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In 1992, Hurricane Andrew caused significant damage at the Turkey Point nuclear-power plant on Biscayne Bay, Florida, but, fortunately, not to any critical systems.
It has been shown, for example, that vaccinated children not only do better at school, but also that, through the prevention of damage that can be caused by infectious diseases and resulting nutritional imbalances, they appear to benefit in terms of cognitive development.
The problem remains the real-estate market, whose collapse caused the crisis.
But the Great Recession has caused public debt and deficits in many advanced economies to soar.
Besides, well-designed taxes on the financial sector might help alleviate problems caused by excessive leverage and banks that are too big to fail.
This is necessary to restore the competitiveness that was destroyed in the euro’s initial years, when it caused excessive inflation.
But the claim that such a slight change – from 2.7% in December to 2.9% in January (which observers view as an aberration, caused by seasonal factors) – could trigger a stock-market correction is in itself a strike against the fundamentalist view.
The financial sector pontificated not only about how to create a dynamic economy, but also about what to do in the event of a recession (which, according to their ideology, could be caused only by a failure of government, not of markets).
A different principle of fairness arises if we consider greenhouse gases as pollution, and apply the principle that whoever caused the pollution should pay to clean it up.
If the older industrialized countries caused the problem, it seems reasonable to ask them to do the most to fix it.
The single currency caused an inflationary credit bubble in Southern Europe.
The latest row about the so-called Lisbon Treaty, caused by its rejection in a referendum in Ireland, reminds everyone of Europe’s main problem.
If you believe that the crisis was caused by a shortage of liquidity, we had plenty of models analyzing liquidity shortages and their effects on financial institutions.
Let’s take a case study, the last generalized boom-bust cycle in commodity prices, which caused these prices generally to rise (more or less) from some time in the 1960’s until the 1980’s, and then generally to fall until the mid-1990’s.
It is a pattern that has caused real damage, because overoptimistic forecasts delay measures that are needed to boost growth, and thus impede full economic recovery.
Labor markets have been knocked out of equilibrium as new technology and shifting global supply chains have caused demand in the labor market to change faster than supply can adjust.
But the uproar caused by these decisions reinforces, rather than dispels, doubts.
The commercial calculus behind this business sometimes caused riots until anatomy laws allowed the bodies of executed murderers and the unclaimed dead to be used, thus reassuring middle and upper class individuals that their bodies would not be involved.
The dollar, in particular, is likely to continue falling on a trade-weighted basis if investors around the world continue to set aside the extreme risk-aversion that caused the dollar’s rise after 2007.
What caused this change?
Sexual harassment is the immediate focus of the Weinstein case, as it should be, given the severity of the alleged crimes and the distress caused to the victims.
The US, Europe, and other industrialized states caused the problem, the Chinese say, so they bear the most responsibility for solving it.
In Europe, mad cow disease shocked many people, not only because it shattered beef’s image as a safe and healthy food, but also because they learned that the disease was caused by feeding cattle the brains and nerve tissue of sheep.
But what caused the nation to right itself?
Ironically, flexible exchange rates help the very country that caused the crisis.
But there is nothing in the nature of these sensations that distinguishes them from signals caused by external events - the sound of someone else's voice, someone else lifting our arm.
Normally, we have no trouble recognizing whether sensations are caused by our own actions, because those that are can be predicted.
This enables us to identify the more important changes in sensation that are caused by external events and to distinguish them from sensations caused by our own actions.
If this mechanism didn't work properly, we might falsely attribute sensations caused by our own actions to something happening in the outside world over which we have no control.
In terms of experience, patients who report that their movements feel alien should be more aware of the sensations caused by their own actions.
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