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Trade is among the reasons: reduced demand from China, unprecedented uncertainty about US trade policy, and the looming
prospect
of a “hard” Brexit in which the United Kingdom leaves the European single market and customs union.
It is often assumed that everyone recoils at the
prospect
that there are genetic limits to our capacity for change.
But if the initial approach to financial reform doesn’t work, we face the
prospect
of another financial crisis every bit as serious as the last.
Germany faces the
prospect
of a fiscal crisis as its population ages and its workforce shrinks.
Merkel and Sarkozy, no doubt, find this
prospect
highly unattractive.
If in two years the bank’s assets have a 50-50 chance of appreciating to $1.2 billion or declining to $0.8 billion, the bank will be able to raise new equity capital: new investors will be willing to pay for the
prospect
of sharing in the excess of the value of assets over obligations if things turn out well.
When this happens, it is a racing certainty that the existing members will lose out, in several ways:They will have to share their political decision-making powers with the new members,they will have to share their economic advantages, and, in particular,they will face the
prospect
of a significant budgetary redistribution from the rich existing members to the (much poorer) new members.
This gives them the right to opt out of the Greek rescue, raising the
prospect
that the package may unravel.
A second reason is that, while emerging-economy members dislike the US monopoly, they are even more worried about the
prospect
of a president from a rival emerging economy.
As Russia's recent experience shows, creating a politically sycophantic business oligarchy makes the
prospect
of a market democracy more remote.
As a result, the
prospect
of closer cooperation remains distant.
Generals ordered to use chemical weapons would have to reckon with the
prospect
that the regime could, actually, fall, and that they then might find themselves on trial for war crimes.
Asia’s new security landscape places a premium on seamless cooperation among US allies – a
prospect
that the sustained bickering between South Korea and Japan calls into question.
A nuclear deal with Iran would have similarly important implications in the Middle East and Southwest Asia – a
prospect
that largely explains fervent opposition to negotiations by Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The
prospect
of a two-front war, should India enter into conflict with either country, certainly advances that interest.
But no one regards the
prospect
of another Netanyahu government with more anguish than the Palestinians.
The
prospect
of deflation is a threat to prosperity and financial stability, particularly for countries with low growth and high levels of public and private debt.
If universal conformity to a rules-based international order still seems like a distant prospect, an important reason is that countries that should be leading the charge still so often behave like rogue states.
That
prospect
raises risks for Turkey, Iraq, and the United States.
But there is another alternative: to detect in the
prospect
of answers without questions and choices, without deliberation or even thought, a path that will lead eventually only to more inhumanity, owing to the urges that may at any moment take hold of a people that senses itself withering away.
So long as that remains the case, millions of men, women, and children will face a dangerous present and a future of little
prospect.
European leaders must understand that adjustment programs have a social as well as a financial side, and that they will be unsustainable if those affected face the
prospect
of years of sacrifices with no light at the end of the tunnel.
The euro, according to this view, was devised in a fit of giddy and irresponsible optimism – or, alternatively, panic at the
prospect
of German hegemony over Europe – in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
China’s End of ExuberanceMILAN – China’s growth has slowed considerably since 2010, and it may slow even more – a
prospect
that is rattling investors and markets well beyond China’s borders.
But capitalism without the
prospect
of failure is not any kind of market economy.
And, with the Islamic State and other brutal extremist groups capitalizing on the anarchy created by the civil war, the
prospect
of peace is more distant than ever.
A Star is JailedBANGKOK – Joseph Estrada, the disgraced former president of the Philippines, faces the
prospect
of spending his remaining years in prison after a special court in Manila found him guilty of amassing around US$15 million in bribes and kickbacks.
Putin seems to be holding out the
prospect
of a grand bargain, with Russia helping in the fight against the Islamic State – for example, by not supplying S300 missiles to Syria (thus preserving US air domination) – in exchange for the US giving Russia control over its so-called “near abroad.”
Nevertheless, the fears, and especially the
prospect
of a new and lucrative market, set pharmaceutical firms scrambling to develop Ebola-related products, while health officials lamented that nothing had been done beforehand.
The US with Iran in SyriaPRINCETON – The
prospect
of a US military strike on Syria has dimmed following President Barack Obama’s embrace of an international initiative to take control of Syria’s chemical-weapons stockpile.
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