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This will be necessary if the two sides are to arrive at a good bargain, rather than a bad one – or even an outright failure to cooperate, so that Greece effectively
drops
out of the euro.
That is, the markets have been more vulnerable to sudden large
drops
than they have been to sudden large increases.
The markets have broken all-time records, come close to doing so, or at least done very well since 2003 ( the case in Japan) by making up for the big
drops
incrementally, in a succession of smaller increases.
But all of the other 30
drops
occurred at times when stock prices were much more volatile.
Thus, the February 27th drop really stands out, as do other recent one-day
drops.
Big
drops
get their attention, and this primes some people to be attentive for them in the future, and to be ready to sell if another one comes.
So there may be an underlying sensitivity to price drops, which could fuel a succession of downward price changes, amplifying public concerns about problems in the economy and heralding a profound change in investor sentiment.
Italians already shoulder heavy taxes: an individual taxpayer with annual income of €50,000 pays €15,000 in income tax; with two children, that total
drops
by only €1,000.
Like a character in a farce, she
drops
the mask of respectability that her handlers had made her wear and, after an embarrassing rhetorical striptease, reveals the face of the leader of a die-hard fascist party.
Little wonder, then, that the largest
drops
in popular support for enlargement registered by the Eurobarometer Survey occurred in EU countries with the most generous welfare states.
Unexpected events, such as flooding and drought, can have dire consequences: sharp
drops
in rural incomes, surging food bills, and severe food shortages.
Whatever their other benefits, the low rates we see around the world now hardly amount to insurance against future
drops
in asset prices.
Some international broadcasters have even found that their audience share
drops
when they delve into the conflict.
At $500 million, it goes down to 9%, and at $850 million
drops
to 7.3%.
Liquidity abounds, but ordinary Germans and environment investment are barely receiving a few
drops.
Ever since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington last year, the regime—once central to American strategic interests in the region, has been made to feel dispensable by the US, which
drops
strong hints that there are alternatives to Saudi military bases, even to Saudi oil.
Unless inflation
drops
much more, now is an ideal time to be a borrower and a bad time to be a lender or investor in long-term bonds.
According to the Global Burden of Disease Study, health risk factors explain at least 50% of the early death and disability of adults aged 50 and over; for young people, the figure
drops
to 26%.
But the current version of this promise – not to raise the overnight interest rate until the unemployment rate
drops
below 6.5% – no longer implies that short-term rates will remain low for an “extended” period.
This asymmetry in savings patterns might thus reflect the simple fact that credit-constrained economies are less sensitive to
drops
in the cost of borrowing relative to less constrained economies.
As soil health declines and output drops, many farmers see no option but to look for new land to cultivate.
For example, vitamin A
drops
– which provide infants with an essential micronutrient for vision and healthy growth – are now delivered twice yearly in conjunction with polio vaccines.
This is a major missed opportunity: for every year of forgone schooling, a girl’s potential income
drops
10-20%.
They found that the effect of the average voter
drops
to insignificant levels, while that of economic elites remains substantial.
China might lead the digital future if the US
drops
the ball, but it won’t become the dominant global power simply because it has a larger population.
In a theatre, our consciences are touched but responsibility ends when the curtain
drops.
And, as employment and incomes drop, spending on currently produced commodities
drops
further, and the economy spirals down into depression.
Economists are now busy devising new feats of monetary wizardry for when the latest policy fails: taxing cash holdings, or even abolishing cash altogether; or, at the other extreme, showering the population with “helicopter drops” of freshly printed money.
Prior to the 1950’s, output
drops
of 15-20% in a single year were routine (admittedly, national income accounting was more primitive.)
Oil revenues, as with revenues from most commodities, are cyclical, and sudden
drops
are not unusual.
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