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But, this time, the default has been triggered by a significant shift in the international sovereign-debt regime.
Perhaps the best evidence that this is not an ideologically-driven sea change is to be found in what triggered it: an economic downturn.
Meanwhile, the consequences of failure to deal with the housing crisis – which triggered financial markets’ near-meltdown in 2008 – are continuing to be felt: further decline in real-estate prices, more foreclosures, and thus even greater stress on US households.
Today’s global crisis was triggered by the collapse of the US housing bubble, but it was not caused by it.
The subsequent retreat to fiscal virtue triggered the 1938 “Roosevelt Recession.”
Indeed, it was his decision to extend, unconstitutionally, the term of the reliably pro-Syrian Emile Lahoud as Lebanon’s president in 2004 that triggered the political crisis leading to Hariri’s murder and the emergence of a coalition of anti-Syrian groups, which included many former Syrian allies.
The decision triggered a severe response from China, where students held demonstrations against his visit.
A second vote could be triggered by the government’s failure to win parliamentary approval of the divorce settlement it has agreed with the EU.
The psychologist Paul Rozin has shown how disgust, as Charles Darwin first noted, is an evolutionary adaptation that deters us from bad meat, so it is naturally triggered by animals and animal waste products.
China’s vulnerabilities and risks – stemming from property bubbles, shadow banking, and local-government debt – have triggered concerns about a crisis not only there, but also in neighboring Asian countries.
Those sources of distrust in Asian economic and financial prospects, some fundamental and some speculative, that triggered the Asian crises would likewise have pushed down the exchange rates had they been floating, but surely not nearly as far as they plunged in the free fall following the collapse of fixed rates.
The United States, quick to capitalize on regional concerns triggered by China’s increasingly muscular self-assertion, has strengthened its military ties with its existing Asian allies and forged security relationships with new friends.
Expectations of a rate hike have restricted flows to emerging markets ever since 2013, when the Fed triggered what came to be called the “taper tantrum” by announcing that it was likely to reduce its bond-buying program.
But sudden steep declines in foreign capital inflows triggered by the Fed’s action could exacerbate the challenges that even the best-performing Asian economies are facing, as anemic demand in their export markets causes growth to slow.
That is why it would be a mistake to read the current wave of mass political protest, triggered by the government’s refusal to sign an association agreement with the European Union, as a second Orange Revolution.
The other euro-zone countries, however, will not let Greece go under, because they fear a domino effect similar to the one triggered among banks by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s talk of “tapering” quantitative easing might have triggered the current bout of instability; but emerging markets’ underlying vulnerability was made in Europe.
The Still-Emerging MarketsSAN FRANCISCO – Today’s turbulence in emerging-market equity markets has triggered a wave of obituaries for their growth miracles of recent decades.
This finding suggests that rapid development in China’s service economy could reverse the externally triggered dampening of growth since 2008.
And because of that, my Americanness, unlike that of Saul Bellow’s Augie March, once triggered something of a national debate back in Russia.
After North Korea’s enriched uranium program triggered another crisis in late 2002, President George W. Bush wanted to mobilize China’s influence in a more systematic way.
Moreover, financial crises triggered by excessive debt and leverage in the private sector are followed after a few years by sovereign defaults and/or high inflation to wipe out the real value of public debts.
But, with the policy instruments for achieving these goals largely national and the arguments for applying them simultaneously in several member states weak, the EES has created unrealistic public expectations and triggered only limited action by governments.
For example, the 1980-82 crisis was triggered by an oil price spike caused by the Iran-Iraq war.
Last December, the brutal gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman in India – two months after Pakistan’s Taliban shot 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai for advocating education – triggered large-scale public protests.
For example, the bankruptcy of the US solar energy firm Solyndra, which received a $500 million government-guaranteed loan, triggered partisan protests.
Given that both conflicts were triggered by the kidnapping of Israeli soldiers to be traded for Arab prisoners, Israel must now realize that holding Arabs indefinitely in prison can only beget violence.
But charges of large-scale vote-rigging in the 1977 elections triggered widespread unrest, which not only brought down Bhutto (who was ultimately executed), but also led to a military coup.
Concern over the Chinese economy’s marked slowdown and the Argentine peso’s steep slide against the US dollar has triggered heavy selling pressure on an array of emerging-market currencies.
But many investors see a substantial chance of 2008 and 2009 redux, whether triggered by a full-fledged euro crisis or by some black swan that we do not yet see, and fear that, unlike in 2008 and 2009, governments would lack the power and will to cushion the economic impact.
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