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This unfortunate recent history makes the Fed’s job even harder than it has been, because it further limits policymakers’ ability to stimulate growth without causing inflation.
The case of Italy is instructive: “human tsunami” is the unfortunate phrase used by senior policymakers to warn against the possible flood of migrants.
This is unfortunate, as this exploration of new uses for nuclear weapons represents a revolutionary shift in US national security policy.
But the most dangerous development of this unfortunate situation is the current attempt to seal off Tibet from the rest of the world.
Such measures are, of course, an unfortunate detour.
In part, these unfortunate outcomes reflect the inflexibility of China’s education system.
So it is unfortunate that Obama recently withdrew his proposal to change the traditional index, preferring the political gesture of “protecting Social Security benefits” to the more responsible policy of correcting the way that benefits and taxes reflect rising prices.
Those who argue for the protection of state aid, for instance, immediately use an unfortunate decision in the merger area: see, they say, how stupid the Commission is at economics!
The recent decision to fine Ryanair, Europe's main budget airline, for its arrangement with local officials in using Charleroi as its main airport in Belgium, is another example of an unfortunate decision that could undermine the Commission's reputation.
A clear commitment to the poor, the sick, and the unfortunate must be the message of the left.
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment – now, as in the 1930’s – is a tragedy.
This American resistance is unfortunate.
Its resolve to counter the Islamists’ growing influence has been weakened by two unfortunate events: the recent assassination of Salman Tasser, the governor of Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, and the deaths last month of two young men allegedly at the hands of an American official named Raymond Davis.
It would be unfortunate if governments requiring financial institutions to be more prudent in managing risk were at the same time asked to turn a blind eye to sovereign risk.
By contrast, every regime that has rejected capitalism in the name of Marxism has failed – and not by coincidence or as a result of some unfortunate doctrinal misunderstanding on the part of Marx’s followers.
It is, of course, unfortunate that German banks and pension funds lent money to debt-laden countries such as Spain, Greece, and Portugal on overly favorable terms, inflating asset bubbles that eventually had to burst.
Known by the unfortunate neologism “flexicurity,” it was implemented with some success in Denmark and other Scandinavian countries in the 1990s.
At a time when the US often projects an image of indecision and weakness – reflected in the unfortunate slogan “leading from behind” – Iran exemplifies the potential of an international response with the US leading from the front.
That likely split is highly unfortunate, to the extent that it worsens the real problem the European Commission identified.
These unfortunate – and ultimately disastrous – events established an unstable foundation in a strategic country at the core of a highly troubled yet vital region of the world.
All that Samuelson showed was that any exogenous change could harm a trading economy; he did not argue that an appropriate response to that unfortunate situation was to abandon free trade.
It is unfortunate that some of the most important issues facing the UK are being ignored in the country’s current election campaign.
That rift is unfortunate, because improvement in Chinese living standards ought to go hand-in-hand with Chinese participation in building a better world order.
Voters and politicians today, it seems, fear inflation and are willing to accept occasional economic recessions and unemployment above its natural rate as unfortunate but inevitable consequences of the necessary and beneficial pursuit of long-term price stability.
It is unfortunate that government regulators have been so slow to try to reverse these trends by, for example, helping to educate the public on the science of nutrition.
This was also a novelty: torture does not appear as a breach of a common standard, unfortunate but justifiable.
And yet, with the unfortunate exception of the UK Independence Party, the question went mostly unaddressed during the campaign.
But it would be unfortunate – indeed, dangerous – if the pendulum now swung back to old-fashioned nationalism.
Unfortunate because the real lesson to be taken from this crisis is that the abnegation of certain free-market principles may in fact have led to the mess the US now finds itself in.
This is unfortunate, because the theories of innovation may be subject to all the questions, conjectures, and answers that these disciplines have developed with respect to scientific knowledge.
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