Distorting the conversation

He is distorting my words.

The practical difficulty is in recognizing when political profes sionals are distorting reality.

But this vigorous attempt to reduce interest rates is distorting capital allocation.

This would reduce the cost of campaigns and the distorting effect of commercials.

This can be done through false propaganda, distorting the truth, or suppressing the facts.

This can be done through false propaganda, distorting the truth, or suppressing the facts.

Netizens on Weibo disparaged the films, accusing them of distorting the invasion's actual history.

(d) Abusive application of anti dumping, sanitary and phytosanitary standards and other trade distorting measures

All trade distorting farm subsidies would be slashed by 70 80 in the major subsidizing countries.

(b) The elimination of trade distorting policies, protectionist practices and non tariff barriers in international trade relations

Trade distorting agricultural policies, including those in the United States, the European Union, and Japan, should be eliminated.

At the same time, we must begin to perceive, without distorting, corresponding features in the lives of others.

While export subsidies appear more obviously trade distorting, America s cotton and other subsidies are in fact almost as bad.

Some of them argue that such a tax would lead to evasive reactions by market participants and have distorting effects.

Emotional intelligence involves the awareness and control of such signals, and the self discipline that prevents personal psychological needs from distorting policy.

Yes, there are legitimate technical concerns that QE is distorting asset prices, but bursting bubbles simply are not the main risk now.

Yes, there are legitimate technical concerns that QE is distorting asset prices, but bursting bubbles simply are not the main risk now.

Many in the elite have even turned their ire at foreign news media for allegedly distorting the truth by overplaying the protesters grievances.

For a long term balance sheet approach to gain traction, politicians will have to drop the ideological biases that are distorting fiscal policy.

Such forces exist in many common behavioral contexts, distorting our usual good nature by pushing us to engage in deviant, destructive, or evil behavior.

Libya s militias are running rampant and distorting its politics Tunisia faces political crisis and Turkey s star as the embodiment of Islamic democracy has dimmed.

Taxation is broad based and relatively non distorting, while open international trade, market forces, and private ownership of industry are relied on to maintain incentives.

In advanced markets, these stem largely from a declining and aging population, labor market rigidities, an unaffordable welfare state, high and distorting taxes, and government indebtedness.

Yes, it was a clear symptom of deep political dysfunction, stemming from the politicized demarcation of electoral districts and the distorting effects of America s campaign finance system.

Many say that these problems are the price to be paid for ensuring that companies do not engage in anti competitive behavior, or receive trade distorting subsidies.

But this vigorous attempt to reduce interest rates is distorting capital allocation. The US, with the world s largest deficits and debt, is the biggest beneficiary of cheap financing.

The dual exchange rate system ends up distorting production incentives and causing the effective supply of imported goods to decline, leading to a combination of inflation and shortages.

Another example is the smorgasbord of special benefits provided to the energy sector, especially oil and gas, thereby simultaneously robbing the treasury, distorting resource allocation, and destroying the environment.

The Fed is purposefully and insidiously distorting the incentive system specifically, signals provided by the price of money resulting in mal investment (and, when public debt is monetized, inflation).

One of the protest accounts, Euromaidan, linked to one of the StopFake stories, which exposed the Russian ITAR TASS agency distorting the statement of US Secretary of State John Kerry

What is clear is that the recent elections in Iraq and Palestine, together with the swelling protests against Syria s distorting influence on Lebanon s democracy, have reinvigorated debate about political reform within Egypt.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, given that all taxes are distorting, and that there really is no way to deal with today's outsize debt burdens that does not impinge on growth in some way.

Trade distorting subsidies, high import tariffs, and export restrictions act as sand in the gears of the transmission belt and make it more difficult and expensive to bring food to the market and thus to the family table.

Furthermore, Japan s habit of distorting facts in its history books for example, denying that its former colonial subjects were forced into sexual slavery has fueled distrust and anger in South Korea and elsewhere in East Asia, including China.

Today, however, that orientalist perspective has shifted in place of a distorting demonization there is now a new, liberal view that Iran is ripe for profit, if only we have the courage to reach out and grab it.

Although individual taxes on corporate income reduce the after tax return to savings, they have less distorting effects on investment location than corporate taxes do, and they are more likely to fall on owners of capital than on workers.

Of course, the European Union s subsidies are far larger, but, in contrast to the US, Europe has made some effort to reduce them, especially export subsidies. While export subsidies appear more obviously trade distorting, America s cotton and other subsidies are in fact almost as bad.

Taxation is broad based and relatively non distorting, while open international trade, market forces, and private ownership of industry are relied on to maintain incentives. The Nordic countries are not socialist economies, based on state ownership and planning, but social welfare economies, based on private ownership and markets, with public provision of social protection.

The results were perhaps obvious more people live from agriculture in the developing world than from manufacturing, so agricultural liberalization must be high on the agenda. But genuinely beneficial agricultural reform would need to go further than merely transforming export subsidies into other types of subsidies, because many supposedly non distorting subsidies lead to more output, which hurts producers in developing countries by lowering prices.

Trading volume on G 20 and European Union exchanges accounts for roughly 97 of total global trading in exchange traded equities, and about 94 of total volume in exchange traded bonds. As the tax would be very low and would include transactions in exchange based spot and derivatives markets and OTC markets, as well as all asset classes (equities, bonds, derivatives, and foreign exchange), there would not be much of a distorting effect, either.