling and reopen the government has left Republican Party extremists in a weakened position, while President Barack Obama has emerged strengthened.
In 1997, Korea suffered not only from the Asian financial crisis, but also from insistence by the US and the International Monetary Fund that it
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interest rates and undertake “Washington Consensus”-style reforms to receive aid.
But open-ended incentives have their own costs: they can
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consumer prices and bottle up resources in unproductive activities.
Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, once said, “If you want to succeed,
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your error rate.”
Indeed, inflation may even force the Bank to
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interest rates by the fall.
Actual and potential capital outflows forced central banks to
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local interest rates, intensifying economic contractionary pressures and undermining the creditworthiness of the domestic corporate sector.
Serious Harm By ResearchThe media, legislators, and other organizations often
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concerns about human-rights violations and ethical breaches in clinical research.
He predicted that Democrats would repeatedly push him to
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taxes, and he swore that he would forever refuse: “Read my lips: no new taxes.”
Perhaps it is time to try another approach: a commitment by each country to
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the price of emissions (whether through a carbon tax or emissions caps) to an agreed level, say, $80 per ton.
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