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The Geography of ElectionsPARIS – In many countries, where you live tends to be an accurate predictor of what or whom you are voting for.
That is, an increase in the willingness to lend tends to increase the value of the collateral, and also improves the borrowers’ performance, thereby encouraging a relaxation of credit criteria.
Opinion in the City of London tends to favor a middle way, which would allow the UK to cling to the benefits of the single market, without conceding unified regulation.
The decision by Greece’s Syriza-led government is surely the stranger of the two, given that Syriza tends to favor robust state intervention in most other policy areas.
When the EU reaches out, it tends to play a leading role in these collaborations.
Though the debate about infrastructure tends to focus on the need for more money and more creative financing, the real problem is not insufficient investment.
Thanks partly to their efforts, the public tends to be knowledgeable and vigilant about encroachment on Hong Kong’s freedoms, such as the recent abduction of five book publishers by mainland agents.
While the two groups share the vision of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Young Guard tends to rule out any return to previous channels of negotiation.
Services without TearsNEW YORK – A famous claim in economics is that the cost of services (such as health care and education) tends to increase relative to the cost of goods (such as food, oil, and machinery).
But competition is one principle that ought to command broad political support, because of the benefits that it tends to deliver for ordinary people.
Investing in road infrastructure tends to be regressive in societies where only a minority own automobiles.
That tends to make buyers more cautious.
But the rationale for America’s commitment of military force to the region is changing fast; when that happens – as it has in Europe, for example, since the Cold War’s end – the distribution of military assets tends to change as well.
Anger at these profits and bonuses only tends to increase the contagion of the story.
The US, as the most powerful member of the international system, tends to prefer ad hoc approaches to global governance.
With respect to digitalization, Germany tends to fluctuate between excessive enthusiasm for expanding fiber-optic networks and fear of the impact of new, largely unregulated business models, such as those underpinning avatars of the “sharing economy” like Uber and Airbnb.
Sure, PowerPoint presentations have displaced chalkboards, enrollments in “massive open online courses” often exceed 100,000 (though the number of engaged students tends to be much smaller), and “flipped classrooms” replace homework with watching taped lectures, while class time is spent discussing homework exercises.
In what other part of the Muslim Middle East does one find such a strong belief in a geopolitical order that tends toward peace, not war; favors reconciliation over ancient hatreds; and prefers respect for the other to a war of civilizations?
In a pattern sharply etched in financial history, when a large volume of capital flows into small and shallow local financial markets, the exchange rate tends to appreciate, driving up asset prices.
The Reinhart/Rogoff papers’ basic finding continues to hold up: growth tends to be lower on average among countries with debt/GDP ratios above 90%.
In the end, the solution to this “redistribution battle” tends more often than not to be found in more government borrowing.
The report notes that incest between siblings is rare, not because it is a crime, but because being brought up together in a family or family-like environment (including Israeli kibbutzim that rear unrelated children collectively) tends to negate sexual attraction.
Indeed, as governments scramble to respond to the current crisis, we should remember that deflation tends to produce not only radical anti-capitalism, but also a profound hostility to any kind of economic or political organization.
Israel’s defenders are right to point out that public opinion in Europe, and to a much lesser extent in the United States, tends to be much more critical of Israeli atrocities in Gaza than about bloodier violence committed by Muslims against Muslims in other parts of the Middle East.
For the richest 10% of people in India the income gain from aggregate economic growth tends to be about four times higher than the gain to the poorest 20%; in Brazil it tends to be almost 20 times higher.
But the experience of Japan over the last 20 years shows that without moderately positive nominal GDP growth, aggregate leverage (private and public combined) tends to increase relentlessly.
What this means is simpler than it sounds: the rising value of collateral tends to be seen as offering higher repayment probabilities.
Russian opinion polling and sociological research tends to show that the higher one’s position in society, the more likely one is to vote for the incumbents.
Experience shows that there is a point – usually when per capita income levels reach about $15,000-20,000 (roughly one-third the level in the United States) – when growth tends to slow.
In more homogenous societies, such as Libya, social solidarity tends to follow tribal and partisan lines.
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