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Steep decline in Japan’s stock and real estate markets at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s left many financial bankruptcies and a weak banking system filled with bad loans.
So American and European leaders insisted that Japan “voluntarily” restrain exports or face steep tariff and non-tariff barriers.
Now, the White House has announced steep tariffs on steel and aluminum, supposedly to strengthen national security.
So the steep rise in antibiotic resistance is hardly surprising.
If that happens, and US firms can do business in China without being compelled to pay such a steep competitive price, the threat of tariffs will have been a very successful tool of trade policy.
Encouraged by sharp reductions in households’ debt-service costs and a surprisingly steep fall in unemployment, they argue that the long nightmare has finally ended.
Nonetheless, with Japan’s economy just beginning to recover from more than 15 years of stagnation, such a steep consumption-tax hike is not advisable.
The price of divergence could be steep: though the worst is over, effective coordination of policy is still needed at a time when rebalancing the global economy, as the G-20 has called for, is far from being accomplished.
Business investment remains significantly below pre-2008 expectations, and has been hit hard again in the US during the last year by the collapse of energy-sector investment in response to the steep drop in oil prices.
A steep hike in the consumption tax in 2014, together with another hike expected in the near future, has undermined household spending.
Let Europe Lead in UkraineWASHINGTON, DC – As Russia’s annexation of Crimea proceeds, the United States must step back; the European Union must step forward; and the international community must ensure both that Russia pays a steep economic and political price for its actions, and that Russian and Ukrainian nationalists do not lock both sides into a deadly spiral of violence.
Furthermore, Trump wants steep cuts to the US Agency for International Development’s Food for Peace program, which has helped to feed three billion people in 150 countries since President Dwight D. Eisenhower created it in 1954, and to eliminate the US Department of Agriculture’s McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program.
But in others there will be steep falls.
But the transition from a “goal” to a “target,” combined with steep declines in AIDS-related deaths, has lulled us into a false sense of accomplishment.
But the steep fall in the value of Italian and Spanish banks’ holdings of government debt, combined with mounting bad loans as a result of recessions exacerbated by punitive borrowing costs, is forcing the banks to rein in business lending further.
Farmers did not want to pay steep rates to transport their crops to market, and resented the railroads’ market power.
Many are called “vulture funds” because they bought the debt at a steep discount from the original creditors, hoping to profit subsequently through court decisions.
Locally, but sometimes still at a grand scale, the shock waves cause major sediment slides on steep underwater slopes such as those of the continental shelves.
Risky projects are at a steep discount today, because the private-sector financial market’s risk tolerance has collapsed.
With the economy in steep decline, Poland’s rulers began to seek to stabilize the political system and reestablish relations with the West.
In Britain, by contrast, we are now seeing a steep intensification of political controversy, not about enlargement (even though it is unpopular), but about the question of membership of the single currency.
If we don’t protect them today, future generations will pay a steep – or even an existential – price.
President Barack Obama’s decision to introduce steep duties (set at 35% in the first year) in response to a US International Trade Commission ruling (sought by US labor unions) has been widely criticized as stoking the protectionist fires.
Add steep tariffs on imported manufactured goods – rammed through over the angry protests of farmers and southern planters – and you have the policies that intelligently designed much of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.
The talk now is of a global recession that will be steep and prolonged.
Unfortunately, as those aspirations are addressed, the economy has entered a steep decline, jeopardizing one of the revolution’s main goals, namely improvement in Egyptians’ living standards and welfare.
That seems a fairly steep price.
But Argentina’s short-term gain came at a steep price.
My estimates, crude as they are, suggest a steep trade-off.
These policies include a cap-and-trade initiative known as the Emissions Trading Scheme, steep fuel taxes, and ambitious programs to build windmills and other renewable energy projects.
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