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Here is a budding feud that was exaggerated by the media.
Nonetheless, while emerging economies’ prospects were clearly over-hyped in the wake of the crisis, the bleak forecasts that dominate today’s headlines are similarly exaggerated.
Wall street 1929 all over againCAMBRIDGE: Any writer of financial fiction would have an easy time setting the stage-ballooning valuations of stocks founded on exaggerated beliefs about the impact of new technologies on productivity, and gross over-confidence in the American model, are placed side-by-side with an all-pervasive global financial fragility, evidenced in the Asian crises, a moribund Japan, and chaotic Russia.
But do not believe it, people will say; the ingredients are exaggerated, the disaster is not about to come.
There is nothing inevitable about this trap, and its effects are often exaggerated.
He has never admitted these errors; on the contrary, he has retrospectively exaggerated his own prescience.
Once we saw our exaggerated hopes for our investments failing, we began to consider our other sources of income and wealth, only to confront the worldwide economic slowdown that began in 2001.
But America’s potential output may be underestimated, and its inflation propensity exaggerated.
By the same token, reducing expectations means that the significance of the results should not be exaggerated.
Whether these exaggerated hopes should be traced to Obama’s inexperience or to hubris – or both – is a moot point: what is clear is that, after 18 months and numerous visits to the region, Mitchell was able to achieve only an agreement in principle by Israel and the Palestinians to start talking to each other.
But, as long as the Japanese left used history to make this political argument, the nationalists pushed back by claiming that stories of wartime atrocities had been greatly exaggerated.
Moreover, Bush’s exaggerated rhetoric was often at odds with his practice, giving rise to charges of hypocrisy.
Recall the exaggerated influence vouchsafed, not too long ago, to psychoanalytic theory.
Even with the most robust types of research – for example, randomized clinical trials – one of four of these results had already been found to be wrong or potentially exaggerated within a few years after publication.
But when he and others advocate it to the exclusion of alternatives, they end up communicating a vastly exaggerated degree of confidence about what course of action is required.
The World Health Organization defines konzo as a visible spastic abnormality of gait while walking or running; a history of onset within one week in a formerly healthy person, followed by a non-progressive course; and exaggerated jerking of the knees or ankles without signs of spinal disease.
They would discover that the cost to Germany of authorizing Eurobonds has been greatly exaggerated, and the cost of leaving the euro understated.
Not only has the problem of short-termism been woefully exaggerated, but the policy proposals for addressing it are severely lacking.
Rising Chinese exports between 2006 and 2008, despite renminbi appreciation, suggests that this worry is misplaced or at least exaggerated.
Indeed, Latin American terrorism is sometimes exaggerated, because governments have incentives to cite local terrorist threats to secure foreign support, such as US capacity-building funding.
The Bank of Thailand’s published balance sheet wildly exaggerated its available foreign-exchange reserves – hardly a shining example of financial transparency.
These systems are struggling in the face of cost constraints, public demand for higher quality, and exaggerated expectations.
While China’s inflation problem should not be exaggerated, complacency would be dangerous.
It has also contributed to the economic slowdown in China, raising concerns (which I believe are exaggerated) that the country’s new leadership may have problems engineering a soft landing for an economy accustomed to double-digit (or high single-digit) growth.
Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity – or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.
At the same time, the effect of currency appreciation on the trade balance should not be exaggerated.
Even Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz has questioned whether these countries’ debt payment measures represent an exaggerated concession to neo-liberal orthodoxy.
Some economists, like Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University, saw the dangers of the financial crisis, but greatly exaggerated the risks of public spending to boost employment in its aftermath.
Perhaps these words sound exaggerated to cynical ears.
The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle – the microfinance sector has made some mistakes, which politicians have exaggerated in an effort to destroy an industry that undermines them by making the poor more independent.
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