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When inequality reaches such proportions, it erodes the very basis of the social contract.
That would be a tragedy of historic proportions, which only German leadership can prevent.
The result is a massive budget deficit, which will expand to gargantuan proportions in the coming year (perhaps $1 trillion) under the added weight of recession, bank bailouts, and short-term fiscal stimulus measures.
Moreover, European companies receive an excessive 80% of their finance from banks and less than 20% from capital markets (the proportions are roughly reversed in the US).
A corollary hypothesis is that employers, disturbed by the extremely slow growth of productivity, especially in the past ten years, have grown leery of granting pay raises – despite the return of demand to pre-crisis proportions.
The trick is not to discard the water and the sugar, but to get the proportions right.
All else being equal, per capita incomes and productivity in countries with high proportions of elderly people tend to grow more slowly than in younger countries.
Never before in modern history has the world’s leading economic power experienced a saving shortfall of such epic proportions.
And policies, like austerity, that increase insecurity and lead to lower incomes and standards of living for large proportions of the population are, in a fundamental sense, flawed policies.
In a true economic union, underpinned by union-wide political institutions, the financial problems of Greece, Spain, and the others would not have blown up to their current proportions, threatening the existence of the union itself.
This situation is an injustice of vast proportions, reminiscent of – and arguably much worse than – the now-repudiated colonialism of the Western powers in the nineteenth century.
Far from being a masterstroke, Modi’s decision seems to have been a miscalculation of epic proportions.
But Venezuela is not just a political problem; it is a humanitarian catastrophe of unprecedented proportions.
Instead, emerging markets are suffering financial convulsions of possibly historic proportions.
By alienating that country for generations to come, Russia has suffered a geopolitical setback of historic proportions.
Pollution is a global externality of enormous proportions.
The Governing Council and the interim Government are both coalition bodies of the Lebanese type, comprising studied proportions from the three main communities in Iraq—the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds.
But, if businesses, governments, and consumers each do their part, the Circular Revolution will put the global economy on a path of sustainable long-term growth – and, 500 years from now, people will look back at it as a revolution of Copernican proportions.
Such a change would be a mistake of potentially crisis-size proportions.
But illegal, undeclared, and unreported (IUU) fishing off Africa’s coasts has reached epidemic proportions, depriving coastal communities of income and opportunities.
Finally, Asian and Middle Eastern central banks or sovereign wealth funds could take advantage of the ECB's bond-purchase program to sell increasing proportions of their German, French, or Italian debt and reinvest the proceeds in higher-yielding US Treasury securities.
But if America’s next president is committed to a new direction, US foreign policy might again become more multilateral, more focused on international institutions and alliances, and willing to bring the relationship between military force and diplomacy back to within its historical proportions.
If Europe’s policymakers do not recognize that deposit flight and continuing excessive private expenditure constitute the real danger to the adjustment program in Greece, they might soon have to deal with another crisis – hard to imagine today – of even bigger proportions.
The claim that the spread of severe mental illness has reached “epidemic” proportions has been heard so often that, like any commonplace, it has lost its ability to shock.
The remainder is assigned for discretionary spending across various ministries in proportions often related to past budgets.
It will take more than what we have seen so far to return the US current account deficit to reasonable proportions.
It is easy to imagine what the euro’s failure would mean for the EU as a whole: a disaster of historic proportions.
Polar bears, which pile on fat to survive hibernation and yet do not become diabetic, may also hold clues for treating Type II diabetes, a disease associated with obesity that afflicts more than 190 million people worldwide, reaching epidemic proportions in many countries.
Engaging the World in SyriaABU DHABI – A global security crisis of historic proportions is raging in the Middle East, and spreading by the day, as millions of refugees flee Syria and Iraq.
Moreover, human actions threaten substantially higher proportions of other well-known groups – such as flowering plants and amphibians.
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