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This is particularly notable, given that Ecuador’s was perhaps the first opportunistic default (triggered by unwillingness, rather than inability, to pay) in recent history.
An earlier assault on India’s Parliament in December 2001 by the Pakistan-based militant organization Jaish-e-Muhammad, nearly triggered a full-scale war between the two countries.
Forget it: “’68” is over – buried under cobblestones, even if those cobblestones made history and triggered radical change in our societies!
Challenging authoritarianism, the revolt triggered an explosion at the heart of the typically French two-headed power structure, which combined a dominant Gaullism and a Communist Party managing the working class.
The strategy worked too well: the large credit inflows that it attracted triggered an inflationary boom that reduced the country’s competitiveness.
The result, as we know, was a mega-bubble that triggered the 2008 financial crisis.
While preserving the environment is a fine goal, squirming on a self-flushing toilet as it is triggered once, twice, or three times in a row fuels doubts about those efficiency claims.
Indeed, such defaults – combined with factors like large current-account or fiscal deficits, overvalued currencies, high public-sector debt, and insufficient foreign-exchange reserves – have always triggered financial crises, from the Mexican peso crisis in 1994 to the Russian ruble crisis in 1998 to the American subprime mortgage crisis in 2008.
NEW YORK – With escalating violence in southern and eastern Ukraine and no solution in sight, the Ukraine crisis has become the world’s most turbulent geopolitical conflict since that triggered by the terrorist attacks against the United States in 2001.
Now, geologists say, the fault that triggered that tsunami is most likely to rupture farther south, putting low-lying coastal towns like Padang, with a population of 900,000, at high risk of a major earthquake and tsunami within the next 30 years.
Even the strategic relationship with the United States, which has anchored the largest Arab countries’ foreign policy for decades, is confronting significant challenges, owing to the political tremors triggered by the Arab Spring, as well as to America’s increasing focus on Asia.
In particular, the shockwaves triggered by the shale-energy revolution unleashed in the United States are reverberating globally.
Whether triggered by the US-led invasion of Iraq 11 years ago or by the often-misunderstood Arab Spring, sectarianism is alive and well, and, in the case of ISIS, it is accompanied by the kind of terrorism that the US has confronted so firmly since September 11, 2001.
Because equity-backed debt has been issued to China’s highly leveraged corporate sector, the decline in stock prices has triggered collateral calls and forced asset sales, putting further downward pressure on equity values.
Our premise is that the global integration and economic growth of a wide range of developing countries has triggered a multi-decade process of profound change.
In yeast, where the process has been studied in molecular detail, the longevity triggered by calorie restriction is mediated by SIR2.
In fact, the most likely outcome of any Afghan power struggle triggered by an American withdrawal would be to formalize the present de facto partition of Afghanistan along ethnic lines – the direction in which Iraq, too, is headed.
But the current administration’s decision to cancel the deal (which was weakening anyway) triggered a fierce response from major gangs.
In the West, concerns about the impact on Chinese growth triggered a fearful sell-off in the markets.
Today’s Dark Lords of FinanceLONDON – In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, Lords of Finance, the economist Liaquat Ahamad tells the story of how four central bankers, driven by staunch adherence to the gold standard, “broke the world” and triggered the Great Depression.
Admittedly, the IMF was not alone in failing to interpret the underlying facts that triggered the crisis, but that is little consolation.
The Greek debt implosion, back in 2010, was the ugly symptom of the eurozone’s design flaws, which is why it triggered a domino effect across the continent.
The bursting of the Greenspan housing bubble triggered a financial crisis and recession the likes of which had not been seen since the 1930s.
In such a situation, the crisis will have triggered a social rather than an economic domino effect, which is no less worrisome.
When, in early October, the Australian National University (ANU) announced that it would sell its shares in seven fossil-fuel and mining companies, it triggered a chorus of criticism from the country’s conservative politicians.
The double-digit drop in the Shanghai Composite Index since June has not triggered an economic crisis largely because fewer than 10% of Chinese households participate in the stock market, and equities comprise less than 15% of household assets.
It was, in fact, the authorities’ clampdown on margin borrowing, together with a loss in confidence as global markets declined, that is thought to have triggered the market meltdown.
In the eurozone, the debt crisis triggered a sharp turn to fiscal contraction – and, with it, a return to recession.
Economic expansion was interrupted in the 1970’s and 1980’s, but the cause was the macroeconomic crises triggered by the success of the OPEC cartel and the ensuing deflationary policies pursued by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
The 2008 recession was triggered by the collapse of a real-estate bubble.
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