Surge
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Whatever the motivations of the various groups, a
surge
of militia attacks and kidnappings over the past several weeks has now shut down roughly 20% of Nigeria’s oil exports and killed dozens of people.
This was highlighted by the
surge
in many countries’ housing prices in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, the steep decline in asset and commodity prices immediately after Lehman Brothers collapsed, the return to asset-price inflation since then, and recent large currency fluctuations.
If rich countries in Europe and North American cannot effectively tax the rich, they have little chance of preserving social democracy and offsetting the
surge
in inequality that has recently afflicted their economies.
The 1960's ended in the breakdown of the "system," and in major financial turbulence, accompanied by an inflationary
surge
of commodity prices.
The Promise of AbenomicsTOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s program for his country’s economic recovery has led to a
surge
in domestic confidence.
Both interventions incited a massive
surge
in anti-Russian sentiment across the continent.
At Battery Park, on Manhattan’s south end, the
surge
height reached 4.2 meters, flooding homes and businesses and plunging millions into darkness.
With a
surge
height of 7-10 meters, and flooding at some locations extending 20 kilometers inland, Katrina caused catastrophic damage to the Gulf Coast, which has yet to be fully repaired.
In 1989, Hurricane Hugo struck near Charleston, South Carolina, with a
surge
height of nearly four meters.
The possible longer-run knock-on effects in Europe – including likely Scottish independence; possible Catalonian independence; a breakdown of free movement of people in the EU; a
surge
in anti-immigrant politics (including the possible election of Trump and France’s Marine Le Pen) – are enormous.
First, stop the refugee
surge
by ending the Syrian war immediately.
By and large, the
surge
in capital inflows has boosted consumption rather than investment in recipient countries, exacerbating economic volatility and making painful financial crises more frequent.
There was no
surge
in inflation between January 2017 and January 2018.
But the most notable development of recent years has been the
surge
in China’s outward FDI since the government adopted its “go global” policy in 2000, encouraging Chinese firms to invest overseas.
Similarly, the
surge
in China’s outward FDI is good for China and for host countries.
Of course, there has also been a
surge
of bankruptcies in the eurozone’s periphery.
The truth is that it is the technological revolution and the
surge
in consumption in Asia – not the UK’s relationship with the EU – that will transform the way business is done over the next couple of decades.
And when the Fed printed mountains of money in the 1970s to try to dull the pain of that decade’s oil shocks, it triggered an inflationary
surge
that took more than a decade to tame.
A new
surge
of support for protectionist policies would require a coalition of powerful interest groups to organize a campaign aimed at changing the status quo.
Within the next five years, there could be more than one million cancer deaths annually in Africa, a
surge
in mortality that would make cancer one of the continent’s top killers.
After coming to office, US President Barack Obama implemented a military
surge
in Afghanistan.
In Pakistan, however, he implemented an aid surge, turning it into the largest recipient of US aid, even though the Afghan Taliban leadership and Al Qaeda remnants remained ensconced in the country.
The sudden
surge
in young voters has called into question the long-presumed victory of the governing GNP’s likely candidate, Park Guen-hye, in the presidential election due to be held in December.
And, despite having less than 5% of the world’s population, the US accounts for more than three-quarters of global opioid consumption – leading to a
surge
in addiction rates and overdoses.
Africa, with its population of one billion, is also gaining economic momentum, contributing further to the rapid expansion of the global middle class, which is expected to
surge
from 1.8 billion in 2010 to 3.2 billion in 2020 and to 4.9 billion people – more than half of the world’s population – in 2030.
And, assuming that there is no
surge
in inflation or economic growth, the danger of default cannot be so easily dismissed.
So, it stands to reason that the past decade of sluggish growth has contributed to the
surge
of a damaging form of populist nationalism that is taking hold in a growing number of countries.
The IMF does not have an adequate framework for handling the massive defaults that could easily attend a huge
surge
in lending, much less the political will to distinguish between countries that are facing genuine short-term liquidity problems and countries that are actually facing insolvency problems.
Then the deep divisions over Vietnam and civil rights, combined with a
surge
of consumerism and advertising, seemed to end an era of shared sacrifice for the common good.
And the timing couldn’t have been more congenial: the Soviet empire’s collapse and China’s opening generated a
surge
of labor supply for global capitalism – a billion additional workers – that boosted profits and stifled wage growth throughout the West.
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