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The European Union resulted from the tragic lessons of the first half of the twentieth century, when giving free rein to national egoism led to continental catastrophe, and increasing globalization means that economic, internal, foreign, and defense policies are unlikely to be successful when pursued exclusively at national level.
The answer is that the kind of power that big banks wield today is very different from what was imagined by the Sherman Act’s drafters – or by the people who shaped its application in the early years of the twentieth century.
The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 was a tragedy for China, and another tragedy for the twentieth century.
That was true in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and it remains true today.
Twice in the twentieth century – in 1931 and again in 1969-70 – France helped to bring down the world monetary system.
In his article, Putin did not mourn the collapse of the USSR, though he previously called it “the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century.”
Indeed, he even praised the democratic movements that buried the Soviet Union and its sphere of influence, and he expressed no sympathy for the twentieth century’s revolutions, which he called “deep wounds” that humanity inflicted on itself.
The US had one of the world’s most successful stock markets in the twentieth century.
A study by Philippe Jorion and William Goetzmann found 39 countries with reliable stock price data – though not dividend data – for a good part of the twentieth century.
Of course, even looking at these countries entails selection bias, for it excludes countries without price data for much of the twentieth century, notably China and Russia, where communist revolutions terminated the stock markets, resulting in -100% returns for investors.
There is also the selection bias that we infer from looking at the twentieth century, the most successful in terms of economic growth in human history.
While that is better than the negative saving rates of 2008-2011, it remains well short of the 6.3% average of the final three decades of the twentieth century.
Some analysts see China playing a role today similar to Germany’s role in the twentieth century.
Soros is of Hungarian and Jewish origin, and Beck’s attack, called “The Puppet-Master?”, recycles, almost in carbon copy, the tropes of the most virulent anti-Semitic ideologies of the totalitarian movements of the first half of the twentieth century.
The influx of women into the labor force played a major role in boosting growth in the latter part of the twentieth century.
For one thing, the divisive war in Iraq may turn out to be the last act of the twentieth century rather than a harbinger of the twenty-first.
Separatism, Italian-StyleROME – Many separatist movements in Europe have resorted to various violent terrorist acts since the second half of the twentieth century.
Germany, Greece, and the Future of EuropeNEW YORK – I have been helping countries to overcome financial crises for 30 years, and have studied the economic crises of the twentieth century as background to my advisory work.
Globalization 1.0 – the surge in global trade and international capital flows that occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – met its demise between World War I and the Great Depression.
Hailed in Europe as one of the great novels of the twentieth century, Blinding arrived in America only after a great delay, and never received the attention that it deserved.
A multilayered and complex chronicle of the devastating tragedies of the twentieth century, Blinding is an insistent, informed, and irreplaceable incursion into the moving landscape of the human soul, its wounds and voids, its vitality and versatility, its deep distortions and its unpredictable dynamics.
And presenting the tax as a one-off levy to address the legacy of bad policy in the twentieth century would ensure that it did not deter future economic activity.
That disaster – a return to levels of inequality not seen since the late nineteenth to early twentieth century – is amply described in Piketty’s book.
This was the world of George Orwell’s Big Brother, the extrapolation of the twentieth century’s experience of totalitarianism.
The debt/income ratio for American households is now down to 109% – well below the peak of 135% reached in late 2007, but still 35 percentage points above the average over the final three decades of the twentieth century.
We do not live in a “post-American world,” but we also do not live in the American era of the late twentieth century.
(For comparison, in the first half of the twentieth century, the two world wars caused a death rate in Europe of not much more than 3%.)
It is just this kind of reasoning ability that improved during the twentieth century.
It is easy to predict that Sarajevo will be the place where they will meet to look back on Europe’s savage twentieth century.
Moreover, energy use has grown 16-fold during the twentieth century, causing 160 million tons of atmospheric sulfur-dioxide emissions per year – more than twice the total of natural emissions.
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