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Debt and DelusionNEW HAVEN – Economists like to talk about thresholds that, if crossed, spell trouble.
Besides, even if bombing ISIS strongholds in Iraq or Syria makes military sense, it won’t break the spell of Islamist revolution for frustrated, bored, and marginalized young people in French slums.
Handing Europe’s money and politics to a cartel administration did not only spell the end of European democracy; it has also fueled a vicious cycle of authoritarianism and poor economic results.
It should spell the end of a policy oriented exclusively towards austerity, which has paralyzed our economies and divided the EU.
The spell was broken when Putin reasserted his grip on executive power.
One possible reform would be to spell out clear criteria for when a country may use its veto power.
Neither can be true, not with unemployment so high and the average spell of unemployment much longer than usual.
This trend will spell trouble for longer-term global economic growth.
But it would be a mistake to assume that these defeats will spell the demise of ISIS or similar violent extremist groups.
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.
Europe is in for a spell of designer demagogy that thrives in affluence or ennui.
Unchecked climate change – which has already contributed to conflict – would spell disaster for the region.
In the early 1980’s, they fell under the spell of monetarism, a simplistic economic theory promoted by Milton Friedman.
In January, Hong Kong was gripped by its second-longest cold spell since 1885.
Such a letter could spell out the US commitment to a viable, contiguous, sovereign, and independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 lines, with compensation provided by Israel wherever territorial adjustments are agreed.
Those commitments, no matter how hidden, spell trouble in the future.
The question is how these two democracies fell under the spell of leaders more reminiscent of Putin than of conventional Western leaders.
Today, we face a form of voodoo politics: rule based on “alternative facts” and unfounded and untestable theories that cast their own kind of spell on citizens struggling to comprehend a globalized world and economy from which they feel alienated.
Europe is in trouble; massive fiscal problems force fiscal restraint; overpricing of the DM and the Franc spell growth troubles; central banks are late in cutting rates.
Mexico is probably past the bottom of its crash, but uncertainties on the political front are gigantic and super high real interest rates spell pervasive bankrupticies of companies and banks.
Now it is casting its spell over developing countries, making a powerful play to rewrite India's past, as Deepak Lal suggests.
Such capital controls, if they ever came about, would spell the end of the dollar as a single currency, because such constraints are utterly incompatible with a monetary union.
If such military clashes left China with so much as a bloodied nose, as happened in the same area in 1967, it could spell serious trouble for Xi at the upcoming National Congress.
In short, the distance between what Europe needs and what Europeans want is growing, and that gap could spell deep trouble in 2016.
This may be because decision-makers choose not to pay attention; but it may also be because economists themselves do not spell out the risks.
But any move by the CDU to cooperate with the AfD, or to validate its arguments, would spell trouble.
Thirty years later, scientists at an IBM laboratory in California arranged 35 atoms of xenon on the surface of a nickel crystal, to spell "IBM" in block letters.
If inflation is low, they want the Fed to use every spell it knows to revive the economy.
The Trump budget assumes a steady spell of 3% GDP growth, which appears to be at odds with the prevailing trends of weakening productivity performance, slowing population growth, and a significantly lower level of labor force participation.
As the French mathematician Nicolas Bouleau observed in a 2013 paper, “markets cannot spell out trends; it is absolutely impossible on an ontological level.”
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