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One week after the summit, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tried to calm the continent’s fears about the US-Colombia agreement, explaining that it is merely a minor revision of the Bill Clinton-era Plan Colombia, an American program to support the government against the drug cartels.
NATO has responded by increasing its military presence in Central Europe, fueling fears of encirclement in the Kremlin.
If debt fears are now being superseded by the danger of deflation, as recent data suggest, the European Central Bank has its work cut out for it – and there is nothing to suggest that it is up to the task.
But a responsible central bank should not cater to irrational fears of inflation in what is in fact a deflationary environment, just as it is not an independent central bank’s role to tighten the thumbscrews for fiscal and structural reform.
The Fed hopes that it can handle the current situation without being forced to rescue market liquidity by cutting interest rates and thus giving what it fears would be an unhealthy boost to spending.
The rise in US long-term interest rates – from a low of 1.6% in May to recent peaks above 2.9% – has been driven by market fears that the Fed will taper QE too soon and too fast, and by the uncertainty surrounding Bernanke’s successor.
Let us hope that in the end, the attacks on innocent people in the crowded streets of Istanbul do not foster European fears, but rather a sense of solidarity with that moderate and dynamic country in the face of a common enemy.
But, as an empirical matter, these fears are hard to understand.
It has often been said that China fears a possible refugee flow.
But, until new narratives replace the old ones, the epochal shift in politics will simply bring forth other leaders who play on the same anger and fears.
Doing so will be a difficult balancing act, because it will require addressing the very real fears and unease produced by the rapid changes rippling across the world.
As in 2002, the winner next year will be whomever the electorate dislikes or fears less.
For its part, China this year eliminated presidential term limits, raising fears that President Xi Jinping’s so-called new era will end the period of collective leadership ushered in by Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, which were themselves a corrective to Mao’s cult of personality.
And China will remain prickly as long as it fears protectionism or a new containment strategy.
Although economic performance in the context of population aging is substantially uncharted territory, it is not hard to understand fears about the fiscal integrity of pay-as-you-go pension and health-care systems, and about growth slowdowns in the face of contracting workforces.
In the end, it is unlikely that the worst fears associated with our graying populations will be realized.
That compelled the Fed to keep interest rates at historic lows for an extended period, and rates were raised only gradually because of fears about the recovery’s fragility.
Especially in the case of Chinese, fears of divided national loyalties and “fifth columns” have been strong.
Given this, it appears premature to view fears of eurozone overheating as the main driver of monetary-policy normalization.
Lending in the DarkHONG KONG – The proliferation of China’s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow-banking system has been raising fears of possible financial instability.
Beyond stoking Israeli security fears and fueling increased opposition from an already skeptical US Congress, such a pact would strengthen the position of Iran’s most obstructionist elements, all but eliminating the possibility of constructive future engagement.
Perhaps to assuage political fears - and considerations of international law - any plebiscite in the Kurdish region should, initially, have only a consultative status.
“New fears and hopes will, without warning, take charge of human conduct.”
Deepening these fears, China’s free-trade deals in Southeast Asia give agriculture priority.
But numerous scientific studies showed that these fears were baseless.
The terrible French peacekeeping experience in Bosnia in the early 1990s, in which France lost 84 soldiers serving in a humanitarian capacity under restrictive ROEs, justifies their fears.
Russia is not the Soviet Union, and while cautious military planners cannot exclude that this Euro-Asian great power could one day raise old fears in a suspicious Europe, it is extremely difficult to imagine that Russia, with her immense internal problems and her efforts of reform, can once again become the kind of menace that could unite the Western alliance in new determination and consensus, like the famous spinach does for Popeye the Sailor.
Labor economists have discerned some trends that may reinforce their fears, but that don’t support the conclusions that students tend to draw.
Far from appearing a paragon of political solidarity, however, the German government’s support for Greece was marked by reluctance and reprimands, which quickly sparked fears of a member state exiting the eurozone.
Apocalyptic fears are stoked.
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