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Between 1985 and 2005, boomsters made 10-year forecasts that exaggerated the chances of big positive changes in both financial markets (e.g., a Dow Jones Industrial Average of 36,000) and world politics (e.g., tranquility in the Middle East and dynamic growth in sub-Saharan Africa).
An exaggerated fear that Muslims are about to destroy the West appears to be their main motive for joining the far right.
In total, the study exaggerated more than 12-fold the number of deaths that could possibly be attributed to climate change, and it more than quadrupled the potential economic costs, simply to grab attention.
Indeed, in many countries, exaggerated fears of deflation are keeping interest rates depressed and the cost of capital at historic lows.
Then any inflationary monetary policy errors driven by exaggerated fears of deflation will be allowed to stand, and the cumulative inflation will offset any returns on investments in long-term bonds.
Not the End of the World as We Know ItCAMBRIDGE: “Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain once quipped.
The real problem is that many analysts had exaggerated the size of the luxury-goods segment in emerging markets.
With these words, Macron gave an exaggerated impression of fertility in Africa.
But the importance of labor mobility for a currency union should not be exaggerated.
Such concerns are understandable but manifestly exaggerated.
But the US knows that al-Qaeda is an enemy of convenience for Saleh, and that the danger to the US from post-Saleh chaos in Yemen is exaggerated.
Similarly, concern about the ratio of government debt to GDP, which has doubled in the past decade and is now 77%, is exaggerated.
The Iraq war was ostensibly launched because of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, yet each passing day suggests that the threat was exaggerated.
Most of them are characterized by rote learning, disregard for analytical capabilities, an exaggerated focus on religious subjects and values, the discouragement of self-expression in favor of conformism, and students’ lack of involvement in community affairs.
In each case, careful examination of the data established that the gloomy scenarios prevailing at the time were exaggerated.
Fears that the United States is abandoning its global leadership role are certainly exaggerated.
He exaggerated a bit: it is £1.7 trillion ($2.2 trillion).
In fact, their estimates of the benefits of deregulation are completely exaggerated.
Sure, some companies always like to complain about regulation, and exaggerated numbers regarding the impact of various rules abound.
Mark Twain, the nineteenth-century American author and humorist, once responded to accounts of his ill health by writing that “reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
At the same time the authorities were plagued by their chronic inability to either keep to their exaggerated social promises or publicly acknowledge this inability.
The fear of many Western observers that the rise of China would nurture a global shift towards authoritarian capitalism has clearly been exaggerated.
So he has been clumsily trying to suggest that he also cares about African Americans and Latinos – not by talking to African-American and Latino voters, but by speaking in exaggerated stereotypes about them to white audiences.
In the United Kingdom, 40% believe that global warming is exaggerated and 60% doubt that it is man-made.
Dire predictions that the rise of the SWF’s means that the global financial system is becoming a form of state capitalism may be exaggerated.
Still, the significance of these changes should not be exaggerated.
Our triumphs and virtues are exaggerated; our villains externalized; our failings covered up.
The increase was perhaps exaggerated in the heat of the moment, but a good chunk of the money actually appears to have materialized.
The US Still Runs the WorldWASHINGTON, DC – Reports of the death of American power have often been greatly exaggerated.
But today’s pessimism is as exaggerated as yesterday’s optimism was overblown.
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