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Today, the region is gradually becoming more combustible, and another spark could be lit, perhaps this time in Skopje.
A shared vision of zero emissions could even spark a race to cross the finish line first.
Similarly, a new speculative bubble can appear anywhere if a new story about the economy appears, and if it has enough narrative strength to spark a new contagion of investor thinking.
But the rush to fill the vacuum left by the US might provide the spark that ignites a region-wide war.
Today, Martin Luther’s “95 Theses,” posted at the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany (he simultaneously sent a copy to his boss, Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg), are widely recognized as the spark that started the Protestant Reformation.
Fortunately, today’s private-sector labs are bursting with innovations that could spark major productivity-enhancing technological and operational improvements.
Egypt was ripe for revolution; dramatic change would have come at some point in the next few years, even absent the spark of Tunisia or the existence of social media.
Some analysts hoped that last year’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophe would spark a third effort at national reinvention, but that has not yet occurred.
If seized, it can spark an unprecedented wave of innovation that can fuel economic growth.
Indeed, although protests began on December 29, 2010, and went so far as a wave of self-immolations in January 2011, the spark of revolution faded after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who was wise enough not to stifle unrest with force, made concessions – including, most importantly, an end to the 19-year state of emergency.
The decline will likely be sustained by the substantial US current account deficit, which found in Bernanke’s cuts the spark it needed to make its impact fully felt in foreign exchange markets.
This raises a fundamental question: Do we want a reactive central bank that focuses on cleaning up the mess after a crisis erupts, or a pro-active central bank that leans against excesses before they spark crises?
Several EU leaders have claimed that Turkish membership would spark a wave of migration and strain the European economy.
The region’s dictators have sought to dismiss the “Jasmine Revolution,” but the spark that started in Tunisia could spread – perhaps in a matter of months or years – to the entire Arab world.
Just as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 sparked a global trade war that may well have put the “great” in the Great Depression, Congressional enactment of enforceable currency rules today could spark retaliatory actions that might devastate the free flow of trade that a sluggish global economy desperately needs.
Indeed, the government’s suspicion of the international media is liable to spark friction when thousands of journalists arrive and inevitably widen their coverage beyond athletics to politics and human rights.
US actions will spark Iraqi criticism that Maliki is impotent or an American puppet, but those charges have already been made.
His columns are the centerpiece of Kiyan, a magazine founded in 1991 primarily to air his views and the debates they spark.
In fact, a wealth tax could spark economic activity and growth.
In modern times, it took the threat of nuclear war to spark efforts to mend ties between East and West – and even then the rapprochement was spearheaded primarily by Russia’s secular authorities.
At worst, it could very well spark retaliatory measures that will only exacerbate the plight of beleaguered middle-class American consumers.
Poor regions want to use federal resources to ensure that their residents have a minimum standard of living; richer regions want to invest money in industrial development, hoping such development will spark a revival that lifts the entire economy.
Political prisoners, hungry children, the homeless Chernobyl refugees, or the irradiated workers in need of a lifetime of medical help – to dismiss their plight, to refuse to offer some spark of hope, is to exile them to a netherworld of helplessness.
By focusing on job creation, wage increases, and the social safety net, the 12th Five-Year Plan could spark a major increase in discretionary consumer purchasing power.
Rosa Parks’ revolutionary bravery in refusing to move to the back of a Montgomery, Alabama municipal bus in 1955 helped spark the American civil rights movement.
Many foreign commentators condemned the devaluation as a blatant attempt to boost Chinese exports – a move that would, they warned, spark a new round of currency wars.
The mere possibility of Italy leaving the eurozone – which would entail the redenomination of €2.2 trillion of Italian government bonds in devalued lira – could spark financial panic.
Though monetary policy provided a powerful antidote to frozen credit markets in the depth of the global financial crisis, it has failed to spark classic cyclical recoveries.
Indeed, the 12th Five-Year Plan is likely to spark the greatest consumption story in modern history.
Still, warnings that renminbi devaluation will spark a “currency war” are unwarranted.
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