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If not, Greece will have less control over its adjustment and potentially experience far greater trauma, perhaps eventually
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default.
Continued Russian attacks on Western political systems, or even an
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military attack in Europe, could go unanswered by the US.
First, recall that in the May 2015 general election, the Conservatives won an
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parliamentary majority, having previously been in a (surprisingly successful) coalition with the Liberal Democrats since 2010.
If there was not
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corruption in the $7 billion in contracts awarded to Halliburton, whose former chairman was Vice President Dick Cheney, there was undoubtedly a strong whiff of crony capitalism.
It makes little sense for developing countries to reject
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the lessons of China’s economic miracle, and deepening hostility between China and the West is in nobody’s interest.
Top-down directives and
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censorship are rare.
And yet the headlines are as filled as ever with stories of unethical, if not
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criminal, corporate behavior.
There is no excuse for the Fed to incite
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recession.
After the invasion, no one expected Iraq to get loans, let alone
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grants.
Even if President Bush wins reelection, it is highly unlikely that the US will make another
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grant to a sovereign Iraq.
The value of leading coins such as Ether, EOS, Litecoin, and XRP have all fallen by over 80%, thousands of other digital currencies have plummeted by 90-99%, and the rest have been exposed as
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frauds.
One poorly aimed rubber bullet might be all that is needed to turn the next street protest into an
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civil war.
In the eurozone, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, and Cyprus all had to restructure their sovereign debt to avoid
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default.
Other options, however, do exist and a combination of them could help bring down Saddam without necessarily engaging in
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military action.
Such a calibrated approach, however, combining a differentiated understanding of the nature of Saddam's regime and its weaknesses, has a better chance of success than an
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assault, or the dangers inherent in allowing Saddam to remain in power.
The sheer volume of false utterances and
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lies spewed during the United States’ presidential election campaign implies a growing disdain for factual knowledge, as does the proliferation of fake news disseminated without journalistic filters on social-media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter.
Against this background, a stalemate in the Donbas seems more likely than an
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offensive aimed at occupying the remainder of the region and establishing a land corridor to Crimea – the outcome that many in the West initially feared.
They also recognize the need for further liberalization of the country’s financial system, a move that will require tolerance for
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defaults on bad loans – and the anxiety and anger that comes with them.
Even official figures indicate that several provinces outside the more dynamic coastal regions are in
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recession.
A third question must therefore be asked: What could the eurozone do if confronted with a severe deterioration in the global environment – for example, a precipitous interest-rate hike in the United States or an
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recession in China?
Perhaps the small spread reflects investors’ belief that
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bailouts are eventually coming, however much German politicians protest to the contrary.
With the growth of private savings, the capital restructuring of SOEs (putting private investors in control) without
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sales of state assets (ie, public redistribution of the capital stock) becomes feasible in both economic and political terms.
But a slew of studies have proved all of these claims to be overblown or
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wrong.
They will resist even more strongly the
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elimination of their weapons, given that the world is probably still decades away from devising sufficient verification and enforcement measures.
But here, too, the US has rejected the idea
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While no two financial crises are identical, all tend to share some telltale symptoms: a significant slowdown in economic growth and exports, the unwinding of asset-price booms, growing current-account and fiscal deficits, rising leverage, and a reduction or
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reversal in capital inflows.
Youthful nationalists believe that they will gain
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leadership among Palestinians when they convince moderate young Islamists to abandon Hamas and Islamic Jihad to join with them in ousting the old guard.
If Trump really did keep his campaign promises to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement and impose tariffs on many Chinese imports, he could tip the world economy from subpar growth to
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depression.
As a result, many consider defense expenditures a luxury, if not an
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waste of money.
In such circumstances, unilateral claims of independence opposed by the national government or a sub-national unit often lead to a breakdown of trade and finance – and often to
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war, as we saw in the breakup of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and most recently, Sudan.
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