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But this time the downturn was not caused by higher interest rates, and reducing those rates did not produce a strong rebound.
This recession was caused by a mispricing of risk, leading to excessive leverage and high prices for a wide range of assets.
Because the downturn was not caused by high interest rates, lowering them could not lift the economy out of recession.
The rapid rise in house prices until 2006 caused households to increase their spending, financed in part by converting home equity into cash.
And the recent end of a special tax subsidy for first-time homebuyers has caused house prices to start falling again.
We are in the midst of a financial crisis caused by the serious mispricing of all kinds of risks and by the collapse of the housing bubble that developed in the first half of this decade.
In a financial crisis, authorities must act fast to address the problems that caused it and restore confidence.
We do not know how much of the recent rise is caused by human activities.
Some of the recent rise, associated with the shrinking of glaciers, is not caused by human activities, since the glaciers have been shrinking for hundreds of years while human activities became significant only in the last century.
The economy was also badly hurt by the massive floods of 2010, which caused damage estimated at $10 billion.
A rapid decline in exports has caused the closure of thousands of factories in the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas, and tens of millions of unemployed migrant workers are now returning to their hinterland provinces.
But individual commissioners are far less important than the trends that have caused the Commission to shift its priorities from enlargement and the internal market toward energy and monetary union.
What caused this disconnect?
But his policies have already caused severe unintended consequences.
This pressure is compounded in resource-rich Latin American countries by the increase in commodity prices caused by a similar search for yield and by the fall in the dollar’s value.
This approach may have worked at earlier stages of development and when the global financial crisis caused private spending to fall; but it is now distorting economic activity and depressing potential growth.
The fifth, and most recent, factor is the US Federal Reserve’s signals that it might end its policy of quantitative easing earlier than expected, and its hints of an eventual exit from zero interest rates, both of which have caused turbulence in emerging economies’ financial markets.
In Mexico in 1995, in East Asia in 1997-1998, and in Argentina in 2002, the collapse of currency values caused enormous distress: as exchange rates fell, the local-currency value of debts owed to foreigners and linked in value to the dollar soared, raising the danger of effective national bankruptcy.
The offence has caused a breach in relations and this breach needs to be healed.
As has happened throughout history, rocketing prices and shortages have caused riots from Bangladesh to Bolivia.
Applied appropriately and with a healthy dose of common sense, economics would have prepared us for the financial crisis and pointed us in the right direction to fix what caused it.
Moreover, our calculations are conservative, as they do not include extinctions caused by invasive species, the expansion of human technologies (such as the long-line fishing that harms many seabirds), or global warming.
Set aside the fact that Assad’s forces have caused 10-15 times more civilian deaths thus far than the Islamic State, whose horrific execution videos have overshadowed the Syrian dictator’s invisible massacres.
The government’s commitment to the fight against terrorism has already caused FARC’s membership to plummet, from more than 20,000 a decade ago to little more than 8,000 today.
This has caused the eurozone to run a substantial surplus and helped to restore some competitiveness in the tradable sectors in France, Spain, and Italy.
Indeed, some observers fear instability caused by a weak , rather than a rising, China.
Most diseases are not caused solely by genetic factors, and linkage to many genes is much more typical for those that do have a strong genetic association.
In the case of Greece, domestic political considerations caused European governments to make a show of holding the government’s feet to the fire.
Moreover, the closure of local-government financing platforms, together with the credit ceiling imposed by the central government, has caused local capital spending on investment in infrastructure to drop to a historic low.
During the recent Ebola crisis, underequipped facilities caused even more deaths, not just among patients, but also among the health workers committed to helping them.
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