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If East Africa’s central bank raises interest rates to stave off inflation in Kenya, the rest of the union will experience increased unemployment.
Charging banks for the privilege of holding reserves raises their cost of doing business.
Diplomacy tries to lower the temperature; the demotic paradigm raises it.
And threatening more sanctions in the future raises the question of why those sanctions have not already been imposed.
This bailout procedure, now familiar from similar bailouts in Mexico and Asia, raises several serious questions.
Otherwise, the policy satisfies the excess demand via imports, and so raises the world price even more.
This raises doubts about whether Trump will be willing to open US markets in the few areas where the UK can still compete, like the aerospace and automotive industries.
This raises a basic credibility issue: how can Europe urge Colombia and Peru to reduce supply when its own drug habit is driving cultivation?
But “Dalligate” also raises questions about the functioning of justice in certain EU institutions.
This raises the question, suitable for the beginning of a new year, of whether history really can teach us many lessons.
The arrest of these well-educated professionals, together with the Egyptian doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri’s role as al-Qaeda’s deputy leader, raises questions that go far beyond disaffection among Muslims and the consequences of America’s misadventures in the Middle East.
But the question of which of these ways of understanding happiness best captures what we should promote raises fundamental questions of value.
That is the world’s largest age gap between governors and the governed, and it raises concerns about how well decision-makers understand the needs and aspirations of young people.
But not now: given extraordinarily low long-term interest rates, no serious economist raises the “crowding out” issue nowadays.
But even if it does not fail, the nexus between terrorist groups and Pakistan’s powerful military raises the specter of nuclear terrorism – a menace so large that the United States has prepared a contingency plan to take out the country’s fast-growing nuclear arsenal should the need arise.
It unnecessarily raises tensions in the Taiwan Strait and it promises no real benefits for the people of Taiwan on the international stage.”
The design raises some challenging questions.
By contrast, an increase in the price of an asset like a stock raises expectations of a further increase, causing demand to rise, potentially to excessively high levels.
Another recent intervention by the Chinese authorities – gradual appreciation, followed by the unexpected devaluation of the renminbi – raises similar questions.
The recent arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in Canada itself raises the notion that the Trump administration is resorting to increasingly cutthroat methods to get its way.
While globalization occasionally raises difficult questions about the legitimacy of its redistributive effects, we should not respond automatically by restricting trade.
Given this commitment, subsidy for the opera raises an obvious question: Since liberals are opposed to the establishment of religion, how can they justify supporting the establishment of one of the great totems of secular humanism — the operas of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and other lesser saints in the secular canon?
But in the US, it is far more difficult, politically, to argue for generous public spending on education, health care, and financial security for retirees, because doing so always raises the specter of high taxes.
This raises a fundamental question: can a firewall be built to prevent such political contagion?
Manmade global warming raises not only air temperatures, but sea-surface temperatures as well.
To counter this deficit bias, federations in which states do much of the spending and the central government raises most of the taxes typically impose balanced-budget rules on subnational governments.
Given that declining rates of extreme poverty would seem to imply incomes high enough to avoid hunger, this substantially slower progress on hunger than on poverty raises awkward questions.
This raises the issue of who should pay for such a mission and, more fundamentally, who can authorize it.
On another point Soros raises, I do not see why Italy should exit the eurozone, and why it would be “infinitely better off” if Germany exited.
This raises perhaps the most troublesome concern of all: with a post-crisis world getting hit by one shock after another, and with central banks having no latitude to cut interest rates, it is not hard to envision a scenario of open-ended monetary expansion that ends in tears.
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