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Moreover, I warned that the Fed was too complacent and should be reducing sharply the federal funds rate, which was above 5%.
The yield differential, or spread, between Italian and German bonds has widened sharply, indicating that investors view Italy as a riskier bet.
In these countries, income inequality declined sharply from 1914 to 1950, as it did in France, Germany, Japan, and Sweden.
In the past two decades of rapid economic growth, China’s military budget has increased sharply – last year by more than 12%.
With few children and longer life expectancy, the median age of the population rises sharply in this forecast, from 39 years in 2005 to around 48 years in 2050.
Whereas Japan is separated from China by an ocean and the US is geographically distant, China has sharply escalated border violations and other incidents in recent years to increase pressure on India, even as the US has maintained tacit neutrality on Sino-Indian disputes.
Moreover, fertility rates have fallen sharply, to a point where populations in many countries will probably level off in coming decades.
But there are also important issues on which the interests of insiders and outside investors can sharply diverge.
But today’s strong kizuna and mentality of mourning have led to sharply diminished consumption.
Saudi Arabia saw its share of world oil exports drop sharply in the 12 years after the 1973-1974 embargo.
Other Arab countries – Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, for example – are sharply divided along tribal, ethnic, and religious lines.
Meanwhile, in Russia, cases of drug resistant tuberculosis have risen sharply since 1990, especially in the nation’s overcrowded jails.
Among ordinary Russians not in jail, alcoholic binges, drug abuse and other forms of self-destruction have incited a huge surge in death rates since 1990, rates which studies indicate have been rising fastest where the effects of political transition are most pronounced; that is, where unemployment and labor turnover rose most sharply.
Ireland and Finland grew, despite fiscal cuts, because the exchange rate fell sharply, boosting exports.
Moreover, manufacturing employment, once a prime source of high-paying jobs for working-class whites, has fallen sharply over the last generation, to just 12% of the workforce.
By contrast, German sovereign yields have fallen sharply, lowering public and private-sector borrowing costs.
Indeed, even sharply reduced demand for tobacco would not mean unemployment in most countries.
This misconception reduces the short-term solution to affected governments’ sharply higher borrowing costs to bailouts.
More importantly, the ECB is de facto the lender of last resort, while foreign banking systems are sharply reducing their exposure to risks abroad.
Growth in the region slowed sharply, as might be expected of export-led economies confronted with the sharpest collapse in global trade since the 1930’s.
Combined shipments to the US and Europe fell to 24% of developing Asia’s total exports in 2010 – down sharply from 34% in 1998-1999.
Meanwhile, over the same period, Asia’s dependence on intraregional exports – trade flows within the region – expanded sharply, from 36% of total exports in 1998 to 44% in 2010.
As we saw briefly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the drug trade from Afghanistan could be sharply curtailed.
Markets peaked in 2007, and then fell sharply in many of these places with the onset of the global financial crisis.
In Europe, house prices have also increased sharply over the last decade – more dramatically than in the US in many cases.
Sharply higher oil prices, at a time when inflation is already creeping up, would be a disaster for the world economy, forcing central bankers to raise interest rates aggressively and possibly provoking a panicked sell-off of long-term bonds.
Instead, they fell sharply.
In Egypt’s case, the crucial tourist sector contracted sharply after the revolution.
Three powerful forces, one hopes, will help to create more productive jobs in the future: better use of information and communications technology (and new ways to make it pay), lower-cost energy as alternative sources are harnessed, and sharply rising demand in emerging markets for higher-value-added goods.
Iraq is the single issue on which American and Turkish interests diverge sharply.
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