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But that approach would also weaken America’s critical alliance with the South – albeit less severely – while doing nothing to suppress the North’s appetite for nuclear weapons.
The past several years have been characterized by unusually low market volatility and an appetite for higher risk, owing to ample, repeated, and predictable liquidity injections from central banks.
This means that there is no appetite for supporting governments beyond what the ECB itself is willing to do.
The financial crisis reduced private financiers’ risk appetite, making long-term exposures unappealing.
But, whereas countries have shown a willingness to cooperate on exchanging goods and capital, the international community has shown little appetite for improving how it governs human mobility.
Because a more odious rating would reduce investors’ appetite for bonds, downgrades could limit the irresponsible debt accumulation and economic disasters brought about by regimes such as Venezuela’s – and possibly accelerate their demise.
Asia may be doing well economically now, according to this view, but just wait: rising nationalism, China’s appetite for power, and the rest of Asia’s desire to curb its ambitions will necessarily impede economic growth and restore the West’s global primacy.
Moreover, the same weights used in the index can be used to compute an average interest rate or sovereign spread in the market, which can, in turn, serve as an indicator of investors’ appetite for risk.
Nuclear-weapons enthusiasts seem to have an inexhaustible appetite for bad arguments.
Later, the Basel accords whetted banks’ appetite for more government bonds by ruling them virtually risk-free.
Because a risky asset has been removed and replaced with safe central-bank reserves, investors’ unmet risk appetite will grow, the price of all risky assets (including remaining privately-held long-term Treasury bonds) will rise, and bond yields will fall.
A central element of the theory is that the stock of bonds that the Fed has removed from private portfolios, not the flow of Fed purchases, will determine investors’ risk appetite.
While a common external threat ought to drive the EU to increase defense spending and deepen its security cooperation, EU-skeptic, austerity-hit European voters may have little appetite for this.
With the onset of the European sovereign-debt crisis in 2010, banks’ appetite for public debt fell again.
A second example: it has been known since antiquity that normal people who recently experienced a significant loss – especially of a loved one – can have the same symptoms (e.g., sadness, insomnia, fatigue, loss of interest in usual activities, lessened appetite) as those indicating major depressive disorder.
For example, if you are sad for two weeks and have one other related symptom, such as fatigue, insomnia, or lessened appetite, and you are distressed or impaired at work or in other roles, then you have “subsyndromal depression.”
But investors’ risk appetite could easily shift, spurring them to withdraw large amounts of capital.
And, in Jordan, the religious legitimacy of the Hashemite monarchy has sustained the state in the face of the growing challenge posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, while the fear of regional violence spilling over into the Kingdom has temporarily curbed the Jordanian public’s appetite for rebellion.
Given historically low interest rates and the general lack of attractive investment options, this is an ideal moment to tap into investors’ growing appetite for green financial products.
The real reason why Japanese interest rates are so low is that Japan’s private sector has little appetite for investing abroad and prefers ten-year government bonds at 1% to cash at 0%.
A significant domestic saving deficit, such as that which afflicts the US, accounts for America’s insatiable appetite for surplus saving from abroad, which in turn spawns its chronic current-account deficit and a massive trade deficit.
These consequences include accelerating consumer-price inflation (despite slowing GDP growth) and worsening external balances as currency appreciation weakens export growth and feeds a growing appetite for imports.
A reduced Chinese appetite for reserves would be reflected in an appreciation of its currency and a reduction in its trade surplus.
There was – and still is – an appetite for unilateralism and isolationism among American voters.
On the demand side, the well-publicized narrative of Africa's economic rise – with strong and sustained growth underpinned by young populations – has whetted investors’ appetite for the continent’s debt.
Yields are likely to rise – pushing up borrowing costs and dampening investors' appetite.
But this is not the case in the developing world – at least among countries with the appetite and determination to deploy strong governance and continually raise their competitiveness.
One reason is that by then the world will have added another two billion mouths to feed; a second reason will be the growing appetite of a surging new middle class.
What Lee did that was truly revolutionary was to use democratic institutions and the rule of law to curb the predatory appetite of his country’s ruling elite.
Moreover, the public does not have a long memory, a long time horizon, or an appetite for detail.
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