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As a result, there was no appetite among the US and its allies – including my own country, and the Australian government of which I was a member – to look closely, then or since, at how Suharto’s New Order consolidated its power.
And yet risks to financial and fiscal stability could arise if higher inflation and currency depreciation were to spoil investors’ appetite for Japanese government bonds, thereby pushing up nominal interest rates.
The cynical, and increasingly popular, view is that they were again voting their pocketbooks – all financial legislation in the run-up to the 2008 crisis was supposedly driven by the financial sector’s appetite for more customers to devour with teaser loans and dubious mortgages.
The traditional social-democratic parties will have to regain their dynamism and appetite for risk-taking to win again at the polls as true progressive parties.
In a world where inequality is a major concern and appetite for radical change is high, what should the world make of these experiences?
But, while donors and their taxpayers might be willing to make long-term commitments for such a purpose, there is likely to be rather less appetite for making commitments which would seem to be never-ending.
Salmon are carnivorous, however, and to feed the voracious appetite of these legions of farm-raised fish, the aquaculture industry increasingly has turned its attention to a small crustacean commonly known as Antarctic krill.
As wild fish populations continue to decrease, in tandem with an ever-growing global appetite for seafood, the pressure on the aquaculture industry for fish feed will skyrocket.
Russia, of course, has no appetite to repeat the Soviet Union’s calamitous military adventure in Afghanistan.
Beyond confidence and the energy that goes with an appetite for success, Europeans lack long-term thinking and curiosity about the “other” in general.
Although the ECB left open how this would be carried out, its commitment whetted investors’ appetite, reduced interest-rate spreads in the eurozone, and made it possible to reduce the funding of crisis-stricken economies through the printing press (Target credit).
Some officials argue that foreign investors’ appetite for US government debt – the rest of the world holds almost half of all outstanding Treasury securities, worth more than $6 trillion – insulates America from economic harm.
Private banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and so on have limited appetite for building up liquid dollar claims on foreigners when their own liabilities – deposits, insurance claims, and pension obligations – are denominated in renminbi.
A new appetite for risk seems to be sweeping the continent;Atomico reports that more than 85% of founders say it is “culturally acceptable” to start one’s own company.
The delay, intended to show the EU’s determination to make the association agreement work, has instead only whetted Putin’s appetite.
The unwinding of QE0 does not necessarily imply a decline in the rest of the world’s appetite for US Treasuries.
Cancer epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat identifies several factors, including “the success of the environmental movement; a deep-seated distrust of industry; the public’s insatiable appetite for stories related to health, which the media duly cater to; and – not least – the striking expansion of the fields of epidemiology and environmental health sciences and their burgeoning literature.”
But, judging by the appetite shown worldwide for this narrative, it seems clear that identification with such adventures is almost universal.
As long as China and India maintain their insatiable appetite for commodities, Brazil’s exports will finance today’s consumer boom.
Because the UK has historically shown far less appetite for industrial subsidies than its trading partners have, it stands to gain from clear international rules on industrial support and anti-subsidy tariffs.
The OECD countries, despite being the source of modern history’s most devastating financial meltdown, have shown less appetite to advance sustainability as a design principle of their financial systems (the Bank of England’s ongoing prudential review of climate-related risks to the financial sector is a notable exception).
The Dr. Pangloss school dismissed them as benign – a mere reflection of emerging economies’ demand for dollar reserves, which only the US could provide, and American consumers’ insatiable appetite for cheap merchandise imports.
When the global economy is back on its feet, there will be no political appetite for change – until the inevitable disaster that could have been prevented.
It is natural for the world to be alarmed by Asia’s growing appetite for energy.
From bullet trains to the Mars rover, humanity has an insatiable appetite for pushing boundaries and breaking records.
The impending collapse in Europe, the global drop in risk appetite, and slower world trade are already having an impact on the region’s economies.
Every year, India struggles to reconcile the irreconcilable: stimulate economic growth and investment, alleviate endemic poverty, and feed a ravenous military appetite.
Now some are more likely to fear it, especially if it comes in the form of playing to domestic American constituencies’ appetite for supposed toughness.
Given that the US and Europe have neither the appetite nor the wherewithal to respond effectively to the cataclysmic developments in the Middle East, solutions will need to come, at least partly, from countries with strong influence on the ground.
Lenders’ appetite for low-income-country bonds has been fueled in large part by a combination of abundant liquidity and near-zero interest rates in developed economies since the 2008-2009 global financial crisis.
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