Trigger
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First, will the looming military strikes by the US and its allies against Syria be limited in scope and time, or will they
trigger
a wider military confrontation?
If, however, we continue on our current path for just a couple more decades, we could
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centuries of rising sea levels, even if we subsequently ended all greenhouse-gas emissions.
It is a complex process that unfolds in two phases: first, the House of Representatives must decide, by a simple majority, that the charges are serious enough to be tried; second, a full-fledged trial is conducted in the Senate, which must reach a two-thirds majority to convict the official and
trigger
immediate removal from office.
The initiative represents the first time a developing country has committed to 100% transparency in its fishery operations; if it succeeds, it could
trigger
a transformation of how seafood is managed worldwide.
Research tells us that it takes up to 15% of committed consumers to
trigger
a profound change.
Still, as long as the US maintains its pace of overall growth and job creation – a feasible outcome, given the relatively small contribution of foreign economic activity to the country's GDP – these developments are unlikely to
trigger
a political response for quite a while.
This means that China’s alleged incursions are not the only threat;America’s increasingly forceful position on cyber espionage could inadvertently
trigger
a cyber war.
For Europeans, the NIE has not removed, but rather confirmed, the concerns that in 2003 prompted the EU-3 (Britain, France, and Germany) – namely, that Iran’s nuclear program could eventually give it a military nuclear capability, and that even before that point, it might
trigger
regional nuclear proliferation.
Default in some euro countries or political dysfunction in the US is a much more likely
trigger.
The risk is that these rapid changes will combine with destabilizing geopolitics to
trigger
a retreat from global energy markets.
First, with respect to depositors or other creditors that are free to withdraw their capital on short notice, a protective government umbrella might be necessary to prevent inefficient “runs” on the institution’s assets that could
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similar runs at other institutions.
Thus, if a financial firm appears to have difficulties, its bondholders cannot stage a run on its assets and how these bondholders fare cannot be expected to
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runs by bondholders in other companies.
The banks do not have monopoly pricing power in the traditional sense, and their market share – at the national level – is lower than what would
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an antitrust investigation in the non-financial sectors.
The key to success will be to manage the sequence of liquidity injections and interest-rate reforms so that the effort to address local subprime debts does not
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asset-price deflation, while reducing financial repression that cuts off funding to more productive sectors and regions.
World War I was the
trigger
that set off the reversal, with economic globalization declining while military globalization increased, as witnessed by two world wars and a global cold war.
Unilaterally imposing tariffs on Chinese imports would likely
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trade disputes, invite Chinese retaliation, and hurt US businesses that create wealth – and deliver affordable products to American consumers – by basing their production facilities in China.
This is important to bear in mind, because rising food prices have historically been the
trigger
for political revolutions.
Price rises have been a major
trigger
of the discontent this year in the Middle East and North Africa.
Halfway through May’s frantic diplomatic safari, they announced that they had gathered enough support to
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a vote of no confidence in her leadership of the Conservative Party.
One might object that the distinction between Southern and Northern views is academic nowadays, because failure really isn’t an option, given that it would
trigger
a disastrous reaction in global financial markets.
It would not be a surprise if the US Securities and Exchange Commission determined that a great deal of recent money-raising activity (known as Initial Coin Offerings) in this industry actually amounts to the issuance of securities, which would
trigger
the application of various rules and requirements.
The US Federal Reserve’s tapering of its unprecedented liquidity injections has been an obvious and important
trigger.
This large and enduring effect has surprised many, since the “story” about the Chinese drop – that the
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was a rumor that China’s government, concerned about speculation, planned to impose controls on the stock market – seems to have no logical relevance elsewhere.
Without regard for the political consequences, Merkel is trying to escape the specifically German contradiction between national solutions and European constraints by advocating a rigorous fiscal-consolidation program, severe punishment for non-compliance (including loss of EU voting rights), and a
trigger
mechanism for member states that lag in meeting their obligations.
In simple language: forget about any punishment or automatic
trigger
mechanisms that might affect a country’s sovereignty.
Drought and crop failure resulting from climate change, for example, could
trigger
violent conflict.
The second historical rule of thumb is that currencies on the decline tend to overshoot: near the bottom, international currency speculators require a substantial risk premium out of the fear that the currency crash might
trigger
something even worse.
Given the high levels of excess capacity and unemployment in Europe and America, quantitative easing is unlikely to
trigger
a bout of inflation.
And it is mad men with their fingers on the
trigger.
But that luck is running out; at some point, an accidental or intentional launch will
trigger
global contagion.
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