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With a highly contagious and lethal virus devastating poor and fragmented societies that distrust their leaders, business as usual is not enough.
Pulling Europe Back from the BrinkDAVOS – In 2007, the United States caught a serious – and highly contagious – economic cold.
And the ECB worries that if the US recession proves contagious, it may have to turn around and start slashing rates anyway.
Healthcare policy leaders and funding agencies should remember that even the most fearsome contagious diseases can yield to basic infection control training and equipment.
Eradication is also difficult because TB is a highly contagious airborne bacterium; people living and working in close quarters – such as miners, prisoners, migrants, and refugees – suffer the highest rates of infection.
Yet the recent spate of central bank actions and their timing (notwithstanding considerable diversity in terms of domestic economic conditions) suggests that interest-rate cuts and nonconventional forms of easing, if not competitive, are certainly contagious.
But the contagious nature of the rate cuts does raise the question of whether domestic monetary policies have once again become more interdependent.
While the likelihood of a breakup remains impossible to predict, the virus of political divorce has certainly proved contagious – and a more fragmented Europe is undoubtedly a less safe one.
Though Ebola was known to be both contagious and often fatal, it was thought that only Africa’s impoverished rural population was at risk.
For a moment, it looked as if a contagious crisis, driven by fears of government over-indebtedness, would destroy the politically fragile compromise that European countries had carefully constructed over a 50-year period.
Taxpayers and governments alike are tired of bailing out creditors for fear of the destructive contagious effects of failure – even as bailouts encourage excessive risk taking.
As in prior episodes of contagious financial turmoil, the victory of the “Leave” vote sent skittish global investors toward the usual safe havens.
But the impact of his misrule is such that Venezuelans are dying from starvation, the health-care system has collapsed, and violence and contagious diseases are now practically out of control.
"How can one prevent it in one's children?"Even, occasionally, "Is it contagious?"
True, that pursuit is a trait which is immensely contagious.
And some emerging market economies – despite massive IMF support – will experience a severe financial crisis with contagious effects on other economies.
The protectionism that Trump has unleashed is contagious and will likely spread well beyond the industries that he wants to insulate from foreign competition.
Not surprisingly, a contagious globalization that increases vulnerability inevitably triggers preventive and defensive strategies that are not always proportionate or reasonable.
And contagious successful policy reforms are precisely what Europe and most of the world need.
The massacre of civilians (including many children) in Gaza last summer, the barbarity of ISIS, the murder of rabbis at a Jerusalem synagogue, and the terrorist attack in Ottawa last October – all convey a simple truth: violence is contagious.
Recent decades have been replete with contagious financial crises that spread disorder from one country to another.
Instead, it has enabled America’s failures to spread around the world, like a contagious disease.
The process of integration was reversed after the WWI and finally destroyed in the Great Depression, in a series of vicious shocks: tariff protection, contagious financial panics that spread from the periphery to the heart of the world's financial system, and a turn to economic nationalism and autarky.
For the financial system as a whole, success ultimately depends on trust and confidence, both of which, like suspicion and fear, are highly contagious.
Some stem from the persistence of more than 20,000 nuclear weapons and the contagious doctrine of nuclear deterrence.
Perhaps today’s contagious populism will create the conditions for its own destruction.
Indeed, while Sheremet had many friends, who adored his charismatic personality, wit, and contagious optimism, he also had his share of enemies, who detested his uncompromising journalism.
At the same time, financial crises in a number of emerging markets could prove contagious, placing additional stress on global financial markets.
There are differences, of course, but the upheavals’ sweeping and contagious nature is strongly similar to that of the revolutions that brought communism to an end in Europe.
The urge to destroy can be contagious.
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