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Rather than denounce the IS’s barbaric behavior, members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the preeminent regional organization of Arab states, issued a series of tepid statements denying support for it in the wake of its entry into Iraq.
Trump made so many deeply offensive and demonstrably false statements during this election cycle that one especially revealing sentence went entirely unnoticed.
And optimistic public statements – for example, by Vice Chair Donald Kohn – were often accompanied by worries that were expressed privately.
For example, Boston’s financial statements indicate that the city has a negative net worth.
What these fighters for justice and freedom take from this 3,500-word document is the brief statements of general principles in response to John’s arbitrary seizure of his subjects’ property and person.
SOROS: These were public statements.
But the tone of too many of these statements has been muted.
Australia’s statements have been typical – falling over backward to avoid giving offense, and too anxious to balance criticism with praise.
Its monthly statements emphasize that there is still “a significant underutilization of labor resources,” reflecting not only the 6.1% unemployment rate, but also the millions of part-time employees seeking a full-time job and those who are not officially counted as unemployed because they are not actively looking for work.
In that case, the Fed is likely to raise the federal funds rate more rapidly and to a higher year-end level than its recent statements imply.
When I visited Tripoli in March 2010 for a “national reconciliation” conference, the conflicting statements given by Saif al-Islam and security officials surprised me.
It was an accord precisely because it involved international policy coordination among the major players, whose public statements were coupled with organized market intervention (selling US dollars).
The purpose of such statements is to draw lines within the government and place himself on the side of the anti-immigrant voters who turned out for the AfD last year.
For that, the recent statements by Draghi and Yellen should be treated as ground zero.
Already, central banks are urgently exploring new ways to dumb down their statements for an increasingly unsophisticated public.
Trump’s statements are dripping with contempt for the rule of law.
The Post recently counted 29 false or misleading statements in a mere one-hour rally.
For the Israelis, the public statements of Palestinian armed groups celebrating rocket and mortar attacks on civilians strengthen a deep-rooted concern that negotiation will yield little and that their nation remains under existential threat from which only it can protect its people.
Just this month, one of Netanyahu’s shamelessly incendiary statements – the claim that Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, gave Adolf Hitler the idea of annihilating Europe’s Jews during World War II – sparked a media firestorm.
Still, world leaders’ statements will turn out to be meaningless if not backed up with action.
This narrow, short-term focus differs from the approach taken for publicly traded companies, for which the strength of the balance sheet and the economy’s potential are emphasized, alongside annual income statements.
But whether such statements are objectionable depends on the context in which they are uttered.
Europe’s only good option is to engage with the US administration as closely as possible – which doesn’t mean playing down deeply worrying statements made by Trump.
A few years later, the global financial crisis erupted, and these statements, once idle conjecture, became the basis for an urgent action plan.
But the only evidence China offered was international Tibetan support groups’ statements that they intended to demonstrate at events associated with the Olympics.
And, in the few recorded statements that have been released, he displays a mastery of classical Arabic.
At that point, judges’ and government officials’ pay could be raised to competitive levels, which would weaken the incentive to continue corrupt practices – particularly if officials must regularly file financial-disclosure statements and are penalized for withholding information.
There is every reason to believe that at least some of his statements will translate into policy once he is in power.
Clear statements from policymakers, all the way up to Xi, have indicated that China will not permit any further weakening of the economy next year, even if that means accepting bigger budget deficits or easing up on bank deleveraging and monetary tightening.
Thus, a veracity rating in the same spirit as The Washington Post’s Fact Checker, which rates the reliability of politicians’ statements in “Pinocchio” units, may help to save lives in future public-health crises.
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