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Anyone who has studied economic performance since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, understands that damage to balance sheets – such as excess debt and unfunded non-debt liabilities – can cause growth slowdowns, sudden stops, or even reversals.
The ECB understands this, and, without being explicit about it, is expanding its asset-purchase programs to elevate inflation and bring down the euro.
And Trump is now a hostage in the White House, because even he understands that it would be terrible “optics” to be seen playing golf and hobnobbing with his rich friends at his Palm Beach estate while, just before Christmas, government workers were idled.
Unless the democratic world understands that now is not the time for faith in diplomatic compromise, and that it must respond strongly enough to stop Putin’s imperial designs, events could follow a logic that is too dreadful to contemplate.
Moon most likely understands this, just as he realizes that the importance of his country’s relationship with the US, despite its headaches and complexities, dwarfs that of any of its other partnerships around the world.
“There is nothing more elastic than the economy, which everyone fears so much because no one understands it.”
The fact that he advocated the pursuit of truth as a means to achieve that purpose demonstrates that he understands the significance that such efforts have had in countries where the state itself has committed major crimes.
Hatoyama understands this, which is why he won the recent election.
He also understands, as few US reporters do, how similar legislation has been used to terrorize and intimidate reporters in other countries.
Like so many of his predecessors, but unlike many in the West, Xi understands that there is no simple, one-time solution to the challenges ahead.
But they are heading in opposite directions, because, whereas Pakistan understands why Asia is rising, Myanmar does not.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski is an intelligent politician who understands the link between currency stability and political success.
Germany’s Jewish community also understands the need to move from a focus on Germany’s special responsibility to talk about coexistence, multiculturalism, and interfaith dialogue.
And yet, even today, hardly anyone apart from specialists understands general relativity – unlike, say, the theory of natural selection, the periodic table of the elements, and the wave/particle duality in quantum theory.
“They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you,” quipped Chaplin.
To a New York Times interviewer, he disarmingly remarked: “Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?”Part of the reason for Einstein’s fame is surely that his earliest, and best known, achievement – the 1905 special theory of relativity –seemed to have come out of the blue, without any prior achievement.
US President Donald Trump’s administration understands the central importance of China to any strategy to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
Indeed, like Goebbels, Surkov understands that when public life and private expression can be turned into theater, there is no difference between performance and reality.
The 224-page Vade Mecum on implementing fiscal discipline in the EU is hopelessly complex, to such a degree that no finance minister, let alone parliamentarian, fully understands what his or her country must abide by.
The young generation understands that the way states and economies are currently run is unfit for the new era.
There is little doubt that Lafontaine understands that he can strengthen his hand even more by reaching for European support.
Obama has already made it clear that the US understands that Modi’s willingness to cooperate with Russia, despite Western sanctions imposed on the country, stems from India’s desire to discourage a Sino-Russian alliance against it.
And Putin, for his part, understands this well enough to know that he needs no gulags – only the canny use of fear and forgiveness – to retain his grip on power.
South Korea understands the utter seriousness of the global development agenda, and the poorest countries’ needs.
So 1907 became a comforting mantra in times of financial stress: a crisis cannot happen as long as the central bank understands the problem of liquidity.
Openness, moreover, needs to be enshrined in a way that mobilizes public allegiance, otherwise the Union will be perceived as merely a complicated administrative enterprise, a task which only a special caste of Euro-specialists understands.
As Chavalit Yongchaiyudh understands, the southern Thai conflict is a political problem in need of a political solution – just like Afghanistan and other more familiar wars.
No, this time, the temptation will spring from China, which well understands Europe’s significance in its emerging geopolitical contest with (and against) the US.
Russia’s ruling elite understands very well that reforms are needed; indeed, the Putin-Medvedev era, now in its 14th year, has suffered no shortage of reform programs.
Russia’s political elite understands that the economy is capable of 5-6% annual growth.
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