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Russian submarines have been trolling near vital Western communications cables on the Atlantic Ocean floor, implying a risk of serious damage to the US and European economies and way of life.
There will be large knock-on effects on the real economy, including severe damage to developing countries’ growth prospects.
Some were pushed there by the high cost of containing the damage from banks’ irresponsible behavior.
That’s a political imperative: with corporations sitting on trillions of dollars in cash while ordinary Americans are suffering, lowering the average amount of corporate taxation would be unconscionable – and more so if taxes were lowered for the financial sector, which brought on the 2008 crisis and never paid for the economic damage.
To Trump’s team, this is collateral damage, the inevitable price that must be paid to give America’s plutocrats more money.
But retailers such as Walmart, not just its customers, are part of the collateral damage, too.
The damage caused by certain unpopular reforms lasted far longer than the reforms themselves.
As for climate change, the election of a man who purports to believe global warming is a Chinese hoax created to damage American business is clearly bad news.
To bring them to the negotiating table again is not a breakthrough, but rather an attempt at damage control.
Not only was precious time wasted, but further damage was done.
Russia’s goal, the agencies declared, had been to damage Clinton’s campaign.
The only open question in both places is how much damage Israel will need to inflict to obtain new cease-fires.
The ensuing damage for Germany and its international standing is plain to see: never has Germany been more isolated.
The collateral damage for EU foreign policy is also significant.
Mid-size dealers that could fail without causing excessive economic damage would get more business.
Setting aside the external impact on the global economy, the damage to domestic stability and growth from anything other than a short-term technical default would be so severe that the political system (and both parties with it) could not withstand the backlash.
Let us not allow it to do any more damage than it already has.
European economies were coping with extensive war-related damage and a broad array of impediments to their efforts to rebuild their industrial base.
To avoid permanent socioeconomic damage, these countries need faster growth.
To skeptics, green shoots of recovery will not bloom without access to the credit spigot, which is still clogged by balance-sheet damage in many banks.
Moreover, the crisis-related damage to banks’ balance sheets constrained demand by severely limiting household credit and lending to small and medium-size businesses.
Poor policy choices, on the other hand, will at best delay recovery and at worst do permanent damage.
The damage has been particularly pronounced in Russia, where anti-terror regulations have often been used as a tool to muffle the voices of those who offer independent or alternative views, particularly views that are critical of President Vladimir Putin’s government.
Journalists face threats, attacks, damage to equipment, unfair fines, firing, bans, and other forms of censorship, often soon after publishing some kind of criticism of regional authorities, law enforcement, or wealthy businesspeople.
But, in the hands of an unstable, vengeful narcissist, it can cause profound damage.
Yet enough nuclear material to fill a small bag of sugar is all it takes to construct a device with the potential to kill hundreds of thousands of people and inflict billions of dollars in damage.
With two bilateral meetings – between the two countries’ foreign secretaries, and then between Modi and Sharif – scheduled to take place this month, we will not have to wait long to find out how much political damage the attack has caused.
Lehman Brothers, of course, went bankrupt – and it was the spreading effects of that failure that caused so much damage in September 2008 and subsequently.
But significant damage to bilateral ties, let alone a diplomatic rupture, is not in the cards, even if all the evidence points to a state-sanctioned assassination.
And with new allies working with old lobbyists to stem the damage, it is unlikely that the episode will lead to anything more than a lovers’ quarrel.
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