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This heightened uncertainty could spill over to economic activity in the rest of the European Union through adverse feedback loops between sovereign risk and the banking system.
Following America’s military withdrawal, Afghanistan will most likely revert to pre-war conditions;Pakistan will revive state-sponsored terrorism against India; and extremism will spill into the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.
But that is no argument for failing to try again – especially in view of the mounting evidence that liquidity crunches can easily morph into solvency problems that quickly spill over national and regional boundaries.
But such disputes never spill over into the broad public sphere; members of the elite are primarily concerned about social and political stability and would not stir the public by seeking support for an alternative policy course.
Either central banks would manage somehow to thread the needle and guide exchange rates and asset prices back to some stable and sustainable equilibrium configuration, or the chaos and disruption in financial markets would spill over into the real economy and a major global downturn would begin.
One thing seems certain to me: without increased security at both ends, political violence will spill over from the Islamic world to its nearest neighbors in Europe.
Eventually, the southern hemisphere's more dramatic urban problems will spill over into mass migration to northern cities.
Even a serious fracking mishap would be unlikely to cause as much damage as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in 2011, or coal-mining tragedies that play out dramatically in frequent explosions and collapses (and more insidiously in the form of lung disease, water pollution, and soil erosion).
Each of Iraq’s neighbors has its own interests, but none will benefit from chaotic violence there, which would increase Iran’s influence, encourage Kurdish separatism to the worry of Turkey, and support Sunni terrorist movements that could spill back into Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.
Many officials (and the analysts and advisers who support them) assumed that this magic number represents the minimum rate needed to provide jobs to workers and managers and absorb the more than six million new graduates who spill out of China’s campuses each year in search of employment.
After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama administration teamed up with the X-Prize Foundation to offer a $1.4 million prize to the group that produced the most efficient oil-recovery solution.
Yet this norm has permitted the emergence of ungovernable and unmanageable states, whose internal wars spill across international boundaries, fueling regional tensions and insecurity.
Systemic risk refers to problems that spill across different kinds of firms and markets, often in unexpected ways and sometimes very quickly.
The area is potentially dangerous due to ethnic and border disputes that could spill over into Iran, said the leader of the Iranian foreign ministry’s Institute for Political and International Studies.
The events of the past 15 months – starting with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, followed by the violence in North Africa and the tragedy in Japan – confront the world with a stark choice between the costs and risks of traditional energy sources and the promise and progress of clean energy.
Oil in the Gulf, Then and NowVIENNA – On April 20, an explosion on Deepwater Horizon, a British Petroleum (BP)- operated oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, led to the most publicized oil spill in decades.
Another blowout in the same waters 31 years ago, farther south on the Mexican side of the Gulf, turned into the largest peacetime oil spill ever.
In the Ixtoc case, using such methods, Pemex (wanting to keep the loss figure low) estimated the spill to amount to a little under a half-million tons.
The damage caused by the Ixtoc spill was huge.
It is far too early to assess the ecological damage and economic losses to fisheries and tourism from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
On top of all this, we face a new generation of threats, unlike any in history, which spill across borders and have global reach.
The foreign exchange crisis that affected Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia did not spill over to New Zealand or Australia because those countries had floating exchange rates.
But much of the stimulus would spill over to the country’s trading partners through increased imports.
Yet the high costs of tyranny spill over to the rest of the world, in the forms of uncontrolled disease, refugee movements, violence, and criminality.
If a major oil spill in Haiti were threatening the Gulf of Mexico, wouldn’t we want the best technology (and not just the technology available in Haiti) to try to contain it?
Turning to the international dimension, understanding better how policies adopted in one country spill over onto other economies is key.
Keeping Cool in the Nuclear HeatCANBERRA – Perhaps it is going too far to say, as someone did after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill two years ago, that most Americans want a president who is cool, calm, and collected in a crisis – except when there is a crisis.
Even when genocide remains contained within borders, the violence eventually tends to spill over into neighboring states, igniting regional wars, undermining global stability, and eventually costing billions as the world starts to tend to the humanitarian byproducts of slaughter.
A general rise in global demand will simply spill over into higher commodity prices, with little helpful effect on consumption.
Trouble in the Sudan would, by necessity, spill over its frontiers, and vice versa.
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