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The anxiety went beyond standard concerns about what US President Donald Trump would say, do, or tweet.
And, ultimately, we do not elect people to political office because we want them to act as standard bearers for our subjective, varied, and evolving definitions of morality.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), despite this colossal spending, America lags behind Japan and several European countries in standard measures of health: infant mortality, life expectancy at birth, and deaths that could have been prevented by appropriate medical care.
Whether or not these prosecutions succeed, for now we can no longer celebrate the SEC’s disclosure rule, or the United States’ renewed support in creating a global standard of transparency for the extractive industries.
According to standard economic reasoning, this is inefficient.
By this standard, the war in Iraq was a monumental failure.
By that standard, he would not have wanted Sarkozy.
The helicopter gunship killings in Iraq, the corruption of former Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali’s family, and the paucity of progress in Afghanistan are, by this standard, fair game.
Standard economic theory suggests that the correct monetary-policy response to such positive supply shocks depends on their persistence.
Strikingly, one hour north of Wall Street, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Gini coefficient – a standard measurement of income distribution and inequality – is worse than in Zimbabwe.
President Richard Nixon’s unilateral decision in 1971 to abandon the gold standard was a major blow to the international monetary system.
Under these circumstances, crises could be even greater, and the adjustments harsher – as occurred under the last world currency, the gold standard.
For example, companies increasingly augment standard wage packages with stock options, even for rank-and-file employees.
Klaus and his followers spearheaded the creation of well-functioning, standard political parties.
Maybe that capitalism works better when it is being held accountable to some external standard than when left to its own devices.
For Bangladesh, it is estimated that spending $100 dividing students (and potentially employing some extra teachers) would increase scores by nearly two standard deviations.
More fundamentally, monetary unions – in a broader sense – have existed not only within single states, but also in groups of sovereign states, the gold standard being the most notable example in history.
First, they required fiscal discipline in the member states, which was true under the gold standard, with its informal norm of balanced budgets.
Everyone would have to work, at whatever wage he finds employment, and the government would then pay a supplemental income to ensure a socially acceptable standard of living.
People continue to think in ways typical to authoritarian/totalitarian regimes, where blaming others is the standard escape for your own inadequacies, and where anyone who is even the slightest bit different may be an enemy.
Maintaining a high standard of impartiality is not easy, but it is far from impossible.
By contrast, trained economists view their discipline as having already achieved this scientific standard.
In standard analyses, the tax cut brings a reduction in government purchases of goods and services, like defense.
Last year, the standard battery cage for egg-laying hens was banned, ensuring somewhat better conditions for hundreds of millions of hens (though they can still be kept in cages that severely restrict their movement).
The international community’s regard for the health of the world’s poorest in the face of financial uncertainty will be a standard by which history measures not only our ability to stand together in weathering economic upheaval, but also our capacity for justice.
Still, one worries, because the standard economic models are notoriously bad at capturing the macroeconomic effects of uncertainty, which trade wars create with a vengeance.
The National Chicken Council, the trade association for the US chicken industry, recommends a stocking density of 85 square inches per bird – less than a standard sheet of typing paper.
This work is based on standard scenarios, and carries the typical caveats of predictions far into the future.
Whereas the standard story – the one that motivated the drive to liberalize capital flows – is that developing countries are saving-constrained, the fact that capital is moving outward rather than inward in the most successful developing countries suggests that the constraint lies elsewhere.
In the 1930’s, the countries that raised their tariffs and tightened their quotas the most were those with the least ability to manage their exchange rates – namely, countries that remained on the gold standard.
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