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That transatlantic alignment has safeguarded global peace and prosperity for 70 years, and it will be needed to confront looming global threats.
Governments are increasingly looking for ways to mitigate the negative effects of trade through labor-market policies and broader interventions, and scholars are generating a new wealth of knowledge that could make globalization work for everyone, provided the significant trade-policy risks looming on the horizon are addressed.
Not only is there no crisis looming on Europe’s borders; despite anemic growth, the economic outlook also appears stable.
And let us be clear: anything less than a United States of Europe will not be powerful enough to prevent the looming disaster.
Surely a French president, eager for global success with a domestic election looming, will not pass up his chance?
The looming chatterbox on New York's East River will also continue to bleat.
In both 1967 and 1973, with war looming, the UN withdrew from the Middle East, leaving Israel to defend itself.
Finding the means to nourish the fading “associations or duties or ties” that are so essential for individuals to flourish is the unsolved problem of the developed world, and it is looming for the billions who have just stepped on to the growth ladder.
The consequences of rapid aging are manifold: a shrinking workforce and a narrower pool for entrepreneurship, which undermines prospects for economic growth; a looming threat to the sustainability of “pay-as you go” public pensions systems; and increased health-care and other costs associated with an elderly population.
And in the US, even if President Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress agree on a budget plan that avoids the looming “fiscal cliff,” spending cuts and tax increases will invariably lead to some drag on growth in 2013 – at least 1% of GDP.
On the contrary, as the German election shows and with a presidential election looming in France, the debate has intensified.
Saving America from Trump’s Tax ReformBERKELEY – US President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans had an opportunity – and a responsibility – to reform the US tax code to address three major economic challenges: slowing growth, rising inequality, and a looming fiscal crisis.
Most analysts suggest that this visible disagreement between Putin and Medvedev over Luzhkov’s fate is a sign of a looming contest for the presidency in 2012.
With potential instability looming, Monti should ensure that Italy is not defenseless in the event of another round of market instability.
Indeed, is a new Cold War looming?
While the latest monthly indicators show China’s economy stabilizing at around the 6.7% growth rate recorded in the first half of 2016, there can be no mistaking the headwinds looming in the second half of the year.
How to Sell Anti-ProtectionismSTOCKHOLM – The looming global recession has brought government intervention to save failing companies to the forefront of economic policy.
This looming global recession is being fed by several factors: the collapse of housing bubbles in the US, United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland and other euro-zone members; punctured credit bubbles where money and credit was too easy for too long; the severe credit and liquidity crunch following the US mortgage crisis; the negative wealth and investment effects of falling stock markets (already down by more than 20% globally); the global effects via trade links of the recession in the US (which still counts for about 30% of global GDP); the US dollar’s weakness, which reduces American trading partners’ competitiveness; and the stagflationary effects of high oil and commodity prices, which are forcing central banks to increase interest rates to fight inflation at a time when there are severe downside risks to growth and financial stability.
One reason to be concerned about the bad deal that American taxpayers are getting is the looming national debt.
Meanwhile, we drift downstream seemingly oblivious to the looming peril of the rapids ahead.
Take Iraq, where the looming “Shia crescent” is often blamed for much of the chaos.
This supra-sectarian platform calls for a central government administration of Iraq’s natural resources and the postponement of the looming referendum to settle the status of the city of Kirkuk.
With elections looming in Indonesia, and nationalist sentiment there strong, Australia will be paying the diplomatic price for a long time unless it changes course.
So, is a global fresh water crisis looming?
As for Romney, he refused to recognize any kinship between his bill and the ACA – sort of like when he refused to recognize details surrounding the participation in the 2012 Olympics of a Dressage horse that he owned,But now January 1, 2014 is looming, and the Affordable Care Act is about to be implemented – but perhaps not everywhere.
A part of the European public, looking at Europe's looming population decline, wants to head in the other direction, promoting a return to larger families.
Rhetoric aside, the looming Catalan referendum emerged as a result of the political bargaining surrounding bailout discussions between Spain’s regions and the central government.
In the context of the country's looming OECD membership there is a price to be paid.
A major slowdown seems to be looming.
But the looming British exit from the EU has reminded us of something fundamental that had been hidden until now: the EU’s tendency to expand is not irreversible, and the EU’s continued existence as a political entity cannot, and should not, be taken for granted.
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