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Deflation is potentially a very serious problem, because falling prices – and the expectation that prices will continue to fall – would make the current economic downturn worse in three distinct ways.
Ironically, although central banks are now focused on the problem of deflation, the more serious risk for the longer term is that inflation will rise rapidly as their economies recover and banks use the large volumes of recently accumulated reserves to create loans that expand spending and demand.
More serious misperceptions are equally obvious.
Aside from the fact that more serious issues face the French government than the sartorial habits of a small number of women, there is the matter of individual freedom.
If we are serious about integrating immigrants into Western societies, they should be encouraged to move around in public as much as possible.
If world leaders are serious about reducing inequality and eradicating poverty, they must commit to creating a just and transparent tax system.
The unwieldy and deeply imperfect 2010 Dodd Frank legislation, with its thousands of pages of provisions, is a stopgap measure; few serious people view it as a long-term solution.
(On this score, Boston University professor Laurence Kotlikoff’s more radical ideas for taking leverage out of the financial system merit serious attention, even if his own quixotic presidential campaign otherwise goes unnoticed).
Without serious investment in irrigation, including construction of reservoirs to make use of the snowfall in the Hindu Kush, and in new cash crops such as saffron and rose oil, Afghanistan’s drift toward narco-statehood will continue, with all the instability that this implies.
But Russia faces serious challenges.
Nothing is more certain than that the White Paper’s jejune attempt to have it both ways will fail to survive serious scrutiny on either side of the Channel.
The need of Kaliningrad's citizens not to be cut off from the rest of Russia poses a serious issue that must be addressed.
But serious as it is, that should be seen as a temporary problem.
Kaliningrad needs help to deal with the serious problems of crime and diseases that plague it, and will need help to establish a private business environment that attracts investment.
But plastics also pose a serious environmental threat.
China’s local governments have been accumulating mountains of debt to fund their construction binges, raising serious concerns about potential defaults.
But, in the absence of serious political reform, income inequality will widen as crony capitalism sinks its roots more deeply.
By not doing so France would damage her credibility as a "serious country,” and her reputation for being a rare breed in Europe, a country that is not shy to intervene militarily with her troops.
And, though Morsi’s recent role in mediating discussions between Hamas and the Israeli government was invaluable in preventing a serious regional conflict, his government’s actions are undermining prospects for further cooperation with Europe.
Last week, he declared the WTO to be in “the most serious situation [it] has ever faced,” and now he is convening crisis talks with member countries.
Ignoring the lessons of the recent crash would be a serious mistake – one that China’s pragmatic and tenacious authorities will be determined to avoid.
The Fed might also consider policy in 1924-1927, when low interest rates fueled stock-market and real-estate bubbles, or 2003-2005, when interest rates were held down in the face of serious financial imbalances.
Realizing such a plan may require overcoming serious challenges and the commitment of large financial resources over a period of many decades.
The second problem is arguably more serious, for it is epiphenomenal: the damage that unethical behavior has done to the ideal of fair play.
Should Germany spurn the first part of this formula, the European project would suffer serious damage – and so will German national interests.
What Europe needs in this serious crisis are statesmen and women of Kohl’s caliber, not domestic politicians!
As the big economic and political winner of the eurozone, Germany, in particular, cannot let a serious crisis of confidence threaten the European project, because nearly two-thirds of its exports go to the EU.
At the same time, outside countries with a stake in the region will need to assist, much as was done with Colombia in recent decades when it faced a serious armed challenge from within.
And growth in advanced countries is not sufficient to make serious inroads into high unemployment rates, which are imposing high social costs.
Leaders may still think that “another world is possible,” but, while they use anti-globalization rhetoric, they pursue serious economic policies, even if more out of resignation than conviction.
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