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Trump needs a favorable outcome to compensate for a series of domestic political failures that have severely eroded his political capital and sent his approval ratings to record lows.
Simultaneous revolutions swept Europe in 1848, in the aftermath of crop failures whose most notorious manifestation was the Irish famine.
Instead, it has enabled America’s failures to spread around the world, like a contagious disease.
There was little confidence in the none-too-deft hand of the US Federal Reserve – its reputation marred by massive monetary-policy failures in recent years – to manage the massive buildup of debt and liquidity.
Finance is regulated because of major potential spillover effects: bank failures can bring down the whole economy.
In the case of the Rohingya crisis, insufficient funding has been compounded by wider failures by humanitarian agencies, including weak coordination, turf battles, and differences over which curriculum should be used – an apparently esoteric issue that has become entangled with questions about Rohingya children’s future status.
The ideology of the right, as represented by the Washington Consensus of neo-liberal, market fundamentalism, wasn’t much more successful, even if its failures often go unacknowledged.
Market failures are a fact of life, but so are government failures.
The US and Russia bear particular responsibility for the P5’s failures.
A lack of compassion is arguably the cause of many of humankind’s most devastating failures.
Moreover, business failures due to premature euroization will inevitably increase as chronically weaker domestic firms and financial institutions become fully exposed to EU competition before making adequate corporate governance improvements and efficiency gains.
The anti-globalization protests in Seattle in 1999, at what was supposed to be the inauguration of a new round of trade talks, called attention to the failures of globalization and the international institutions and agreements that govern it.
An exception may be prudential (safety-and-soundness) standards for banks, insurance companies, and some forms of pension plans, which should be tough, because national governments almost always will bear the losses in the event of failures of these types of financial institutions.
In the end, of course, it doesn’t matter much whether or not we ascribe the failures of autocracy and non-intervention to anything specifically “Asian.”
China has demonstrated these capabilities in the last 20 years (though with major environmental failures), whereas the US and Europe have been stymied.
Serious medium-term budget reforms are needed to deal with the legacy of repeated congressional failures.
Bush cannot be blamed for the intelligence failures that attributed such weapons to Saddam, given that many other countries shared such estimates.
The consequences of such failures are far-reaching.
This sequence of failures has led some to predict the end of protest politics.
But no: Bush refuses to take responsibility for the economy, just as his administration fails to take responsibility for its failures in Iraq.
In the United States, while the formal unemployment rate has fallen, large-scale failures in terms of inclusiveness have fueled disenchantment – on both the left and the right – at growth patterns and policies that seem to benefit those at the top disproportionately.
At that time, food-price increases were attributed to growing global demand for food commodities, a major decline in the value of the US dollar, crop failures in some parts of the world, and biofuels.
The biggest development failures tend to be in rural areas far from the coast.
The failures of economic development in the Andes, Central Asia, and Africa contribute to global instability, local insurrections and violence, drug trafficking, and bases for terrorism.
For a region that has suffered so long from frustration and despair over its failures, these are among the best of times.
Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence when hungry people clash over scarce food and water.
In other words, the world needs a systemic approach to deal with systemic risks and system failures.
Of course, policy failures – for example, protectionism – do occur in all of these areas.
Economic development is a convoluted process, full of challenges and risks, successes and failures, external shocks and internal volatility.
Ultimately, these financial failures reflect the downward spiral of house prices and the increasing number of homes with negative equity, i.e., with substantial mortgage debt in excess of market values.
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