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At a minimum, Brexit would throw the EU into years of uncertainty.
Leaving the single market would cause grave uncertainty for the British economy, especially its financial sector.
It is not long ago that French experts had argued that the treaty banning nuclear explosions, which the nuclear weapons states have committed themselves to sign by the end of 1996, would have to allow small scale nuclear tests if only to reassure French nuclear bombs against the problem of nuclear ageing', the uncertainty whether all parts of the atomic bomb remain reliable.
These participants must be trained to provide quantitative estimates of their uncertainty for the different variables.
Current political and economic uncertainty has exacerbated the situation, driving policymakers to settle on simplistic solutions that, as Snowden made starkly apparent, can undermine the values that the West espouses.
Ongoing uncertainty about renminbi devaluation is fueling fears that deflationary forces will sweep through emerging markets and deliver a body blow to developed economies, where interest rates are at or near zero (and thus cannot be lowered to defend against imported deflation).
This holding pattern is particularly harmful because profound transformation will surely depend on financing from a sound sovereign bond market, which cannot function properly until uncertainty related to the government’s contingent liabilities – all those implicit guarantees – has been resolved.
These differing views explain the uncertainty surrounding France’s recent interventions in Africa.
While there is often some delay when political negotiations and trade-offs are involved, in this case, the sense of uncertainty may be heightened by policy-sequencing decisions.
This uncertainty has been at the root of demands for the state to intervene and protect the individual against the market's mercilessness.
The combined effect of many different financial innovations will be to blunt the impact of capitalist risk on our individual lives, helping to reduce economic uncertainty and inequality.
The same is true, to varying degrees, of Europe’s relationship with South Asia; but here the India-Pakistan conflict, a looming “post-American” Afghanistan in 2014, and uncertainty concerning Iran and the Persian Gulf have a direct security impact on the EU.
In the US, despite a slight improvement, uncertainty lingers.
Exercising a louder voice in politics at home and abroad could mean reduced uncertainty for Chinese exporters.
On the contrary, the only uncertainty was when exactly matters would come to a head.
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.
Italy’s instability is already having international repercussions, and the current bout of global uncertainty is far from over.
The first is necessary to reduce long-term uncertainty; the second is essential to facilitate near-term growth.
But they ought to be making even deeper concessions on debt repayments, where the overhang still creates considerable policy uncertainty for investors.
But highlighting short-term trading in stock markets obscures other powerful sources of short-termism in corporate time horizons, such as uncertainty about long-term government fiscal policies on both sides of the Atlantic.
Growth is weakening in many countries, risks are mounting, and uncertainty has intensified, owing especially to events in Europe.
We need resolute action to address the uncertainty confronting the global economy and to chart a path toward self-sustaining recovery and job creation.
Another complexity is uncertainty over who will rule Russia.
Second, an extension would prolong the sense of uncertainty that has so far jeopardized Greece’s recovery.
Its leaders can begin fighting the cancer of an unsustainable status quo, with all the pain and uncertainty that such a struggle entails; or they can wait for the cancer to become a terminal condition, and be devoured by it.
But these are the benefits of high finance as they apply to the ideal world of economists – that is, a world of rational utilitarian actors who are skilled calculators of expected utility under uncertainty, who are masters of dynamic programming, and who breathe stochastic calculus in their daily life.
In his election campaign, and since coming to power, Abe has advocated a radical revitalization of the Japanese economy that would end two decades of deflation and growing political and strategic uncertainty.
Uncertainty reigned for a considerable time.
Indeed, amid the vast uncertainty created by Trump’s victory, a new relationship now makes more strategic sense than ever, given changing global circumstances, regional geopolitics, and domestic challenges in both the US and China.
As Putin responds to this and other challenges, Russia will remain a source of substantial uncertainty for the rest of the world.
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