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Uncertainty prevailed.
Trump’s Uncertain New WorldMEXICO CITY – The only certainty about US President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration is the uncertainty that will attend it.
But, as long as Trump projects uncertainty, he will effectively create worst-case-scenario conditions, because markets, investors, central banks, and governments have no choice but to prepare for the worst, even if they are hoping for the best.
Once again, the continued uncertainty weighs most heavily not only on Cuba, but on potential investors, who must assume the worst.
During his campaign, Trump did everything he could to offend Mexico and the Mexican people, and to shroud future US-Mexican relations in uncertainty, by promising to build the border wall, deport undocumented Mexican immigrants en masse, and renegotiate or withdraw the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Uncertainty may as well be Trump’s middle name, and he might even welcome that moniker.
Rather, it seems to show uncertainty, for the first line of the article refers to “A cow that was captured by police.”
Given the uncertainty surrounding Crimea’s future status, these costs are difficult to estimate, though they are most likely to total several billion dollars per year.
It is tempting to conclude that the Fed’s eagerness to tighten monetary policy – despite unfavorable historical precedents and ongoing economic uncertainty – is driven by commercial banks with excessive influence in official policymaking.
So the PBOC tried to keep speculators off guard by introducing more uncertainty into the exchange-rate system, as occurred with February’s surprise devaluation.
But excessive foot-dragging and uncertainty – owing not least to German unilateralism – impeded EU-level action, as it enabled migration to become a hot-button issue in domestic politics.
This will create space for rising powers like China, but it will also expose the world to a period of heightened geopolitical uncertainty.
After WWII, repeated shifts between Labour and Conservative governments led to stop-go policies that heightened uncertainty and created chronic financial problems.
And while that litigation continues, there would be great uncertainty about tariffs and much else.
It creates skepticism about whether the net benefits of openness are positive, and uncertainty about what adaptations are needed in the regulation of free markets to achieve a reasonable balance between their benefits and risks.
The good news is that far-reaching reforms can actually be easier to justify during periods of uncertainty, transition, or even crisis.
A second condition supporting SS1 is rooted in the impact of heightened uncertainty – about growth, job security, policies and regulations, and the many developments that could affect any of those factors – on investment and consumption.
To me, uncertainty should make us act more resolutely today, not less.
Even in countries like Tunisia and Egypt, where the transition to democracy is more advanced, political uncertainty has tended to plague economic achievements.
Responding to some early critics of his General Theory, Keynes showed that he recognized the importance of uncertainty in economic life, and consequently the difficulty of making predictions.
Of course, a degree of scientific uncertainty about some of these pollutants’ precise contribution to warming remains.
Opening up societies and economies to the world obviously entails significant uncertainty; but it also provides abundant opportunities.
But rejecting the EU will not insulate them from the uncertainty resulting from globalization.
Perhaps some of the anxiety over the new global academic enterprise is understandable, particularly in a period of massive economic uncertainty.
In his influential 1998 book Inflation Targeting, Ben Bernanke and his co-authors advised policymakers to announce a target inflation rate because it “communicates the central bank’s intentions,” which would “reduce uncertainty.”
But reducing uncertainty about prices by keeping the inflation target at 2% or more might actually increase a sense of uncertainty about real things like home values or investments.
Buying into BitcoinLONDON – The Internet currency Bitcoin is surrounded by uncertainty.
A new page was being turned, one that was full of uncertainty but also of hope that Russia was on its way to becoming a “normal country.”
Firms complain not only about the direct cost, but also about the complexity and the uncertainty introduced by such regulation.
During this time of uncertainty, Europe must tend to that flame.
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