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Before the election, most analysts predicted that a Trump win would
trigger
a large stock-market selloff and a rush into low-risk government bonds.
Under these circumstances, it seems likely that Saudi Arabia will continue to refuse to cut oil production, leaving prices low until market forces
trigger
a rebound.
In the short run, excessively low prices could
trigger
political instability in some oil-producing countries, driving up prices.
Today, similar hopes are often vested in the Internet, with high expectations that the wealth of online information might
trigger
the same kind of censorship failure in contemporary authoritarian states that we saw in Eastern Europe – and with the same results.
To be sure, the BOJ’s policy will not
trigger
hyperinflation in Japan.
If finalized, the IMF program could
trigger
further aid packages by the World Bank and other international donors.
If Iran does not properly manage its growing power, it could unwittingly
trigger
a drawn out sectarian war throughout the region, a nuclear arms race with Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and war with Israel, the US, or both.
Likewise, while Iran supports Hezbollah, it has also held Hezbollah back from outright rebellion, which might
trigger
a further Sunni backlash in the region.
While Yar’Adua could use the goodwill that he has built up over the past year to win by an even larger margin, the 90-day election campaign would almost certainly
trigger
civil unrest, and Nigeria’s leadership would be too busy navigating domestic political rivalries to help stabilize conflicts elsewhere in Africa.
Although a warming planet could boost agricultural output in a few areas, it will severely limit production, and possibly
trigger
prolonged food crises, throughout the rest of the region.
But the sheer complexity of conditions in Syria means that the regime’s endgame could
trigger
a transition unlike any other in the Arab Spring, different in both its domestic course and in its effects on the region.
To see why, recall that the immediate
trigger
for rising interest-rate spreads was financial markets’ growing concerns about the solidity of some euro-zone countries, owing to dramatic deterioration in their current and expected fiscal positions.
A climate of distrust can also
trigger
extreme actions by deviant members of the population, such as the bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
In the eurozone, the hope is that calmer sovereign-debt markets, slower fiscal adjustment, and supportive monetary policy by the European Central Bank will help
trigger
a sustained recovery.
But it makes little sense to insist on it as long as losses by banks that remain “too big to fail” could
trigger
a renewed financial crisis.
Little did these countries know that their divergent paths would end up fueling large global imbalances, and eventually
trigger
a financial crisis that has shaken the prevailing international economic order to its foundations.
But, in an unstable global economic environment, the failure of a few Southeast Asian states to take meaningful action toward cleaning up graft could be a
trigger
for larger political unrest.
No one now denies that the past year’s sharp downswings in housing and equity prices, which followed long upswings – far above historical benchmark levels – helped to
trigger
and fuel the crisis.
But working conditions can also
trigger
or accelerate the symptoms of ill health - physical and mental - that feed back into our productivity and earning capacity, as well as into our social and family relationships.
Duty hikes are problematic not just because they can be imposed on questionable grounds; they also tend to
trigger
domino effects, because other countries – many of which have much practice using and abusing these instruments – will adopt similar measures.
Such a step would
trigger
immense volatility throughout the international monetary system, throwing many economies – such as those that link their currencies to the US dollar or hold a large volume of dollar reserves – into crisis.
This time, the
trigger
was a confluence of several events: a currency crisis in Argentina, where the authorities stopped intervening in the forex markets to prevent the loss of foreign reserves; weaker economic data from China; and persistent political uncertainty and unrest in Turkey, Ukraine, and Thailand.
But the immediate
trigger
for these pressures should not be confused with their deeper causes: Many emerging markets are in real trouble.
Whichever country precipitated it – Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so – would
trigger
economic chaos and incur its neighbors’ wrath.
Varoufakis’s idea of strategy is to hold a gun to his own head, then demand a ransom for not pulling the
trigger.
And when someone has multiple passports from countries with denationalization laws, such provisions can
trigger
a race in which, as Audrey Macklin of the University of Toronto puts it, “To the loser goes the citizen.”
China is Not CollapsingLONDON – One question has dominated the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting this year in Peru: Will China’s economic downturn
trigger
a new financial crisis just as the world is putting the last one to bed?
In fact, to the extent that a crisis could do more good than harm, warnings that the rapid credit expansion of recent years could
trigger
a debt crisis, or that the real-estate sector is on the verge of collapse, may not be as worrying as many believe.
George W. Bush’s proposals for a massive tax cut are risky – gambling on large future budget surpluses that might never appear, and gambling that a sharp tax cut won’t
trigger
a jump in interest rates.
The memory of 1914 may
trigger
the most concern in East Asia, where all the ingredients of a similar disaster have accumulated: nuclear weapons, the rise of China as a global power, unresolved territorial and border disputes, the division of the Korean Peninsula, historical resentments, an obsession with status and prestige, and hardly any cooperative conflict-resolution mechanisms.
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