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It is still difficult to think the unthinkable, let alone work out the details of it, but any rational player must now consider the
possibility.
Countries that embrace this brand of nationalism stir unnecessary conflict and undermine the
possibility
of cross-national collaboration.
While Austrian voters rejected the
possibility
of the European Union getting its first far-right head of state, Italians delivered a stinging rebuke to their government – and opened the way for populist forces to come to power.
But there is also the
possibility
of it all going terribly wrong.
While the
possibility
that South Koreans may be drawn into North Korea’s honey trap cannot be ruled out, most Koreans, including young people, have had their fill of the North’s provocations, and are highly unlikely to be seduced by Kim’s charm offensive.
More dangerous, some US policymakers continue to entertain the
possibility
of delivering a “bloody nose” strike to the North – a decision that could cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
From the perspective of the European Union, the latest US security bailout raises the
possibility
that after more than two decades of growing prominence, Europe will lose its agenda-setting power.
The consequences of retaining it might not be as dramatic as Keynes’ prophesied, but there is a real
possibility
that the Bank will ossify into an institution whose increasingly impoverished G-7 donors dispense progressively smaller sums of money in the same questionable ways to a shrinking number of supplicants.
But let’s accept, for the sake of argument, that the United States economy is operating well within its production
possibility
frontier, owing to various tax and other inefficiencies, and that eliminating or significantly reducing such distortions could significantly boost growth.
But, even giving the administration the benefit of the doubt and accepting the
possibility
of sustained 3% GDP growth for the US, another set of critical assumptions drive the rosy deficit and debt projections produced by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB): the expected level and path of interest rates.
The two that worry me the most are the
possibility
that we will be unable to raise the funds needed to pay for health and development projects, and that we will fail to align around clear goals to help the poorest.
The
possibility
briefly resurfaced when President Ronald Reagan began to show the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
At the ramshackle Rubaya primary school, in a small town in the lush green hills of North Kivu province, bordering Rwanda, one gets a glimpse of that
possibility.
Yet, facing the
possibility
that Ecuador might grant Snowden asylum, the US felt the need to scramble, with Vice President Joe Biden personally pleading America’s case to Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, even after Obama announced that he would not engage in “wheeling and dealing” over the extradition.
While there is a small
possibility
that stronger language from the US will lead China to curb its alleged cyber-espionage activities, the more likely outcome will be akin to a cyber arms race, with an increasing number of countries striving to become cyber powers in their own right.
A hard landing in China and other emerging markets is another
possibility.
To forestall the
possibility
of a coup, the army is being cleansed of hardline Islamists.
Beyond stoking Israeli security fears and fueling increased opposition from an already skeptical US Congress, such a pact would strengthen the position of Iran’s most obstructionist elements, all but eliminating the
possibility
of constructive future engagement.
Chinese officials also suggested the
possibility
of banning exports to Japan of rare-earth elements – raw materials crucial for many Japanese manufacturing processes – and appear to have done so informally.
The West cannot accept the
possibility
that the Assad dictatorship, however brutal, may be the least bad option on offer.
Barring the unlikely
possibility
that he will mount a presidential run sometime in the future, he is effectively abdicating one of the most powerful positions in the US government, and abandoning his country to the leadership of an unhinged and unqualified kleptocrat.
A deep recession is inevitable and the
possibility
of a depression cannot be ruled out.
Whether intended explicitly as a message to China or not, the move highlighted the
possibility
of a gulf between Trump’s campaign rhetoric and his actual positions and plans.
Given the
possibility
of trade wars, currency wars, and a renunciation of long-held security alliances within the next 9-12 months, it is time to put regional solidarity ahead of old enmities and the forces of fragmentation.
These conditions rule out any
possibility
of forging a security plan that would receive the support of all factions, including Hamas.
Such a perspective should recognize the
possibility
that market-related measures, particularly real (inflation-adjusted) income growth, may no longer be as important as they were in the past.
It was to avert this
possibility
that central banks began pumping money into the economy after 2008.
This is not an easy argument to dismiss, especially given the
possibility
that Bolsonaro could still lose the election – a win-win outcome.
This is not a theoretical
possibility
– such risks manifested themselves quite clearly in late 2008 and into early 2009.
Furthermore, while markets now price anti-takeover provisions, our findings raise the
possibility
that markets do not (yet) price other governance features whose emergence is relatively more recent.
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