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In all of these countries, the debate tends to boil down to three basic positions.
The more sophisticated a product or service is, the more its national identity tends to disappear.
Many citizens and governments believe that they lack influence, or voice, which tends to reduce loyalty.
And, because inequality tends to change slowly, any disaster probably lies decades in the future.
After all, unlike in professional leagues, where a team’s performance tends to track its financial resources, national-level soccer offers even the smallest countries a fair shot.
But this merely confirms what we have known for a long time – that burning fossil fuels emits CO2, which tends to warm the planet.
Yale historian Jonathan Spence has long cautioned that the West tends to view China through the same lens as it sees itself.
The resulting price stickiness tends to delay macroeconomic stabilization and structural adjustment, leading to rising debt and unemployment in weaker economies.
In a boom-bust process, passing an early test tends to reinforce the misconception which gave rise to it.
The higher growth tends to be associated with an investment boom, which in turn seems to be propelled by the lower cost of capital for firms.
Mayhew concluded that it is rather difficult to tell whether derivative markets worsen financial-market volatility, because their creation tends to come when existing financial markets already are more volatile, or can be predicted to become so.
The demoi-crats win support because their vision tends to reinforce the status quo and leaves nearly all options open.
Their integrity, however, will not be impugned by a gentle reminder that they, too, are human beings, susceptible to human passions and resentments; that the considerable power they wield tends, as all power does, to reach as far as it can; and that, as a consequence, they have become fully enmeshed in a campaign from which, invoking Montesquieu, they should strive scrupulously to hold themselves at a distance.
When the second approach is taken, it tends to be the richer countries, like Denmark and Switzerland, that come out on top.
When our prey numbers decline, their economic value tends to increase, so fishing intensifies.
The US and the political groups that it tends to support in the region, by contrast, offer very little in this regard.
Shareholder pressure tends to be greater in older firms, and in the US over the last few decades, the proportion of older firms has been growing as the startup rate for new businesses has fallen.
As income doubles, infant survival tends to rise proportionately, a trend reflected in other measures of health and of wealth.
Specialization tends to be much higher in traditional industries than in modern industries.
Indeed, the phrase “casino banking” tends to ignore the fact that casinos have a rather good handle on their returns.
The reason we seem incapable of coming together to protect the climate is known as the “tragedy of the commons”: a shared resource tends to be rapidly depleted because no single actor – whether a country or a person – considers how their actions affect other users.
But public opinion on this crucial topic tends to be shaped by emotions, rather than facts.
The New Socialism of FoolsBERKELEY – According to mainstream economic theory, globalization tends to “lift all boats,” and has little effect on the broad distribution of incomes.
Whereas China’s regional economic importance tends to be overestimated, Japan is often underrated.
Moreover, energy and food price shocks can be both large and largely unpredictable, while the speed of price changes tends to increase with big shocks.
There are important differences between the structure of the Japanese and the US economies, including the enormously high level of liquid assets held by Japanese households, which tends to lead to lower consumption when interest rates fall.
Thus, state ownership tends naturally to remove one of the key pillars of an inclusive society.
After all, foreign investors are putting their money in the country because they expect to be able to take even more money out in the future; when this occurs, growth tends to slow, if not collapse, as happened in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland.
Even when genocide remains contained within borders, the violence eventually tends to spill over into neighboring states, igniting regional wars, undermining global stability, and eventually costing billions as the world starts to tend to the humanitarian byproducts of slaughter.
In fact, they are examples of crisis-mode policymaking, which tends to favor impressive-seeming stopgap measures (not to mention lofty declarations that can verge on hollowness or hyperbole), instead of real solutions.
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