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Moreover, during Earth Hour, any significant drop in electricity demand will entail a reduction in CO2 emissions during the hour, but it will be offset by the surge from firing up coal or gas stations to restore electricity supplies afterwards.
Millennials in the West, dismayed by the surge in “fake news,” are helping reverse declining circulations in major markets.
But – to indulge further that outlandish notion of an impending eurozone growth surge – what if something changes significantly to strengthen those growth drivers?
Instead of the productivity surge experienced in the US, it has gone through a sort of productivity holiday, with serious consequences.
If the US economy continues growing as expected, is it not inevitable that long-term interest rates will surge to much higher levels, knocking the highly leveraged US, and ultimately the entire world economy, off its current path of strong and stable growth?
Refugee flows were a negligible trickle; though they are back to low levels, the massive surge in 2015 exposed the dysfunctional character of the European asylum regime.
There is a strong case to be made for using the EU’s balance sheet to finance the surge.
These entities, which retain considerable borrowing capacity, should be redirected to secure the surge funding required to address the migration crisis.
Instead, the EU and its member states must find new sources of tax revenue to repay the surge funding.
Spain, Ireland, and Portugal were all able to cushion their post-2008 slumps with a surge in export earnings.
Globalization 1.0 – the surge in global trade and international capital flows that occurred in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – met its demise between World War I and the Great Depression.
African countries’ combined spending on education alone should increase by tens of billions of dollars per year; combined infrastructure spending should surge by at least $100 billion per year.
The breakdown of Bretton Woods in 1971, far from stopping inflation, unleashed a synchronized monetary surge.
Indeed, much of the acceleration in GDP growth has been bloated by an unsustainable surge of restocking.
In the past, when discretionary spending on items such as motor vehicles, furniture, appliances, and travel was deferred, a surge of “pent-up demand” quickly followed.
Recent debate about income inequality in the US and other developed countries has focused on the rapid surge in incomes for the few.
But what is driving the surge in prices today?
But the 2011 surge appears to be rooted in broader commodity scarcity than before.
Despite the surge in government spending, the central bank’s efforts to stabilize inflation have kept prices of goods and services under control.
The 9/11 terrorists’ second blunder was to believe that their terrorist attacks would inspire irresistible surge in anti-Western Islamist extremism.
But, while the resulting surge in capital flows to emerging markets stimulated economic growth, it also inflated asset bubbles.
When candidates repeatedly call Muslims dangerous, for example, no one should be surprised by a surge in anti-Muslim hate crimes, as has occurred in the wake of both the Brexit vote and Trump’s victory.
The result was an astounding surge in business fixed investment in computers and other information technology hardware.
This surge in business spending boosted overall demand.
The precise impact of migration on wages is hotly debated among economists, but no economy can face a sudden surge in labor supply without some adverse consequences for at least some groups of “native” workers.
A sudden surge in population, often concentrated in particular locations, will also produce overcrowding in key public services, such as education and health care, unless offset by a well-planned and well-financed surge in public investment.
Most notably, Russia’s perceived ambition of recapturing its Soviet-era influence is challenging the rules-based order that was established after World War II, and a surge in religious and political extremism is threatening democratic and liberal values.
A recent surge has put Lula within 5 or 6 points of a first-round win.
America was just beginning to emerge as a world power during the surge of globalization in the last third of the nineteenth century, which coincided with the opening up of the American West.
In fact, instead of congratulating itself for the supposed success of the US troop surge in Iraq in 2007, perhaps the Bush administration should have been touting the impact of that funding-focused initiative.
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