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Does a regime have the financial reserves with which to cushion the shock and buy time to adjust?
So it is worth asking if investors are underestimating the potential for one or more of these conflicts to trigger a more serious crisis, and what it would take to shock them out of their complacency if they are.
This stance came as a shock from Fabius, a signatory of the Single Act of 1986, a party leader during the Maastricht Treaty negotiations, and Finance Minister when France adopted the euro in 2001.
Within a month of taking office, Trump’s administration has already employed shock tactics to paralyze and distract the electorate, while antagonizing allies, provoking enemies, and creating new alliances with dubious partners.
They back Hezbollah – and help Iran send it weapons – because Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah’s shock troops keep the government in Beirut weak.
Like sleepers awakened by a shock, people across the globe are startled to discover that they are still living in the nuclear age.
He was arrested after complaining to foreign reporters, and has since been administered medicine and forced to undergo electric shock therapy.
Not once did they pause for critical self-reflection, and now they feign shock at the legitimacy gap and the anti-establishment passion that threatens the status quo and, consequently, their authority.
For the global business, financial, and political leaders who gather in Davos every January, the news that Trump would be joining them this year must have come as a shock, to say the least.
Labor mobility from poorer to richer areas provides a shock absorber against differential economic hardship.
The other natural shock absorber is a depreciating currency, which increases competitiveness in the area hit hardest.
The claim that the spread of severe mental illness has reached “epidemic” proportions has been heard so often that, like any commonplace, it has lost its ability to shock.
This rise in financial inclusion is welcome news, not least because, in the event of a downward income shock, a household’s consumption will fall much less if it is linked to the formal financial sector.
An even bigger shock to the pre-2008 orthodoxy than the collapse itself was the revelation of the corrupt power of the financial system and the extent to which post-crash governments had allowed their policies to be scripted by the bankers.
Given massive global corporate debt and a soaring US stock market – the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio is high by historical standards – one possible trigger for a downturn in the coming years is a negative shock that could send securities tumbling.
That shock could be homegrown, coming in the form, say, of renewed inflation or of the continued escalation of the trade war that US President Donald Trump has started.
The shock could also come from abroad.
While it is hard to get counter-cyclical timing exactly right, that is no excuse for pro-cyclical policy, an approach that puts the US in a weak position to manage the next inevitable shock.
If democratic political systems do not find ways to ease transitions, provide shock absorbers, and accept heterodox attitudes and values without condemnation, voters will push back.
With Trump himself essentially amounting to an unexpected shock, this safety valve – indeed, the US constitution itself – is being tested.
Peace or PoisonHAIFA – Contrary to the hopes of many, the end of the Second World War and the shock of the Nazi atrocities did not mean the end of war and genocide.
But instead of trying to find a way to cushion the possible impact of such a shock, the ECB is rejecting out of hand any sort of restructuring.
This relative prosperity lasted until the second oil shock of 1979, when global stagflation depressed prices for the primary commodities that comprise the Ivory Coast’s narrow export base, while rising interest rates increased the cost of servicing the debt contracted by the Houphouet regime.
The question now is what kind of shock would be required to motivate Italians to demand similar action.
And, if one is to judge by these six Latin American economies’ performance since the 2008-2009 shock, the record of “inflation targeting-plus” so far is encouraging.
But even that spike was dwarfed by the increase in mentions and corresponding worries about the dollar starting in 2001, reflecting the shock of the terrorist attacks that September, the mushrooming growth of the US trade deficit, and then the global financial crisis of 2008.
Then there was the Nixon shock of 1971 (when the American president took the dollar off the gold standard and imposed wage, price, and trade controls), the 1982 international debt crisis in Mexico, the 1992 crisis in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, and the 2007 subprime mortgage crisis in the United States.
The threat of a supply shock typically fuels a sharp increase in demand for oil inventories – and thus in prices.
But, all too predictably, the VIX would not adjust until the shock materialized and prices plunged.
The salient feature of the crisis is that it was not caused by some external shock like OPEC raising the price of oil.ampnbsp;
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