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Our lives are probabilistic, not determined, and the more we realize this, the less we need to feel threatened by uncertainty.
When boom turned to bust, falling global demand hit China’s export sector, and threatened to increase unemployment.
Indeed, Hiroshima and Nagasaki seem an eternity ago; new nuclear-weapons states have emerged without the world ending; no terrorist nuclear device has threatened a major city; and possession of nuclear weapons, for the states that have them, seems to be a source of comfort and pride rather than concern or embarrassment.
He asked for huge sums of money and, as Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Zapatero reported, threatened to pull France out of the euro and break up the Franco-German axis unless Germany opened its purse.
A decade ago, in the midst of an economic boom, the US faced a surplus so large that it threatened to eliminate the national debt.
Worse still, such vicious cycles are difficult to break, because emerging-market currencies typically weaken when growth is threatened.
However, as populations grow and the need for energy increases, fragile ecosystems are threatened.
Around the world, indigenous people are being threatened, murdered, and driven from their homelands.
Peer-reviewed journals that dared to publish contrarian articles were threatened with boycotts.
Street sweepers in developing countries are arguably less threatened by automation than their counterparts in developed countries, because their jobs are less mechanized and lower paid.
And yet many Europeans feel threatened once again, not by Russia, which is aggressively pushing outward against its neighbors, but by refugees and immigrants – the poorest of the poor.
Recently, and very revealingly, two Iranian leaders threatened Israel with bombardment by Hezbollah’s rockets if Israel attacked Iran’s nuclear installations.
During his campaign, Trump threatened the US Federal Reserve’s independence, and heaped criticism on Fed Chair Janet Yellen.
The banks looked as if they were devices to harness financial power to an existing but controversial and threatened political order.
But property rights and contracts are threatened at many levels.
They are threatened by roving bandits, by local notables, and, most of all, by government functionaries who use their offices to extort extra income.
Scotland’s independence referendum in September threatened to split the United Kingdom.
And, indeed, the last three executions in the country stemmed from terrorist offenses that threatened or took a large number of lives.
And, before the Iran shock had been absorbed, the US threatened a 25% import tariff on cars, which would shave at least $5 billion annually from German exporters’ revenues.
He has reached out to workers who feel betrayed by the “system” and threatened by globalization and new technologies; and to teachers and health-care professionals who recognize that public education and health-care services need deep reforms to sustain the social solidarity that they underpinned in the past.
American policymakers expended considerable effort devising ways to support the pound, because they knew that the same factors that made the pound vulnerable also threatened the dollar.
Having gained remarkable popularity in the space of only a few years, UKIP threatened to alter the British political landscape.
At the very least, the Turks have threatened that, if the EU opens negotiations with the existing Greek Cypriot government, then the government of Ankara will make the division of Cyprus permanent, by incorporating northern Cyprus into Turkey.
Before Donald Trump assumed office, he frequently bashed the Saudis and threatened to cease oil purchases from the Kingdom, grouping them with freeloaders who had taken advantage of America.
The Turks claim they have audio and video revealing his death, and Senator Lindsey Graham warned, “If it did happen there would be hell to pay,” while Senator Benjamin Cardin has threatened to target sanctions at senior Saudi officials.
Even in the US, the economic insecurity of a vast white underclass that feels threatened by immigration and global trade can be seen in the rising influence of the extreme right and Tea Party factions of the Republican Party.
If Greece had defaulted, not only would Portugal, Spain, and other weaker eurozone economies have been threatened, but Europe would have faced a run on its securities.
For those whose skills have lost value and whose jobs are threatened by automation, this hardly counts as “progress.”
More recently, the same problem threatened to hinder the adoption of HPV vaccines.
For those countries that are already threatened by heightened financial instability, the collateral damage from a disruption to the global trading system would be significant and unavoidable.
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