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The troubles of the wobbling global economy will take a lot of pep out of their burgeoning tech and manufacturing sectors.”
When this is absent, political and economic troubles fill the void.
Whether or not the Sykes-Picot Agreement is the main reason for the Middle East’s troubles, one thing is certain: the imposition of capriciously drawn borders by colonial powers has not been a uniquely Middle Eastern phenomenon.
But, as the euro’s current troubles demonstrate, a common currency requires unified and centrally established monetary and fiscal policies, which presupposes political integration – a process that is likely to be no less difficult in Africa than it has proved to be in Europe.
If Obama fails, the next administration will be sorely tempted to create some diversion from troubles at home – at great peril to the world.
Debt troubles in Greece, especially, should not have surprised anyone, least of all northern Europeans.
He also presided over Russia’s defeat in the Livonian War, and his misrule contributed to the Time of Troubles and the state’s devastating depopulation.
Then he and his “reforms” could be blamed for the country’s troubles.
Issues like the eurozone’s troubles and relations with Russia received no attention at all.
But the troubles for the world economy are just starting.
Trump’s determination to control media headlines makes him all the more likely, when it suits him, to call attention to the troubles in the Middle East, rediscover the North Korean nuclear threat, and force the Democrats to make a tough choice between being hard on Russia or getting into an arms race.
But this necessitates political integration, which, as the troubles of the euro this year have demonstrated, is a hard sell among nation-states.
A sick man whose rule at home is being challenged by Islamist opponents, he decided that international ostracism and domestic troubles is too explosive a combination for his son, a spoiled playboy, to handle.
So, even with a key member of the American economic leadership team leaving, the world's largest economy seemingly is in very good shape to confront any of the small troubles of every day finance.
It is not too much to say that had there been no IMF, there would have been no East Asia crisis, though individual countries might well have had internal crises -- as exemplified by Japan, whose troubles cannot be blamed on the IMF.
Maroni’s nostalgia for the lira is little more than a transparent-- and irresponsible-- election ploy by Italy’s Northern League, an attempt to divert blame for the country’s present economic troubles onto Romano Prodi, former EU Commission president and center left candidate in the forthcoming general elections.
The snake-keeper’s deepening troubles were exemplified by the recent massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar by militants no longer under the control of Pakistan’s generals.
Energized by broad voter dissatisfaction, particularly in struggling economies, these political movements tend to focus on a small handful of issues, opposing, say, immigrants, austerity, or the European Union – essentially whomever they can scapegoat for their countries’ troubles.
One answer is that many voters do not see the looming budget troubles.
Japan’s Nuclear Morality TaleNEW DELHI – The troubles of the Fukushima nuclear-power plant – and other reactors – in northeast Japan have dealt a severe blow to the global nuclear industry, a powerful cartel of less than a dozen major state-owned or state-guided firms that have been trumpeting a nuclear-power renaissance.
With his own political fortunes clouded by legal troubles that could lead to his indictment, warmongering has become a strategy to win reelection.
Puerto Rico’s current troubles trace their origin to the gradual withdrawal, starting in 1996, of earlier exemptions from US corporate taxes for companies located on the island.
Greece’s troubles have encouraged some to wonder aloud if the euro zone can survive its growing internal imbalances.
Russia, "the hereditary enemy," now seems far away and consumed by its domestic troubles.
And the impact on Asia and the global economy of a fiscal crisis in Japan would make Greece’s troubles look like a walk in the park.
JERUSALEM – The resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria after eight years of saber-rattling is not a diversion from the political troubles of Israel’s lame-duck prime minister.
But there are other, non-psychological factors for Pakistan’s troubles.
Both claimed, without providing evidence, that “hostile” foreign forces, seeking to pry Hong Kong away from China, were behind the city’s many troubles.
Not only is its dysfunctional banking sector undermining economic recovery and inhibiting investment; the sector’s troubles are the sharp end of a problem that affects the entire eurozone.
The sheer scale of the OSCE's operations in Albania is not what troubles me.
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