Losing
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As declining consumer confidence and household purchasing power deepen the recession, projections of when the crisis will end are repeatedly pushed back, and those bearing the brunt of austerity are
losing
hope.
But the rhetoric of fear is
losing
sway, because the “new deal” taking shape across southern Europe offers morerepression and less protection, thus violating the social contract’s fundamental tenets.
First, compensation schemes must be radically altered through regulation, as banks will not do it themselves for fear of
losing
talented people to competitors.
The US government’s loss of its AAA rating is a first sign that the most important outlet for excess Chinese savings might be
losing
its luster.
A third drawback is that when central banks are seen to give misleading assurances and to over-commit to certain outcomes, they risk
losing
their most important asset: their credibility.
In fact, we might be
losing
the momentum we had a few years ago to implement some of these ideas.
As then floated, the idea was simple: the government would protect people from the risk of
losing
their job and being unable to find a new one at the same wage.
In reality, however,
losing
a high-paying job may be a lifetime event, and the supposed retraining that wage insurance would encourage for a laid-off 50-year-old worker often may be ineffective.
The Middle East’s fate during the last 100 years was cast in November 1914, when the Ottoman Empire chose the
losing
side in World War I.
Rather than becoming “the most dynamic economy in the world,” the EU is
losing
ground.
Europe is
losing
out in the worldwide race for talent, and the global recession is providing an opportunity to redesign the geography of human capital endowments.
What is even more insulting to African women is that the AU bypassed them to pick men whose commitment to democracy and human rights may be worse than that of Laurent Gbagbo, the man clinging to the Ivorian presidency despite
losing
the election.
But those concentrating on the short term risk
losing
money, because the risk premium will eventually decline when the debt ratio turns around.
When one considers the impact on families of not
losing
their breadwinner, and on communities of not
losing
their experienced workforce, the real benefit could be even higher.
The people who died in Myanmar and Vietnam are not just “unavoidable costs,” and their loved ones cannot simply “adapt” to
losing
them.
They are unmoved, for example, by the fact that, after
losing
a United Nations vote, their candidate pulled out of the race and the UK now has no judges seated at the International Court of Justice for the first time in 71 years.
We know that people often shirk if there is no penalty for doing so, and that the common penalty in the workplace is the risk of
losing
one’s job.
With the US Federal Reserve set to tighten the exceptionally generous monetary conditions that have driven this “easy growth,” such emerging economies will have to change their approach, despite much tighter room for maneuver, or risk
losing
the ground that they have gained in recent years.
Although foreigners often idealize Sweden's welfare state, its economy has been
losing
ground steadily for 30 years.
The fear of
losing
that battle may explain the timidity of the left’s response.
In the long run, it is a
losing
strategy.
In military terms, the battle was a draw, but the regime kept
losing
political ground.
It has been knocked back on its heels, but it is still standing, and responded swiftly to the assassination of three major figures,
losing
no time in appointing a new defense minister.
And just as competition authorities on both sides of the Atlantic have been
losing
sleep over the Windows monopoly, Microsoft’s desktop model is threatened today by handheld devices and Google’s dispersed online computing model.
In practice, green accounting might easily have led our forefathers not to cut down forests, because this would entail
losing
a valuable resource.
Another source is investors who feared
losing
their money after the various emerging market meltdowns of the 1990's, techno-enthusiasts chasing the pot of gold that the American technology boom seemed to offer, and the third-world rich, who think a Deutsche Bank account is good to have in case they need to flee their countries in a Lear jet or a rubber boat.
With an increasing number of Germans
losing
confidence in a European solution to the ongoing refugee crisis, calls for German isolation and unilateralism are growing louder – and far-right political forces are gaining traction.
Simply put, populations are
losing
faith that the global development orthodoxy of good governance (including monetary and fiscal discipline) and free markets can benefit them.
These people avoided politics on principle, but also because they were afraid of
losing
their state jobs, or of disappearing altogether.
Indeed, they are also not worried about
losing
their jobs.
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