Trigger
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For some people, energy-efficient bulbs can
trigger
epileptic seizures and migraines.
Open warfare or a nuclear incident on the Korean Peninsula would
trigger
a humanitarian disaster, interrupt trade with South Korea – the world’s 13th largest economy – and send political shockwaves around the world.
By contrast, changes in broadly shared economic assumptions are far more likely to
trigger
a sell-off, by prompting investors to reassess the likelihood of actually realizing projected cash flows.
If it stopped buying government debt, it could
trigger
a sovereign crisis and reduce the value of its own portfolio (especially if it started selling the bonds on its balance sheet).
Extreme stressors also cause increased activity in brain regions associated with processing fear and threat-related information (which can
trigger
post-traumatic stress disorder).
But a UBI funded via taxation is sure to
trigger
a backlash among struggling working people who cannot see the logic of subsidizing the idle, rich or poor.
Severe political uncertainty against a backdrop of chronic slow growth and a sovereign-debt level currently hovering around 160% of GDP already is enough to
trigger
a debt crisis.
Urging large surplus, low debt countries to devalue is an invitation for beggar-thy-neighbor policies 1930s style, for a Chinese devaluation would
trigger
an outburst of devaluation across Asia, or at the very least the expectation of one.
Moreover, many Socialists fear that excessive public spending may
trigger
inflation, and that their core constituencies will become its first victims.
The US backed up its stance by deploying nuclear weapons on the European continent, and by stationing troops on the front lines in Germany as a “trip-wire”: an attack there would
trigger
US participation in any war the communist side might begin.
Such an attack would likely
trigger
a second Korean War.
A bank default in any one country would no longer
trigger
a crisis elsewhere, because any losses would stop at the border.
Second, new capital ratios with multiple and decreasing capital thresholds, which
trigger
increasingly intrusive corrective action, should serve as the basis for a new system of mandated supervisory action.
If that pain occurs against a backdrop of frustration with the unequal distribution of AI’s benefits, it may
trigger
a backlash against technologies that could otherwise produce a virtuous cycle of higher productivity, income growth, and employment-boosting demand.
Rising prices
trigger
a surge in building activity, which creates job opportunities for young, low-skill workers, whose employment options are otherwise limited, and generates large profits for property developers and builders.
By limiting the riskiest borrowers’ access to finance, rules on mortgage lending can
trigger
a fierce political backlash.
While Trump’s victory did
trigger
a depreciation of the Mexican peso, the exchange rate soon normalized and has returned to pre-election levels.
However, the international outcry obscured an unintended but perhaps more troubling feature of China’s exchange-rate policy: the tendency for sporadic renminbi appreciation (even small movements) to
trigger
speculative inflows of “hot” money.
Again, this would inevitably
trigger
hot-money inflows, with speculators taking advantage of the spread between Chinese interest rates and the near-zero, short-term rates in developed economies, thereby driving up the renminbi further (and creating yet more opportunities for speculation).
If PiS’s populist slogans become policy, government spending is likely to expand, which will exacerbate Poland’s already weak fiscal position and consequently
trigger
inflationary expectations.
Some members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC, the Fed’s policymaking body) therefore fear that raising the short-term federal funds rate will
trigger
a substantial rise in longer-term rates, creating losses for investors and lenders, with adverse effects on the economy.
If a preliminary agreement on these questions is not reached by the end of the year, the economy faces a “fiscal cliff” of $600 billion in automatic tax increases and spending cuts that will shave about 4% from GDP and
trigger
a recession.
Warsh, like many Republicans, has harshly criticized the Fed’s attempts to stimulate the US economy in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, warning that the unprecedented expansion of the monetary base brought about by quantitative easing would
trigger
high inflation.
Capital-account liberalization and renminbi internationalization invite potentially volatile cross-border capital flows, which could, for example,
trigger
rapid currency appreciation.
High food prices may have served as a
trigger
in North Africa, but the speed with which the protesters turned their attention to political reform caught everyone off guard.
This might
trigger
a positive domino effect as well, as other states – on grounds of international financial integration – adopt similar procedures for controlled liquidation of their own insolvent banks.
Second, many argue that raising interest rates would
trigger
a flood of speculative capital from low-yielding advanced economies.
Its collapse would
trigger
a nuclear arms race in the world’s most unstable region.
The immediate
trigger
for the current conflict was the murder of three Jewish teenagers in Hebron, on the West Bank.
Likewise, despite much rhetoric, greenhouse gas emissions are not seriously addressed until major shocks
trigger
political reactions.
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