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Differentiation should not mean division, but rather progress at variable speeds.
But one economic variable has not adjusted with the others: public and private debt.
These rapidly evolving, highly variable macromolecules are well worth studying, however, as they may be the cause of some human diseases.
But it seems unlikely that the errors could be so significant that they would change the basic conclusion: home affordability around the world is highly variable.
De-leveraging is closely linked to the second variable – namely, economic growth.
This leads to the final variable, the role of politicians and policymakers.
Military action cannot be considered the only variable of success.
First, the key resources that command high prices and thus produce wealth are not fixed, like land, but are variable: the skills of craft workers and engineers, the energy and experience of entrepreneurs, and machines and buildings are all things that can be multiplied.
The ability to determine the principal genes that account for our variable response to prescription drugs has been advanced by a technique known as a genome-wide association study (GWAS).
Another variable is how much easier monetary policies in other developed countries will become.
Europe’s Irrelevant Austerity DebateBRUSSELS – The most visible symptom of the crisis in the eurozone has been the high and variable risk premiums that its peripheral countries now must pay on their public debt.
If foreign debt matters more than public debt, the key variable requiring adjustment is the external deficit, not the fiscal deficit.
Europeans are used to thinking of the exchange rate as a critical variable, because they live in very open economies that export close to 50% of their total output.
But inequality remains poorly defined, its effects highly variable, and its causes hotly debated.
In his magnum opus The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, Benjamin M. Friedman showed many examples of declining economic growth giving rise – with variable and sometimes long lags – to intolerance, aggressive nationalism, and war.
But capital controls are not the only variable that determines financial openness.
With little or no regulatory supervision in most of the world, companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Alibaba, and Tencent used techniques common in propaganda and casino gambling, such as constant notifications and variable rewards, to foster psychological addiction.
This variable makes an enormous difference in terms of whether debt will be regularly and promptly serviced.
It is subject to what Milton Friedman called “long and variable lags.”
The most critical variable affecting students’ performance is the quality of teaching.
In fact, the rise of the Chinese consumer may well be the most important single global economic variable today – even more important than, say, the economic problems afflicting Europe and Japan or questions about India’s enduring global relevance.
Against this background, today’s very low prices – below $35 a barrel at times since the beginning of this year – create a golden opportunity (which one of the authors has been recommending for over a year) to implement a variable carbon tax.
Despite the obvious benefits of a variable carbon tax, no country has capitalized on today’s low oil prices to raise carbon prices in this or a similar form, though US President Barack Obama’s call for a tax on oil suggests that he recognizes the opening low prices represent.
The time for a variable stabilizing carbon tax is now.
By demonstrating the success of monetary stimulus, the US has provided a roadmap that other countries have followed, but with long and variable lags.
As Milton Friedman emphasized, however, the links between monetary policy and inflation are “long and variable.”
In any negotiation, a key variable influencing the protagonists' behavior, hence the outcome, is what failure to reach an agreement would cost each of them.
For many countries, the next step will be preparing electricity grids to integrate high levels of variable renewable energy like solar and wind.
As the World Bank report shows, with the right investments and policies, countries can now meet a large share of their electricity needs from variable renewable energy without compromising the reliability of the grid or the affordability of electricity.
The problem is that an unobservable and imprecise variable – whose estimates are too inexact and volatile to provide more than a rough roadmap for a country’s journey toward fiscal rectitude – has become part of an international treaty and the national rules (sometimes of constitutional status) through which it is implemented.
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