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This meeting was followed by a donors meeting in Brussels at the beginning of March, and a meeting in Freetown, Sierra Leone, two weeks later to coordinate our technical committees.
Periods like 1998-2008, in which stocks do relatively badly, are preceded by periods – like 1978-1988 and 1988-1998 – in which they do relatively well, and are in all likelihood followed by similar periods.
We also had the long slide from 1977-1982 that followed a 40% collapse from 1973-1975.
From this followed an official obligation to treat all types of risk in the monetary union – bank risk or government risk – as identical.
At the end of the nineteenth century the huge amount of investment and technological progress in America's railroads appeared to benefit everyone but the stockholders and bondholders of railroad companies, as bust followed boom and ramming worthless securities down the throats of investors became Wall Street's favorite sport.
This followed new inflows of $47 billion in 1994, and $70 billion in 1995.
Between mid-1995 and 1998, however, the cheap-dollar regime was followed by an expensive-dollar regime, as the value of the dollar increased by more than 30% compared to other reserve currencies.
This incited deflation in dollar-export prices of -5% in 1997 followed by a swing in real interest rates on dollar debts from -4% in 1995 to 10.5% in 1997, ie by 14.5%.
It is almost unbelievable, but three years later the liberalising policies that followed a currency reform set in motion what came to be known as Germany’s economic miracle.
Still, in its own way Poland has followed a similar path after 1989: first the new, then the attempt to come to terms with the past.
Indeed, a Taylor rule is a guide for desirable policy only if one thinks that the policies followed in that period were desirable, or, more to the point, that similar policies will be desirable in the future.
The Fed is borrowing a page from the script of its last normalization campaign – the incremental rate hikes of 2004-2006 that followed the extraordinary accommodation of 2001-2003.
American reactions to the Abu Ghraib torture scenes, followed by the beheading of the American hostage Nicholas Berg, show clearly the route to barbarism in a supposedly civilized country.
The rest of an unbalanced Chinese economy followed – especially the labor market, which shed more than 20 million jobs in Guangdong Province alone.
Much hand-wringing followed, with single mothers (never, at that time, single fathers) cast as harbingers of doom for core American values.
Others soon followed.
Last year, the distraction was the annexation of Crimea, followed by the encouragement of pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine.
In 2007, as its external surplus reached a record of 7.5% of GDP, Germany’s biggest bilateral surplus was with the US (€29.5 billion), followed by Spain, France, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
It ran its largest bilateral deficit (€21.2 billion) with China, followed by Norway, Ireland, and Japan.
A winter of discontent awaits Merkel, followed by a European election campaign that is likely to bring the CDU back down to earth.
Drawing from its sad experience in Iraq, the US government fears that Assad’s fall would be quickly followed by the collapse of the Syrian army, leaving the country without a stabilizing force.
But forces beyond Madi’s control – even beyond his awareness – are restraining cotton prices, creating a global glut that is largely the result of policies followed by the world’s richest governments.
Many French were troubled by the explosion of joy that followed the victory of the Algerian soccer team over Egypt in its qualification for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
There followed extensive restructuring, and those economies recovered fast.
The bipolar division of the world collapsed, and there came a time for the building of an entirely new, more equitable order for the world's security, politics and economy, one better befitting the new era of human liberation that followed Communism's fall.
But harsh words have not been followed by a strong counter-attack.
Then there was Bush’s capricious War on Terror, followed by Barack Obama’s military intervention in Libya, Somalia, and Yemen, in defiance of international law.
For example, in 2003 China enacted a law on environmental-impact assessments, which was followed in 2008 by “provisional measures” to permit public participation in such assessments.
The rest of the EU has followed suit on sanctions against top officials, but could do more to liberalize travel for citizens.
The death of Kuwait’s ruler, Sheikh Jaber al-Sabah, on January 15, 2006, was followed by unprecedented national disquiet, which led to the rapid abdication of his designated successor, Saad Al Sabah.
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