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China should take a lesson from business and recognize that many of its actions and affiliations on the world stage pose serious risks to its reputation – and to its bottom line.
But intervention by modern democratic states goes beyond the boundaries of the post-1945 welfare state, which sought to protect individuals against risks linked to old age, family responsibilities, accidents, illness, and the labor market.
Without a strong German counterpart willing to take the necessary political risks, he will struggle to advance his plans to reform the eurozone and pursue closer integration in migration, defense, and much else that is important to Germany itself.
But even the ECB cannot be indifferent to the risks of appreciation, because a strong euro may seriously complicate economic adjustment in countries like Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland.
In many cases, they do so because investments undertaken in the name of development can disrupt the actual needs of local populations, are imposed against the population’s will, can expose members of the affected community to serious human-rights risks, and can damage the local ecosystem.
But the structure of China’s national balance sheet suggests that it still has plenty of room to mitigate the risks that escalating debt might bring.
As we did during the darkest days of the Cold War, Americans, Europeans, and Russians must work together to avoid catastrophe, including by preventing terrorist attacks and reducing the risks of a military – or even nuclear – conflict in Europe.
The first step in acting to advance our common interests is to identify and pursue concrete, practical, near-term initiatives designed to reduce risks, rebuild trust, and improve the Euro-Atlantic security landscape.
The eurozone thus risks becoming stuck in an unstable status quo, with banks’ cross-border claims large enough to transmit national shocks to the entire system, but financial integration not deep enough to ensure that capital flows freely throughout the currency area.
Indeed, NATO’s accomplishment in Libya risks obscuring persistent weaknesses in Europe’s military capabilities.
While the basic risks originated outside the systems – a tsunami for Fukushima, over-investment in real-estate mortgages for financial institutions – design defects and bad luck meant that the system couldn’t contain the damage.
We now understand the Fukushima risks and design defects well.
Not so for the derivatives risks that jeopardized the global economy.
The public perceives Fukushima-type risks and derivatives risks differently.
Many fear nuclear risks, which are vivid, slowing the industry’s development amid safety concerns.
But the derivatives and repo markets present risks that are poorly understood, difficult to communicate in the media, and hard for politicians to debate and resolve.
For Fukushima-type risks, analysts are already discussing how nuclear plants can be designed and built to contain earthquake and tsunami risks via passive cooling.
Fifth, the Palestinian leadership cannot be expected to take risks for peace without political protection.
But such a rebalancing requires ever more debt and investment, thus creating greater risks of collapse.
The EU-China relationship must be made more reciprocal, with the EU – and, in particular, the Southern and Eastern European countries that have welcomed Chinese investments with open arms – recognizing the security risks posed by China’s activities.
In both cases, banks took excessive risks in the expectation – eventually vindicated – that governments would bail them out.
While the enormous volume of the bank debt implies that governments should shy away from socializing banking risks, it also suggests that only the banks’ creditors could reasonably be asked to foot the bill without being overburdened.
In fact, creditors arguably are more responsible: typically, they are sophisticated financial institutions, whereas borrowers frequently are far less attuned to market vicissitudes and the risks associated with different contractual arrangements.
Thus, large banks are likely to continue to hold too little capital and to take excessive risks, raising the prospect of renewed bouts of financial instability.
Even funeral directors are facing new risks and challenges, from dealing with overdose victims’ relatives to safe handling of victims’ bodies.
Substantially stronger financial regulation than was in place before 2008 needs to be adopted to minimize the risks of future crises.
It speaks to ten-year default probabilities of less than one in 500,000; notes that even if the analysis is off by an order of magnitude, any risks to government are very modest; and appeals to the regulatory system in place at the time to minimize that their model missed risks.
But the gravest risks may not be the ones most often discussed.
But the risks posed by these divides should not be underestimated.
The Global Economy Confronts Four Geopolitical RisksCAMBRIDGE – The end of the year is a good time to consider the risks that lie ahead of us.
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