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Over the last year, an unprecedented humanitarian effort has pulled Somalia back from the
brink
of famine.
The IT Boom Was a Myth Only in EuropeAmerica's economy remains on the
brink
of a double dip recession, the dollar is weak, and Wall Street seems unable to recover.
They were confident that Americans would forget how the Republicans’ deregulatory zeal had brought the economy to the
brink
of ruin, and that voters had not noticed how their intransigence in Congress had prevented more effective policies from being pursued in the wake of the 2008 crisis.
It is very difficult for a central government to sit on the sidelines when the economy’s key players are on the
brink
of collapse.
Ending the Financial Arms RaceCAMBRIDGE – People often ask if regulators and legislators have fixed the flaws in the financial system that took the world to the
brink
of a second Great Depression.
WASHINGTON, DC – The world is on the
brink
of a nasty confrontation over exchange rates – now spilling over to affect trade policy (America’s flirtation with protectionism), attitudes towards capital flows (new restrictions in Brazil, Thailand, and South Korea), and public support for economic globalization (rising anti-foreigner sentiment almost everywhere).
It would draw us back from the
brink
of unstoppable global warming and its consequences for coastal communities, weather patterns, and, in some regions, habitability.
Greece is caught in a classic debt trap, as the interest rate on its public debt has soared beyond its growth rate by a considerable margin;Spain is teetering on the
brink.
But a shift toward policies to promote growth, supported by the easing of deficit targets and the issuance of Eurobonds, is essential to bring Europe back from the
brink
of sustained recession, to stabilize Europe’s financial markets, and to prevent another significant disruption to global capital markets.
The problem, of course, is that the Fed also played a key role in condoning the pre-crisis froth that took the system to the
brink.
Those scenes return as if from a nightmare: children massacred inside burning churches, mobs using machetes at will in city slums, a country on the
brink
of breakdown.
Indeed, with the US financial sector on the
brink
of collapse, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 moved up the effective date for offering interest on reserves by three years, to October 1, 2008.
Yet, as I look at the world economy, I see a very different picture – one in which markets’ trust in the quality of government liabilities of the global North’s core economies most certainly is not on the
brink
of collapse.
Guilty Men was a jeremiad that called to account the men – including Neville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, then still members of Winston Churchill’s cabinet – whose appeasement of Adolf Hitler had helped to bring the United Kingdom to the
brink
of annihilation.
Throughout history, far more thoughtful leaders have brought the world to the
brink
of nuclear war, and many were fortunate to pull it back.
They will spar with each other for another six weeks, then go to the
brink
of the purported “cliff” and see who blinks at the last moment.
That means a country where government institutions quietly do their work, presidents neither threaten citizens nor give three-hour speeches that television stations are forced to carry, people can walk down the street without fear, and the economy is not perennially teetering on the
brink
of financial collapse.
The Arab Spring has produced a relatively favorable outcome in Tunisia, where it started, but developments in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen remain far more uncertain, while Syria is on the
brink
of civil war.
Indeed, though the IPCC, according to its own principles, is a policy-neutral organization, its head, Rajendra Pachauri, will explicitly feed the frenzy by insisting that “humanity has pushed the world’s climate system to the brink,” and that we need to complete a “transition away from fossil fuels,” maybe with some kind of “price of carbon.”
The international money managers had decided that Russia was at the
brink
of the economic cliff.
Rather, the banking system is at the
brink
of insolvency, with a permanent loss in equity capital.
The onus is on rich-country governments to support this big push into clean energy in the developing world, as it was their carbon-fueled economic prosperity that has brought us to the
brink
of a climate catastrophe.
Ironically, it is the German government’s loose talk that has brought Europe to the
brink
of another debt crisis.
At the end of the 1990’s, Syria and Turkey were on the
brink
of war, owing to Syria’s support of Kurdish terrorism.
The financial sector and its free-market ideology had brought the world to the
brink
of ruin.
The asset and credit bubbles fueled by those imbalances brought the world to the
brink
of an abyss not seen since the 1930s.
With no policy institution able to take charge, countries like Italy and Spain would return to the
brink
of panic-induced insolvency.
Mahmoud Abbas’s Bad NeighborhoodWith Gaza poised on the
brink
of civil war, pity poor Mahmoud Abbas, who took over as president of the Palestinian Authority two and a half years ago, after the death of Yasser Arafat.
It is no coincidence that a year later, in October 1962, the world found itself on the
brink
of nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis.
The Climate CountdownLONDON – It seems to have become a ritual for United Nations climate negotiations to reach the
brink
of collapse before an intense, contentious compromise is achieved after the deadline.
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