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A bubble occurs when public expectations for future price increases become exaggerated, pushing prices up to unsustainable levels.
Americans and Chinese must avoid such exaggerated fears.
Americans and Chinese must avoid letting exaggerated fears create a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In France and Germany, Holland and Sweden the subject uppermost on many people's minds--immigration--was either ignored or exaggerated.
“Globalization” has been a catchword for decades, and the need for global governance has admittedly been exaggerated in recent years, especially by those on the center left.
Most importantly, the US and China should avoid developing exaggerated fears of each other’s capacities and intentions.
This, he argued, had produced a “subconscious recognition of the failure of group efforts,” which manifested itself “in an exaggerated self-centeredness and egotism.”
This perception is exaggerated, especially in the US.
But, while there is much to worry about, the bottom line is that these fears are exaggerated.
But the magnitude of the economic costs should not be exaggerated: after all, the aggregate GNP of the 10 applicant countries from the former communist bloc is smaller than the GNP of Holland!
There were always exaggerated claims that bringing in the new members would be a costly affair, just as petty and narrow prejudices blemished the willingness to open up Europe’s borders for “Polish plumbers.”
Indeed, accounts of cyber war may be exaggerated, but cyber espionage is rampant, and more than 30 governments are reputed to have developed offensive capabilities and doctrines for the use of cyber weapons.
In some instances, reports of rights violations in the US are exaggerated.
Turkey’s official line remains that the allegation is based on unfounded or exaggerated claims, and that the deaths that occurred resulted from combat against Armenians collaborating with invading Russian forces during the First World War, or as a result of disease and hunger during the forced deportations.
The dangers should not be exaggerated.
The after-the-fact revelation that the reasons for invading Iraq were vastly exaggerated – and in some cases completely fabricated – produced an angry backlash that helped toss the Republicans out of power in the United States in 2008 and may do the same to Britain’s Labour Party later this year.
Climate evangelism is an apt description of what the IPCC has been up to, for it has exaggerated some of the ramifications of climate change in order to make politicians take note.
For years, oil companies such as Exxon tried to pretend that climate change wasn’t real or that the risks were exaggerated.
The agreements reached at recent G-20 meetings stand as one of these stories, for they suggest a new era of international cooperation and economic professionalism – a narrative that has probably been exaggerated in the psychology of recovery.
The link between the exchange rate and China’s pricing advantages in world markets is wildly exaggerated.
In front of their board, they rattle off exaggerated claims about where the company stands; some 80% of annual reports claim that their company is “the leader in the market.”
Their opponents, meanwhile, exaggerated the phenomenon’s likely impact – and, as a consequence, dogmatically fixated on drastic, short-term carbon cuts as the only solution, despite overwhelming evidence that such cuts would be cripplingly expensive and woefully ineffective.
Exaggerated fear of outside enemies has always been part of the American political landscape.
Enthralled by promises of material well-being and security, they had exaggerated expectations of romantic wedded bliss.
But if skeptics forget Mark Twain’s famous response to a mistaken obituary – “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated” – were the negotiators who have continued to work since then akin to Gogol’s “dead souls?”
The concerns expressed by some observers, such as George Soros, that the eurozone will remain a two-tier club, in which the creditors impose their conditions on the debtors, thus seem exaggerated.
Despite the alarming escalation in violence, fears of civil war in Kenya are probably exaggerated.
In order to tap the vast benefits of an open labor market, policymakers must work to allay the public’s fears, many of which are misplaced or exaggerated.
The Israeli government has vastly exaggerated the threat that a nuclear Iran poses to its security, as well as Israel’s capacity to halt it.
It exaggerated the weakness of America, which remains the world’s only superpower.
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