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It also tends to weaken the currency and increase inflation.
Kelly has put a stop to aides sauntering into the Oval Office whenever they felt like it – Trump tends to echo the last person he’s spoken with – and has demanded that papers and memos for the president be submitted to him first.
That is why development tends to be unequal.
For more conventional value chains, the surplus tends to go to the inputs that have greater market power.
Such alarmism tends to trivialize the actual horrors of the Nazi regime, and distracts attention from our own political problems.
The Swiss solution of electing an all-embracing and balanced government tends to produce boring and uninspiring politics.
But, just as the eurozone’s struggling economies have an overvalued currency, Germany has an undervalued one, which tends to produce external surpluses and, by definition, an excess of savings over investment.
An undervalued currency also tends to produce an unbalanced growth model of the opposite kind: an outsize tradable sector and insufficient domestic aggregate demand.
Because the non-tradable sector in advanced economies tends to create more jobs, this model can lead to an employment problem (even if it is partly masked by cutting hours rather than workers).
Such a system generally tends to permit the most efficient to acquire wealth.
Moreover, under conditions of fair competition, the process of creative destruction tends to pull down badly managed inherited wealth, replacing it with new and dynamic wealth.
In times of crisis, SWFs not only invest a smaller proportion of their portfolios abroad and divest from some foreign holdings, but the total value of their investments tends to shrink as well.
Since the ten-year US Treasury bond rate tends to be one percentage point above the average of expected future short-term interest rates over the next decade, even the expectation of five years of deep depression and near-zero short-term interest rates should not push the 10-Year Treasury rate below 3%.
Given this, political engagement naturally tends to pull parties toward moderation, a phenomenon we have seen time and again in the Arab world.
And floating and fixed exchange-rate regimes coexist uneasily, because volatility tends to affect the floating currencies (often the euro, and recently the Latin American currencies).
But perhaps May’s unorthodox intervention should not have come as a surprise, given that Trump tends to reward such disruptive behavior.
Moreover, most of the existing housing tends to be in rural areas, whereas most of the jobs are in the cities.
Unless it is ready to take punitive measures now, the EU will have to give these countries additional leeway – mindful that the European public tends to respond negatively every time it is consulted.
The term “international system” tends to refer to the first half of this international order: the complex web of multilateral institutions that operate under international treaty law and seek to govern the global commons on the basis of the principle of shared sovereignty.
Contemporary management theory tends to distinguish between leadership and management, and places greater emphasis on leaders.
For example, immigration tends to instill more fear in older voters, because they are usually more attached to traditional values and self-contained communities.
Yet modern politics tends to begin with pragmatism and proceed to broken promises.
Even so, it is worth noting that his approach to addressing climate change tends to be rather conservative, which is to say gradualist.
A very conservative regime naturally tends to prefer a Republican candidate over a Democrat.
On that count, Asia tends to be a status quo continent, while Europe is a revisionist one.
It’s the kind of question that tends to bring out the bureaucrat in even the most direct of communicators, as one feels obliged to explain the complexity of the challenges confronting humanity: how no imperative can be singled out over other goals; how the struggle for peace, the fight against poverty, and the battle to eradicate disease must all be waged side by side; and so on – mind-numbingly.
But their interventionism tends to be unilateral.
But as China, enthralled by a vision of national greatness, engages in territorial disputes with its maritime neighbors, it tends to drive them into America’s arms.
High and rapidly rising home prices tend to stimulate new housing supply, which in turn tends to undermine prices.
Growth that relies on capital inflows or commodity booms tends to be short-lived.
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