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Of course, transparency is unsettling – whether it’s seeing your own wrinkles in the mirror, or confirming unpleasant aspects of how others treat you.
People can be happy with a stable 2% target (which is too low to notice), but 5% annual inflation would eventually become 10%, and 10% would eventually become 20%, and then the US would face another deep recession, like in 1982, or even more unpleasant alternatives.
Of course, the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations of the global reach and the extent of America’s Internet and telephone surveillance are, to say the least, unpleasant.
Real change means breaking the addiction to a paternalistic and interventionist state and supporting needed policy adjustments, even when they are unpleasant.
In other words, the world that Soviet citizens might have hoped for could represent a different sort of prison – less unpleasant, perhaps, but also more difficult to escape.
And yet something about this seems deeply unpleasant.
In addition to appealing to an unpleasant undercurrent of Scottish Anglophobia, the SNP promises its electorate the prospect of policies that are far to the left of anything that Labour’s prime ministerial candidate, Ed Miliband, could possibly deliver.
Chinese intellectuals tend to avoid the issue, shrugging it off as irrelevant and anyway too unpleasant to contemplate.
While its past treatment of its indigenous population has undoubtedly been problematic, it has had the courage and maturity to acknowledge unpleasant truths.
We do not yet know which version will prevail, and there is active discussion about how to ensure that the new standards and systems enhance stability, rather than (as with some previous financial innovations) producing unpleasant unintended consequences.
The North Koreans are erratic, unpleasant, irresponsible, and unhelpful.
We need new experts, unadorned with despised acronyms like IMF, to explain the unpleasant facts of economic life to a highly suspicious public.
So long as investors believe that the renminbi can only appreciate, opening the country’s markets will cause it to be flooded by foreign money, with unpleasant financial consequences, not the least of which is inflation.
Today, the fastest way to really make this “the Asian century” is to give Asian exporters a similarly unpleasant shock, thereby spurring the creation of an Asian community of surplus countries.
But by crushing trade unions and other established institutions of working-class culture, governments have also taken away sources of pride for people who often do unpleasant jobs.
Pessimists are especially worried by the unpleasant gold-standard analogies and lessons.
Politically, too, the process of adjustment by deflation in deficit countries is so unpleasant and difficult that many pessimists think it will ultimately prove to be unsustainable.
The problem is that Poland’s unjustified lack of confidence is leading to an extremely unpleasant form of intolerance toward others.
Of course, currency values go up and down, people speculate on them, and often the fluctuations are quite unpleasant for the economies affected.
Fish learn to avoid unpleasant experiences, like electric shocks.
The invasion of Iraq destroyed a very unpleasant tyranny, but it has inspired a wave of hatred towards the West, even among those who despised Saddam, and has divided the West against itself.
They were not giving a political speech, but were simply summarizing deeply troubling and unpleasant facts.
Policy makers will create a recession if and only if they feel it is needed to counteract some other threat to the economy which they consider even more unpleasant.
The truth, however unpleasant it may be for the fuddy-duddies, is that awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to an author who has written just one book is no more surprising than giving it to Dario Fo or Winston Churchill.
All of this is unpleasant, and it may not appeal to politicians who believe in dreams.
People carrying this mutation are able to drink liquid milk safely throughout their lives, without the unpleasant side effects that lactose-intolerant individuals suffer.
The savvy politician should probably announce the unpleasant adjustment as soon as he takes office.
The selection process was unpleasant (for example, developing countries had no real say), but in the end, the excellent choice of German Finance official Horst Kohler emerged.
And Shakespeare noted that tooth decay was a cause of awful pain and unpleasant odor.
The Indian situation in the US today is different; there is no baggage of unpleasant memories on which prejudice and violence can draw.
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