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The mere possibility of an imminent hard landing for the dollar – and with it, for the US and world economy – should be alarming enough to mobilize concerted action.
The teenage-unemployment rate is another under-appreciated indicator that is at an alarming level.
Indeed, Weidmann views the BoJ’s decision as an alarming sign of central banks’ growing tendency to bow to political pressure.
But these ostensibly alarming figures can be misleading.
Such credit constraints are one reason why unemployment rates continue to rise in so many countries – often from already alarming levels, such as 25% in Greece and Spain (where youth unemployment is above 50%) – and why unemployment remains unusually high in countries like the US (albeit it at a much lower level).
The Indonesian genocide – and it deserves to be so described, even if its impulse was ideological rather than ethnic, religious, or national – is an alarming case study in the politics of mass murder.
Climate Change and Water SecurityThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released alarming data on the consequences of global warming in some of the world’s poorest regions.
The idea of a Tea Party candidate becoming US president is alarming, to be sure, but European populists could only be part of coalition governments.
Moreover, there has been an alarming increase in regional tensions.
Some self-anointed seers portray the problem as being one of finite natural resources, with the world running out of critical commodities at an alarming rate.
Indeed, when the NAM conducted a survey of high-school students in Indianapolis, Indiana (which is already experiencing a manufacturing revival), the results were alarming: only 3% of students said that they were interested in careers in manufacturing.
But what is alarming is how private religious beliefs and morals have increasingly shaped the secular agenda of America, whose Founding Fathers had specifically designed the Constitution to separate state and church.
Though alarming in the short term, the eradication of small producers spells good news for those that survived the crisis.
So alarming are conditions in Colombia nowadays that some Americans worry about the country becoming another Vietnam.
Now, faced with an alarming risk of a renewed escalation of fighting, it’s time for the United Nations Security Council to step in to end the bloodshed, based on a new framework agreed by the Council’s permanent members.
The Middle East’s Arc of ProsperityPRINCETON – As Egypt trembles on the brink of civil war, with alarming levels of violence and hardening divisions on all sides, it is hard to find a truly bright spot anywhere in the Middle East or North Africa.
Economically, the onerous terms of BRI financing have resulted in alarming debt build-ups in at least eight countries, according to the Center for Global Development.
But from the moment when she solemnly assured the world that she had seen nothing in Sittwe, that nothing had happened in the rest of Rakhine State, and that the string of alarming reports to the contrary was just the “tip of an iceberg of disinformation,” her Nobel Prize became an alibi.
While the epidemiological statistics are alarming, the death rate has declined in recent weeks, from 7.6% to 3.6%.
Humans, too, can experience alarming behavioral changes after becoming infected by T. gondii.
The alarming rise in infectious diseases will burden the whole world, not just the poorest countries.
From the perspective of younger Americans, that is certainly an alarming development; in the eyes of Europeans, it is also an economic absurdity.
While these movements are nothing new, support for them has grown at alarming rates during the crisis-induced turmoil.
As Charles Dickens observed a century and a half ago, “if its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, [America] always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is in an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise.”
It is unclear that drug use in Mexico is extending more widely into the population: alarming rates of addiction growth are misleading, because addiction starts from an extremely low base.
Throughout Europe, we have seen the alarming growth of extreme nationalist parties, running counter to the Enlightenment values that have made Europe so successful.
We are constantly confronted with an onslaught of negativity: frightening headlines, alarming research findings, and miserable statistics.
Add together all the trade-offs between the West and the Arab regimes, along with the Israeli and Islamist factor, and the conclusion at which one arrives is as inescapable as it is alarming: the West cannot afford democracy in the region.
This amounts to an alarming quest for control over a strategically crucial corridor through which $5.3 trillion in trade flows each year.
GDP growth has slowed sharply; corporate-debt ratios are unprecedentedly high; the currency is sliding; equity markets are exceptionally volatile; and capital is flowing out of the country at an alarming pace.
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