Word: interventionist
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...poor, you probably think that we don't care about you too much. You probably associate us with wealthy investors and big business. And sure, the GOP spends a lot of time advocating capital gains tax cuts, deregulation and a return to a smaller, less interventionist government. But we also have a variety of schemes for you--the poor Americans...
...World War I Germany was; there are no Western Allied powers lording over a defeated Russia. True, Russia has suffered economic hardship, but not to the point of 400% inflation in four years (1929-1933) such as in Germany. Moreover, the Western powers are well-armed, prepared and even interventionist these days (as opposed to the way we were under the Monroe Doctrine-influenced isolationism of the 1930s...
Harvard College, according to a year book poll,was evenly split at the beginning of the war: 36percent non-interventionist, 36 percentinterventionist, 11 percent pacifist and 17percent undecided...
...writes, "you could almost feel minute by minute that the world's balance of power was shifting." Fallows argues that Japan's success, and that of its East Asian neighbors (Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore), is based not on American-style laissez-faire economics but on interventionist policies designed to benefit producers and the state rather than consumers. Further, Fallows argues, those internal economic policies are dangerous to other nations because Japan has rewritten the Clausewitz maxim that war is the continuation of politics by other means. Now it is commerce by which a country's political objectives...
...Japanese economy came back leaner and, Fallows believes, meaner than ever. Now, he says, Japan and East Asia will present an overwhelming challenge to the U.S. Although the U.S. remains the world's largest (and still most productive) national economy, Fallows predicts that unless it adopts a more interventionist national economic policy and consumes less while saving more, it will go the way of the Ottoman Empire...