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Second, wealth effects are maximized when debt service is minimized – that is, when interest expenses do not swallow the capital gains of asset appreciation.
An agenda that powerful corporate interests would rather stifle might be a bitter pill for world leaders, but it is one that they should swallow sooner rather than later.
McCain, Clinton and Obama support “comprehensive reform” — code words for the ying and yang of managing anti-immigrant sentiment here: give Americans some promises of secure borders and they’ll swallow giving the undocumented a path to citizenship.
Unfortunately, while the Bank’s report has laid out a clear economic course that Chinese leaders should pursue for the sake of China, the Bank has shied away from the most critical question: Will the Chinese government actually heed its advice and swallow the bitter medicine, given the country’s one-party political system?
Although this might be hard to swallow for traditionalists among central bankers, it now seems likely that high inflation in Germany will be the price of achieving the eurozone’s long-term cohesion.
The problem is that it is too expensive a solution for politicians and the public to swallow easily –which is why many well-meaning climate scientists have apparently concluded that instead of relying on reasoned discussion, they might as well try to scare us witless.
So, in the short run, the IMF will have to be used, if that kind of support is needed, and Sarkozy will have to swallow his pride.
The only possible silver lining to this sorry history is that some of Tsipras’s supporters at home may now be willing to swallow the creditors’ bitter medicine.
This levy, strongly backed by those countries whose financial sectors are in tatters after the crisis, is hard to swallow for EU states that did not intervene to bail out their banks.
Despite having made up with both the West and Israel – a move that presumably required him to swallow some pride – he has refused to prioritize the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) above the need to keep the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in check.
The deal is a bitter pill to swallow for those who campaigned for Brexit in the name of saving money for the UK’s National Health Service.
The six states do not have the time or the inclination to swallow the EU’s bureaucracy in one gulp.
Try, for example, to swallow a salami whole, and you will probably choke to death.
Extra revenue of $150 billion in 2013 would be 1% of GDP, and could be too much for the economy to swallow, particularly if combined with reductions in government spending and a rise in the payroll tax.
If Germany wants the rest of Europe to swallow the bitter pill of fiscal retrenchment, it will eventually have to recognize the implicit quid pro quo.
This is perhaps the main reason why the scientific rejection of dualism may be so hard to swallow: it seems to diminish the moral status of people.
Only they are big enough to swallow start-ups that could develop into competitors, and only they have the resources to invade one another’s territory.
Some Democrats swallow their national pride and say that France’s young president, Emmanuel Macron, newly crowned by Time magazine as king of Europe, is in a better position to step in and stay the hand of Iraq and Iran.
Such changes run counter to current practice and will not be easy for party members to swallow.
Does it plan to swallow Ukraine, Belarus, and the Caucasus?
Given that China’s rapid GDP growth since 1979 would have been impossible without America’s efforts to create an open world order, Chinese leaders should not consider this too difficult a pill to swallow.
Pragmatism is essential, even if it means that some relevant actors, including the EU, have to swallow their pride.
The Coming Age of InterestOne swallow does not make a summer, and one month of normal job growth, and rising prices in the United States does not mean that the Federal Reserve no longer fears economic malaise and deflation.
This implied that the West was morally superior, too – a difficult notion for the country of Pushkin and Dostoyevsky to swallow.
But that is a hard doctrine to swallow – much harder than eating the extra slice of cake that you know is not good for you.
Yet Putin managed simultaneously to celebrate his anti-Iraq war cooperation with Europe, have the US swallow this, and be recognized in front of his local minions as a world leader.
And prior to the Brexit referendum, few expected that a majority of British voters would swallow the lie that they could retain the benefits of European Union membership without any of the responsibilities.
When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first president, promised its subjects “as much sovereignty as they can swallow.”
Indeed, America’s core values – personal responsibility and constitutional patriotism – can be easier for Muslims to swallow than Europe’s more aggressively secular brand of liberalism.
It is time to swallow our own medicine and resume the hard work of repairing our banking systems.
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