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Why should the French undertake
painful
reforms when their newly elected leader has just promised to protect them from a strong currency and further interest rate increases?
Indeed, it may be a
painful
recognition, but America’s share of worldwide foreign direct investment is now half of what it was two decades ago.
Economic adjustments of this magnitude are always painful, but the economic pain is greater today because the winners are less prone to spend.
This time, the Kremlin has stuck its finger in the West’s eye over the long and
painful
effort to bring Kosovo to formal independence.
If we make these choices poorly, growth will suffer and future distributional choices will be far more
painful.
Global rebalancing is
painful
for American consumers, and shows itself as higher headline inflation.
But to respond by fighting inflation inside the US would be grossly inappropriate – both much more
painful
for US consumers and pointless.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s insistence that a referendum should be held on Turkey’s admission suggests that years of
painful
adjustment to EU norms will never produce the payoff of membership.
Trade liberalization exposes often ill-prepared businesses to the intense pressures of international competition, and requires a wide array of often
painful
reforms and risky politically decisions.
The rise of the Deutsche Mark and the currencies in neighboring countries during the foreign exchange market upheavals of recent years made this problem even more
painful.
This combination of insecurity and natural disasters has displaced huge numbers of people and caused suffering on a scale
painful
to behold.
While
painful
for the rest of society, this is healthy.
During that period, China’s self-image as East Asia’s preeminent power was shattered by a series of defeats, which were particularly
painful
when inflicted by the upstart Japan.
The same is true of all the aforementioned humiliations: they are particularly
painful
because an Asian neighbor, not a distant power, inflicted them.
A still-unbalanced global economy may be forced to relearn that
painful
lesson in the coming years.
So the sheet was not produced, and thousands of families are forced to continue using old,
painful
monitoring systems.
Institution building is
painful
and laborious ("a slow boring of hard boards," as Max Weber called it), as evidenced in the recurrent crises faced by African countries from Nigeria to Botswana.
Overlooking the evidence, European leaders, spearheaded by Germany, misdiagnosed the problem as one of fiscal profligacy for which
painful
austerity is the only cure.
A
painful
deleveraging process implies that private and public spending need to fall, and that savings must rise, to reduce high deficits and debts.
Reform continues, but it is occurring in ways much more
painful
than we hoped.
Households and companies understand this and cease to consume or invest in anticipation of the
painful
spending cuts and tax hikes to come.
But a UK decision to leave, should it come to that, would initiate a
painful
and complicated process of negotiating an exit and agreeing on some sort of new relationship.
Unless its leaders change course, the
painful
unraveling of the liberal world order will continue.
Such a scenario would be particularly
painful
for Chinese firms, given their lack of experience with the significant integration and management challenges that M&As pose for any business.
They have seen the horrors of cervical cancer, with women in the prime of their lives presenting with late-stage disease and suffering slow and
painful
deaths.
Sometimes, strong recoveries follow recessions, but recovery following financial crises is always immensely painful, time-consuming, and traumatic.
But those who suggest that trade is a zero-sum game are simply avoiding the hard questions: Who should bear the
painful
dislocation costs from trade and new technologies?
The second reason is historic: the
painful
and still vivid memories of the Vichy regime of WWII, when citizens’ “racial” and religious origin was stamped on national identification documents and was used as a key tool in rounding up French Jews for delivery to the death camps.
After five years of slow growth and rising unemployment, voters in other indebted countries, like Italians (and French voters before them), are likely to reject additional spending reductions, tax increases, and further
painful
deregulation.
The central, painful, reality that the US must accept is that a major shift in the Asia-Pacific balance of power has already taken place.
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