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So the future of the eurozone depends crucially on whether that trend
continues
or Europe’s financial markets become fully integrated.
Syria’s agony
continues
unabated; sectarian attacks in Iraq are becoming more frequent and deadly; the threads of Lebanon’s fragile peace are fraying;Jordan is awash in refugees;Libya’s militias are running rampant and distorting its politics;Tunisia faces political crisis; and Turkey’s star as the embodiment of Islamic democracy has dimmed.
And it is a near-certainty that the Syrian government
continues
to possess chemical weapons, and could produce additional supplies without detection.
Against this background, it is difficult to explain why the ECB
continues
to insist that unconventional monetary-policy measures – such as negative rates and continued bond purchases – are needed.
In Japan, inflation is now higher than it was in the wake of the Asian financial crisis; unemployment is at its lowest level in 50 years; and the labor-force participation rate
continues
to reach record highs.
Yet Japan, like the US and Europe,
continues
to display a quixotic tendency to tilt at deflation windmills, with rock-bottom interest rates and purchases of massive amounts of government debt.
Unfortunately, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which is any TB resistant to the traditional treatments of isoniazid and rifampicin, represents a serious challenge: because standard treatment is less effective in curing it, its transmission
continues.
Likewise, the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – which the US views as a Chinese tool for challenging the existing international order –
continues
to attract such faraway prospective members as Canada, which applied to join in August.
As a result, even when Greece fails to comply with its creditors’ demands – for, say, tax hikes or pension reforms – it
continues
to receive assistance with few penalties.
There are few signs that Greece is ready to walk on its own, and as long as the aid
continues
to flow, that is unlikely to change.
It
continues
to cause untold suffering in the US, where millions of homeowners have lost their homes, and is now threatening millions more in Poland and elsewhere who took out loans in Swiss francs.
Even if Merkel
continues
as German Chancellor after next year’s election, she will have much weaker support.
This means upholding the principles that have helped to support peace and prosperity since the 1950s, including by backing the Iran nuclear deal, as long as the country
continues
to hold up its end up the bargain, and pursuing a peaceful resolution to the North Korea crisis.
If this continues, China’s partners will eventually lose patience.
But the struggle is not yet over; it
continues
on every continent and takes many forms.
So China
continues
to run a giant trade surplus, and the US
continues
to spend and borrow.
The US unemployment rate may seem to hint at the risk of rising inflation, but the employment-to-population ratio
continues
to signal an economy in deep distress.
CAMBRIDGE – As the eurozone crisis
continues
to deepen, the International Monetary Fund may finally be acknowledging the need to reassess its approach.
Likewise, a powerful urbanization dynamic
continues
to deliver solid support for China’s high-investment economy, while enabling relatively poor rural workers to raise their incomes by finding higher-paying jobs in the cities.
It
continues
to pound on one theme alone: that Argentina's economic crisis is the result of fiscal profligacy, the result of a government living beyond its means.
Food for Thought on GM CropsCOPENHAGEN – As the world
continues
to debate the impact of climate-change while seeking a new global treaty to prevent it, Kenya has endured a prolonged drought followed by heavy flooding.
Moreover, Irish GNP (the income accruing to its nationals, as distinct from foreign firms operating in Ireland)
continues
to shrink.
For all of the criticism of President Barack Obama (particularly the suggestion that he
continues
ruminating when the US should be intervening), on many issues he has consistently demonstrated the importance of understanding the tradeoffs – the risks and opportunities – implied by a particular policy or course of action.
And, without that, all it has is a recession strategy that makes austerity and reform self-defeating, because, if output
continues
to contract, deficit and debt ratios will continue to rise to unsustainable levels.
But these facts do not count when wages are stagnating (as in the UK) or unemployment
continues
to rise (as in France).
Yet this recognition may be part of the problem: though China
continues
to reassure the West that it is not nurturing imperial or expansionist ambitions, Western political leaders remain dubious, if not outright suspicious.
With the world expected to continue growing rapidly, there are excellent investment opportunities that will be funded only if capital
continues
to move into countries that can use it productively.
If this continues, the WTO adjudication process will effectively grind to a halt, perhaps as soon as next year.
And while that litigation continues, there would be great uncertainty about tariffs and much else.
While all other large European countries abolished military conscription in recent decades, Russia
continues
with a system in which all physically-fit male citizens aged 18 to 27 must serve for 12 months.
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