Likelihood
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Insulating executives from losses to stakeholders other than shareholders can be expected to encourage them to make investments and take on obligations that increase the
likelihood
and severity of losses that exceed the shareholders’ capital.
Recent experience offers us an opportunity to extend EU institutions in a way that markedly reduces the
likelihood
of a new crisis.
With every month that the economy loses productive capacity, the
likelihood
of stagnation and deflation rises.
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz provides further grounds for discounting the
likelihood
of faster tightening.
That means that we should not entirely dismiss the
likelihood
that a true global consciousness will develop in the future, along with transnational political communities.
At the same time, nominal wages in Bitcoin would increase forever in real terms, regardless of productivity growth, adding further to the
likelihood
of an economic disaster.
Cross-border mergers and acquisitions are likely to continue apace once the current market turbulence is over, further increasing the
likelihood
of a major cross-border banking crisis.
This means that high doses of chemotherapy might actually increase the
likelihood
of a tumor becoming unresponsive to further therapy.
China provided critical assistance in building Pakistan’s arsenal of nuclear weapons, including by reducing the
likelihood
of US sanctions or Indian retaliation.
Members cited a “reasonable
likelihood
of further stimulus by a number of the major central banks.”
While the
likelihood
of a breakup remains impossible to predict, the virus of political divorce has certainly proved contagious – and a more fragmented Europe is undoubtedly a less safe one.
It also increases the
likelihood
that asset purchases will become necessary once again.
This is because high oil prices raised inflation in the United States, worsened the US trade deficit, and increased the
likelihood
of a US recession by acting as a tax on consumer spending.
Just consider how the current bout has raised global inflation, lowered incomes of the global poor, weakened the dollar, deepened the US trade deficit, aggravated global financial instability, and increased the
likelihood
of a global recession.
And, while a more balkanized financial system does reduce the
likelihood
of global shocks creating volatility in far-flung markets, it may also concentrate risks within local banking systems and increase the chance of domestic financial crises.
There is a strong
likelihood
that weaker US growth and lower inflation will force it to slow the pace of its withdrawal of liquidity support.
Given the
likelihood
of additional trade protectionism and measures to remove immigrant workers, the increase in inflation and long-term interest rates could be quite dramatic.
The fawning article was devoted to one Donald Trump, in whom the author found a thousand virtues because of his supposed hostility to “the system,” the
likelihood
that he would abandon the West’s “liberal orientation,” and his willingness to attack “media power,” “economic globalization,” and “Wall Street’s arrogance” (and that’s not the half of it).
When they do – and assuming that the government does not suddenly tighten its belt (it has no credible plan to do so) – there is every
likelihood
that America’s appetite for foreign cash will surge again.
He has waged unconventional war in the West, while pursuing closer ties with the East, raising the
likelihood
that Russia will end up acting as China’s junior partner, without access to the Western capital, technology, and contacts that it needs to reverse its decline.
According to that view, investors punish profligate states by demanding higher interest rates to hedge against the
likelihood
of inflation; so the best way to ensure low borrowing costs is to give central banks as much independence from politicians as possible, and then make price stability their primary mandate.
One factor diminishing the
likelihood
of governments intervening more directly in markets is that the recent crisis seems to have discredited government as much as it discredited the financial sector.
But annual deficits are poor approximations of the
likelihood
that one member may have to repay another’s debt.
The lasting, neurobiological effect on young children who experience toxic stress leads to a far greater
likelihood
of anti-social behavior, lower achievement in school and at work, and poor physical and mental health – all of which society addresses at great cost.
Coen went on to argue that, “the
likelihood
of a future financial crisis occurring only increases with time.”
It could help parents have children with a higher
likelihood
of being healthy, without bringing direct harm to anyone else.
In all likelihood, the 22 reported dead from swine flu reflect a social safety net falling to pieces due to lack of public investment and union recalcitrance.
In fact, the
likelihood
is that such reforms will sink all boats, giving the populists their chance.
By contrast, changes in broadly shared economic assumptions are far more likely to trigger a sell-off, by prompting investors to reassess the
likelihood
of actually realizing projected cash flows.
Indeed, offering this solution was, in all likelihood, largely a tactical decision.
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