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Other domestic arrangements might be easier than taking the matrimonial plunge, with its prospect of thankless exposure in the event of a scandal.
Economically, the new program is perverse, because it will plunge Greece deeper into depression.
Are investors underestimating the risk that the EU’s third-largest economy could plunge into a downward spiral into polarization and paralysis?
For starters, while Venezuela’s GDP contraction (in constant prices) from 2013 to 2017 includes a 17% decline in oil production, it excludes the 55% plunge in oil prices during that period.
Speculators transfer huge amounts of money from France to high-interest-bearing local deposit accounts, collect their tax-free gains every three months, and take the no-risk plunge again.
The velocity of money (the frequency at which money is spent, or GDP relative to base money) continues to plunge to historic lows.
They declare that Britain must plunge ahead, because that was “the will of the people” (though exactly what voters believed they were voting for remains opaque).
A plunge into the abyss is the most dangerous outcome imaginable, if not the likeliest.
Aristide's foes merely had to refuse to bargain in order to plunge Haiti into chaos.
Governments that enjoyed the rollercoaster ride on the way up should not have been surprised by the plunge that inevitably follows.
The Contradictions of China’s Communist CapitalismBERKELEY – The recent dizzying plunge in the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges has posed a unique test for China’s Communist rulers.
US banks will not lend to Trump, owing to his private company’s long history of not repaying debts, including those from an ill-fated plunge into Atlantic City casinos in the 1990s.
True, countries that have not cleaned up their fiscal act, such as India, must not recklessly plunge ahead with big government projects without counterbalancing reforms to ensure sustainability.
In response to a 31% plunge in the CSI 300 (a composite index of shares on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges) from its June 12 peak, following a 145% surge in the preceding 12 months, Chinese regulators have moved aggressively to contain the damage.
While Chinese equities initially bounced 14% off their July 8 low, the 8.5% plunge on July 27 suggests that that may have been a temporary respite.
And China’s recent stock-market plunge has certainly not eased their fears.
Elite corruption and incompetence, a population vulnerable to demagogic manipulation, and the ruthlessness of French neo-colonialism have combined to plunge francophone Africa into a deadly cycle of violence, humiliation, and hopelessness.
In August 2001, he wrote that, “The driving force behind the current slowdown is a plunge in business investment.”
Meanwhile, policymakers should be cautious in interpreting the plunge in gold prices as a vote of confidence in their performance.
One can admire Vargas Llosa for his courage in taking the plunge, without being entirely convinced that it was the right plunge to take.
But there is also the potential for indirect aftershocks, such as the recent plunge in oil prices following Russia and Saudi Arabia’s failure to agree on coordinated output cuts.
Most recently, a plunge in global markets has forced him to retreat temporarily.
This is likely to lead to a record current-account deficit and an outsize plunge in the value of the dollar.
In the COVID-19 era, the net national saving rate could well plunge as low as -5% to -10% over the next 2-3 years.
Turkey, meanwhile, has fallen into recession, led by a plunge in industrial output and dismal consumer sentiment.
The rebound has been concentrated in goods consumption – big-ticket durables like cars, furniture, and appliances, plus soft-good nondurables like food, clothing, fuel, and pharmaceuticals that have more than made up for what was lost during the lockdown-induced plunge.
Don’t Overestimate the COVID-19 RecoveryWASHINGTON, DC – The world economy has risen from the depths of the initial COVID-19 plunge.
Today, China reports that industrial production rebounded in March from its plunge in February.
With the recent oil-price plunge, perverse fossil-fuel subsidies can and should be eliminated, as the G7 and many European countries have pledged to do by 2025.
Many economists saw the simultaneous plunge in long-term interest rates and equity prices in December as an indicator of recession: either investors “know something” awful that is not yet evident in the statistics, or declining market sentiment would become a self-fulfilling prophecy by causing businesses or consumers to cut back.
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