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Given the massive drop in commodity prices lately, there is little need to seek any other
explanation
for the recent slowdown in trade.
One possible
explanation
for the mysterious combination of stronger growth and low inflation is that, in addition to stronger aggregate demand, developed economies have been experiencing positive supply shocks.
As famine spread that summer, Stalin refined his explanation: hunger was sabotage, local Communist activists were the saboteurs, protected by higher authorities, and all were paid by foreign spies.
Where should one look for an
explanation
for this tragic evolution?
Or is the
explanation
for Israel’s current predicament to be found on the more prosaic terrain of the country’s dysfunctional democracy?
Some skeptics argue that this emphasis on values is the wrong
explanation
of how changes occur in world politics, and that the real problem between Europe and the US is structural.
There seem to be three different dimensions to the
explanation.
The remaining part of the
explanation
is undoubtedly local and personal: the character quirks that have contributed to each leader’s dramatic rise and equally spectacular fall.
The final misconception is that Hu might have demanded an
explanation
from Kim as to the causes of the fatal sinking of a South Korean vessel in late March.
With the current presidential term lurching to such a calamitous close that the incumbent is probably worried about being remembered as George Herbert Hoover Walker Bush, the correlation between presidential party and economic outcome demands some kind of
explanation.
Perhaps the best
explanation
has to do with attitudes, not ideology.
The prevailing
explanation
– a brutally cold winter – is wearing so thin that everyone should be able to see through it.
No other factor comes close to providing a plausible
explanation.
But there is another explanation, one that is fully consistent with rationality and self-interest.
For Julian Fellowes, who created the series, the
explanation
lies elsewhere – in our search for order in a chaotic world.
The only plausible
explanation
is the need to clear the way for his re-election as president, whatever the cost.
Currency movements are often described as the most unpredictable of all financial variables; but recent events in foreign-exchange markets seem, for once, to have a fairly obvious
explanation
– one that almost all economists and policymakers accept and endorse.
In one sense, the conventional
explanation
of the recent euro-dollar movement is surely right.
One
explanation
for the drastic budget cuts of recent years is that public health institutions usually operate with little fanfare and out of the public eye.
To understand what is going on, we need a different
explanation
of what keeps investment and growth low in most poor nations.
The final
explanation
is that financial markets have calmed down.
Nor do I see any evidence at all in favor of the third
explanation.
There is no overarching
explanation
for Obama’s successive Middle East failures, but there are a few factors worth considering: the increase in the number of asymmetrical conflicts, in which the traditional use of force is largely ineffective; increasingly blurred lines between difficult allies and intransigent adversaries; and major political differences between a centrist US president and a Congress that is dominated more than ever by extreme ideas.
One
explanation
for the two men’s unnatural alliance is that they have compatible views on Russian President Vladimir Putin, even if their larger foreign-policy outlooks differ.
Beyond this, a more straightforward
explanation
is that Trump has played on Kissinger’s vanity, not least by seeking his advice early in the campaign.
Top Chinese officials, however, did not accept Noda’s explanation, and interpreted the purchase as proof that Japan is trying to disrupt the status quo.
A second
explanation
is that investors are extrapolating from previous shocks, such as the attacks of September 11, 2001, when policymakers saved the day by backstopping the economy and financial markets with strong monetary and fiscal policy easing.
A fourth
explanation
is that the world has so far been spared from the tail risks associated with today’s geopolitical conflagrations.
After the Beslan tragedy, Putin offered an exotic
explanation
of terrorism: the terrorists, he claimed, are instruments in the hands of those who still fear Russia as a nuclear power.
Haldane offers no
explanation
for this burst of irrational behavior.
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