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The paroxysm of media flagellation will soon abate, but the excitement with which the public followed the IPL will not return.
The events of the past 15 months – starting with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, followed by the violence in North Africa and the tragedy in Japan – confront the world with a stark choice between the costs and risks of traditional energy sources and the promise and progress of clean energy.
The 1997 Asian financial crisis followed a sudden stop of capital inflows to Asia, and global short-term lending suddenly dried up after Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008, causing the Great Recession.
The UK, which has not suffered directly from the euro crisis, is an interesting test, for it also followed the European strategy.
Study participants would be followed over decades to see who developed the disease, and which tests proved positive before Alzheimer’s was diagnosed.
For starters, achieving it requires overcoming the negative impact of the jump in long-term interest rates that followed the Federal Reserve’s announcement last June that it would likely end its asset-purchase program this year.
When they are breached, the typical result is a sense of unfairness, followed by resistance and, ultimately, political choices that address the inequality, though sometimes in counter-productive, growth-impeding ways.
A cascade of declines in other countries immediately followed.
This was followed the next day by a further 1.9% decline, and then, over succeeding months, by a series of sharp one-day drops that were precursors to the 22.6% collapse on October 19, 1987 – the largest-ever one-day correction.
Countries most successful at it – those of East Asia – followed policies markedly different from the Washington Consensus.
Ever since the current crisis began in 2007, many people have been wondering if the Great Depression that followed the 1929 stock-market crash and the banking crises of the early 1930’s is relevant to our experience today.
The troubling fact about the Great Depression is that it was severe, global, and lasted over a decade – and that it followed the collapse of an equity and real-estate boom, roughly as happened before the current crisis.
Likewise, many people have been wondering if the weakness that followed the equity and real-estate crash in Japan at the beginning of the 1990’s is relevant to our experience today.
The Soviets had their victory in World War II, followed by the creation of a global superpower.
When world metal prices began to fall in 2011, followed by food prices in 2014, Brazil’s economy lost its growth engines.
The trade negotiations that followed were different – at least in principle, they were supposed to be a development round, to make up for some of the deficiencies highlighted by protesters – and the International Monetary Fund subsequently undertook significant reforms.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the United States was a wise creditor, giving Germany new funds under the Marshall Plan, followed by debt relief in 1953.
But the idea of universal charity is too abstract, and smacks of the kind of unwelcome interference that Western imperialists – and the Christian missionaries who followed them – practiced in the East for too long.
Two of Snow's predecessors, John Connally and James Baker, followed a similar quest for politically desirable exchange rates.
The polemics that preceded and followed Cameron’s recent speech on Europe showed that both British Euro-skeptics and Europe’s truest Europhiles – including such iconic figures as former European Commission President Jacques Delors – welcomed the British initiative.
The era of low interest rates that followed the decision in 1995 to introduce the euro inflated a massive credit bubble in southern eurozone countries, which was sustained until the end of 2013.
The economist Mario Monti, who followed Berlusconi as Prime Minister, attempted a real depreciation, introducing greater flexibility into the labor market in order to force the unions into wage concessions.
Enrico Letta, who followed Monti as the head of Italy’s government, lacked a clear concept for reform, and in turn was followed by the charismatic Renzi.
A carbon tax on international shipping and aviation set at the same level (or auction revenues from emissions caps, if that pricing route is followed) could generate $10 billion annually for international climate action from just 25-50% of the revenues, even after ensuring that costs borne by developing countries are covered.
The quest for a clear, simple answer recalls the discussions that have followed financial crises around the world.
Normally, revolutions are followed by dangerous times.
The US has followed Saudi Arabia's lead, shuttering its embassy and freezing intelligence cooperation and counterterrorism operations.
In the past, when discretionary spending on items such as motor vehicles, furniture, appliances, and travel was deferred, a surge of “pent-up demand” quickly followed.
The record plunge in consumer demand during the Great Recession has been followed by persistently subpar consumption growth.
Iraq is not like Vietnam, where American departure was followed by stability imposed by an authoritarian government.
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