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This might appear to be somewhat surprising in light of all of the talk about Brussels imposed austerity.
The resilience of private consumption in the US, the key to the growth gap, is not surprising, given that American households have reduced their debt burden considerably from the peak of more than 90% of GDP reached just before the crisis.
This isn’t surprising, given the acrimony dominating national news coverage.
The results are surprising and troubling.
What is surprising is that there have been 67 more deaths, on average, each year.
There is nothing new or surprising about great powers making and breaking rules as it suits them.
So it is perhaps not surprising that some political scientists have declared the end of the G7.
But the size of the slowdown is surprising, as is the fact that it started several years before the 2008 recession – and not only in the private insurance system, but also in Medicare and Medicaid, the two major government health programs.
It is thus not surprising that some Europeans - particularly the French - are so reluctant to reform the international organizations, even in terms of cutting waste and inefficiency at the UN.
And since, in addition, the Commission and the Parliament have traditionally tended to regard each other as essential allies (on the side of European integration), against the Council of Ministers (representing the nation states), it is not surprising that a censure vote has only been tried four times in the past 20 years, and never carried.
So, it is not surprising that Trump would want to visit the country.
This number is not at all surprising if we remember that growth in the past few years was substantially due to the euro's weakening; this time round, the euro strengthening would take it all back.
It is not surprising that Lee’s legacy would become a symbolic flashpoint, given America’s history of race relations.
But today a surprising number of mainstream economists and centrist politicians are endorsing the idea of monetary financing of stimulus measures in different forms.
This is not surprising – businesses invest when they are confident about future demand and output growth.
To the extent that history is written by the victors, that is not surprising.
More surprising, France dismissed a money-laundering charge brought against another billionaire, Suleyman Kerimov, though Kerimov, a member of Russia’s Federation Council, does maintains close ties to the Kremlin.
Given this, it is probably not surprising that Koike reportedly recognizes the potential benefits of introducing DST in Japan.
Structural budget deficits were facilitated over the past decade by eurozone interest rates’ surprising lack of responsiveness to national differences in fiscal policy and debt levels.
It is surprising how readily politicians of all parties – even strong ideological defenders of the unregulated market – accepted the idea that the state should bail out banks and insurance companies when they got into trouble.
Both have the same poisoned roots, so it is not surprising that they go hand in hand.
Even with a world population that continues to add tens of millions of new mouths every year, given continuing growth in Haber-Bosch fertilizer and a surprising trend toward a worldwide decline in birth rates (if you live about 50 years longer, according to the best estimates, you’ll see humanity reach zero population growth), it might be within humanity’s grasp to avoid mass starvation forever.
Against this backdrop, it was hardly surprising that the S&ED produced so little.
The surprising strength of the German economy, with more vigorous growth than at any time in the past 15 years, is due to the dynamism of emerging-market – particularly Chinese – demand, not only for investment goods, engineering products, and machine tools, but also for luxury consumer products.
It is not surprising that the greatest and strongest ideological opponent of the American way of life was not in distant Europe or Asia, but in Cuba, just 90 miles off the Florida coast.
But that decision, though risky, is not altogether surprising: The US, after all, lacks an effective policy toward Russia’s presence in the Middle East, making it difficult for countries like Israel to stand up to the Kremlin.
Indeed, obstreperous critics are being challenged as a result of another, rather surprising development: while customers may express an opinion about a service, the service provider can also rate its customers, as Uber has demonstrated.
This is not surprising: Trump’s campaign was marked by nearly 18 months of vitriol, aimed not just against his opponent, but also at US government institutions, the press, and many segments of the US population, particularly immigrants, refugees, supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, and Muslims.
As the new regulations prove ineffective (not surprising, given the overabundance of scams and mis-selling in finance), a vicious circle is set in motion, with additional regulation resulting in further failure – and more regulation.
The Politics of AngerCAMBRIDGE – Perhaps the only surprising thing about the populist backlash that has overwhelmed the politics of many advanced democracies is that it has taken so long.
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