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Rather than react out of blame, scorn, and distrust, both countries need to focus on rebuilding their own economic strength from within.
People who react faster have, on average, higher intelligence scores and live longer.
How would Trump – who questioned the value of NATO during the campaign – react if Putin committed aggression against one of the Baltic states, NATO allies toward which he’s already made threatening gestures?
European authorities were slow to react, because member countries held radically different views.
World leaders were slow to react to the crisis – and the delay caused tremendous suffering and loss of life.
Many of us, despite our great respect for the US, react against phrases like "Axis of Evil" not because the countries listed do not present serious challenges, but because of the difficulties that follow from mixing foreign policy and morality.
There is a pool of about 300 million graduates to build on, and, according to solid evidence, they react to changes in economic incentives with respect to their location choices.
How customers and companies, including new entrants, would react to such rules remains to be seen.
How will the ECB react to better economic news?
That would remove the serious risk that the ECB could start buying bonds on the basis of agreed fiscal packages, and then be forced to react if governments fall short on implementing them.
So, how should Europe react?
Rigid as it was, with an extensive welfare system and an over-regulated labor market, Germany was unable to react to these shocks and ran into trouble.
This theory recalls that of the British historian Arnold Toynbee, according to which empires collapse because they are unable to react to external challenges.
But they do underscore its inability to react quickly and decisively.
Indeed the only serious risk from the Doha round’s “failure” is that rich countries would take their own rhetoric seriously and react in unproductive ways that prove self-fulfilling.
For many Western citizens, entities such as the EU, no less than the rise of major emerging economies such as China and India, are perceived as agents of this decline, rather than as a source of leverage to influence global power shifts and react in accordance with its values and interests.
The water sector will have to react to developments in the energy and other sectors, over which, despite close ties, it has very limited control.
Most people never think about this when they react to the headline debt-to-GDP figure.
In December, US officials, seeking to better their understanding of North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs – and enable commanders to react swiftly if potential threats materialize – announced a new information-sharing agreement with South Korea and Japan.
The Charter empowered the UN to react to threats to peace and international order arising from non-member states, including a requirement--never implemented--that signatories provide "military contingents under the command of the Military Staff Committee, composed of the Chiefs of Staff of the permanent members."
Only a re-founded UN will have the legitimacy necessary to react credibly to threats to peace and promote freedom and human rights.
Moreover, what seem like obvious, commonsense policy solutions all too often have unintended consequences, because a policy’s targets are not passive objects, as in physics, but active agents who react in unpredictable ways.
Imagine how the world would react if some government were known to be planning to use or transfer a nuclear device or had already done so.
If bank failures typically reflect real underlying problems, sensitive professional investors can be expected to react quickly when any whiff of panic is in the air.
For days after Egypt erupted, the Muslim Brotherhood did not know how to react, making it seem out of touch with the “Arab street.”
There is no accurate science of confidence, no way of knowing how people will react to a failure to help when markets collapse.
They react only after they get their fingers burned.
Readers in other countries may be tempted to react to this judgment with a dose of schadenfreude, finding more than a little satisfaction in America’s difficulties.
Assessments of risk such as sovereign interest-rate spreads and credit default swaps react (and often over-react) fast; but, because they reflect only the market’s understanding of risk, they are not a systematic mechanism for uncovering hidden risks and avoiding crises.
Friedman and Schwartz are generally seen as reproving the Fed for failing to react swiftly to successive waves of bank failures, first in late 1930 and then again in 1931 and 1933.
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