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For Xi, the stakes of his US trip could not be higher.
It raised the stakes with additional rounds of quantitative easing, QE2 and QE3, but real GDP growth remained stuck at around 2% from 2010 through 2017 — half the norm of past recoveries.
Unless he stakes out a set of clear policies before he comes to the bargaining table, Mr Fox will find his powers and his mandate eroded in no time.
The stakes, then, could not be higher in the “torture debate” gripping the US.
In June, I was part of a group of prominent Australians who signed an open letter to the heads of the country’s biggest banks asking them to stop lending to new fossil-fuel extraction projects, and to sell their stakes in companies engaged in such activities.
Indeed, protests by opposition parties have paralyzed the parliament, making it impossible for the government to introduce – let alone pass – important elements of pending economic-reform legislation, such as a law raising the limit on foreign-owned stakes in the insurance sector to 49%.
The stakes for the IMF in Europe are huge.
Regulatory capture is at work again, perhaps even more forcefully, because the stakes are higher.
The economic stakes encourage everyone to make the best of their circumstances.
If politicians want to override or undermine such provisions, they must either change the constitution or flaunt it -- neither of which are particularly attractive options because the stakes are so high.
Japan’s stakes are largest, and as the world’s major creditor country, it has the resources to help its neighbors overcome the immediate crisis.
But the danger is that the stakes are being raised so high that the smallest misstep could escalate into a conflict of unforeseeable dimensions.
The stakes for both Africa and the US are high.
This is why the stakes in today’s policy debates in the West are not just about values.
It is in rebuilding Gaza that the stakes of the competition will increase.
All that is needed, he suggests, are "collective action" clauses that allow the majority (or a supermajority) of a group of bondholders to impose their will on a minority, so as to prevent scavengers who, in the past, bought up small stakes in a bond issue and used their position to extract large concessions for themselves.
When the stakes are so high, the response must be creative and bold.
Outsiders need to understand how high the stakes have recently become in the post-Soviet space, where two opposing integration projects are doomed to clash.
But the stakes in Libya today are more appropriately underscored by the tragedy in southern Iraq in the waning days of the Persian Gulf War 20 years ago.
Many government funding guarantees will turn out to have been costless: liquidity support provided by central banks at market or punitive rates will often show a profit, and capital injections will be partly and sometimes wholly recovered when stakes are sold.
The problem is that in an election with high stakes and deep polarization, who, exactly, can voters trust?
In the so-called Rhineland model, banks are often very close to their corporate clients, and sometimes own stakes in them.
The vote, if it takes place, will be close, and the stakes are high, as failure to ratify the TPP would raise fundamental questions about America’s political effectiveness and ability to be a reliable partner to its allies.
Though showdowns in the US Congress over the debt ceiling did not result in a government shutdown this month, US leaders have only kicked the can down the road to the end of the year, when the stakes could well be higher and the stalemate more intractable.
And, convinced he can get away with pretty much anything, Putin keeps raising the stakes.
That raises the stakes of political survival considerably, especially given the absence of any credible guarantor of constitutional norms and behavior.
But in other cases, the stakes have become very high indeed.
The stakes of this election were particularly high.
Given the financial stakes, it is little wonder that alternative-energy companies, “green” investment firms, and biofuel producers are lobbying hard for more government largesse, and marketing their cause directly to the public by highlighting its supposed benefits for the environment, energy security, and even employment – none of which withstand scrutiny.
But in a country as important to Europe’s future as France, the stakes could not be higher.
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