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Imbalance in sentence

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This macho myopia reinforces the damaging imbalance in perspectives shaping the media.
Meanwhile, the causes of global imbalance on the US side also seem unlikely to disappear any time soon.
The US trade deficit is a multilateral imbalance with many countries – 102 in all – not a bilateral problem with China.
And that leads to America’s multilateral trade imbalance.
Yes, trade with China is the largest component of this imbalance, but that largely reflects the complexity of multinational supply chains and the benefits of offshore efficiency solutions.
That means that any reductions in China’s share of America’s external imbalance would simply be shifted to other foreign producers.
The current imbalance in US spending on global education and military-related programs is staggering: $1 billion per year on the former, and roughly $900 billion on the latter.
Because such distortions (a legacy of the dual-track transition) result in income disparities, they ultimately repress domestic consumption and contribute to China’s trade imbalance.
The mathematics of debt dynamics suggest that no euro-zone country should have a current-account imbalance, whether a deficit or a surplus, of more than 3% of GDP.
The exterior imbalance would be unjustifiable, indeed, unsustainable.
Most worrisome is America’s huge dependence on foreign borrowing, particularly from China – an imbalance that likely planted the seeds of the current crisis.
A multilateral imbalance – especially one that it is traceable to a saving shortfall – cannot be fixed by putting pressure on a bilateral exchange rate.
Third, there has been significant improvement in China’s external imbalance.
Economically, the US and China are mirror images, opposite sides of a massive global imbalance.
This macroeconomic imbalance is reflected in the two countries’ carbon footprints.
In terms of brokering a climate deal, this imbalance is good news.
Moreover, immense pressure in the US to undertake fiscal consolidation, reflected in President Barack Obama’s latest budget proposal, should reduce US import demand, further reducing the bilateral imbalance.
Indeed, China’s current-account imbalance, which had remained moderate until the current decade, began its inexorable rise in 2001 – precisely when the country joined the WTO.
This imbalance can have serious costs for labor exporters.
The US ran trade deficits with 101 countries in 2016 – a multilateral external imbalance rooted in America’s chronic domestic saving problem.
But the EU’s member states would be missing an opportunity if they did not pledge to use a part of the profits from the agreement to increase their defense budgets, thus mitigating the steep imbalance in military contributions and capabilities that currently exists between Europe and the US.
Former French President Jacques Chirac did not hesitate to justify this imbalance with a reference to World War II, which the Germans accepted.
An imbalance between profits and investment is a major reason for today’s tepid growth in developed and developing countries alike; unless it is addressed, the result could be a wider crisis of legitimacy for corporate governance and economic management.
China’s main trade partners are deeply worried about the consequences of this continuing imbalance.
That trade imbalance implied a continuous drain on gold and silver coin, causing shortages of these metals in Rome.
Attempting to solve a multilateral imbalance with bilateral tariffs directed mainly at China, such as those just imposed on solar panels and washing machines in January, doesn’t add up.
And, third, there is an imbalance between the state and the market, with the private sector still lacking access to liquidity relative to state-owned enterprises.
The financial crisis, morphing quickly into a global economic downturn, resulted not just from a failure to react to growing instability, risk, and imbalance, but also from a widespread pre-crisis inability to ”see” the rising systemic risk.
This is the forward-looking version of the global imbalance issue.
In my recent work, I explore the implications of this gross imbalance in the evolutionary pace of humans as compared to microbes and viruses.
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