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The betting in Hong Kong today is that, unless Leung can somehow reboot his administration, he is likely to follow Tung in leaving office before his term expires.
Judging from their actions, the governments of several oil-producing countries appear to be betting that the slide in oil prices is either over or about to end soon.
If interest-rate spreads on Spanish and Italian government bonds are any guide, bondholders are no longer betting on a eurozone breakup.
The US is betting that they will be peaceful, but no one knows.
For starters, China’s new leadership has moved away from outsize fiscal and monetary stimulus and accepted an economic slowdown, betting on structural change, systemic reform, and sustainable longer-term growth.
First, purchasing managers and stock market investors may be betting that sanity will yet prevail.
Second, the markets may be betting that Trump is right when he says that trade wars are easy to win.
The political obsession with a better exchange-rate regime amounts to an invitation to private markets to make large amounts of money by betting against those central banks that are pressed by politicians to take a particular view of the exchange rate.
Betting on DystopiaCAMBRIDGE – With the price of Bitcoin down 80% from its peak a year ago, and the larger cryptocurrency market in systemic collapse, has “peak crypto” already come and gone?
Nevertheless, North Korea’s leaders are clearly betting that they can get away with what they have done, and that the world will get used to their nuclear weapons program, much as it did with Israel, India, and Pakistan.
But investors betting on a quick reversal of fortune for Brazil are likely to be disappointed.
But I am betting that India is rising again: millions more will be lifted out of poverty in the coming years, while the increasingly prosperous Indian middle class will expand further.
Betting With the House’s MoneyMany people have been asking why the dollar hasn’t crashed yet.
There are still no nano-scale products on the market, but governments around the world are betting huge research budgets on the power of nanotechnology to transform the world as profoundly as the microelectronics revolution.
It remains unclear how effective this will be, but I’m betting on it.
But overall, betting against big government financial institutions proved to be a richly rewarding business.
Having performed poorly in a spate of recent state elections, the ruling Congress Party is betting that the new budget will swing voters its way if the national election, currently scheduled for April 2009, is moved forward to this autumn.
The bottom line is that neither policymakers nor markets should be betting on the slow growth of the past decade carrying over to the next.
Instead, the public has been outraged by lurid accusations concerning the Indian Premier League (IPL) – bribes for bad play, owners betting on games, and players seduced by starlets and call girls.
And, indeed, when it comes to China, Trump is betting that a hostile tone, backed by reckless but impressive threats, will divert American voters’ attention from serious domestic problems ahead of November’s midterm elections.
According to one view, he is betting that social conservatives and white blue-collar supporters in rural areas will vote on the basis of nationalist and religious sentiment and antipathy toward secular coastal elites, rather than for their own financial interests.
Another important developing trend in China is “online merging with offline” (OMO) – a trend that, along with AI, Sinovation Ventures is betting on.
Only time will tell whether betting the house to save the garage was the right move.
Market professionals have been betting since early 1995 that share prices in America and Europe would collapse, while Asia would begin another bull market run.
The American government, too, is betting on muddling through: the Fed’s measures and government guarantees mean that banks have access to low-cost funds, and lending rates are high.
The US Treasury under Robert Rubin and Larry Summers was unafraid to join the IMF in betting the store on Mexico, Thailand, Korea, and Brazil when they thought the odds were favorable.
Although investors believe that the backstop is unlikely to be used, its mere presence dissuades them from betting against Italy.
The old mistakes – propping up lame-duck industries or betting on specific technologies – can largely be avoided through strong policies on competition and state aid (to ensure that support for the auto sector, say, is not seen as support only for current incumbents) and sunset clauses for specific assistance.
In fact, in appealing to British patriotism to boost support for European integration, Brown is betting on the UK’s self-confidence, its democratic essence, and its economic performance.
If I were a betting man, I would say yes.
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