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Recently, the Moscow brokers Brunswick Warburg predicted that Russia’s GDP will
surge
5% this year.
During the last few months Russia’s international reserves have grown sharply, as one would expect of a country with a staggering trade surplus of $33 billion this year and which is likely to
surge
to over $40 billion this year.
To this end, Obama launched an 18-month military
"surge"
with the backing of other NATO member countries, to be followed by the beginning of withdrawal.
A similar anti-globalization
surge
has appeared in Mexico, where NAFTA was always oversold and over-criticized.
As it happens, Europe is currently experiencing a modest but significant
surge
in growth.
Its 14-foot
surge
of seawater was backed by the sea-level rise already caused by a century of global warming, and the storm’s sweep and intensity was fueled by a warming planet’s warmer ocean waters.
The
surge
of people risking their lives to cross from North Africa has confirmed that, regardless of targeted arrangements like that between the European Union and Turkey, flows of people across the Mediterranean are set to continue.
But Russia’s fighter jets and tanks are not driving Moscow’s global
surge
in influence.
This would hinder interest-sensitive spending, such as on housing, and lead to a
surge
in the US dollar, which could destroy millions of jobs, hitting Trump’s key constituency – white working-class voters – the hardest.
In the past three months alone, International Rescue Committee centers in the CAR’s capital, Bangui, have witnessed a
surge
of women escaping violence and abuse.
Even in India, the sharp uptick in growth from 2003 occurred alongside a
surge
in overall investment.
Also common to rentier states are short investment horizons, vulnerability to commodity-price volatility – euphoria when they surge, crisis when they collapse – and an underdeveloped and uncompetitive manufacturing sector.
As a result, traders choose too-big-to-fail banks, rather than mid-size institutions, as counter-parties for their short-term trades, causing the large banks’ trading books – and, hence, their profits – to
surge.
Such arguments ignore our species’ lamentable xenophobic tendencies, evidenced all too clearly by the
surge
in popularity of far-right extremist political parties in Europe.
This is the functional equivalent of promoting another
surge
of “zombie lending” – the uneconomic loans made to insolvent Japanese borrowers in the 1990s.
In the past, it was all too common for policymakers to convince themselves that a boom in commodity prices and associated
surge
in government revenues was permanent.
The substantial
surge
in the interest rate on Greek bonds relative to German bonds in the past few weeks shows that the market now regards such a default as increasingly likely.
Constraining new credit would fuel a
surge
in defaults on bank loans and wealth-management products, and would cause investment to contract much more rapidly than consumption can feasibly grow.
Some economists attribute the current
surge
of populism to the “hyper-globalization” of the 1990s, with liberalization of international financial flows and the creation of the World Trade Organization – and particularly China’s WTO accession in 2001 – receiving the most attention.
First, the World Health Organization should commit to an emergency contingency fund that it could deploy for
surge
capacity as soon as it declares a “public health emergency of international concern.”
In the US – which, tellingly, avoided the nationalist
surge
– this effort had already been embodied in the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act.
If relatively secular Turkish society could be swept by a
surge
of anti-American sentiment, so, too, can Indonesia society.
Only 2-3% of North African countries’ modest foreign trade occurs within the region, so they have missed out on the
surge
in international business that over the last two decades has lifted billions of people out of backwardness and misery in Asia, Latin America, and even sub-Saharan Africa.
Those who argue that the
surge
(and its close companion, new and improved “counterinsurgency”) overcame Iraq’s sectarian fault line suggest that Iraq’s ongoing political problems are the result of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s poor governance.
Opening the country to a
surge
of immigrants makes sense, but Japan is not about to become an American-style melting pot, and this solution alone would be inadequate to the scale of the demographic challenge.
As with computers before, the possibilities seem endless, the predictions have been extravagant – and the data have yet to show a
surge
in productivity.
In recent months, there has been a
surge
in LGIV bond issuance, aimed at supporting local governments’ efforts to stabilize economic growth through stimulus-style investment projects.
The French president loves crises, with their concomitant
surge
of adrenaline.
These factors, together with the obvious failings of many Middle Eastern governments, have fueled the
surge
of fundamentalism among Muslims, American Christians, and some Israeli Jews that has now boiled over to rampant extremism, terror, and messianic visions of good versus evil.
To avoid a
surge
of insolvencies, they rolled over corporate debt, bringing about a long and painful period of financial consolidation, low investment, and slow economic growth.
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