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So Zubkov’s nomination allows Putin to continue to keep his cards – and thus ultimate power in Russia – close to his chest.
The financial house of cards collapsed.
But a flourishing tourism sector is not in the cards – not least because of the resurgence of militant Islamism, which will leave North Africa exposed to the risk of terror attacks for years to come.
Given the stakes, it is perhaps understandable why the US and China are holding their climate-change cards close to their chests.
One government minister at the CDF noted that the one million Chinese tourists who went abroad last year used their credit cards to buy about $1 billion worth of goods that they cannot obtain at home (while noting the irony that some of those European and American branded goods are actually manufactured in China).
Yet the cards Obama is holding should not be underrated.
The funding gap is beyond what existing international financial institutions can meet – and the advanced countries’ malaise means that significant recapitalization is not in the cards.
But he was not right in laying out his cards in public and emboldening the enemy.
Thus far, Western leaders have played their cards about as well as they could, barring early missteps by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who described a calculated assertion of Russia’s regional interests as the behavior of a leader who was out of touch with reality.
The former would exacerbate the country’s slowdown, and neither change is in the cards.
When the global financial crisis hit, the house of cards collapsed.
But the EU does still have cards to play on other issues, such as climate change.
And they were inclined to play only one of their “threat” cards at a time.
In its negotiations with Russia, Europe holds the stronger cards.
If nothing nasty happens – losses on mortgages, commercial real estate, business loans, and credit cards – the banks might just be able to make it through without another crisis.
This time, they hold the better cards.
In addition to the downturn in real estate, a broader bubble in consumer credit is now collapsing: as the US economy slips into recession, defaults on credit cards, auto loans, and student loans will increase sharply.
Hamas is playing its cards shrewdly, and has a keen sense of its growing strength.
But the reality is that Argentina’s “equilibrium” may actually be an economic house of cards, constructed by the government’s positive narrative and then reinforced by the markets’ acceptance of that storyline.
But if the ECB is threatening to cut off support – for example, because a government will not comply with what the Germans regard as good economic policy – the whole house of cards can come tumbling down.
With much of the country’s population having shifted directly from cash to mobile online payments – skipping checks and credit cards – China’s payments systems are robust.
Winning the loyalty of failing regimes by pledging to prop them up may seem to be a successful strategy, but the house Putin is building is made of cards.
So far, Park, sensing that the electorate trusts her foreign-policy instincts, has kept her North Korea cards close to her chest.
A second stimulus simply is not in the cards.
As the recession deepens, however, bank balance sheets will be hammered further by a wave of defaults in commercial real estate, credit cards, private equity, and hedge funds.
Clearly, however, nationalization, or a state-managed economy, is not in the cards.
With tax cuts encouraging households to spend even more and interest cuts underwriting aggressively priced stocks, the house of cards, they say, is overdue for a fall.
All the same, the cards Lula must play are not good because his economy is in recession.
In economic terms, the return of the nation state is also not in the cards.
The Europeans, in response, are imposing higher tariffs on imports from the US, such as motorcycles (as well as bourbon, orange juice, and playing cards).
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