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Switzerland’s pragmatic approach to drug abuse has nonetheless yielded significant lessons that are applicable to the US, Russia, and the many other drug- and HIV/AIDS-ravaged countries over which they wield significant influence.
The Japanese 20-year government bond yielded just 0.87% on January 20.
So if you had held your bank stocks up to the end of last year, over 110 years your investment would have yielded an annual average return of less than 3%, still broadly a break-even strategy.
This type of research has yielded fascinating insights into the function of the neural machinery behind motivated behavior.
Trotted out by China’s rulers many years ago, the “harmonious society” campaign has yielded, at best, modest changes in policy.
Toward the end of the century, slightly higher growth rates will have yielded a cumulative increase in income exceeding $100 trillion annually, with most going to the developing world.
Soaring speeches, high hopes, and great expectations have yielded minimal returns.
Even the most powerful country, the US, has reluctantly yielded to its finding, for instance, that its steel tariffs violated international trade law.
But many Europeans’ sunny view of the region has yielded to lowering clouds of pessimism.
This is more than three times its average in the 40 years prior to the break-up of the managed fixed-exchange rate system, when the Phillips’ curve yielded more robust guidance.
While past decades have centered on the establishment of a state as the pathway to collective freedom, this approach has yielded little more than years of lost hope and political stagnation.
However, a retrospective study of abnormal prion protein accumulation in appendix and tonsil samples from over 12,600 people in the UK has yielded three more cases, which suggests that the level of BSE infection in the UK population is much higher than the actual number of confirmed variant CJD cases indicates.
Of course, we might still have yielded to pressure for protectionist measures, especially as WTO rules leave open the possibility of such a response.
The IMF dithers - After Mexico’s collapse, talk about “crisis avoidance” and “enhanced surveillance” yielded only that, talk.
Low real long-term rates mean that any long-term asset that pays, say, $100 a year in real terms would have been worth a real $1,429 in 1984, when it yielded 7%, but would have to be worth a real $5,000 now, when it yields just 2%.
And these reversals have yielded some positive results.
To be sure, the court has not yielded to Europe entirely; it has almost always formulated additional demands.
Over the past 35 years, China’s powerful growth model has yielded extraordinary progress in terms of economic growth and development.
The Trump administration’s “America First” foreign policy has yielded little fruit and left the United States isolated and increasingly discredited on the world stage.
Some argue that the solution is to return to the simpler economic models of the past, which yielded policy prescriptions that evidently sufficed to prevent comparable crises.
Ten-year bonds in the US yielded 3.11%, not much above the 2.1% inflation rate of the past 12 months.
Ten-year government bonds in the Euro-area yielded 3.54%, while the Euro-area inflation rate was 1.9%.
The yield in the UK was 3.86%, while inflation was 3%, and Japanese bonds yielded 0.44%, compared with inflation of -0.1%.
Each time that machines yielded gains in efficiency (including when tractors took over from horses), old jobs disappeared, but new jobs were created.
Federal assumption of the states’ war debts also yielded an advantage in terms of economic development: once states no longer had any debt, they had no need to raise any revenues through direct taxation, which might have impeded the growth of America’s internal market.
Even assuming that governments could identify and implement structural reforms that yielded quick productivity gains, it is not clear that higher productivity leads to increased competitiveness.
But there was a surprise: New York yielded virtually identical results (68% thought it was unfair).
The massive influx of Muslims into Europe in the last two generations, it should be remembered, is the largest encounter between Islam and modernity in human history, and it has yielded invaluable benefits, such as a growing Muslim middle class, an emerging intelligentsia, and greater freedom for Muslim women.
Promising signs are now emerging, though initial efforts have yielded only modest and fragile results: the Minsk agreement on a ceasefire and military disengagement in Ukraine; the trilateral gas agreement concluded by Russia, Ukraine, and the European Union; and a halt to the escalation of mutual sanctions.
Studying the Russian Revolution is almost as old as the revolution itself, and has yielded a massive amount of research both at home and abroad.
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