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America is vulnerable to social
breakdown
because it is a highly diverse society.
After blaming each other for the breakdown, America and Europe will continue to insist in 2004 that they want to restart the development round.
The
breakdown
of talks would benefit extremists on both sides and push moderate Kurds into the arms of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and a renewed Kurdish insurgency.
The Fed should take care to prevent any
breakdown
of liquidity while keeping inflation under control and avoiding an unjustified taxpayer-financed bailout of risky bank loans.
The EU-led Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe has since 1999 successfully stimulated regional cross-border cooperation, for the first time since the
breakdown
of Yugoslavia.
These trends are remarkable in light of the shocks from the surge in oil prices, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, international terrorism, and the
breakdown
of multilateral trade negotiations.
By contrast, when inequality is perceived as the result of a
breakdown
in trusting relationships, it can lead to bitterness, and, ultimately, social unrest.
And, when it comes to OBP, decomposition doesn’t mean
breakdown
into plastic fragments.
OXFORD – Between escalating trade disputes and the divisions at the G7’s summit this month, the
breakdown
of global governance has become starkly apparent.
In Germany, the
breakdown
of coalition negotiations between the Christian Democratic Union, the Christian Social Union, the Free Democrats, and the Greens suggests that a political realignment may be necessary there, too.
It was also during this time that the Republican Party began to suffer a nervous
breakdown.
In 2004, when he was still a rising star in the Senate, Obama had warned that failing to build a “purple America” that supports the working and middle classes would lead to nativism and political
breakdown.
Professional economists could not convince those in power of what needed to be done, because those in power were operating in a context of political
breakdown
and lost American credibility.
For starters, futures didn’t help predict the current market breakdown, most likely because long-term futures markets are, by default, slow to adjust to new information.
In the early 1990s, the traumatic
breakdown
of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism only strengthened the resolve of EU leaders to prop it up.
Minimizing the risk of a major war, depression, or financial
breakdown
thus requires that policymakers find the optimal balance – and that requires more explicit discussion of the efficiency-robustness trade-off.
And if you completely control the economic process and eliminate any kind of market process in competition, you are actually your underwriting a
breakdown
of your own system.
Just as Southeast Asia’s peasant rebellions of the 1930’s were a reaction to the
breakdown
of an earlier episode of globalization, so Islamism in Asia is a response to our new secularist/consumerist societies.
The first wave of Arab uprisings, which began in December 2010 and led to the 2011 Arab Spring, was a response to the
breakdown
of the old social contracts.
The
breakdown
of cross-border bank lending thus represented a powerful negative shock for them.
For the US, a diplomatic
breakdown
would indicate that China had been “lost,” as it previously was thought to have been lost when Mao Zedong defeated Chiang Kai-shek’s US-supported Nationalist regime in 1949.
Not surprisingly, defectors nowadays describe an environment of social breakdown, petty crime, and a Darwinian struggle for survival.
After a
breakdown
in diplomatic approaches, the rich world is busy dropping bombs on Serbia, at a cost of billions of dollars per month, and will no doubt devote billions more to cleaning up and fixing the damage from the bombs once a diplomatic settlement is made finally.
China, too, believes that if advocates of "regime change" do not push North Korea too hard, a strategy can be pursued that is based on slow evolution rather than a precipitous break--and a possible violent
breakdown.
We have it in our power to eliminate the financial system’s rapidly growing debt and to create a new monetary order that corresponds to free-enterprise principles and the rule of law, without risking a
breakdown
of the entire payment system.
This leaves the UK vulnerable to
breakdown
– an outcome that Brexit would make all the more likely.
In short, the world cannot afford the
breakdown
of the Iran nuclear deal.
In doing so, he has connected with a voting population that is not only tired of politicians’ shenanigans but also frightened by what seems at times like a
breakdown
of the rule of law under pressure from growing (if localized) drug-related violence.
Thus, though Smoot-Hawley was not a direct cause of the Great Depression, as many have claimed, it did contribute to a
breakdown
of international trade precisely when the world could least afford it.
Of course, crime, terrorism, conflict, and political instability severe enough to cause a total
breakdown
of law and order significantly impede creativity and innovation.
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