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That shock is benefiting consumers and poses no threat to price stability, at least in countries that are net oil importers.
Nonetheless, this may be the last time that China can escape an external shock with its growth intact.
Failure to act quickly on this program would leave China far too vulnerable to the inevitable next shock in a crisis-battered world.
Indeed, ECB officials are starting to worry aloud about the rise in inflation due to the oil shock.
We are hardwired to try to make sense of events that shock us, and this often involves recasting them as having been predictable.
After the shock of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, his son, George W. Bush, developed a far more ambitious vision.
In the era of immediate access to information and the shock of television images, wars cannot be conducted without popular support.
As a result, the quality of Japan’s economic growth improved considerably, even as its rate fell by nearly half in the decade after the oil shock in 1973.
The fundamental experience of the Great Depression has repeated itself, on a smaller scale, many times and in many countries in recent decades: a shock in financial markets, followed by a sharp decline in gross domestic product.
A government can finance external and fiscal deficits if the shock is perceived as short-lived.
Everyone who borrows or interacts with the credit system in any way would suffer a shock that would make the crisis of 2008 look small.
If a shock is temporary, central banks should not react to it; they should normalize monetary policy, because eventually the shock will wear off naturally and, with tighter product and labor markets, inflation will rise.
If, however, the shock is permanent, central banks should ease monetary conditions; otherwise, they will never be able to reach their inflation target.
The first shock came from US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who broke with more than two decades of strict discipline by suggesting that a weaker dollar would be in America’s interest.
Furthermore, the pro-EU camp has sounded the alarms over the economic shock that Brexit would cause.
Europe’s Lapse of ReasonNEW YORK – At long last, the United States is showing signs of recovery from the crisis that erupted at the end of President George W. Bush’s administration, when the near-implosion of its financial system sent shock waves around the world.
Excessive household debt is particularly risky, because a shock in the price of assets (especially real estate) translates quickly into reduced consumption, as it weakens growth, employment, and investment.
Recovery from such a shock is a long process.
Boehner’s forced departure makes it likelier than ever that the US – and the world – will soon face the prospect of another self-inflicted economic shock, caused entirely by the Republicans’ scorched-earth budget tactics.
Coming Out in AfricaThe lead story in a recent issue of the Daily Graphic , Ghana's most influential newspaper, was designed to shock: "Four Gay Men Jailed."
When the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first man-made satellite, on October 4, 1957, the achievement sent shock waves through the US government, which responded with huge investments in rocket technology, research, and education.
For the US public, the 444-day ordeal of the US embassy staff held hostage by radical Iranian students constituted a psychological shock that has still not abated.
By providing extra liquidity, central banks merely reduce the amount of money withdrawn from expenditure on goods and services, which mitigates, but does not reverse, the negative demand shock that hit the world economy.
The moral and strategic vision of the 1990’s has exhausted itself and come to a grinding halt after the shock of the Russo-Georgian war and the recent Ukrainian election.
While the prospect of OMT seems to be keeping financial shocks at bay, at least for now, a political shock seems increasingly likely, with voters reacting against the internal-devaluation policies that are fueling high unemployment and undermining living standards.
The upcoming European Parliament election could be just such a shock.
Overhauling ChinaLONDON – Pessimism about China has become pervasive in recent months, with fear of a “China meltdown” sending shock waves through stock markets worldwide since the beginning of the year.
In 1977, as Galbraith was writing, the world was still reeling from the effects of the first OPEC oil-price shock and wondering whether another one was in the pipeline (as it were).
Indeed, today’s drama can be interpreted, in part, as a reflection of these shock absorbers at work.
Emerging-market equities may have plummeted, but this, too, is a shock absorber.
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