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The eurozone is operating under the pretense that public and private debts will, at some point, be repaid, although, in many countries, the distress now is greater than it was at the start of the crisis almost five years ago.
The Japanese, too, carry a burden of historical crimes, but their attitude to foreigners in distress is far less welcoming.
Conventional wisdom claims that incumbent parties and politicians are punished by voters in times of economic distress.
But, although the prospect of the Fed raising interest rates is likely to create significant turbulence in emerging countries’ financial markets, the risk of outright crises and distress is more limited.
When it does, some will suffer more than others; but, with a few exceptions lacking systemic importance, widespread distress and crises need not occur.
Unlike the West’s QE-enabled market manipulation, which works circuitously through central-bank liquidity injections, the Chinese version is targeted more directly at the market in distress – in this case, equities.
In China, by contrast, post-bubble reforms have a more strategic focus, given that the equity-market distress has important implications for the government’s capital-market reforms, which are viewed as crucial to its strategy of structural rebalancing.
Several WTO “developing” countries are now net creditors, lend massive amounts of money to the United States Treasury, and are courted by European countries in financial distress.
Rather than strengthening pan-European solidarity, economic distress has led to a massive distribution conflict.
And a huge number of organizations aid journalists in distress in the Middle East, in Eastern Europe, and elsewhere.
Likewise, in dealing with the financial sector’s distress, Obama has acquiesced in the Bush-era policy of bailouts for banks without demanding anything of them in return – no nationalizations and no imposition of the second half of Walter Bagehot’s rule that aid be given to banks in a crisis only on the harsh terms of a “penalty rate.”
As it develops and interacts with social, political, and technological forces, it creates elation alongside distress.
Asharq al-Awsat’s Hussein Shobokshi wrote, “God has endowed al-Sisi with the Egyptians’ love,” declaring that al-Sisi brought “true legitimacy to Egypt…after a period of pointlessness, immaturity, and distress.”
Moreover, a number of eurozone countries’ continuing economic distress and weak competitiveness reflects their lack of a currency to depreciate.
Borrowers respond with distress sales of illiquid assets – often rendered more illiquid by the same lack of confidence in counterparties’ solvency that triggered the credit crunch in the first place.
This lack of funding and market liquidity then results in further distress sales that depress asset prices throughout the economy.
In contrast to previous debt-reduction exercises (the Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative), current circumstances indicate that debt distress will fall largely on middle-income borrowers.
Harrowing accounts from midwives on the front line highlight human-rights concerns, the over-medicalization of birth, and growing distress among them and pregnant women alike.
Like Tunisia’s law on NSF checks, the repressive marijuana legislation caused real social distress.
Even before COVID-19 swept the world, the International Monetary Fund had issued a warning about developing countries’ public debt burdens, noting that half of all lower-income countries were “at high risk of or already in debt distress.”
In the absence of new forms of liquidity support and major debt relief, the world economy cannot possibly return to pre-pandemic levels of growth without risking severe climate distress and social unrest.Climate scientists tell us that in order to meet the targets outlined in the Paris climate accord, global net carbon-dioxide emissions must fall by about 45% by 2030, and by 100% by 2050.
History has shown time and again that when narcissism, emotional distress, and denial combine and go on the march, democracy is in danger of being trampled.
The fragile consensus in the Security Council was shattered, to the distress of countless threatened and unprotected civilians.
A Good but Incomplete Start to Debt ReliefLONDON – A global collapse in economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased the risk of debt distress in many countries, pushing the poorest ones to the brink.
Far from involving a few unfortunate countries on the margins, today’s sovereign-debt distress poses a potentially systemic risk.
It should also support debt transparency and provide the necessary technical assistance, so that countries can strengthen their debt management capacity before finding themselves in debt distress.
Greenspan posited that declining sales of men’s underwear was an accurate indication of consumer distress.
Groups like ISIS prey on social distress.
This response assumes that while Africa’s distress is regrettable, it’s also far away, and the continent will quietly suffer in its corner.
A study by the Center for Global Development concluded that eight of the 63 countries participating in the BRI are at risk of “debt distress.”
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