When that happens, the long run future will be now.

What the world needs now are leaders who look to the long term future.

Indeed, the distant future looks bright, but much depends on how we get there.

And, without that, more likely than not, the economy will face another crisis in the not too distant future.

But reasons to be hopeful about the long term political future do exist.

So reducing emissions today is very valuable to humanity in the distant future.

An immediate break in the hostilities is therefore more important than a chimerical long term capitulation.

It may well be that these small steps for the eurozone lead in the not too distant future to a giant leap for Europe.

Perhaps Bolivia is indeed rich in a way that could benefit all of us well into the future.

The situation is scarcely improved by including a provision that foresees an illusionary and meaningless review in the very distant future.

Indeed, the distant future looks bright, but much depends on how we get there. There are two possible routes.

What Cuba is going through today will likely occur in Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Bolivia in the not too distant future.

But, taking the long view, the future surely does not lie with organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood.

The short term will be a miserable time, but I think on the long term things will get better, although with a very high price in blood.

This work is based on standard scenarios, and carries the typical caveats of predictions far into the future.

Iran hints that it wants to have a high level dialogue with the US in the not too distant future.

In the long run, solidarity is cheaper for all involved, while its absence could become ruinously expensive in the foreseeable future.

As a result, Russia s current challenging of the territorial integrity of Georgia might prove to be a grave error in the not so distant future.

Tomorrow is always treated as more important than next week, and next week prevails over next year, with no one seeking to secure the long term future.

At the same time, the continued long term commitment of NATO to the future development of Bosnia and Herzegovina was marked by the opening of a new NATO Headquarters in Sarajevo.

No requirements were put on developing countries, yet within the not too distant future, they will contribute half or more of emissions.

The development in future of new smarter' capabilities is likely to mean that the long term trend will be to use air dropped cluster munitions less.

A month before the Russian Revolution of February 1917, Lenin predicted that his country s great explosion lay in the distant future.

The concept was based on examination of past cycles of formation and breakup of supercontinents, not on current understanding of the mechanisms of tectonic change, which are too imprecise to project that far into the future.

We should bear in mind that the review conference will be held in the not too distant future and should therefore endeavour to complete our work well in advance of that conference.

For the Shia religious hierarchy, long accustomed to relegating the advent of the Mahdi to a distant future, Ahmadinejad s insistent millenarianism is troublesome.

These funds may prove to be an effective short term salve, but, over the long run, they will likely fuel moral hazard problems, and potentially plant the seeds of deeper crises in the future.

Likewise, it is negligent to focus on inefficiently cutting CO2 now because of costs in the distant future that in reality will not be avoided.

Stewart Brand works on the Clock of the Long Now, a timepiece that counts down the next 10,000 years. It's a beautiful project that asks us to think about the far, far future. Here, he discusses a tricky side problem with the Clock Where can we put it?

So the key determinant of the dollar s long term value is that it must decline enough to shift the US trade balance from today s deficit to a surplus.

These low cost measures nurture long term antifragility, while capturing future upside gains that could compensate for black swan events.

Look at the distant horizon!

Taking Hope in the Long View

So much for the long term.

Long range pollution

But what is our long run economic destiny? Keynes looked forward to a time, perhaps 2050, when everyone (in England, at least) would be able to have the lifestyle of a Keynes.

While the fiscal stimulus packages enacted in the past two years have been helpful in achieving the current rise in economic activity, the path of future deficits can do substantial damage to long run growth.

The ocean extends to the distant horizon.

This process does work in the long run.

Stocks and the Long Run

Thus some day, in the not so distant future, we will find ourselves in a better world, with a life worth living and a United Nations strengthened by the essential values of men and women of dignity, who are the majority on this planet.

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Out of sight, out of mind.

It is a policy for the long term.

Memories of spilled blood, be it Israeli or Palestinian, remain vivid in the hearts of both peoples. An immediate break in the hostilities is therefore more important than a chimerical long term capitulation.