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Over the same 15-year period, financial markets have become unhinged, with a profusion of asset and credit bubbles leading to a series of crises that almost pushed the world economy into the abyss in 2008-2009.

While the global economy may seem to be recovering from the recent crises, it remains fraught with risk, stemming from the $750 trillion in liquidity – up $50 trillion since 2006 – sloshing around in speculative markets.

The third major obstacle to global peace and prosperity is the disappearance of ethics from the functioning of states and markets.

First, there is ongoing tension between the role of the state and that of markets in guiding resource allocation.

This was a glaring contradiction of the 2013 Third Plenum reforms, which focused on the seemingly inconsistent combination of a “decisive role” for markets and steadfast support for state ownership.

And, in the third scenario, central governments are fundamentally weak, with markets – and the enterprises that dominate them – providing almost all services.

Finally, while individual choice within markets is often the most efficient way to allocate resources, markets do not produce a sufficient supply of public goods.

At a time of rapid social change and relentless technological advancement, efforts to improve governance – at the local, national, or international level – will require careful thought and experimentation, in order to determine how to balance inclusive decision-making with the ever-evolving needs of markets.

Losing access to Chinese markets, capital flows, exports, and talent would result in higher prices and slower growth, whereas the benefits of reduced levels of competition to US industries are less clear.

These countries will jointly seek to develop a bigger presence in Asian markets, and to offer developed countries a safe option for capital investments in emerging markets.

Here and elsewhere, people, businesses, governments, and markets take a break, decompress, and reflect.

China’s reforms will either support the economic shift, boosting sentiment and lifting growth forecasts, or they will fall short and disappoint, with attention most likely to be focused on the size and nature of state intervention in markets.

It seems clear that tapering the Fed’s monthly purchases of long-term securities later this year would cause a realignment of asset values in financial markets.

The European Central Bank’s “outright monetary transactions” program – though conditional, limited to short-term government debt, and so far unused – appears to have stabilized eurozone sovereign-debt markets, albeit in a low- or zero-growth environment.

Markets will adjust and settle down.

If the Fed is to maintain the confidence of markets, it will need not only to communicate its key objectives; it will also have to make clear which considerations have priority and how officials will respond if policy prescriptions required to meet various objectives conflict with one another.

That “something” is being competitive in world markets.

Public sector unions also can affect a nation’s competitiveness in global markets, albeit indirectly.

Even though almost all of the oil produced by Unocal would have ended up on world markets rather than back in China, the US Congress’s skittishness assured that Unocal was sold to homegrown Chevron.

Although Chinese investors have since made numerous lower-visibility plays in US markets, the failed Unocal deal left a legacy of bitterness.

Emerging markets have suffered capital outflows and currency weakness, but this is more a consequence of Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes than of any announcements emanating from the White House.

Second, the markets may be betting that Trump is right when he says that trade wars are easy to win.

One such risk is that political partisanship will cause another disruption to the US federal government’s finances, weakening the American economy and roiling world financial markets.

Only bold target-setting demonstrates a credible commitment to the low-carbon vision and can provide much-needed certainty to businesses and markets.

Electricity grids are the key infrastructure element that will connect the EU power markets.

You might also want to rethink Eugene Fama’s efficient markets hypothesis, according to which prices of financial assets always reflect all available information about economic fundamentals.

After all, many of these scholars have made tremendous, lasting contributions to understanding how markets and societies work.

For a group of people so committed to free markets and so enamored of “creative destruction,” that is a question that urgently needs to be addressed.

With the liberalization of global financial markets that began in the 1970’s, foreign sources of credit became available.

During the 2000’s, rapid growth in emerging markets boosted business and consumer demand for many services in which US multinationals are strongly competitive.

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