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Another option is for target nations to think more laterally in their approach to counter-terrorism.
Some observers argue that the US – a key target – could do more to project a positive image and negate terrorist propaganda.
In the United States, the Federal Reserve has essentially adopted a quantitative employment target, with nominal GDP targets and other variations under discussion in other countries.
Suicide bombers who target innocent Israeli civilians – and sometimes legitimate military objectives – rightly or wrongly appear to counterbalance Israeli “strategic” strikes.
One idea is to raise the Fed’s inflation target.
Its publication is timely, because the European Union will decide this year whether to raise its target for greenhouse-gas reduction.
Increasing the current emissions target from -20% to -30% by 2020 compared to 1990 would represent an important opportunity to revitalize the European economy – independently of what the rest of the world did in terms of climate policy.
Unfortunately, studies of the economic impact of a -30% target have relied on traditional equilibrium models that neglect these multiplier effects.
Their estimates of the economic consequences of raising the target result in moderate additional costs, ranging from 0-2% of GDP in 2020.
The new study uses an approach similar to that underpinning Germany’s 2020 emissions-reduction target of -40%.
Because the financial crisis has lowered greenhouse-gas emissions, the -20% reduction target set before the crisis is no longer challenging enough to catalyze a structural shift in the European economy.
Some have speculated that it was a matter of freelancing by the IRGC’s command, or the navy, reacting to a local target of opportunity.
The EU – which actually does, in its current configuration, leave its member governments short of policy tools to meet their citizens’ evolving needs – is an easy target.
In 2016, Germany ran a current-account surplus of roughly €270 billion ($297 billion), or 8.6% of GDP, making it an obvious target of Trump’s ire.
And its bilateral trade surplus of $65 billion with the United States presumably makes it an even more irresistible target.
A century ago, the German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich introduced the concept of “magic bullets” – compounds engineered to target and kill tumor cells or disease-causing organisms without affecting normal cells.
But the result of intervention was that US forces became just one more target, culminating in the 1983 bombing of a US Marine barracks that killed 241 American soldiers.
With respect to monetary policy, the United States’ unemployment rate, at around 5%, is close to what most economists consider full employment, and the Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise its target interest rate again in December.
Now, Asians and Asian-Americans could follow on this path, as major fast-food chains like McDonald’s target them disproportionately.
Indeed, McDonald’s – and other restaurants that sell products that contribute substantially to obesity – likely will continue to target this demographic.
Third, the West needs to counter Russian pressure on its neighbors, especially Ukraine -- most likely the next target in the Kremlin’s efforts to create a new sphere of hegemony.
Though Russia is pursuing its military campaign independently of the Western powers (reflecting its support for Assad), it, too, has apparently become a target, with US and European officials increasingly convinced that the Islamic State was behind October’s crash of a Russian airliner in the Sinai Peninsula.
While the ASB does not specifically target China as an adversary, it is designed to limit China’s incipient systems and capabilities.
By 1998, the GIA’s primary target was not the army, but civilians, rival leaders’ relatives, and FIS strongholds.
Iranian support for Hizbollah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups that target Israel remains a stumbling block.
The right target for generating growth is domestic aggregate demand based on the right mix of consumption and high-return investment.
That is a lower inflation rate than even the Bundesbank achieved during its celebrated pre-euro history, and it is a tighter target than virtually all other central banks pursue.
To those who believed that monetary policy had been too tight, the ECB was right to do whatever it could to push inflation up toward the target range.
Undershooting the inflation target is also dangerous because inflation expectations and interest rates will decline over time, which makes it more likely that the ECB will reach the zero lower bound when the next downturn occurs.
First, it should get rid of the ambiguity inherent in the words “close to,” by setting a point target to provide clarity to the public – and to ECB Governing Council members – about what its monetary policy aims to achieve.
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