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In the 24 months from June 2004, the FOMC raised the federal funds rate from 1% to 5.25% in 17 increments of 25 basis points each.
Against the authoritarian and hierarchical structures of the regime, we raised a decentralized institution, a huge organism striving to achieve consensus about its aims and the methods of action.
Trichet Takes Control At The ECBThe announcement by the President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, that interest rates would be raised at the next meeting of the bank’s Governing Council on December 1st,could be a defining moment in his presidency.
They naturally raised concerns, or expectations, that China’s labor-cost advantages may be disappearing.
What Complete Genomics is doing with the $91 million it has raised so far is exciting.
The issue of civilian deaths was not even raised.
Indeed, the project may even have gone into reverse, as Brexit threatens to disrupt and divide the one well-functioning capital market Europe now possesses: London, which accounts for the majority of the market finance raised for European companies.
At the same time, investors have raised serious and legitimate questions about Japan’s economic-policy regime under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, which unfortunately relies far more on financial engineering – quantitative easing and yen depreciation – than on a new structural-reform agenda.
Likewise, Japan raised its consumption tax in April to cut the fiscal deficit, but the increase has tipped the economy into recession.
Why Polish Judicial Independence MattersBUDAPEST – After some delay, Poland’s government, controlled by the Law and Justice (PiS) party, has finally responded to concerns raised by the European Commission about its legislative attack on judicial independence.
But, according to Frans Timmermans, the Commission’s first vice president, Poland is still refusing to cooperate, and has not announced “any concrete measures to address the issues raised.”
Nothing, however, angers paying taxpayers more than having their taxes raised while shirkers get special breaks.
It also raised more questions than it answered about which Syrian opposition groups would participate in negotiations.
Instead, this Fed has gradually raised interest rates for the past six years, and the federal funds rate is now 400 basis points higher than it currently is.
In short, each time the question of European solidarity was raised, the answer was: “Yes, but only if absolutely necessary, and only to the minimum possible extent.”
The regime failed to explain international purchases of equipment consistent with such a program; and samples of specialized materials that it provided to US diplomats raised suspicions further.
They therefore argue for leveling the playing field – i.e., that the costs for their rivals in poor countries must be raised by imposing the same labor standards that exist in rich countries.
But now nirvana seems to be ending: commodity prices are down, and the mere possibility that the US Federal Reserve may end its policy of quantitative easing has raised market interest rates in the rich countries and sent funds fleeing from once-fashionable emerging markets back to safe havens in the North.
Wall Street became enamored with the rapidly rising dollar value of these countries’ national income, but that rise had more to do with strong commodity prices and appreciating exchange rates (which raised the value of their output when measured in dollars) than with sharp increases in actual output volumes.
How the West Was LostBRUSSELS – Recent political discourse on both sides of the Atlantic has raised a disturbing question that is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss: Are the United States and Europe turning away from the policies of openness that have historically driven their economic success?
But their presence has also raised concerns that speculation in commodity futures could result in higher price volatility.
The US, fearing that it could be sidelined, has now raised objections to these moves.
If the interest rate is raised too little, banks will use more reserves to support lending, leading to higher inflation.
If the interest rate is raised too much, economic activity will be constrained and growth could fizzle.
If there is something to celebrate, it is that the balance of global economic power is shifting to emerging countries, and that new role models and a new generation raised in a globalized world are becoming ready to assume the mantle of leadership.
Today’s East-West divide has raised a troubling question: are Europe’s common borders based on anything more profound than geography?
Unfortunately, most European governments merely shrug their shoulders when the issue is raised.
Of course, some have raised concerns about the possible economic, social, and ecological repercussions, not least in developing countries, of a strong increase in demand for biofuels.
Might the uncertainties raised by entering into such unknown territory exact a serious toll on private investment activity?
In 2015, Wang Qishan, Xi’s right-hand man who has been leading the anticorruption campaign, raised the question of the CCP’s “legitimacy” in a statement that previously would have been taboo.
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