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Before I met her, I went through some suboptimal search results.
Now, if you are following the maths, I'm afraid you have to marry them ... (Laughter) and end up in a relationship which is, frankly, suboptimal.
Instead of, "Neither of us can trust each other, so we have to make suboptimal moves," it's, "You prove to me that you are trustworthy and I will cooperate."
That is because using resources in suboptimal ways is always better than not using them at all; in the absence of the post-2008 stimulus, China would have suffered substantial unemployment.
Suboptimal storage conditions – which include, for example, prolonged exposure to sunlight and heat – can cause potent estrogenic activity in bottled water, exposing consumers to chemicals that alter the function of the endocrine system by mimicking the role of the body’s natural hormones.
The location of growth in the global economy comes to be seen as a zero-sum game, leading to suboptimal reactions.
The result is what economists call “Nash equilibria,” or a series of suboptimal and only quasi-cooperative outcomes.
As a result, the acquiring country will, if anything, make suboptimal economic decisions.
Moreover, the policy mix was suboptimal.
But such reforms are occurring at suboptimal rates in both advanced and emerging economies, because all of the costs and dislocations are frontloaded, while the benefits occur over the medium and long term.
The localized costs of suboptimal behavior – the ones one might expect to be internalized – fall well short of the overall global costs.
Moreover, US companies incur efficiency costs from the suboptimal use of deferred earnings and higher levels of debt, as well as the burden of maintaining worldwide tax strategies.
Yet banks still hold only eight or nine cents per dollar of funding in equity, despite regulators’ pushed for an increase , and the biggest banks have called for reducing even this suboptimal ratio.
And these companies incur a cost of about 7% of their incremental deferred foreign income as a result of suboptimal use.
The restored tax rates will, for the foreseeable future, be sufficient to support the US defense establishment, the growing US social-insurance system, and a moderate – albeit inadequate and suboptimal – amount of other “discretionary” federal spending.
In the US, infrastructure investment remains suboptimal, and investment in the economy's knowledge and technology base is declining, partly because the pressure to remain ahead in these areas has waned since the Cold War ended.
Pragmatic, steady progress at the national and international levels in improving the regulatory architecture and increasing our collective ability to avoid non-cooperative behavior and suboptimal equilibria, is the best course to follow.
The policy mix is suboptimal, owing to excessive reliance on monetary rather than fiscal policy.
As things stand now, each country is pursuing policies that do not help the other and are suboptimal for their own economies.
Failing that (and we are failing today) the Euro-Atlantic states and their organizations will settle for suboptimal – and too often utterly inadequate – responses to the twenty-first century’s security challenges, including the threat of nuclear proliferation.
Suboptimal investment decisions have, for example, been linked to overconfidence in knowledge judgments, the tendency to over-explain chance events, and the tendency to substitute affective valence for thought.
As we show in a new Citi GPS report , public commercial assets represent a potential goldmine; but they have been underutilized, owing to fragmented ownership arrangements, inaccurate or opaque accounting, and suboptimal and outdated governance structures.
That’s individually rational, but collectively suboptimal.
The exercise would offer a methodical and transparent path to a future for Britain that is soundly based, even if it is deeply suboptimal by the standards of those who wanted to stay put.
Game theory has taught us that individual nation-states, while rationally pursuing their own interests, can end up in a situation that is suboptimal for all of them.
At present, discussions are coordinated in various forums, but initiatives remain too ad hoc – worthy in themselves, but suboptimal in impact unless brought together as part of a coherent strategy.
Since then, the fact that the worst was avoided has served as an alibi for a suboptimal status quo.