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The existence of an official target is crucial, even when it is not being reached, because it allows the private sector to judge how close the central bank is to a point at which it would feel justified in abandoning its zero_interest_rate policy.
Ideally, the best way to make its policy credible would be for the central bank to demonstrate its commitment to the price_level targeting framework before the zero bound is reached.
That was also true of credit default swaps, which became an instrument of speculation instead of insurance and reached an astounding $62 trillion in volume.
So the crisis might not have reached the scale that it did without financial institutions of all types leveraging themselves to the hilt in pursuit of higher returns.
Today, Mao’s dream of catching up with the rest of the world has been realized, albeit a bit behind schedule, not only in steel making, where annual capacity has reached 660 million tons, but in many other sectors as well.
These are the issues on which final agreement now needs to be reached.
They are a particularly tragic subset of the approximately three million migrants from Central America’s so-called Northern Triangle who have reached the US in the past two decades.
Finally, representatives of the 195 parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change reached an agreement in Paris last December to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, spurred in no small part by earlier action by Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Thus, he solicited commitments from China and Japan on denuclearization and realization of the 2005 agreement on North Korea reached by the six-party talks (involving the United States, China, Russia, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea).
Had the last German government reduced the surplus – which reached a new record high last year – by boosting domestic investment, Germany would be in a far better position to respond to Trump’s threats.
America’s Strategic BlindnessMADRID – The recriminations over US spying activities, triggered by the revelations of the former American intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden, have now reached fever pitch.
In 2007, Denmark’s household debt/income ratio reached 269%, while the US peak was 125%.
One result of this promise is that pledges to boost the IMF’s funding have now reached $456 billion.
So, as the war outgrew its anti-terrorist beginnings and the number of refuges reached 200,000, without the government providing a viable program of aid, I began to waiver.
The truth is that the Senate committee reached this decision even before America announced its withdrawal.
America has reached a pivotal moment in its national and global history, with new hopes for intercultural exchange, dialogue, and mutual understanding.
In many countries – particularly in the Mediterranean, but also elsewhere in Europe, as well as in North Africa – youth unemployment has reached record levels, owing to a combination of problematic macroeconomic policies and bad labor-market policies.
On that trajectory, the enrollment rate would have reached 97% worldwide by 2022, with Sub-Saharan Africa reaching that level by 2026.
Scientists are notoriously loath to jettison conclusions reached by approved scientific methods, however faulty.
To be sure, central bankers cannot know for sure when asset prices have reached unsustainable heights.
And it has reached currency-swap agreements with dozens of foreign central banks, in the hope that the renminbi will become a new global reserve asset.
Despite a considerable diversity of views at the outset of the two-year investigation, the Commission reached a strong consensus after examining extensive evidence from around the world.
Immunization campaigns, when properly funded, have reached huge proportions of very poor children.
We have already reached the stage at which every conflict has a cyber dimension.
By the late 1980’s, total public spending reached 60-65% of GDP, compared to about 30% in 1960.
These countries, too, are facing a recession, and, while the interest rate has not yet reached its zero bound everywhere, incentives to depreciate might grow in the near future.
Already, we have engaged with thousands of teachers in the United Kingdom; in the last school year, we reached nearly 350,000 primary-school children, and we aim to reach five million by 2020.
And now, I fear, we have reached the point at which the question is no longer whether that will happen, but when.
Although the monetary anesthetics administered by the ECB have reduced market tensions, nervousness has reemerged in the run-up to the Italian constitutional referendum on December 4.By end-November spreads between Italian and German ten-year bunds reached 200 basis points, a level not seen since 2014.
It is only when agreement on a blueprint for the future has been reached that the path toward realizing it should be discussed.
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