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Candles can easily create indoor air pollution that is 10-100 times the level of outdoor air pollution caused by cars, industry, and electricity production.
Excessive debt caused not only the 2008 crisis, but also the East Asia crisis in the 1990s and the Latin American crisis in the 1980s.
The German economy had come to a near-halt, and more austerity would have caused more – and possibly long-lasting – damage.
The response to the private-sector failures and profligacy that had caused the crisis was to demand public-sector austerity!
Whether caused by drought, exhausted soils, locusts, lack of high-yield seeds, the results were the same: desperation, disease, and death.
Yields, on average, barely support survival, and crop failures are common and deadly, while long-term global climate change, caused mainly by high energy consumption in the rich countries, may be exacerbating the frequency and severity of droughts.
There are of course important economic risks, including the mispricing of assets caused by a decade of ultra-low interest rates, the shifts in demand caused by the Chinese economy’s changing structure, and European economies’ persistent weakness.
The notion that, at its core, Europe should be focused on something as mundane as tweaking fiscal rules seems disappointing, to say the least – especially as the continent confronts an intensifying humanitarian crisis, caused by the influx of refugees from war-ravaged countries like Libya and Syria.
Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has a good record of questioning the wisdom of the intifada that has taken too many lives and caused only misery and destruction on all sides of this enduring conflict.
The Asian financial crisis that erupted in mid-1997 and subsequently spread across the emerging economies caused an interruption lasting six years.
The commodity-price collapse in 2014 caused Latin American risk spreads to grow, but only by 1.5 percentage points, which was about one-third the impact of the Lehman Brothers shock.
As the Brexit vote shows, Europe’s political class greatly underestimated the strains caused by free mobility across borders – a shibboleth of the failed neoliberal project of maximizing market-based resource allocation.
Therefore, the guarantee would not apply to debt crises caused by excessive borrowing to finance unsustainable fiscal policies.
Central banks must be as “activist” when combating deflation caused by weak demand as they are when fighting high inflation driven by excessively strong demand.
The recession was mainly caused not by budgetary spending, but rather by Brazil's sharp devaluation of its currency in February 1999, a step which made Argentina's own Peso uncompetitive and led investors (rightly, it turned out) to expect a similar devaluation in Argentina.
Just think of all the deaths that the wheel has caused, not to mention the side effects of much of the medicine we take.
Similarly, American and European clothing companies have been struggling to contain the reputational damage caused by lethal working conditions in Bangladeshi garment factories.
The low-interest-rate environment has also caused lenders to take extra risks in order to sustain profits.
Trump, in particular, is channeling the same populist anger on the right that fueled the rise in 2010 of the Tea Party, which opposed both the government’s bailout of the banks that had caused the 2008 financial crisis and President Barack Obama’s health-care program.
As it stands, one-third of people aged 65-70 (and half of those over 75) experience significant hearing loss, often caused by damage to or loss of inner-ear hair cells, which sense and transform sound waves into signals that register in the brain.
While the policy caused credit spreads to narrow and bond market liquidity to improve, many banks have been using the extra money to rebuild their balance sheets (the equivalent of increased household savings) rather than lending it to businesses and individuals.
Unfortunately, few of those pages address any problem suspected to have caused the financial crisis.
The most highly touted change – the separation between proprietary trading and commercial banking (also known as the “Volker rule,” after former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volker) – has nothing to do with what caused the crisis, and most likely was approved because it was ineffective.
Ultimately, the culprit was precisely identified as a defective O-ring that became too stiff at low temperatures and caused a leak.
Barring that, there is the risk that we will find out what caused this crisis after the next one.
That led to income and price movements that caused the tradable sector’s scope to shrink, as lower value-added links of global supply chains moved to emerging economies.
The financial crisis that began in 2008 caused a sudden stop to the unsustainable pattern on the demand side.
Not only has structural transformation caused the economy to slow; it has also exposed deep flaws in China’s financial system.
The boom in the world’s housing markets and stock markets between 2003 and 2006 was caused by this faulty idea, and the idea that investments in homes and equities are a sure route to wealth.
Nomads have been victims of famine, violent conflict, and circumstance, accounting for a significant share of the deaths – as many as one million – caused by 22 years of civil war, and of the 260,000 Somalis who died of starvation in 2010-2012.
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