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In the meantime, Fed Chair Janet Yellen is right (finally) to push the Fed to normalize policy, putting an end to a failed experiment that has long outlived its usefulness.
In late 2009, within a year of their massive policy stimulus in response to the global credit crisis, the Chinese leadership, I believe, decided that 10% annual real growth had outlived its usefulness.
The usefulness of activist monetary and fiscal policies became widely accepted in the aftermath of the Great Depression.
So the IMF should have disappeared years ago, but it is in the nature of international institutions that they live on long after they have lost their usefulness.
As China is now able to harness its own technological might to produce sophisticated weapons, Russia’s usefulness in this area is waning fast.
The Hidden Purposes of High FinanceBERKELEY – No one questions the usefulness of “low” finance: the ability to use checks, banknotes, and credit cards rather than having to cart around chests of silver, scales, and reagents to assay purity, and needing armed guards to protect the silver – and more guards to watch the first set of guards – has obvious efficiencies.
At that time there was little agreement about its usefulness as a tool of international policy, and the G-7 summit at Versailles in 1982 was extraordinarily conflict-ridden and unproductive.
In the standard model of the neo-keynesian approach, which has become more and more “state-of-the-art”, the usefulness of money to monetary policy analysis is challenged; there is no need for monetary cross-checking, monetary analysis has no value-added and is superfluous.
During these hard times (2007-2009), the euro’s usefulness and the eurozone’s resilience were welcomed the world over.
As in 1999, when Boris Yeltsin had outlived his usefulness to the elite, the current infighting among elite factions means only one thing: a search is underway for a successor.
The political usefulness of GDP, and the narrative that more is better for everyone, will be hard to overcome – even if proven wrong.
This feeds doubts about solidarity’s usefulness.
But, without US leadership, the global role of the IMF and the World Bank will erode gradually – as will their usefulness to the US.
In the eighteenth century, Voltaire constructed an analogous argument, claiming that religion’s major virtue was its social usefulness.
China’s giant SOEs may have some economic usefulness, but their existential value is political.
The administration also asserts that UNRWA is inflating the number of Palestinian refugees, not all of whom deserve the “right to return” (a major sticking point in peace negotiations with Israel), and that the organization has outlived its usefulness.
Some of those actions will have to be disruptive, because the momentum of organizations can carry them beyond their usefulness.
However, the usefulness of this treatment relies on the fact that PARP1 inhibitors are completely non-toxic to humans.
But America and the West did, at key turning points, realize that times had changed so much that these dictators had outlived their usefulness.
In the same way that iron can be made into products as different as skillets and swords, the usefulness or harmfulness of nanotechnology products depends on how they are crafted at the nanometer scale.
More generally, there may well be limits to the usefulness of both PPPs and PVPs.
It is ironic indeed that US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, a former head of Goldman Sachs, a firm that exemplifies financial triumphalism, is spearheading the effort to save government-sponsored behemoths that have so conspicuously outlived their usefulness.
But generating enough liquidity implies huge expenses: the public must be educated to understand the concept of risk management and overcome serious psychological barriers before it can be persuaded of the usefulness of the new instruments.
But the steam engine went on to revolutionize manufacturing and transportation, changing world history and Britain’s place in it – and increasing the usefulness to Britain of having coal in the first place.
Indeed, schools have already proved their usefulness during public-health crises.
Human institutions, like human beings, can collapse with surprising speed once they have outlived their usefulness.
Thus, unless Moore's Law ceases to hold or the marginal usefulness of computers and communications equipment rapidly declines, the economic significance of the IT sectors will not shrink, but grow.
The first hints of the usefulness in politics of such an assault were seen during the presidential elections of 1996, when journalists became closely tied to the presidential family, sometimes for a fee but mostly because they remained afraid of the communists.
And categorizing countries by their development level is losing its usefulness, given that some of them combine first-class global companies and pockets of economic backwardness.
Given the usefulness of accurately assessing the consequences of our actions, our reward system has evolved so that we derive joy from making successful predictions.
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