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But if the world is serious about achieving these shared goals, an effective mechanism for financing them must be established, supported by well-designed regulations that create the right incentives.
Far worse for Europe would be to avoid serious reform and lapse into egalitarian and genteel decline.
The Islamist Ennahda party leads the government, but it faces a serious challenge from the ultra-conservative Salafists of Hizb Ut-Tahrir.
Indigenous organized criminal movements are responsible for the most serious sources of local violence.
The European Union (EU) and the EMU, in particular, are now facing a serious political challenge, exemplified by Italy’s recent election.
The factors accounting for the record of failure in the Middle East – history, culture, religion, and personalities – are worthy of serious examination.
The commission was to control the situation, and to ensure that serious measures were taken, particularly in regard to people’s health in the disaster zone.
There was a serious danger that the contents of the nuclear reactor would seep into the soil, and then leak into the Dnepr river, thus endangering the population of Kiev and other cities along the riverbanks.
Unfortunately, the problem of nuclear arms is still very serious today.
And that has created a growing risk of serious adverse effects on the real economy when monetary policy normalizes and asset prices correct.
At a time when Asia is facing serious security challenges, this stance could not be more urgent.
China, the United States, and even Canada may take years to implement serious plans to address climate change.
Every opinion poll and serious analysis of French politics indicates that President Le Pen is an impossible fantasy.
But isn’t that what every opinion poll and serious analysis of US politics indicated last year about President Trump?
Subsuming these historical facts in a narrative about mythological transplanted elephant heads did science – and the people whose achievements deserve to be honored – a serious disservice.
Of all of China’s worries about North Korea, the most serious is that regime collapse – probably followed by state failure – could be perceived as a Chinese defeat and a US victory, with Korea reunified as part of the US alliance system.
But both strategies would face serious legal obstacles.
At one point, according to press reports, the row became so serious that French President Nicolas Sarkozy had to intervene.
Captured EuropeWASHINGTON, DC – Europe’s policy elite – the people who call the shots at the national and eurozone level – are in serious trouble.
But when New Jersey Governor John Corzine was involved in a serious road accident last month, it became known that he violated his own state’s law by not wearing his seat belt.
By any sensible measure, Corzine’s violation of the law was more serious than that of Tobias.
Aside from control of the region’s energy supplies, water has become a potential source of conflict, given China’s serious shortages.
That would deal a serious blow to US and global GDP growth.
Indeed, Kozul-Wright opposes any tightening at all: If the Fed “follows through on raising interest rates,” this could cause serious trouble for the global economy, and especially emerging markets, because of “the enormous tsunami of debt bearing down on households, businesses, banks, and governments.”
Although Shiller and Roach express serious concerns about the buildup of debt and high asset prices in developed countries, both Roubini and Berkeley’s Brad DeLong downplay concerns about financial instability, because interest rates will remain low by historic standards for many years, even as Fed tightening begins.
Instead of giving serious consideration to unfounded theories speculating that excessively low interest rates could, under certain conditions, discourage growth and investment, the Fed should have committed itself even more decisively to zero or even negative rates.
Such arguments often invoke Milton Friedman, who warned in 1998 that Europe’s commitment to the euro would be tested by the first serious economic downturn.
What neither Friedman nor anyone else anticipated in 1998 was that the first serious downturn following the advent of the euro would coincide with the mother of all financial crises.
Revulsion at government and traditional politicians hit the presidential contest like a tornado in the summer, flattening the campaigns of some who were once seen as serious contenders.
With Sanders now polling well ahead of Clinton in New Hampshire, serious commentators have begun speculating that Americans will ultimately be asked to choose between Sanders and Trump.
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