And the cost in terms of beggar-thy-neighbour protectionism and diplomatic poison would be dire.
Like a street beggar putting a few quarters and a dollar bill into the paper cup.
Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public.
The Obama Administration will make the political calculation to beggar our creditors--older Americans and foreigners, basically.
Such "beggar-thy-neighbour" policies might leave convertible currencies such as the dollar, euro and pound painfully overvalued.
If you beggar your neighbour (and trading partner), you might very well beggar yourself.
The old woman or beggar magically transforms into a wizard who supports the boy on his quest.
Desperate, Li entered the sore-ridden body of a recently deceased beggar a comedown if ever there was one.
An old woman asks that he share his meager meal, or a beggar pleads for a coin.
Many candidates seek votes through beggar-thy-neighbour appeals to the self-interest of a particular linguistic, caste or religious group.
These beggar thy neighbor policies led to the collapse of world trade and capital flows during the Great Depression.
During the 1930s countries had resorted to beggar-thy-neighbor policies, such as devaluing currencies and imposing trade and capital restrictions.
At one time, Washington was willing to support global prosperity and allow the Chinese to continue their beggar-thy-neighbor policies.
Even as Asia's currencies collapsed in 1997 and 1998, China refused to beggar its neighbours by devaluing the yuan.
He was born the son of a beggar mother and a disabled father in Shandong province ("the same province as Chen").
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America must beggar its neighbours with a competitive devaluation of the dollar, or beggar itself with a massive fiscal contraction or both.
With China seemingly unwilling to let the yuan appreciate, the danger is that a series of beggar-thy-neighbour competitive depreciations create protectionist pressures.
The U.S. and the IMF are, in effect, advocating a watered-down version of the 1930s concept of beggar-thy- neighbor through competitive devaluations.
He moved on to the stage in London's West End, acting in shows including Lock Up Your Daughters and The Beggar's Opera.
This time, the beggar-thy-neighbor competition looks like it will be over currency.
The show is stolen by Pierre Renoir, as the ragman Jericho, who goes by many other names, and Gaston Modot, as a wily beggar.
It seems to beggar belief that the fall in crime in recent years does not have something to do with the increase in imprisonment.
It may be to help one unemployed person, a homeless person or a beggar to find an income-earning activity and begin the climb out of poverty.
An American student became an internet sensation earlier this month when he was photographed sitting on the pavement talking with an elderly beggar in Nanjing.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff passed by Congress in the early 1930s triggered beggar thy neighbor trade policies in other countries, raising taxes on tens of thousands of imported goods.
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Signature beggar's purse (tiny crpes filled with caviar and lobster, tied with a shallot string) are aptly named, as your purse will indeed be beggared by the dish.
She had a drug problem, and McMullan wrote about her in the News of the World, in 1995, alleging that she was a beggar and a part-time prostitute.
Yet that is what is implied in their paranoid, beggar-thy-neighbor outlook: we should, on their premises, want to live in a world where everyone but Americans is starving.
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