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The EMU is now the world’s largest market, and
continues
to grow.
As the composition of China’s economy
continues
to shift from investment to consumption, demand for commodity-intensive consumer durables – cars, mobile phones, indoor plumbing, computers, and televisions – will rise.
Scientific understanding of climate change
continues
to advance, but there are still areas of uncertainty, including the risks of major surprises, complications, or unexpected interactions.
Under plausible assumptions – namely that the wealthy save enough – the ratio of inherited wealth to income (or wages)
continues
to increase as long as r, the average rate of return to capital, exceeds g, the growth rate of the economy as a whole.
Moreover, China
continues
to attract huge amounts of cross-border capital, as advanced countries like the US pursue expansionary monetary policies.
And yet the US Congress shamefully
continues
to evade its responsibility to fund the Federal Highway Trust Fund and put it on a sound long-term basis, owing to disagreement over how to pay for it.
(This is perhaps the first indication that self-sacrifice may be an intrinsic human trait!)Damaged by the sun, but not quite able to commit suicide, the mutated cell
continues
to proliferate at the expense of normal surrounding cells, resulting in a pre-cancerous growth that can progress to a full-blown squamous cell carcinoma.
Unemployment has virtually disappeared; the employment rate
continues
to reach new highs; and disposable income per capita is rising steadily.
Nevertheless, the “fencing-in” of the rich world
continues
apace.
If today’s globalization
continues
to widen income gaps, the waves of migration will grow.
In response, the CCP
continues
to develop new technologies to stifle or redirect dissent; but the battle for control of China’s public discourse is not one that the country’s leaders can win every day for the foreseeable future, and they know it.
For example, Mediterranean Europe is still wracked by debates about the power of the Catholic Church, just as the American South
continues
to bear the legacy of slavery and the Civil War.
If populism had an avatar, it would be the immortal cartoon character Wile E. Coyote, who, in his futile pursuit of the Road Runner, routinely sprints over cliff edges and
continues
to move forward, suspended by the logic of his own belief.
The US debt-ceiling fiasco has raised doubts in the minds of central bankers about the advisability of holding dollars, while Europe’s failure to resolve its sovereign-debt crisis
continues
to fuel doubt that the euro can survive.
If the EU
continues
to look inward, consumed by the questions posed by Brexit, the next five years will be as sterile and unproductive as the last.
But if Congress
continues
to hijack US economic policy, it bodes ill for the economy’s otherwise bright long-term prospects.
Fighting
continues
in Afghanistan, with the surge of the international military forces and Afghan government forces and the spring-summer offensive by the Taliban and other insurgents.
As SOE profitability, despite their privileged position,
continues
to decline (it averaged less than 2% in 1995) because of ongoing deterioration in the management of assets and competition from the non-state sector, policymakers and workers in state industries begin to open their minds to the prospect of more change.
Moreover, China is already the world’s largest oil importer, and energy demand
continues
to increase rapidly.
And, while China’s geopolitical status is rising rapidly, alongside its economic might, the US
continues
to squander its global leadership, owing to the unchecked greed of its political and economic elites and the self-made trap of perpetual war in the Middle East.
That consensus will remain credible as long as political reform
continues
and economic growth accelerates.
But Putin’s Russia
continues
to be a spoiler.
Untested medicine is being used to treat the wrong ailment – and the chronically ill patient
continues
to be neglected.
In this context, Saudi policy seems to be stuck in the past, and the Kingdom has chosen to adopt a strategy of self-help in order to isolate itself from problems outside its borders, though it
continues
to regard itself as the region’s power broker.
The good news is that domestic demand
continues
to grow.
Africa, despite some rare individual national successes,
continues
to underperform, even with the World Cup in its backyard.
The Iranian regime
continues
to defy the international community’s efforts to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons.
Finally, even as stalemate
continues
on Iran’s uranium enrichment, continued engagement may offer a roundabout means of arriving at a bargain on the nuclear issue.
But the public sector
continues
to play an important role.
This fundamental change has contributed to the reduction in risk premia over the last year, despite the political upheaval that
continues
in many countries (particularly Italy, Portugal, and Greece).
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