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The Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 convinced governments and central banks that countries that maintained exchange controls were able to weather the storm better than countries that embraced liberalization.
Then the storm will come, battering ordinary citizens, while today’s leaders remain high and dry, drawing pensions.
This time, powered by the dogma of market resilience and self-correction, the storm formed at the heart of the world economy, the US.
New Europe Catches Old Europe’s ColdLONDON – As governments across Western Europe began bailing out banks and their depositors, Eastern Europeans watched nervously, unsure about what the global financial storm would mean for them.
Now that the storm has hit, the fragile bonds of European solidarity are being tested.
Europe is already facing a perfect storm of fiscal strains, anemic economic growth, massive inflows of migrants and refugees, and renewed Russian aggression.
Harvey may be the most expensive storm in US history, even exceeding the cost of rebuilding New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Storm water drainage capacity failed to keep pace with the expanding paved areas.
Bangladesh has also saved many lives by building storm shelters and providing advance warnings of coming storms.
Although it is impossible to attribute any particular storm to climate change, we know that when tropical storms form over warmer water, they strengthen and become more intense.
A storm of green propaganda has followed, and the government now talks about using “Green GDP” to measure development.
Such remittances enabled thousands of Jamaicans, for example, to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, when storm damage was estimated at more than one-quarter of the country's annual GDP and nearly three households in four reported damage.
This mini perfect storm in emerging markets was soon transmitted, via international investors’ risk aversion, to advanced economies’ stock markets.
The International Financial Institutions (IFIs) are now faced with a novel task: to protect the periphery countries from a storm that emanated from the center.
It would have been preposterous to tell Ukrainian demonstrators facing government storm troopers to just grin and bear it without any external solidarity or support.
Faced with high premiums, most businesses would simply opt to wait on the sidelines until the storm passed.
But when economic storm clouds gather on the horizon, everyone seeks shelter under their home government’s cover.
For some, sectarianism in Iraq appeared like a summer storm, which quickly passed once the “surge” of US troops became American strategy in 2007.
When I left the Vilnius meeting in 2013, I could certainly see storm clouds gathering, but I did not know that Putin was prepared to unleash so much aggression and turmoil.
Could the transatlantic relationship weather the storm?
For this group, the only logical policy is to “ride out the storm” by ending policies which increase anger and frustration, and improving intelligence and defenses.
The belief that terrorism cannot be eradicated assumes that the ability to tolerate terrorist attacks – to “ride out the storm” – is greater than the willingness of terrorists to persist, or even escalate the attacks.
This was not enough to withstand the storm.
With foreign direct investment still flowing in, Brazil’s lower external vulnerability leaves the country in a much better position than ever before to weather the global storm – at least for now.
Bernanke’s principled position – echoed by European Central Bank head Jean Claude Trichet and Bank of England head Mervyn King – has set off a storm in markets, accustomed to the attentive pampering lavished on them by Bernanke’s predecessor, Alan Greenspan.
Rather than sit idly and wait for the storm, policymakers and academics are improving their understanding of trade and technology, and focusing on ways to help those who have missed out on the benefits.
A meteorologist might detect a coming storm by plugging data from myriad sources – atmospheric sensors, weather balloons, radar, and satellites – into complex computer models.
Initially, it looked like Obasanjo would weather the storm and serve out his last term without making concessions to his opponents.
There are other reasons for confidence that India will weather the storm.
And yet in this gathering storm it was hard to find a single real accomplishment by the world’s leaders.
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