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Now, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction, especially with respect to US foreign policy.
But that is unlikely to swing the political pendulum back toward Europe, especially in countries like France and the UK.
In the decade after September 11, 2001, the pendulum of public sentiment swung too far to the security pole; but it has begun to swing back in the absence of major new terrorist attacks.
Central Europe's Fractious RightIs Eastern Europe's political pendulum about to run down?
While the pendulum has swung from squeezing out excess inflation to avoiding deflation, price stability remains the sine qua non in central banking circles.
In Europe, despite the media focus on the success of xenophobic politicians in Hungary and Poland, the pendulum is swinging away from economic nationalism in the countries that really matter: France, Germany, Spain, and Italy, where the two populist parties that recently achieved electoral breakthroughs are now vying to show their devotion to the euro.
Led by the developed countries, the pendulum began to swing in the 1980’s.
But there is a real danger that the pendulum is beginning to swing back, leading to a reversal of that liberalization process.
One view is that Russian politics is like a pendulum.
Fortunately, the pendulum has started to swing back.
Because social media companies, for all their power and potential, never developed the journalistic capacities needed to displace traditional news media, the pendulum has changed direction.
Thirty years after the Reagan-Thatcher revolution, the ideological pendulum has begun to swing in the opposite direction.
The pendulum has swung too far.
Yet today the pendulum has arguably swung too far in the opposite direction.
During the right-wing ascendancy of the past 20 years, the pendulum of politics swung too far towards individualism and ignored the capacity of collective action, regulated or organised by governments, to achieve what individuals could not do.
The pendulum will swing back.
It is impossible to fix a date when the pendulum swung back, but something happened around 1993 in Poland, as it is happening now (for a variety of reasons) in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Hungary as well.
In the Internet age, is it time for the legal pendulum to swing back toward the offense of criminal libel?
Those who take advantage of the current ethical fugue for personal or shareholder gain will have to answer for it when the political pendulum swings back to sanity.
Beginning at the top, the regulatory pendulum is still swinging toward tighter supervision of traditional financial institutions, particularly large banks and insurance companies deemed “systemically important.”
Fortunately, the pendulum has begun to swing back toward cooperation.
Turn Left, Turn RightWARSAW: Electoral fortunes in the transition countries now swing like a pendulum.
Now, however, the pendulum has swung back toward “imperial” leadership, after a growing perception of drift at the top of the Party hierarchy led many to worry that big decisions – not least those regarding economic reforms – were being ducked.
The pendulum of history is swinging back toward the United Nations and collective action.
FIDESZ’s victory has drawn the day nearer when the Hungarian political pendulum can swing and democracy still flourish.
It is more accurate to see the current mood as a swing of the US foreign policy pendulum between what Columbia University’s Stephen Sestanovich has called “maximalist” policies and “retrenchment” policies.
Likewise, outspoken consumers, using means from protests to social media, can help swing the pendulum on a wide range of issues, from remuneration to corporate responsibility.
Countries who borrowed heavily when the dollar was cheap were squeezed when the pendulum swung back to an expensive-dollar cycle.
That is about how long it has typically taken Britain’s political pendulum to swing between right and left.
Unless the swing of the pendulum in the US can be stopped, the rest of this decade will be as bad.
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