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And yet the risk remains that these gains will be frittered away, as policymakers, business leaders, and investors focus on short-term concerns at the expense of looming threats to the global economy.

So we are left with a looming endgame in which Putin can neither retain his spoils – Crimea and control of Russian-speaking parts of eastern Ukraine – nor back down.

So far, investors have been complacent about the risks posed by the looming budget fight.

First, will the looming military strikes by the US and its allies against Syria be limited in scope and time, or will they trigger a wider military confrontation?

The looming known unknowns are plentiful.

Focusing on the looming September showdown should not prevent decision makers from looking ahead.

But this regulation, when combined with China’s aggressive pricing, suggests a desire to assert monopoly control, and the de facto ban of rare-earth exports to Japan looks like an effort to test the benefits of this looming monopoly.

To be sure, the United States has not experienced any major catastrophes, even though massive policy mistakes always seem to be looming on the horizon.

But in the longer term, with deficits looming, international trade agreements torn up, and totally inadequate spending on vital infrastructure, education, and health care, things could turn out very badly.

Farewell to the Neo-Classical RevolutionLONDON – The looming bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, and the forced sale of Merrill Lynch, two of the greatest names in finance, mark the end of an era.

Indeed, the looming US debate underscores a more general point: since time immemorial, war has been a double-edged sword.

Cities around the world face a looming investment crisis that makes them less livable than they should be.

Now the global spotlight turns to France and its looming presidential election.

All of the looming problems for the global economy are political in character.

This is important, because, whereas the West is relatively at peace with itself, Asia is riddled with actual conflicts (within and around Pakistan) and looming ones all around the South China Sea.

With disintegration looming, they urgently need to demonstrate to anxious Europeans that the benefits of the EU outweigh its costs.

This is the most sensitive geopolitical issue looming over Xi’s state visit to the US in September.

Shinawatra’s looming trial in Thailand and Ibrahim’s repeat conviction in Malaysia lack even the fig leaf of judicial independence.

So now the generals and their allies in the Bangkok elite seem determined to turn back the clock;Yingluck’s looming trial appears to be a signal that the Thaksins’ popularity rules out anything more than “managed” democracy in Thailand.

Now it is Putin’s turn to call the tune, dismissing Mikhail Fradkov and dissolving the government that had served him throughout his second term in order to prepare for the parliamentary elections looming in December and the presidential ballot in March 2008.

In striking the right balance between immediate economic stimulus and medium-term fiscal sustainability, the most urgent step will be to counter properly the looming fiscal cliff, as temporary tax cuts expire and deep, across-the-board spending reductions kick in automatically.

Is state failure looming in Pakistan?

Will the bull run of 2017 last, or will the looming specter of protectionism, long-awaited adjustments in monetary policy, and other factors change the economic story?

At a time of looming financial upheaval, the G-20 must stop attempting to tackle a broad array of issues simultaneously – a goal that has proved impossible – and go back to basics.

By relaxing the policy further, to allow a second child if either partner is an only child, China would make its looming demographic challenges far more manageable than they appear now.

Russia is already challenging the US and the EU in Ukraine, Syria, the Baltics, and the Balkans, and it may capitalize on the EU’s looming collapse by reasserting its influence in the former Soviet bloc countries, and supporting pro-Russia movements within Europe.

In 1996, when Japan’s public debt/GDP ratio reached 80%, many Japanese economists and officials worried about a looming crisis.

Resilient ChinaBEIJING – Today’s financial crisis and looming global recession are challenging China’s export-driven economic model as never before in the 30 years since Deng Xiaoping opened the economy.

Only swift and firm intervention from impartial external parties working in concert with the National Assembly and the courts can avert a looming disaster.

In the US, output continues to expand, but at a moderate 2% pace; and, even leaving aside the fiscal cliff looming at the end of the year, when Congress will be forced to impose spending cuts and allow tax cuts enacted in 2001 to expire, recovery remains at risk.

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