Sentences with phrase «debasement in»

His work is a reaction to the failure of positivism, its commercial debasement in the postwar era, and to the final madness it has precipitated - nuclear terror.

Mauldin describes all of these practices as «Code Red» policies, along with currency debasement in general.

And even though she's a dame, she's not above a bit of good - natured self - debasement in the service of her art.

Not exact matches

The best policy option now is to make sure that the second wave does not result in a debasement of the U.S. dollar.

«The consortium of 40 + banks (known as R3cev) which aims to do just that will inevitably develop something which: is permissioned (for users and developers like the apple app store), privatized, has fees, will not be entirely transparent to everyone, will not be open - source, it will definitely be inflationary to accommodate monetary policy of debasement and fractional reserve schemes, it will facilitate negative interest rates, central control of accounts for suspension / freezing of funds, bail - ins, bail outs, capital controls and transactions will include the identity of both sender and receiver and store that information in a centralized location for the convenience of hackers.»

Either deflation's growing momentum will pull today's faltering economies into the ever - growing maw of a deflationary collapse or the continued printing of money to stave off such a collapse will end with the complete debasement of paper currencies in a hyperinflationary blowoff.

The ingredients for a renewed financial crisis are in place, as a possible «surprising» transformation of money debasement into highly visible inflation.

The bottom line here is this: none of these investment vehicles are perfect, in fact many have significant flaws; but despite their flaws they attract money away from gold, thus undermining gold's monopoly on the fear / inflation / currency debasement trade.

For example, in ancient Rome it took the merchants a few months to catch up following a round of coinage debasement, meaning that it took a few months for prices to adjust to the reduced value of the money.

Ever since Bernanke came in with his, «Enrich thy neighbour» and we have rotating debasement that is when we stop debasing, the ECB, and the BoJ.

That's 95 % of the currencies that are exchanged in the world and they're the ones that are the primary debasement on the other side, which I was referring to, of the bricks.

Fear of currency debasement (just look at the emerging market currencies), fear of capital confiscation (just look at the bail - in mechanism in Europe), etc..

A potential US equity bubble would be driven, in my mind, by a growing and near historic sense of «nowhere else to go» with global capital (that is scared of debasement and confiscation).

We can't emulate Jesus in being crucified for the sins of the world, but we can emulate his emptying, debasement and suffering.

Such a concerted campaign to use human rights in justifying military action is without precedent in U.S. — Latin American relations, and its effect is an unprecedented debasement of the human rights cause.24

Or is it, in the words of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, «a sign of debasement» — a stiff - arm to country and community, and a symbol of sexism and misogyny?

When crotchety old grammarians complain about the debasement of language, often they are merely deploring change per se; other times they wax wroth over what seem to most of us relatively insignificant losses in precision, clarity, or beauty.

For those wonderfully naïve little girls, Santa Claus was a symbol not of the commercial debasement of Christmas but of the real meaning of their faith in punishment and reward.

She and her co-author Rabbi Shmuley Boteach wrote that the «experiment in mass debasement» is damaging culture, adding «we have often warned about pornography's corrosive effects on a man's soul and on his ability to function as husband and, by extension, as father.»

I strove to apply my recent experience in a Berlin evangelical academy and my appreciation of the theology of Paul Lehmann, Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer to the decline of Christendom, the challenge of global urbanization, the racial crisis, the adolescent pomposity of Playboy and the debasement of women in the annual Miss America pageant.

«In deference to the work you have done against the debasement of our culture, I would ask respectfully that you withdraw from attending the event.»

Earns unintentional laughs time and again, but at a certain point it stops being funny and becomes offensive instead, frightening in its constitutional debasement and exploitative sideshow spectacle.

A tortuous spiritual journey through debasement and self - deception leads, in the end, to an experience of communion, the discovery of another soul who had been there all along, awaiting recognition.

But queerness has never looked so bland, and for a film about a sexual revolution, pleasurable sex is conspicuously absent: Indeed, most of the shockingly few sex scenes result in the protagonist, the white, all - American, conspicuously attractive Danny (Jeremy Irvine), so ashamed by his apparent debasement — he briefly resorts to tricking for cash — that he's literally brought to tears while having his dick sucked.

Irritating the gross debasement of «normalcy» in the same way, as it happens, as the use of clocks and Happy Accidents - style time slippage, is the uncomfortable revelation that it's always half - past in The Machinist, and gaining speed on the downhill side.

Consider this nugget from his 2006 report, in which he discusses the creative tension between his outlook and that of his partner Steinberg: â $ œOne of us thinks the sky is falling and the dollar on the edge of debasement.

While coin clipping was practiced within the private sector, in the state sector monetary debasement took on an industrial scale.

A potential US equity bubble would be driven, in my mind, by a growing and near historic sense of «nowhere else to go» with global capital (that is scared of debasement and confiscation).

But it does matter when the cumulative impact of deficits, debt & debasement threatens to approach an inflection point in terms of national financial stability.

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[5] Thus, financial repression is most successful in liquidating debts when accompanied by inflation and can be considered a form of taxation, [6] or alternatively a form of debasement.

If China will not allow its currency to strengthen, well then, the path of least resistance is for the US to debase its currency, leading the world in a cycle of competitive debasement / inflation.

However alarming it is to buy in the face of such shaky economic & political fundamentals, the old saw «You can't fight the Fed «(or eventual US dollar debasement) is true most of the time.

And bearing in mind unprecedented stimulus this time» round, the fact that post-credit crisis volatility has proved to be far less responsive & far more jagged — not to mention central banks have failed to generate any appreciable price inflation, despite all forecasts to the contrary — is rather terrifying confirmation of how bad the underlying collapse & deleveraging really was (& still is), absent currency debasement...

It also epitomizes, in and of itself, a history of the dehumanization and debasement of blacks into objects.

It's a good job the church is deconsecrated, since what is projected in place of the altar is most ungodly: a savage satire on the debasement of our culture through lies.

Understudied, his distinctive work is particularly relevant in today's culturally fraught climate — a stew of dirty politics, moral debasement; sexual misconduct; unprecedented national diversity and progress for people of color, amid racial tension.

The result is that no fiat currency in history has ever survived its inevitable debasement.

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