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But perfection is unattainable.
The counter-script for establishing or restoring pro-democratic conditions consists of more mass protest; the appearance and display of resistance symbols; the emergence of enough spokespeople throughout society that all of them cannot be arrested at once; overt civil and covert disobedience, at every level of society, that brings the economy to a halt; withdrawal of support by lawyers and judges for the regime’s decisions; international sanctions tied to human rights and clean elections; the refusal – tricky but not unattainable – of many soldiers and police to fire at unarmed citizens; and, finally, when the rule of law is reestablished, serious prosecutions of the defeated regime’s ringleaders.
In a fiat-money world without fractional reserve banks, OMF is an obvious strategy: indeed, without it, positive nominal GDP growth might be difficult to achieve, and optimal real growth might therefore require an unattainable downward flexibility in nominal wages and prices.
Is this too idealistic, and thus unattainable?
Yet all of these goals seem unattainable.
Many pension funds are underwater, because the returns required to meet their longer-term liabilities seem unattainable.
Those involved in efforts aimed at complete eradication should rethink their goal, lest faith in the unattainable leads to disaster.
Government debt is already high, but the would-be strongman in power decides to pile on even more by increasing the budget deficit, arguing that this will boost prosperity to previously unattainable levels.
For today’s international monetary system, the perfect – an unattainable single central bank and currency – should not be made the enemy of the good.
That fact casts doubt on Karl Popper’s concept of open society, which is based on the recognition that, while perfect knowledge is unattainable, we can gain a better understanding of reality by engaging in critical thinking.
In China, however, such uniformity is unattainable today because the actions of local governments frequently diverge from central government policy.
More than ever, peace is an unattainable mirage.
Opponents of nuclear disarmament used to argue that this goal was unattainable in the absence of an effective system of control and verification.
In an ideal world, Iran should have been forced to scrap its nuclear program altogether and hand over all of its enriched uranium to an outside power; but, realistically, that was unattainable.
No matter how energy independence is pursued, it will never amount to anything other than an unattainable – and potentially dangerous – fantasy.
We are told that NATO and the West cannot build a nation there and that the goals that have been set for establishing democracy and prosperity are unattainable.
If we acknowledge that the United States is now a global hegemon in decline, it is reasonable for US voters to reject any serious economic or military sacrifices in pursuit of unattainable foreign policy objectives such as containment of China.
They recognized that perfection is unattainable; so they set limited objectives and firm timelines – and then mobilized the political will for a small step forward, knowing full well that when they achieved it, its inadequacy would become apparent, requiring further steps.
All of this would negate the positive impact of fiscal consolidation and reform and, ultimately, make macroeconomic adjustment and financial stability unattainable.
In both cases, regulating or prohibiting certain transactions is a second-best strategy in a world where the ideal may be unattainable.
We have shown that what we were told was unattainable, the creation of a European defense capability and the protection of social rights, was in fact possible.
Present-day America and China, by contrast, are strategic adversaries engaged in a trade war, and even a very limited exchange-rate initiative might prove unattainable.
Britain’s history of imperial glory has always contributed to its skepticism of the European project, because that past provides an unattainable benchmark for assessing the present.
We must not destroy our most cherished values of liberty in the search for unattainable absolute security.
But that does not mean that no progress is being made, or even that this single-currency goal is unattainable.
That pact had achieved the seemingly unattainable: friendship with the Erbfeind – the hereditary enemy – just a few years after the two countries had engaged in the most savage war mankind has ever known.
Perhaps this reflects the ECB Governing Council’s recognition that the inflation target is unattainable without more fiscal stimulus.
People in suburbs or rural areas came to see urban life as unattainable or undesirable.
Yet, for nearly a quarter-billion children around the world, including tens of millions in Sub-Saharan Africa, such basic rights are unattainable luxuries.
As a true populist, Trump has promised growth rates that are unattainable except through extraordinary and unsustainable measures – such as significant easing of monetary policy.
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