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In 1990, this caused more than 8% of deaths; now it’s 4.7%.
In the Fed’s case, the presumption that the US will soon approach full employment has caused the so-called dual mandate to collapse into one target: getting inflation back to 2%.
So biodiversity can act as a natural “insurance policy” against sudden environmental changes and a buffer against losses caused by them (as well as by pests and diseases).
Population growth after this will be mostly caused by people living longer, a factor that will diminish in significance from mid-century.
The success of the first Gulf War, launched in January 1991 by President George H.W. Bush, was fatally undermined 12 years later by his son, President George W. Bush, whose own Gulf War caused a regional catastrophe that continues to this day.
Russia’s Economic ImperialismRussia’s use of natural gas to exert economic and political pressure on Ukraine has caused grave concern in the West.
News of the pending deal caused 50 Congressional Representatives from the US steel caucus to write a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner calling for an investigation of the threat the deal posed to US national security and American jobs.
The subsequent burst of the housing bubble in the United States caused banks to fail, because banking had gone global and the big banks held one another’s bad loans.
Banking failure caused a credit crunch.
But their horizon of reform is similarly confined to the banking sector, and they rarely ask what caused the banks to behave so badly.
Initial damage to the confidence of the business class caused by higher taxes on the wealthy would be balanced by the prospect of higher overall consumption.
Boehner’s forced departure makes it likelier than ever that the US – and the world – will soon face the prospect of another self-inflicted economic shock, caused entirely by the Republicans’ scorched-earth budget tactics.
But, while Hildebrand’s resignation should serve as a precedent to be followed by central bankers – indeed, all public officials – everywhere, the circumstances surrounding his departure smell much worse than what caused it.
Those crimes have caused more than 300,000 deaths, and have forcibly displaced at least another 2.7 million people.
The British veto, and the hullabaloo that it caused, is thus something that Europe could have done without, and Cameron will soon be sorry that he offered himself up as a hostage to his Euroskeptic backbenchers.
This development has caused observers, particularly outside Europe, to speculate about the nature of future cooperation with NATO.
The full extent of the political damage that Germany’s bailout policy for the eurozone, with its austerity, mass unemployment, and economic depression, has caused in southern Europe remains to be seen.
As it stands, the renminbi is facing significant depreciation pressure, caused largely by a surge in capital outflows.
So, what caused the huge drop in business confidence during my tenure?
But no one has so far argued that the cost of damage caused to the development prospects of poor countries and regions is less than the amount of compensation being offered to cover adjustment costs.
The reason is obvious: the damage caused is many times higher than the compensation being requested.
Gates raised this issue during his recent talks with his Chinese counterpart, Liang Guanglie, proposing a mechanism for “strategic dialogue” between US and Chinese military forces, aimed at avoiding potential conflicts that might be caused by mutual misunderstanding and mistrust.
There have been worries for years about the global imbalances caused by America’s huge overseas borrowing.
These in turn caused the banks to demand repayments of even more loans from enterprises, which caused even more enterprises to fall into bankruptcy.
In a desperate effort to do something – anything – to defend their economies, they turned to protectionism, imposing “exchange-rate dumping” duties, and import quotas to offset the loss of competitiveness caused by their own increasingly overvalued currencies.
Commercial banks found it advantageous to accumulate weaker countries’ bonds to earn a few extra basis points, which caused interest rates to converge across the eurozone.
Yet, so far, none of these events – aside from Japan starting in the early 1990’s and the failures of transition in the lands east of Poland – has caused a prolonged crisis.
Economists have proposed three explanations for why macroeconomic catastrophes have not caused more human suffering and deranged long-run economic growth over the past generation.
Global warming is real and is caused by emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).
But such a solution must be based on a transparent and realistic account of what caused the war in the first place.
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