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In the face of non-monetary policy responses that are somewhere between deficient and non-existent relative to the
magnitude
of the challenges we face, the natural response in a democracy is to replace the decision-makers and try something different.
But the more bizarre fact about the Chernobyl disaster, we now know, is that Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was also kept in the dark about the
magnitude
of the disaster.
When the SARS epidemic broke out in Guangdong in South China, the government's first impulse was, indeed, to be secretive, manipulate statistics, pressure the media into silence, distort the
magnitude
of the epidemic, and impede the World Health Organization (WHO) from getting involved early.
The goal of achieving back-to-back annual reductions totaling more than double that
magnitude
is sheer fantasy.
While there is more than the usual degree of uncertainty regarding the
magnitude
of America’s output gap since the financial crisis, there is comparatively less ambiguity now that domestic inflation is subdued.
After ignoring the universalist principle for too long, world leaders finally seem to be acknowledging the
magnitude
of the problem – as well as their responsibilities to people far beyond their immediate electoral constituencies.
Export restrictions in producing countries and price controls in importing countries both serve to exacerbate the
magnitude
of the world price upswing, owing to the artificially reduced quantity that is still internationally traded.
Modern technology, possibly including weapons of mass destruction, increases the possibility that any terrorist success will cause damage of great
magnitude.
Investors outside the US can see the
magnitude
of the trade deficit, calculate the likely decline in the dollar required to eliminate it, and recognize that the interest rate and equity return differentials from investing in the US are insufficient to compensate for the risk that next month will be when capital inflows into America start to fall.
Yet considerable uncertainty remains about the
magnitude
of the impact of rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases on temperatures and climate.
Our predictions of twenty-first century extinctions jump an order of
magnitude
to 1,000 E/MSY.
For the past 30 years – that’s how long the satellite measurements have been taken – the trend is clearly upward and similar in
magnitude
in all the available data sets.
The
magnitude
of budget deficits – like the
magnitude
of the downturn – has taken many by surprise.
And even though the surpluses exceed 6% of German national income and would seem to be on the same order of
magnitude
as pre-crisis US deficits, one must remember that the German economy is less than a quarter the size of the US (at market exchange rates).
After that election, perhaps heady with the
magnitude
of his support, he proposed deepening his revolution with new laws on the organization of society and the economy.
Finally, and most important, the
magnitude
and duration of the drop in aggregate demand has been greater than expected, partly because employment and median incomes have been lagging behind growth.
Given the
magnitude
of the threat to the world's coral reefs, the international community's response has been frighteningly slow.
Either it could step in and provide an enormous amount of credit directly to households and firms (much like Gosbank, the Soviet Union’s central bank), or it could stand by idly while GDP falls 20-30% – the
magnitude
of decline that we have seen in modern economies when credit suddenly dries up.
In describing the New START Treaty, Obama administration officials stress the
magnitude
of the reductions.
I do not believe it is right to make a change of such
magnitude
without specifically consulting the people on whose behalf we govern.
When the US last experienced a crisis of this magnitude, in the 1930s, the Federal Reserve System similarly came under Congressional scrutiny.
The significance of the earthquake and tsunami of 2011 is not the relatively low
magnitude
of Japan’s direct impact on the broader global economy.
A Post-Crisis World of RiskMILAN – The global economy’s most striking feature nowadays is the
magnitude
and interconnectedness of the macro risks that it faces.
A public commitment of this
magnitude
should help calm the disorderly scramble for Europe.
The country now has an unemployment problem that is large in
magnitude
and increasingly structural in nature.
But the
magnitude
of the economic costs should not be exaggerated: after all, the aggregate GNP of the 10 applicant countries from the former communist bloc is smaller than the GNP of Holland!
Thus, the sheer
magnitude
of the task of reviving these economies is not overwhelming.
Nonetheless, as Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, points out, Robert Gates, who headed the CIA in the early 1990s, later conceded that the West, and particularly the US, “badly underestimated the
magnitude
of Russian humiliation in losing the Cold War.”
But we know that the single currency will be an innovation of unprecedented magnitude; and we cannot assume that it will proceed without turbulence, nor exclude the possibility that turbulence will lead to stress, or even to failure.
The data are uncertain: there have been many thousands of spills during this period – often poorly documented and their
magnitude
hidden or simply unmeasured by either the companies or the government.
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