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On the contrary, the more uncertainty there is about the scarcity of a resource, the greater the price swing, which only compounds the planning difficulty.
Second, uncertainty about the future price of any commodity makes it exceedingly risky for producers to invest in whatever new technologies might help reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
But there remains considerable uncertainty about their growth trajectory, with significant implications for asset prices, risk, and economic policy.
Obviously, the US cannot remove this uncertainty without robbing the sabre-rattling of its beneficial effect.
The potential upside to the tremendous uncertainty that many around the world feel is that we essentially are confronted with a clean slate.
A fog of political uncertainty hangs over Britain after Christmas.
We are likely to be entering a period of growing risk, rising uncertainty, and fundamental transformation – the beginning of a less stable international era.
The main concern in this period of great uncertainty is whether the transition to a new paradigm can be managed without further destabilizing the international political-economic order.
Eventually, however, the uncertainty created by these CDOs nearly brought down the entire US banking system.
The major uncertainty facing the world today is not the euro but the future direction of China.
Until China reckons with the ruling Communist Party’s stranglehold on key levers of the economy, it will be a source of market uncertainty that reverberates throughout the global economy.
Perhaps China’s apparent economic, strategic, and military advantages will prove less significant than many believe – especially given continuing uncertainty over the terms of America’s strategic “pivot” toward Asia.
Her style of leadership, which has mostly consisted of taking a wait-and-see approach to issues, fits this uncertainty well.
With the economy in free fall and uncertainty pervasive, many households and firms simply stop paying taxes.
With Turkey facing political uncertainty following its general election in June, it is important to re-anchor the country to the EU.
Economic uncertainty is also dramatically affecting Brazilian politics.
Moreover, information that is filtered through networks of friends can result in an echo chamber of news that reinforces one’s own biases (though there is considerable uncertainty about how serious a problem this represents).
A century later, the world is again roiled by conflict and uncertainty, exemplified in the Middle East, Ukraine, and the East and South China Seas.
Amid such uncertainty, our future depends on a UN that brings together the countries of the world not only to talk and debate, but also to agree and to act; that mobilizes civil society, business, philanthropists, and ordinary citizens to help the world’s governments solve current problems; and that delivers peace, development, human rights, and global public goods – in a word, hope – to people around the world every day.
So now is a moment, even amongst all the uncertainty, for some clarity and that clarity comes best from a worked out strategy based on a strong set of convictions.
With corporations sitting on cash, governments trying to rein in deficits by cutting expenditure and raising taxes, and households spending less on residential construction, demand is weak and uncertainty is high.
Nobody likes uncertainty; we all wish the experts knew exactly what will happen.
But we cope better with candidly acknowledged uncertainty than with false confidence.
After years during which the continent’s economy grew at an average annual rate of 5%, global uncertainty, depressed commodity prices, and jittery external conditions are threatening to undermine decades of much-needed progress.
(For North Africans, however, that figure drops to only 10-15%, which is unsurprising given the uncertainty generated by the region’s recent political turmoil.)
But the authorities remain cautious, given that China’s economic outlook depends heavily on external conditions, which is the source of most current uncertainty.
Given Syria’s bloody civil war, the rise to power of Islamist forces through free elections, the ever-deepening political and economic crises in Egypt and Tunisia, increasing instability in Iraq, uncertainty about the future of Jordan and Lebanon, and the threat of war over Iran’s nuclear program, the bright hope of a new Middle East has vanished.
By contrast, an open society accepts uncertainty, and it establishes laws and institutions that allow people with divergent views and interests to live together in peace.
First, post-2008 political divisiveness creates massive long-term policy uncertainty, as countries oscillate between governments of the left and the right.
And policy uncertainty in the United States is nothing compared to the UK, where businesses face the twin disruptions of Brexit and (potentially) a Labour government led by the far-left Jeremy Corbyn.
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