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Most child refugees are likely to spend more than a decade out of their own countries, so their plight cannot be considered temporary.
There may be some temporary positive impact on demand, or higher interest rates could offset the entire fiscal push – rates on the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond are up significantly from a month ago (from 3.21% to 4.16%), when the discussion of tax cuts began in earnest.
That approach might have worked had the US economy been afflicted by a cyclical disease – a temporary shortfall of aggregate demand.
But the US is not suffering from a temporary, cyclical malady.
Will future historians look back at Trump’s presidency as a temporary aberration or a major turning point in America’s role in the world?
Beyond health effects, contamination could terrorize affected populations, prompting temporary flight and permanent relocation.
While the ECB has limited room for maneuver, regulatory changes and revenue-neutral shifts in the tax structure (for example, a temporary investment tax credit financed by a temporary increase in the corporate tax rate) could provide the stimulus needed to offset declining net exports.
Condemned to short contracts and temporary work, they lacked job security: since they were the last to be hired, they were the first to be let go at the next downturn.
Example: countries might seek temporary protection against imports from countries with weak enforcement of labor rights when such imports worsen working conditions at home.
In that case, the income loss would become much more than a temporary setback.
CAIRO – Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first-ever elected civilian president, recently granted himself sweeping temporary powers in order, he claims, to attain the objectives of the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak’s dictatorship.
Indeed, the declaration protects presidential decrees from judicial review (although Morsi stipulated that it pertains only to “sovereignty” matters, and stressed its temporary nature).
This constitutes a much more serious and lasting threat to Egypt’s democratization than do Morsi’s temporary decrees.
But, as in wartime, one hopes these effects are temporary.
Of course, like previous ceasefires, any truce is likely to be temporary, inevitably undermined by the forces that perpetuate Israel’s armed conflict with Hamas.
According to Brown, the tax hike would be temporary, yet it would last seven years.
A new temporary tax cut would not work.
Experience shows that a temporary cut in personal income taxes would provide very little stimulus, because most taxpayers would use the resulting extra net income to pay down debt or increase their savings, rather than spending more.
They restrict governments even from placing temporary controls on the kind of destabilizing short-term capital flows that have so often wrought havoc in financial markets and fueled crises in developing countries.
And they enhanced stability by offering collective insurance to countries facing temporary hardship or struggling to meet their development-financing needs.
But stock market declines that are not accompanied by steep and persistent collapses in earnings are by their nature temporary: they are provoked by steep rises in perceived risk, and if those risks turn out to be overblown, stocks rebound when the perception of risk falls.
Today's intellectual property regime protects innovators in advanced countries by issuing temporary monopolies, i.e., patents.
In fact, Japan was the only major US ally not granted even a temporary exemption from Trump’s 25% steel tariff.
Labeling the current slowdown a temporary “soft patch,” they pin their optimism on the inevitable rebound that follows any shock.
Stimulus programs were sold as being a temporary palliative, needed to bridge the gap until the financial sector recovered and private lending resumed.
But whether a slowdown is the start of a trend or a temporary part of a complex transition, will not be apparent from the start.
One hopes that this is just a temporary phase, and that comprehension of Poland’s real achievements will prevail over the hyper-sensitivity of its current leaders.
On a grander scale, Putin’s Russia has become a great power in terms of energy production, but that looks to be temporary, as scant investment is being made to maintain and improve the oil and gas fields.
As for the refugees themselves, many are visible in the streets of Beirut, the capital, but most are stuck in camps or temporary host communities, and lack adequate access to health care and schooling.
This would provide temporary relief from a fatal flaw in the euro design’s until the member countries devise a more permanent solution.
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