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The Market Dogs That Didn’t BarkLONDON – Three months ago, I argued that rising stock markets around the world were a consequence of improving economic conditions, not a sign of “irrational exuberance.”
As a consequence, governments often require that they meet in the presence of labor associations, so that employees also get a voice.
Rapid integration into global markets is a consequence, not of trade liberalization or adherence to World Trade Organization (WTO) strictures per se, but of successful growth strategies with often highly idiosyncratic characteristics.
For the terrorists themselves, such conflicts are one consequence of the unsettling effects of modernization.
One consequence of the democratization of communications technology is that it is now possible for customers to specify their requirements rather than hope that the available standardized products will suffice.
One unsettling consequence of US diplomacy is that it has reinforced Iran’s role in Iraq, because Maliki is Iran’s preferred candidate for Prime Minister.
One useful consequence is that wealthy countries’ low levels of assistance to those less fortunate has gained wider attention.
To illustrate his argument, Benedict noted that the international financial crash, partly a consequence of insatiable greed, had provoked debate about the need for an ethical basis for economic behavior.
While large fiscal deficits partly offset the demand-suppressing effects of private deleveraging, the inevitable consequence was rising public debt.
One consequence of this is that most Japanese voters nowadays are swing voters with no party loyalty.
Being subservient to American power, as Japan has been since 1945, was the inevitable consequence of a catastrophic war.
Add to that the bureaucracy’s increasing reluctance to take bold action – an unintended consequence of President Xi Jinping’s aggressive anti-corruption campaign – and the scale of the task China is facing becomes clear.
And for the consuming nations of Western and Central Europe, the price effects and supply disruption anxieties were of significant consequence.
As a consequence, in addition to its implications for companies and US intelligence gathering, the ECJ’s decision may call into question the behavior of the intelligence agencies of the EU member states.
One consequence of last year’s enlargement is that it is forcing a far-reaching re-negotiation of all aspects of the EU budget.
It is also debatable whether this so-called Western democracy was a cause or a consequence of peace and prosperity.
One unforeseen consequence of the hefty budgets now devoted to science is that such vast funds have increased the pressure for practical outcomes.
One consequence of this is that Ukrainians are usually shy about asserting Ukraine's independent interests plainly, or expressing national pride.
This would have the unintended consequence of strengthening the federalists on the continent, thereby accelerating the integration dynamic that the British now want to stop.
The Top Politics Commentaries of 2017Looking back, 2017 may well be remembered as a year of great historical consequence.
As a consequence, a wholly unacceptable long-term burden has been imposed on taxpayers.
Finally, there are those tail risks that make investors, corporations, and consumers hyper-cautious: the eurozone, where debt restructurings – or worse, breakup – are risks of systemic consequence; the outcome of the US presidential election; geo-political risks such as the Arab Spring, military confrontation with Iran, instability in Afghanistan and Pakistan, North Korea’s succession, and the leadership transition in China; and the consequences of a global economic slowdown.
The slowdown in the retreat of the snout of glaciers could, therefore, be a consequence of the very rapid rise of human population in the hills and desertification caused by overgrazing – purely local factors that boost aerosol levels.
Third – and in large part a consequence of the other two – the rise of the professional inventor and the industrial research laboratory created a class of people whose business was not to make and apply a single invention, but to invent the process of continuous and constant invention and innovation itself.
A third consequence of the verdicts concerns the empowerment of an anti-reform faction within the MOI.
International sanctions will be only the first consequence.
As a consequence, imports of goods and services per capita fell by 75% in real (inflation-adjusted) terms between 2012 and 2016, with a further decline in 2017.
The natural consequence was to support government austerity programs, which can only make the situation worse.
After all, this bittersweet Israeli action was neither a clear result of military defeat nor a consequence of political negotiations.
As a consequence, much of the political elites could never be won to back the impersonal market, which made no distinction between them and their old enemies.
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