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The crises in Ireland and Greece called into question the euro’s viability and raised the prospect of a debt default.
Even though 10% of US households with mortgages had already lost their homes, the pace of foreclosures appeared to be increasing – or would have, were it not for legal snafus that raised doubts about America’s vaunted “rule of law.”
In fact, his suppression of the recent demonstrations has already raised questions about the sincerity of his commitment to democracy and human rights.
Brazil’s financial good behavior was rewarded as recently as April of this year when Standard & Poor’s raised its credit rating to investment-grade.
While Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s recent remarks on the crisis focused on diplomacy, CIA Director Mike Pompeo has mentioned regime change, and National Security Advisor General H.R. McMaster has raised the possibility of a preventive war.
The larger question raised by the UK’s proposed legislation is the desirable balance between individual rights, including the right to citizenship, and the public good.
That strong growth raised employment and brought the economy to full employment.
This reaching for yield has driven up the prices of all long-term bonds to unsustainable levels, narrowed credit spreads on corporate bonds and emerging-market debt, raised the relative prices of commercial real estate, and pushed up the stock market’s price-earnings ratio to more than 25% higher than its historic average.
It is not clear who the buyers will be, especially since the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation restricted what banks can do and increased their capital requirements, which has raised the cost of holding bonds.
Others fear that, even without such financial shocks, the economy’s current strong performance will not continue when interest rates are raised.
The article claimed that the change raised costs by forcing British construction workers to perform more of their jobs in relative darkness.
But there are still deep political and ideological divisions about how additional revenues should be raised and who should pay higher taxes.
But how should additional revenues be raised from top taxpayers to achieve these two goals?
That would have put a partial brake on growth in asset prices, raised savings, reduced investment, and probably lowered the trade deficit.
Juche is autarky raised to the level of philosophy.
In 1996, after then-Fed Chair Allan Greenspan raised the possibility that investors were suffering from “irrational exuberance,” he was criticized so sharply that he never dared to say anything like that again, even in the middle of the Internet bubble.
On the basis of those reforms, and a new WHO agenda on global health, Dr. Bruntland made the extremely modest request that the core WHO budget from the donor countries should be raised sufficiently to absorb rising costs due to inflation and exchange rate changes.
That report instantly raised a question in my mind: if we accept the regime’s diagnosis, why did Kim need to work so hard, despite his frail health?
It is surprising, therefore, that forecasters raised their GDP growth forecasts for 2011 significantly on the basis of the tax agreement.
This rapid economic deterioration, combined with the high expectations raised by the onset of political transition, is creating a sense of urgency.
It is therefore encouraging that concerns about Zimbabwean diamonds are being raised within the diamond trade itself.
That is why Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced that half of the extra revenues raised from the consumption-tax hike that will go into effect in 2019 will be invested in pre-school education.
According to Bernanke’s “debt deflation” theory, the collapse in consumer prices was one of the causes of the Great Depression, since deflation raised the real value of debts, making it difficult to repay loans.
The summit between South Korean President Kim Dae Jung and North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il raised hopes on both sides of the Korean peninsula that 55 years of hot and cold war may diminish.
Spending is temporarily reduced and taxes raised, but the long-run structural deficit remains, a pattern now repeated in many state capitals and the primary reason for the current political turmoil over budgets and public sector unions.
While such technologies have brought important gains, they have also raised serious challenges – and left many segments of the population feeling vulnerable, anxious, and angry.
At a recent workshop that we co-chaired in Singapore, the inevitable question was raised: Can Asians lead in meeting global challenges?
No one raised Liu’s name publicly during the G20 meeting.
Another reason is that ordinary citizens suffer when debts are not cancelled, when financial assistance is not forthcoming, or when trade barriers are raised.
Yet, while Zuma’s populist appeal reflects South Africa’s especially large differences in economic class, the threat of imposing higher taxes and other obligations on employers and the wealthy has raised fears at home and internationally.
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