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Some people even argue that the Internet acts as a political release valve that helps dictators stay in power.
What is needed is a security valve for eurozone countries that face temporary – and particularly difficult – challenges.
Thus, as it stands today, EMU could be compared to a pressure cooker without any relief valve built in.
There is no safety valve in currency depreciation when the economy is buffeted by external shocks.
At best, it is a safety valve for democracy rather than an engine of it.
As long as these maneuvers do not proliferate and turn into easy ammunition for the opposition of the moment, they may provide a safety valve for presidential systems.
Second, currencies played an important role as an escape valve in the early days of Asia’s post-crisis adjustment process.
Emigration from Europe was the continent's critical safety valve, without which the pressure placed on populations and states would have been unsustainable.
But emigration was more than merely a safety valve; it contributed to Europe's material and cultural wealth as well.
Hungary's safety valve since 1990 has been to generate open structures.
By focusing on checks and balances, the US Constitution’s framers created a kind of safety valve for the political system, meant to protect it from unexpected shocks arising from any of its many moving parts.
With Trump himself essentially amounting to an unexpected shock, this safety valve – indeed, the US constitution itself – is being tested.
Smart machines can perform mathematical calculations far exceeding a human’s capabilities, but they cannot easily climb stairs, open a door, and turn a valve.
The Gulf used to provide a regional safety valve.
Kuwaiti life reflects the many and varied political trends throughout the Arab world, as the country’s open society and economic opportunities have made it a powerful magnet and regional safety valve since the 1950’s.
China’s economy is still plagued by massive imbalances, and moving to a more flexible exchange-rate regime would serve as a safety valve and shock absorber.
If wrong, there will be a safety valve in place to ensure that contending values – the benefits of open economies versus the gains from upholding domestic regulations – both receive a proper hearing in public debates.
Indeed, without a democratic safety valve, a social crisis could possibly erupt.
Instead of trying to copy the IMF, Europe’s leaders should be focused on strengthening the resilience of the financial system, so that it can provide a safety valve for whatever pressures inevitably arise from the build-up of excessive public debt in some eurozone countries.
Labor migration operated as a safety valve against even worse unemployment.
Otherwise, rich countries everywhere will have no choice but to cut social transfers – the safety valve of the system.
Earlier generations had emigration as a release valve, and many people today, especially in Eastern and Southern Europe, are responding to poor local economic conditions in a similar fashion.
And offsetting spending cuts provides no safety valve.
Yet even the overtly protectionist anti-dumping measures allowed under existing trade rules have not been overly damaging to trade, while providing an escape valve for political pressure.
That debate has been left to fester, serving as a dangerously dysfunctional pressure valve for turbulent and frustrated citizens across Europe.
The liver mitochondria could not keep up with the energy onslaught, and had no choice but to employ a little-used escape valve called “de novo lipogenesis” (new fat-making) to turn excess energy substrate into liver fat.
The situation would have been even worse had this safety valve not been in placeMeanwhile, China, a country with more than ten times Mexico's population, managed to grow spectacularly in this period.
The exchange rate is a safety valve: when an economy becomes uncompetitive – say, if international demand for its products declines, or domestic costs rise above other countries – a decline in the currency’s value can restore demand for the nation’s output, and so help preserve employment.
If the exchange rate is irrevocably fixed, that safety valve disappears.
Reagan’s protectionism acted as a safety valve that let off political steam, thereby preventing greater disruptions.
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