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Thai politics has thus reached an impasse.
As the money rolled in, wages rose, real-estate prices reached to near-Parisian levels, and people fooled themselves into thinking that Kazakhstan had become Asia’s latest tiger.
The Irish banking system’s external borrowing reached roughly 100% of GDP – two Kazakhstans.
Today's oil prices are still only two-thirds the real peak reached during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and future markets expect the oil price to fall back and settle at perhaps $45 a barrel.
That is the conclusion, perhaps counterintuitive, that the Squam Lake Group [http://squamlakegroup.org/], a think tank of 15 academic financial economists to which I belong, reached in our recently published report,Fixing the Financial System.
Many people reached other conclusions.
On several other global issues, a full consensus was reached.
Today, Turkey’s annual GDP has reached $800 billion, making it Europe’s sixth largest economy and the 17th largest in the world.
Indeed, the circumstances under which the Brussels compromise has been reached leave a bitter aftertaste.
In 2017, investments from China reached $31 million; by April 2018, an additional $9.5 billion was expected, creating 10,800 jobs for Filipinos in tourism, agriculture, and e-commerce.
Right before the talks were abruptly cut off for Greece to hold its referendum, the two sides had agreed on fiscal targets for Greece; all that was left was to determine how the targets should be reached.
The base agreement – reached after ten years of bilateral negotiations – is the most practical option for avoiding potentially disastrous aerial accidents in a heavily populated area, and for reducing crimes committed by US soldiers against local Japanese, including, most notoriously, several rapes.
Last month, an unprecedented new low was reached after decades of decline.
On February 29, the US and North Korea reached an agreement in which the North promised to halt its nuclear weapons development in exchange for food aid.
During the Great Recession, the ten-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security yield reached almost 3% at one point, and was almost 2% at the recession’s end.
But, at the current rate of progress, this target will not be reached until 2124.
Indeed, China’s 17 most dynamic cities – which together account for 11% of the population and about 30% of GDP – have already reached high-income status, as defined by the World Bank, and the country is set to overtake the United States as the world’s top e-commerce market.
Nobody knows how much oil is left and how much it will cost to extract, but the peak of global oil production will probably be reached sometime in the next quarter century, perhaps even in the next few years.
Not surprisingly, given the Americans’ deeply ingrained suspicion, the agreement reached earlier this year between Iran and Turkey and Brazil to allow for the export of low-enriched uranium from Iran in return for fuel rods was “not acceptable” to the US.
The percentage of Americans working full time has still not reached the level it was at seven years ago.
Though the agreement reached in Geneva includes Iran’s pledge not to transfer fuel or heavy water or commission its Arak reactor, there does not appear to be any overarching moratorium on construction at the site.
For example, it might encourage the Trump administration to reconsider its withdrawal from the 2015 Paris climate agreement, particularly if European actors reached out to likeminded progressives in, say, California or New York.
When Israeli warplanes responded by striking Iranian targets in Syria, one was downed by Syrian antiaircraft fire (the pilots reached Israeli territory safely), prompting Israel to strike Assad’s forces directly.
In 2008-09, when the rest of the world was on the verge of deflation, the UK was enduring an inflationary recession, with GDP contracting at a top rate of 6.1% annually, while inflation reached some 5.1%.
The wave’s height reached 15 meters, towering above even the highest pole-vault bars.
When their absorptive capacities are reached, natural systems are liable to collapse into unproductive states.
And, having run negative real interest rates, printed money, plowed in liquidity, and subsidized commercial banks, central bankers everywhere – most recently US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke – appear to have concluded that they, too, have reached the limit of what they can do.
Countries claiming to have reached the limit of what they can do really mean that they have reached the limit of what they can do on their own.
But what if it's too late, and the zero interest_rate bound is reached while prices are falling?
If the Bank of Japan, for example, were to commit itself to a target path for a broad price index, and credibly commit to keeping interest rates low until that target is reached, this commitment would influence investor behavior.
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