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With less and less yield to be found in traditional fixed-income assets, investors piled into risk assets of all forms, driving up their price; the rich got richer, and the middle class was left further behind.
Even as the likes of Uber and Amazon, and, more fundamentally, robotics, add convenience, they do so by displacing working-class jobs and/or driving down wages.
Coalitions of willing governments would then integrate faster, with a revitalized Franco-German engine driving the process forward.
This jibed with what I had identified as two big factors fundamentally driving the price of oil: the early days of the exploitation of shale oil and gas in the United States, and the shift in China’s economic focus from quantity to quality, which implied that the Chinese economy would no longer be consuming energy at the frenetic rate it had been.
Participants were divided as to the amount of future work, but almost all foresaw the continuing disaggregation of jobs into tasks in both low- and high-end work, from driving to lawyering.
So far, Merkel’s coalition is like someone driving against traffic, dead certain that everyone else is going the wrong way.
But politics continues to distort discussions, driving leaders to draw red lines on free movement and adopt mercantilist stances on financial services.
Addicted to PutinMOSCOW – Watching Russia’s worrying trajectory under President Vladimir Putin, many foreign observers ask how a leader who is so apparently driving his country toward the abyss can remain so popular.
Instead of serving as a source of stability, as it did in the past, this mutual dependence is driving Russia toward political and economic isolation – with serious consequences for ordinary Russians’ livelihoods.
Like Putin, he is driving himself and his country into further isolation for entirely domestic reasons.
On the one hand, there is growing concern that the United States and many European countries are failing to prepare enough university graduates in the fields driving the twenty-first century “knowledge economy,” such as engineering and information technology.
But, rather than borrow to invest, firms cut investment to pay down debt, driving two decades of stagnation and deflation.
But neither solution addresses what is really driving events in Libya: the legacy of Qaddafism.
Lack of transparency is driving fears that Hamid Karzai’s government is brokering a power-sharing deal with the Taliban that will do little to foster stability or better governance.
But, before the commemorations, the government had prohibited many cars from driving (based on their license-plate numbers), stopped selected factories from operating, and forced some firms to move out of the city temporarily.
The reality is that we don’t know for sure what is driving the productivity puzzle or whether it is a temporary phenomenon.
Meanwhile, by driving up blood sugar in its initial stages, TB can aggravate or lead to diabetes.
The European Central Bank has shown that it can successfully confront pressure from financial markets, driving down bond spreads across Europe.
Together with increased cooperation on technological innovation and an agreed set of policy principles that can be translated into concurrent national measures, this would boost growth in markets for energy-efficient and renewable technologies, driving costs down further.
For example, in the US, energy efficiency measures alone can save over a trillion dollars, while driving job creation and growth in the short-term, aiding the economic recovery and providing the economic stimulus required to accelerate investment in low-carbon energy generation and use.
In fact, with member states’ domestic politics playing a more important role than the European Council in driving whatever EU policy momentum exists, even an intergovernmental EU may be too much to hope for.
More recently, former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers argued that “secular stagnation,” manifested in sustained lower investment and growth in many advanced economies, has been a major force driving down rates.
So, while our education reforms are driving up standards, we need to do more.
It is not simply the high rate of rape in India that is driving the protests’ virulence.
Putting aside the Israeli government’s well-known skepticism about Iran’s sincerity and intentions, to suggest that Saudi Arabia’s opposition simply has to do with geopolitical competition with nearby Iran is to overlook one of the main factors driving the current crises in the Middle East.
Given anemic GDP growth, high unemployment, and low inflation, the wall of liquidity generated by conventional and unconventional monetary easing is driving up asset prices, starting with home prices.
But Nigeria’s mounting social and political problems reveal how violence and uncertainty in yet another major energy producer is driving foreign investors out and global oil prices up.
Pakistan’s civilian government also seemed to be dropping the ball in the economic field, as poor management by the authorities was driving the country towards another crisis.
The factors driving the strategic relationship’s development are obvious.
Given the significant role that natural resources have historically played in global strategic relations – including driving armed interventions and full-scale wars – increasingly murky resource geopolitics threatens to exacerbate existing tensions among Asian countries.
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