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That confirms my view that the fiscal deficit is the most serious long-term economic problem facing US policymakers.
Broader use of rapid diagnostics will permit more effective treatment for flu cases at risk of developing serious complications.
Yet MENA entrepreneurs are still facing serious structural impediments to progress.
That is a serious competitive disadvantage to add to the penalty of being at a greater distance from the EU’s center of economic gravity.
This bleak economic outlook has serious consequences.
Major power shifts define eras in which key political leaders are likely to make serious foreign-policy mistakes.
If Abe does so, Japan’s relations with South Korea and China will suffer serious damage.
The question for the US and East Asia’s leaders today is whether they will wake up and develop effective multilateral mechanisms for security cooperation before doing themselves serious harm.
A serious effort to contain them and stamp them out requires an effective campaign in Helmand Province, North and South Waziristan, and the troubled areas between the poppy fields of Afghanistan and the madrasas of Pakistan.
Insofar that Trump’s policies pose serious risks, it is not because they represent a strategic reorientation for the US, which was happening anyway, but rather because they are self-contradictory and unnecessarily destructive.
Chinese policymakers have raised serious concerns about the growing risks of inflation and property bubbles.
Moreover, with fiscal austerity likely to restrain aggregate demand in the years ahead, and with capital-short banks likely to curtail lending – a serious problem for Europe’s bank-centric system of credit intermediation – a pan-European recession seems inevitable.
The key remaining questions concern whether or not the RMB will become an important international currency anytime soon, and whether it is poised to pose a serious challenge to the US dollar’s domination of the international monetary system.
Given strong expectations of RMB appreciation, internationalization will inevitably lead to a serious currency mismatch, with possibly detrimental consequences for China’s welfare.
So, if serious reforms are to be implemented, strong and persistent public pressure will be needed.
Its senior leadership has said nothing about the serious threat posed by the actions of the US or of other major players.
Rising trade protectionism, tighter immigration policies, and a lack of action on climate change by the world’s biggest economic players – particularly the US – thus pose serious threats to development, which a little extra money for the World Bank cannot offset.
This would distract Europe from other serious challenges such as Russian aggression, instability in the Middle East, and its own moribund economy.
Instead of opening its nuclear efforts to some serious European participation, the humiliation of having to cave in to international protest would lead France away from any European solution and back into the refuge of national sovereignty.
They must now nail down France on a watertight testban and lobby for a similar commitment from China; and France' s partners in the European Union must now challenge the government in Paris to spell out what it means by "Europeanizing" the French nuclear strategic forces, if it is serious at all.
Similarly, a full-scale political or economic collapse in Venezuela would have serious regional implications, and might result in an even deeper humanitarian crisis there.
Low inflation is already a serious obstacle to economic recovery and rebalancing within the eurozone.
Though Weidmann does not deny the risk of deflation, he argues that the consequences of recent price data may be less serious than believed, while those of full-fledged QE could be more serious than assumed.
If we are serious about saving the non-proliferation regime, the time to act is now.
But China’s long-term interest, and that of the world, requires that it get serious about domestic structural reform.
There is however a serious chance of avoiding such a negative outcome.
If there is another serious attack, the French will undoubtedly hold their leaders accountable for failing to protect them.
Economically, the BRICS are facing serious challenges.
The heroin trade would not be booming if Western governments were serious about combating drug consumption.
Member states, facing serious fiscal problems of their own, are unlikely to agree to pay more to the EU budget, which will thus probably remain at 1% of EU-wide GDP, as in the previous MFF.
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