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What happened in 2009 was a rare exception; shocks like that which followed the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy – sudden, strongly adverse, and highly symmetric – come once in decades.
I hope that it is the fact of European interdependence - an interdependence carefully constructed by Jean Monnet, Robert Schumann, Konrad Adenauer, and those who followed in their footsteps - and not the memory of the horror of World War II that has caused the armies that used to cross the Rhine in arms to vanish.
This nod from the White House followed the publication of reports that representatives of Afghan President Hamid Karzai had begun preliminary high-level talks regarding a possible coalition government and an agreed timetable for a NATO military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Until recently, China, which holds foreign currency reserves of more than $1.2 trillion (the world’s largest), followed this policy, too.
If Grexit had succeeded, the entire monetary union would have come under threat, because investors would have wondered whether some of the eurozone’s other highly indebted countries would have followed Greece’s lead.
The Nuremberg trials, which followed Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender in World War II, provide an ideal model for post-conflict justice.
An intense crash course lasting four weeks followed, enough to instruct them in their new jobs.
How can we undo the imbalances of economies – China, followed far behind by Europe – exporting massively to the United States or to the dollar zone?
Back then, the United States followed George Washington’s advice to avoid “entangling alliances” and pursued the Monroe Doctrine, which focused on US interests in the Western Hemisphere.
Overcapacity vanished, constraints on consumption were lifted, and a dramatic increase in household demand followed.
One group – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (BELL) – experienced a surge in yields on their government bonds in 2009, followed by a sharp decline.
As Hatoyama could not keep his promise to safeguard the interests of the Okinawan people, he followed up with a customary resignation.
The company's announcement was followed by a further surge of some 4 percent in its stock market price!
What if the euphoria is followed by collapse?
It was no accident that the long battering to confidence from 1970 to 1982 was followed by almost 10 years of uninterrupted growth.
They claim that constitutionalism and due process, if meticulously followed, reduce the government’s “flexibility” in devising ways to prevent terrorist attacks.
The financial sanctions that followed Russia’s forced “reunification with Crimea” in 2014 intensified Russia’s isolation further, as has the country’s own moves to retaliate: a series of sweeping trade restrictions, including outright bans of food imports from the European Union and the US.
Diversification from US Treasury bills by investing some $3 billion in the Blackstone private equity fund this summer was swiftly followed by an embarrassing collapse in value.
In the years after the collapse of Bretton Woods, the IMF reinvented itself as a principle vehicle for managing the surpluses that followed the oil price shocks of the 1970’s.
When Pakistan’s President, Pervez Musharraf traveled to Myanmar to celebrate his country’s new relationship with his fellow generals, India’s Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh soon followed.
But it was also an overwhelmingly risky thing to do, as anyone who followed the portfolio strategy implicit in Shiller’s analysis learned.
With this macroeconomic groundwork laid, greater economic, and soon political, stability followed.
All previous peaks were followed by several years of declining prices (in real terms).
Such a large overshooting is likely to be followed by some undershooting.
An old quarry was being widened and leveled, and the boys followed the bulldozers as they scraped away a stratum of earth to reveal fragile, fossil-bearing shale underneath.
The great reforms of the past, including the liberation of the serfs in 1861, followed many years of discussions among westerners, slavophiles, and others.
Indeed, perestroika and the decade of reform that followed demonstrated that just following the formal structures of the Western democratic model isn’t enough if Russia is to see reform implemented consistently.
Disaster followed.
But I would appeal to an even older source: the Old Testament – in particular, the story of Joseph, who was called upon by the Pharaoh to interpret a dream about seven fat cows followed by seven skinny cows.
Joseph prophesied that there would come seven years of plenty, with abundant harvests from an overflowing Nile, followed by seven lean years, with famine resulting from drought.
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