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He also cancelled the debts of some small producers and raised the prices paid by the state for milk and meat.
This means Europe’s monetary policy continues to stimulate economic growth despite the fact that, by December, money rates will have been raised 150 basis points during 2006.
Banks were nationalized and wages were raised, causing repeated runs on the franc.
His selection of Republicans for key posts – including retaining Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense – has raised a few eyebrows among his supporters.
Expectations of aggressive QE by the Fed have already weakened the dollar and raised serious concerns in Europe, emerging markets, and Japan.
It keeps room for interest rates to be raised, avoids large deficits and high private foreign debt, and does not gamble the reserves away.
These holdings also include a growing volume of assets in the developed economies – a reality that has raised eyebrows in Europe and the United States.
But none has raised such fundamental questions about the meaning of the EU as the current debate about migration.
Russia's support on promising terms may attract them, particularly because the matter of forfeiting sovereignty will not be raised.
From 1993 to 1998, the US created millions of jobs, which raised the employment rate by 5.4 percentage points.
The best way to deal with the economic, political, and humanitarian concerns raised by trade agreements is via transition rules, temporary income support, and retraining, as opposed to maintaining protectionist barriers.
Questions will be raised about which sanctions are to be eased and when; about the terms of compliance inspections; and about what will happen once some of the limits on Iran’s nuclear activities expire.
The taxes that were raised were, in fact, old taxes.
They cut taxes and raised spending rapidly, resulting in the return of record deficits.
But Hariri, whose father, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri, was assassinated in 2005, raised more questions than answers.
Still others say that the problem would resolve itself, at least in the US, if the target for annual inflation were raised from 2% to 5%, because a loss of so much of the real purchasing power that people hoard in cash would induce the needed boost in real investment.
This has raised farm producers’ income independently of the fair-trade movement’s efforts.
When the economy is booming, they claim, expenditure must be cut (or, if all else fails, taxes raised) in order to reduce demand.
In 1930, the US enacted the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which raised import duties on more than 20,000 goods.
Though there is a consensus that the retirement age should be raised from 60 to 65, there is strong resistance to cutting benefits.
Moreover, unlike Mandela during his 27-year imprisonment, Suu Kyi has had her hopes raised – and dashed – before.
Many of today’s refugees have already been displaced for decades, with new generations – both kids and grandkids – born and raised in sprawling refugee camps like Kenya’s Dadaab.
Recent research by the International Monetary Fund on the context-specific variability of fiscal multipliers has raised serious questions about the costs and effectiveness of rapid fiscal consolidation.
The difference will be that different questions will be asked, different issues raised, and different features will stand out as remarkable.
This may, in part, have just been partisan politics, but Bernanke was appointed by President George W. Bush, and there were other voices, both Democrat and independent, raised against his reappointment.
In victory, that strength is being raised further, in the name of “eternal vigilance.”
In 2015, Japan raised its maximum rate from 50% to 55% and expanded the base.
Having addressed the issues raised in Lisbon, the first new topic on the summit agenda will be what NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen calls “smart defense.”
Since the end of 2015, the benchmark federal funds rate has been raised to 1.5%.
Over the last few years, Xi’s anti-corruption drive has raised many eyebrows in the West, where it is often regarded as just a means for Xi to remove would-be political rivals.
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