Trigger
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Other members champion the cause of a much smaller government and welcome the deep spending cuts that are scheduled to take effect in 2013, even if they
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a recession.
On the contrary, especially for Republicans from districts with a strong, ideologically motivated base, voting for such deals could
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a primary electoral challenge from within their own party.
The
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for America’s turn to economic nationalism is its widening trade deficit – $566 billion in 2017, and growing – as the US economy recovers.
In this context, just one fatal Osprey crash could
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powerful anti-US sentiment on a strategically important island.
The problem is that it would almost surely
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a massive, costly war, and it would not necessarily succeed in destroying all of North Korea’s hidden capabilities.
US Vice President Joseph Biden has put counterattacks against Russian computer networks on the table, but that could
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an escalation, while ceding the moral high ground.
Such a system would
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entrepreneurial searches for low-cost mitigation opportunities in developing countries, because rich countries would want to pay less by lowering emissions abroad.
It is too late for the campaign to focus on whether to
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Article 50.
We can only hope that the next US military strike – whether in North Korea or in the Persian Gulf – won’t
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a genuine national-security emergency.
And who before July 1998 thought that a Russian default would
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global financial panic?
Moreover, any attempt by Musharraf to dislodge the government by using his constitutional authority would
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another election, the results of which would not be much different from the vote in February.
So it is worth asking if investors are underestimating the potential for one or more of these conflicts to
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a more serious crisis, and what it would take to shock them out of their complacency if they are.
Because contracts are linked with each other, one default can
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an avalanche of broken promises, “[making] it possible to destroy virtually the entire web of formal and informal contracts which the market system requires for its functioning.”
Any such conflict would involve massive loss of life and
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a large regional, perhaps global, contraction in economic activity.
Still, any delay could be enough to
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a bank run in either country.
In fact, if one were to imagine reasons why Germany might not approve a request by Italy to
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the OMT, political turmoil would top the list.
He should
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OMT before it is too late.
Given his penchant for oversimplification, Trump not only fails to deal effectively with the problems at hand; his short-sighted policies will likely
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unintended consequences, and possibly even the so-called butterfly effect, whereby remote minor events can
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the failure of complex systems.
Clearly, banning the AKP would
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a political crisis that would end Turkey’s efforts to join the European Union in the foreseeable future and threaten its recent strong economic growth.
One key
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of the Arab Spring uprisings – rising food prices – was directly connected to the region’s worsening water crisis.
It reduced the ability of businesses and banks to service their debt, and might
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a chain of big bankruptcies that would destroy confidence in the financial system, providing further incentives to hoard.
At the same time, there are at least a half-dozen other global hot spots – some might be tempted to include the US Senate – that could
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a major breakdown in world trade.
To be sure, the euro alone has not been a sufficient
trigger.
If so, creating a similar opportunity today could change the incentives,
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the required complementary reforms, and put the global economy on course to a stronger long-term recovery.
Given massive global corporate debt and a soaring US stock market – the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio is high by historical standards – one possible
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for a downturn in the coming years is a negative shock that could send securities tumbling.
Whatever the immediate trigger, the consequences for the US are likely to be severe, for a simple reason: the US government continues to pursue pro-cyclical fiscal, macro-prudential, and even monetary policies.
What he would do is
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retaliation from major trading partners, such as China, causing serious harm to the entire global economy – beginning with the US.
It should be clear by now that excessive, front-loaded austerity measures tend to be self-defeating, because they
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a downward spiral of output, employment, and tax revenues.
But these are not often the questions that
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the most passionate interest.
If this month’s war games
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a military confrontation or an outright exchange of fire, deterrence will officially have failed.
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