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But, all too predictably, the VIX would not adjust until the shock materialized and prices plunged.
Yet, as my fellow Elder, former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and I saw firsthand on a recent trip to India, millions of people in that country alone are plunged into poverty each year due to health costs.
Industrial production, moreover, has plunged by a staggering 24%.
Under Rousseff, inflation mounted and the real’s exchange rate plunged; large “white elephant” infrastructure projects were launched and then abandoned; and the effort to reduce interest rates artificially led to a consumer credit bubble.
From the first quarter of 2008 through the second quarter of 2009, real consumer spending plunged at a 1.8% average annual rate.
From 1993 to 2005, GDP growth contributed about 18 percentage points to annual median household income growth, on average, in the US and Europe; that figure plunged to just four percentage points from 2005 to 2014.
Such traumatic events plunged these countries into the so-called “middle-income trap”: unable to grow nor to continue broadening their middle classes.
But now we see that austerity has plunged Greece, Portugal, and especially Spain and Italy deeply into recession.
We must not forget that the multilateral trading system – along with the Bretton Woods institutions – was originally created to avoid a repeat of the protectionism and competitive devaluations of the 1930’s that plunged the world into depression.
Thus, while the global recession plunged the transition region into crisis, at the same time it demonstrated the resilience of the reforms and economic integration achieved over the last 15 to 20 years.
But support for the euro, the EU, and the country’s pro-EU establishment has plunged.
When the global financial crisis erupted, the euro shielded countries that in comparable circumstances would have been plunged into a deep currency crisis.
Gaza Then and NowWhen the Gaza Strip was plunged into darkness last week as a result of the Israeli fuel blockade, many people around the world were surprised.
Egypt’s morass, together with the unrest in Turkey, has plunged political Islam into a crisis of democratic confidence.
Unfortunately, failure to implement policies based on genuine respect for this perspective plunged Sudan into its second costly North-South war, fueled the violent conflicts in Western and Eastern Sudan, and created the possibility of the South’s secession.
Lending dried up, fear intensified, and the economy plunged into recession.
Last August, Russia experienced financial collapse, defaulting on treasury bills as its stock market plunged 94% from its October 1997 peak.
Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu is an Oxford-trained historian and retired army officer who led the Biafran secessionist attempt in 1967, which plunged the country into civil war.
But its rich and powerful, who have already plunged the country into a bloody civil war once, appear ready to do it again.
Within three years, US imports plummeted by 66%, while exports plunged as well, by 61%.
The Irresponsible ECBFRANKFURT – The Dow Jones Industrial Average’s recent “flash crash,” in which it plunged by nearly 1,600 points, revealed just how addicted to expansionary monetary policy financial markets and economic actors have become.
In Europe, there was continued emphasis on austerity, with self-congratulations on the progress made so far, and a reaffirmation of resolve to continue along a course that has now plunged Europe as a whole into recession – and the United Kingdom into a triple-dip downturn.
Already, the flow of foreign would-be jihadists crossing from Turkey into Syria to join ISIS has plunged, from 2,000 per month to about 50.
Most recently, the price of oil almost tripled, from $50 to $140, in the year leading up to the 2008 crash; it then plunged to $40 in the six months immediately before the economic recovery that started in April 2009.
To compensate, Yakuza groups plunged into financial fraud, stock manipulation, and cybercrime, giving rise to a new generation of gangster-nerds, more interested in business than blackmail.
Indian regulators are sorting out the tangle of issues that have plunged India’s microfinance industry into crisis.
Indeed, were it not for China’s resilience in the depths of the recent crisis, world GDP would not have contracted by 0.1% in 2009, but would have plunged by 1.3% – the sharpest decline in global activity of the post-World War II era.
Little wonder that every economy in the region either fell into recession or experienced sharp slowdowns when global trade plunged in late 2008.
As the recent crisis in the eurozone periphery deepened and the euro’s value plunged relative to the Swiss franc, Switzerland’s central bank, citing the strong franc’s threat to the economy, introduced a de facto exchange-rate peg in September 2011.
When prices plunged in 2008, they shot back up almost faster than experts could say “new normal”; after the 1986-1987 drop, prices remained low for a decade and a half.
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