As an art critic, I asked myself if Reyes» piece had to do
with economic imbalance or the need for human cooperation or some other serious subject.
Not exact matches
We had a bunch of countries
with pegged currencies who were experiencing trade
imbalances, foreign denominated debt crises, ultimately leading to
economic slowdown, foreign currency turmoil, commodity turmoil and
economic turmoil.
When a first - order supply
imbalance coincides
with second - or third - order
economic or geopolitical factors, an upward or downward price - cycle may develop.
More and more, it looks like the structural
imbalances in China's economy are finally catching up
with its
economic performance.
What is emerging is a widening «fiscal divide» between a federal government
with its diminished size and sound finances, and provincial governments
with growing fiscal
imbalances resulting from growing spending pressures (e.g., for health, education, infrastructure) and slowing
economic growth and revenue growth.
Even so, several financiers and central bankers throughout history tried experimenting
with a fiat currency system, a decision which often led to major
imbalances between monetary and fiscal policies, and eventually
economic depressions.
Unable to come up
with any agreement in Seoul on resolving conflicts over currency and trade, the G20 created its own mantra: «Persistent global
imbalances pose a threat to
economic stability.»
Chinese officials are hoping to mollify President Trump's oft - stated displeasure
with America's huge trade
imbalance with China by pledging to import «at least $ 200 billion» more in made - in - the - USA products, the director of the White House National
Economic Council said Friday.
Economic growth in 2016 was at a low of 3.5 percent, though the IMF said improved growth was expected in 2017 - 18, owing to an increase in oil production, declining inflation, and lower
imbalances with the right policy implementation.
If this gender
imbalance ever gets straightened out, it will happen because males looked around their
economic world —
with nearly 80 percent of layoffs happening to men — and realized it's changed.
Yet, as the report goes on to note, these state officials, those
with the express obligation to reduce segregation, have consistently chosen to do nothing to prevent charter school segregation and its effects, including exacerbating racial, ethnic and
economic imbalance in the host school districts.
What they're tapping into is something very profound, which is a level of frustration, a genuine level of anger and frustration
with the way our society is organized, and the
imbalances in the
economic inequality and the
imbalances in power and the way that the political system has been hijacked by special interests.
When one examines the troubling contradictions — astonishing cruelty, environmental and health risks,
economic imbalances — involved
with the business behind and mass consumption of meat, vegetarianism takes on the urgency of much larger debates in which the survival of the human race is at stake.
It has also brought about profound social and
economic imbalances: a wealthy Northern Hemisphere where a poverty - stricken Fourth World has emerged, a Southern Hemisphere riddled
with deprivation and misery, and forced emigration.
The potential reward is huge: saving the world from catastrophic climate change, powering our society
with abundant new energy, and ending a global
economic imbalance now tilted toward nations that happen to sit atop oil reserves.
It further occurred to me that family breakdown would be far easier to manage if: people were less devoted to the idea that romantic relationships are permanent and either monogamous diamorous, and approached separation
with more equanimity; monogamous or diamorous relationships were entered into
with the same degree of contemplation and intentionality as polyamorous relationships;
imbalances of power, knowledge and resources were less tolerated; and, women's formal equality were accompanied by substantive political, social and
economic equality.
The more important issue addressed in this case was the
economic imbalance between
economic litigants involved in constitutional litigation against the state, an issue dealt
with in Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada (Commissioner of Customs and Revenue) and Carter v. Canada (Attorney General).
There are, for example, specific cultural values that support
imbalances of power in opposite - sex relationships (parenting norms, women's
economic inequality) and exacerbate fears of external interference
with the family unit (inviolability of the family unit, hypersexualization of women), and thus promote feelings of jealousy, possessiveness and a need for dominance which in turn support coercive and controlling behaviour.