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But it would be unfortunate – indeed, dangerous – if the pendulum now swung back to old-fashioned nationalism.
In response, China’s export performance swung from 26% annual growth in July 2008 to a 27% contraction by February 2009.
The grassroots of Iran’s reform and democratic movement – students, women, artists, and Iran’s quietly relentless civil society – swung into action and turned the election into a surprisingly heated referendum on the country’s future.
Putin’s Russia has swung to one extreme of the spectrum, while the United States and Europe (despite the protests of civil libertarians) have chosen to occupy the other end.
Problems began in 2014, when China’s capital account, which had been in surplus since the 1990s, swung into deficit.
Germany’s large trade deficits in the decade before 2000 subsequently swung to large surpluses, which were balanced by corresponding deficits in countries like Spain.
The pendulum of world economic growth has swung dramatically from the so-called advanced countries to the emerging and developing economies.
While Germany’s current-account surplus is roughly where it was in 2007, the combined external balance of the bailout beneficiaries plus Italy (which has been part of the trade turnaround) has swung from a pre-crisis deficit of more than $300 billion to an expected surplus of around $60 billion this year.
In other words, the pendulum of economic returns has swung decisively away from labor toward owners of capital – not exactly a compelling argument in favor of relief for purportedly hard-pressed American businesses.
Not long ago, Chancellor Kohl used to press urgently for more majority voting, but at Amsterdam he had swung round in favour of keeping unanimity in several key areas.
To varying degrees, China’s economy has long swung from short-term growth spurts, fueled by the over-issuance of currency and conventional credit expansion, to contraction, triggered by government action to prevent overheating.
But the pendulum has swung back from unilateralism to multilateralism, and the world’s largest countries are searching for ways to make it more effective.
But the centrist-reformist axis swung into action with pinpoint timing.
But the resulting swing from "capital fundamentalism" to "market fundamentalism" may have swung right past a third dimension of the development process, namely R&D for new technologies: the idea that we have too little innovation, not too much of it.
After WWI, the pendulum swung back toward the state.
These days, after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan at an estimated cost of $4 trillion (including the medical care that veterans will need for the rest of their lives), the pendulum has apparently swung back in the direction of isolationism.
In fact, Netanyahu’s Israel has swung so far right that the term “leftist” itself is now a smear.
Within two and a half years, courtesy of Reagan’s wildly popular tax cuts, the domestic saving rate had plunged to 3.7%, and the current account and the merchandise trade balances swung into perpetual deficit.
Similarly, the massive, though often violent, demonstrations in Chile since October, frequently seen as anti-neoliberal protests and as a clamor for a “different path,” gave reason for leftists to believe that the pendulum had swung back.
Some of the states that carried Trump in 2016 swung to the Democrats in the 2018 midterm congressional elections.
From an ever-escalating tariff war and the weaponization of trade policy by blacklisting leading Chinese technology companies, to Trump’s “order” to US companies to cease doing business with China and Vice President Mike Pence’s declaration of a new Cold War, the US political establishment has swung dramatically from viewing China as an opportunity to regarding it as an existential threat.
With the adoption of these restrictive monetary measures, German trade swung back into balance.
Within the last decade, China’s trade balance with the Philippines has swung from persistent deficits to a substantial surplus, and its longtime surpluses with Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and India have continued to grow.
Under its rule, China has swung between starkly different models of development.
But now the pendulum has swung back.
'Let's go!'CHAPTER VIIION LEAVING THE TABLE Levin, feeling that as he went his arms swung with unusual regularity and ease, passed with Gagin through the lofty apartments to the billiard-room.
He was the taller of the two, and his blows swung about aiming at the face, with furious cutting movements of both arms one after the other, as though he were handling a couple of sabres.
As we swung around the Emerald Isle, I spotted Cape Clear for an instant, plus the lighthouse on Fastnet Rock that guides all those thousands of ships setting out from Glasgow or Liverpool.
I opened the door cautiously, but as it swung on its hinges, it seemed to make a frightful noise.
Endless sarabands ran through her head, and, like an Indian dancing girl on the flowers of a carpet, her thoughts leapt with the notes, swung from dream to dream, from sadness to sadness.
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