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The region is also likely to face intensifying contests over national identities as well, and perhaps even the redrawing of borders – processes that will
trigger
further confrontations.
In the second scenario, billions of dollars in “green” stimulus packages
trigger
a global race that leads to new energy technologies and their deployment.
This test explains the effective impunity of China, Russia, or any other major power; however badly it behaves internally, any attempted invasion would
trigger
a much larger conflagration.
But looking ahead, the more relevant question is what actually will
trigger
the next global recession and crisis, and when.
By provoking a military confrontation with that country, he would
trigger
a stagflationary geopolitical shock not unlike the oil-price spikes of 1973, 1979, and 1990.
Macro liquidity is feeding booms and bubbles; but market illiquidity will eventually
trigger
a bust and collapse.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility in California is getting impressive results by firing high-powered lasers at capsules of fuel, crushing the particles together to
trigger
fusion reactions.
And this is precisely what the PBOC did on August 12-13, when stronger-than-expected depreciation pressure and surging devaluation expectations raised the risk that the planned one-off exchange-rate adjustment could
trigger
a rout.
The procedures to
trigger
this intervention, however, are complex and the funding is sufficiently opaque that the bill will not eliminate collateral damage from a large bank failure even for US institutions, let alone for international ones, whose unwinding would require coordination by several states, with varying degree of solvency.
The last problem to be resolved is the
trigger.
The
trigger
should be the domestic government itself.
As the Middle East’s essential regional player, Iran can
trigger
and heat up conflicts as well as contribute to their solution.
Fundamentalists claim that faster year-on-year growth in US average hourly earnings was the immediate
trigger
for the crash.
But the claim that such a slight change – from 2.7% in December to 2.9% in January (which observers view as an aberration, caused by seasonal factors) – could
trigger
a stock-market correction is in itself a strike against the fundamentalist view.
Finally, blockage of the multilateral process will
trigger
an even more pronounced shift toward bilateral or regional free trade agreements (FTA’s).
To Keynes’s framework, Friedman added a theory of prices and inflation, based on the idea of the natural rate of unemployment and the limits of government policy in stabilizing the economy around its long-run growth trend – limits beyond which intervention would
trigger
uncontrollable and destructive inflation.
The history of proliferation shows that political chain reactions often occur – witness China, India, and Pakistan – and there are real fears that North Korea and Iran might
trigger
such chains in Northeast Asia and the Middle East.
There has not been a good solution since that black Wednesday in August 2013, when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s war machine, by using chemical weapons, crossed the “red line” that US President Barack Obama had warned would
trigger
an American military response.
In such circumstances, seemingly small events can
trigger
an unforeseen and disastrous chain reaction.
Turkey is a NATO member, and any violation of its territorial integrity could easily
trigger
the North Atlantic Treaty’s mutual-defense clause.
China’s collapsing asset values could
trigger
financial turbulence.
According to The Economist, “price increases in corn and soybeans are not thought likely to
trigger
a food crisis, as they did in 2007-08, as global rice and wheat supplies remain plentiful.”
While the Fed should be responsible for forestalling the monetary instability that can
trigger
intolerable inflation or mass unemployment, its policies cannot account for the many cross-currents that buffet prices and jobs.
The vaccine is designed to
trigger
an immune response to mosquito saliva, thereby preventing infection from whatever virus the saliva contains.
Iran’s hawks might believe that their country is invincible, but fears are growing that regional overreach could
trigger
a long list of dangerous consequences.
The complexities of the threats to Israel are such that a possible confrontation with Hamas in Gaza might
trigger
a flare-up with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
In all likelihood, however, Germany’s exit would also
trigger
the exit of the countries of the former deutschmark bloc (the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and perhaps Belgium).
So, if the exit is small, even the faintest whiff of smoke can
trigger
a stampede.
Nor could sanctions
trigger
a change in government in Baghdad.
Even if this does not
trigger
a crisis, it sharply narrows the government’s scope for using expansionary fiscal policy to stimulate the economy.
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