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Shaky Cyber Trigger FingersVIENNA – A media storm centered on the “emerging cyber threat” has turbocharged the public debate on cyber security in the United States – and raised the stakes in bilateral relations with China.
Nine of the ten countries with the most people living in low-lying areas (who are therefore threatened by flooding, storm surges, salinity, and erosion) are in Asia, owing to mass migration to megacities in recent decades.
In 2012, when a financial storm engulfed the eurozone, it was Germany that kept the European ship off the shoals of financial disaster.
Thanks to these measures, and ECB President Mario Draghi’s vow, which Germany tacitly approved, to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro, the financial storm abated.
In reality, the current relaxation is more likely a lull before the storm.
If I beat my sister or spat, pulled her hair or took away her toys, Nanny would wait for my storm to blow itself out, then take me to a distant room and feed me sweets and pies, taken from an old pillowcase.
More importantly for near-term economic policy, I see a world in which investors have enormous confidence in core economies’ government debt – for many, the only safe port in this storm.
So the global economy is flying on a single engine, the pilots must navigate menacing storm clouds, and fights are breaking out among the passengers.
If countries expect to experience natural hazards, such as violent storm seasons or major earthquakes, then investing time and resources in preparing for shocks will save lives and protect communities from other losses.
But it is important to note that its efforts were not simply an overnight reaction to the oncoming storm.
So why did they miss the storm?
Asians need not be pessimistic; the perfect storm of a hard landing in China, a double-dip recession in the United States, and a collapse of the eurozone is unlikely.
Although the economic storm has become less intense, it hasn’t calmed yet.
At the center of the storm are Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, head of the moderately Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP), and Yasar Buyukanit, Chief of the General Staff of the Turkish military, which regards itself as the guardian of the secular republican tradition established by Kemal Ataturk.
Should such a perfect storm occur, the EU’s very existence would be in doubt, because other member countries would consider or begin planning their own post-EU futures.
After all, even if you need a new house, it makes no sense to demolish the old one just before a storm.
The emerging-market correction in equities, commodities, and fixed-income holdings will continue as global storm clouds gather.
Finally, once the perfect storm outlined above occurs, the policy tools for addressing it will be sorely lacking.
Moreover, should China safely navigate this storm, its status as a rising economic and political power will be strengthened.
Should they converge into a kind of “perfect storm,” however, a return to sunny days will become extremely difficult to foresee any time soon.
Mitigating the adverse humanitarian consequences (associated with cross-border migration), and geopolitical impact of this storm would be no easy feat.
The second storm, rolling in from the EU’s east, is the costly military conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region.
The third storm – political tumult brought about by the rise of populist political movements – poses yet another serious threat.
Fortunately, the possibility of such a perfect storm is more a risk than a baseline at this point.
And Saudi Arabia is unlikely to start paying attention now, when it is facing a perfect storm of problems, beginning with rock-bottom oil prices.
LAGUNA BEACH – Earlier this year, financial markets around the world were forced to navigate a perfect storm – a violent disruption fueled by an unusual amalgamation of smaller disturbances.
Individually, these are each highly plausible scenarios, and collectively they would hit the US trade deficit like a perfect storm.
The paradox of water is that it sustains life but can also cause death when it becomes a carrier of deadly microbes or takes the form of a tsunami, flash flood, storm, or hurricane.
Last week, two ministers resigned, but a parliamentary and media-sustained storm continues, fueled by conflict-of-interest charges against a minister suspected of corruption when raising money for Sarkozy’s presidential campaign.
The Storm Before the CalmOXFORD – Central banks can stop worrying about inflation.
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