Faced with decades of harsh repression by successive Egyptian regimes, the Brotherhood provides the modern-day example of persevering patiently with Da'wa.
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The most fruitful reform, notes Lardy, would be to end financial repression by liberalizing interest rates, which would increase real rates on deposits, thereby decreasing saving if the income effect is strong, and increasing consumption.
His is the most famous name on a list of 130, 137 victims of the repression unleashed by Franco that was handed over to a Madrid court this week.
"It is high time the Bush Administration provide credible disincentives and impose serious financial and other sanctions for actions of repression being undertaken by Gorbachev to crush genuinely democratic forces, " said Roger W. Robinson, a Center Board Advisor.
Meanwhile, deficits turn into increasing levels of sovereign debt that can only be funded by financial repression.
In 1789, the Bretons fought against the French revolution and suffered repression of their native language by French central government.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that "financial repression" - as mooted by Reinhart and Sbranica - is, if not under way, then being pieced together ad hoc out of the anti-crisis measures in Europe.
Financial repression is a term introduced in 1973 by Stanford economists Edward S. Shaw and Ronald I.
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"Good-bye financial repression, hello financial crash, " by Carlos Diaz-Alejandro.
Numerous criminal complaints have been filed in Chile against former dictator General Augusto Pinochet by relatives of alleged victims of repression during his regime.
The 10 individuals affected by EU sanctions will not be named until Tuesday, but the council of the European Union said it condemned "in the strongest terms the ongoing repression in Syria and the unacceptable violence used by the military and security forces against peaceful protesters which have lead to hundreds of fatalities".
The once-prosperous South American nation is today again ruled by a Peronist president and is sliding again into repression, inflation and poverty.
The post-war period of financial repression occurred under the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, which was marked by tight capital controls.
This small Jewish circle was affected in the early 1900s by a second wave of immigration that brought Russian Jews fleeing the pogroms (campaigns of repression) and, later, the Russian Revolution.
Quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve Bank of the U.S. is a form of financial repression, because investors who are long safe Treasury bonds are losing money after inflation is factored in.
Republicans, on the other hand, have desecrated the limited-government legacies of Reagan, Goldwater, and our founders by embarking on spending orgies with borrowed money -- a form of deferred taxation and financial repression -- while hiding beyond false pledges of tax purity that have made tax reduction and simplification much more difficult to achieve.
By suppressing nominal interest rates and pushing real rates into negative territory, the Fed has engaged in financial repression.
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