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There could be a real disaster if US growth woes turn today’s mild downward pressures into something much more serious.
Business leaders have swung belatedly into action with warnings of the serious economic consequences of Brexit, but voting intentions – as the election has plainly demonstrated – are opaque.
Serious investors understood that the banks remained in serious trouble, despite the large injection of public funds.
Whether the region’s governments are finally serious about implementing real change remains to be seen.
It also raised serious questions about the direction of the highly fraught relationship between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
But even then, there would be a serious potential hitch: Pakistan’s prime minister does not, ultimately, call the shots in his country.
Much more worrying, however, is what lurks unmentioned behind the Treasury report: a serious legislative effort, supported by the Trump administration, to reduce the level of scrutiny applied to banks that are on the verge of becoming systemically important.
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.
Fifth, African leaders are getting serious about curbing illicit financial outflows from corrupt practices that rob African countries of some $50 billion annually, much of it in the oil and gas sector.
This is the most serious danger.
NEW YORK – Sometime in the 1980’s, when the communist regime in Poland was facing serious challenges from disaffected masses, the regime’s official spokesman, Jerzy Urban, remarked to a foreign journalist that there were only two choices in Poland: communism or domination by the Catholic Church.
Serious fighting only broke out after supporters of Mubarak began to attack the crowds.
Clarity is a prerequisite of serious discussion and ambitious reform.
That would be the first serious step towards creating a single market for labor in Europe.
There are, of course, serious downside risks to this forecast, especially if the fiscal deficit remains high or adverse tax policies depress the rise in productivity.
At present this seems inherently extremely unlikely, because the objections are just as serious today as when the Commission formulated them 10 years ago.
To be sure, the new Palestinian Authority (PA) took power under difficult conditions, but which new liberation movement does not face serious challenges when it finally must govern?
New leaders in China, Japan, South Korea, and now India are political nationalists in regions where territorial disputes remain serious and long-held historical grievances fester.
For them, and for new democracies like Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, Russian energy dominance and its political consequences remain a serious threat.
The EU’s political will to counter its increasing dependence on Russia in the immediate future is thus open to serious doubt.
These arguments are advanced in good faith and deserve serious consideration.
Indeed, an excessive emphasis on national sovereignty leads to serious problems: after all, any international agreement, whether political or economic, entails a certain transfer of sovereignty.
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.
In Lee’s judgment, China’s leadership will make a serious effort to avoid a military confrontation with the US – at least for the next several decades.
Some might not think that hollowing out the right of assembly is as serious as other threats to democracy, not least partisan gerrymandering and voter suppression.
There is another motivation at play – one that poses an even more serious threat to Israeli democracy.
The consequences could not be more serious.
But surely the way a society cares for its sick and needy and elderly is sufficiently important to deserve serious and thoughtful argument based on what we really can see with our own eyes rather than on uninformed partisan prejudice.
Yet focusing mainly on how much banks borrow while ignoring other, more serious recklessness is a bad regulatory bet.
However, the deep wounds of the past few years of violence will not heal unless serious efforts are made by the government in Jakarta to bring human rights abusers to justice.
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