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Central banks have expanding balance sheets, but prices continue to fall and uncertainty rises.
Statism has been a characteristically twentieth-century response to new uncertainty.
The first is based on insights into decision-making under uncertainty offered by so-called prospect theory, developed in the 1980s and 1990s by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
It brings an element of hard-nosed critical rationality into all societal debate, and fosters awareness of uncertainty and change in the professional education of skilled practitioners.
Uncertainty ensures that even optimal policies will lead to mistakes.
The year ahead will be challenging and rife with uncertainty.
The primary cause of the regime’s fears is growing political uncertainty, which is the direct result of the failing health of Kim Kyong-hui, Kim Jong-un’s aunt and the power behind the throne.
North Korea’s missile launch, coming amid the internal uncertainty arising from Kim Kyong-hui’s failing health, creates an extremely dangerous situation for the international community.
A majority AKP government, investors apparently believed, would be much better than the likely alternative: a period of political uncertainty, followed by a weak and indecisive coalition or minority administration.
The collapse of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in Egypt, the subsequent departure of the Israeli ambassador from Cairo, the political upheaval in Syria, and the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador from Ankara are causing great uncertainty in Israeli leadership circles.
Of course, any pre-election policy ideas might fall victim to political deals or simply the massive uncertainty implied by the recent election result.
Islamic Finance UnboundWASHINGTON, DC – While uncertainty continues to roil global markets, driving many investors into full retreat, one part of the financial sector is expanding exponentially: Islamic-law-compliant financial assets have grown from about $5 billion in the late 1980’s to roughly $1.2 trillion in 2011.
But this has not stopped Abubakar, a formidable political operator, from launching his presidential bid, despite uncertainty over whether he will fight it out with his boss for control of the PDP machinery or decamp to another political party.
Another big difference in 2018 is that Trump’s policies are creating further uncertainty.
But there is the prospect of a virtuous circle in which economic improvement leads to less surly politics, in turn reducing uncertainty and boosting recovery further.
For example, given so much uncertainty about the future state of Europe and the world, debating enlargement or the TTIP seems pointless – or worse, because even opening such discussions is certain to play into the hands of Euroskeptics.
At a time of uncertainty and threat, people had more confidence in the president they knew than in the candidate who seemed unproven.
Despite the uncertainty surrounding Trump’s impending presidency, one thing is certain, at least on paper: he is in a strong position to boost US economic growth.
Indeed, the lack of a restructuring plan heightens uncertainty and thus impedes the investment needed to restore economic growth.
The West’s uncertainty over Ukraine contrasts sharply with Russia’s clear vision.
Critics of the Stern Review don’t think serious action to limit CO2 emissions is justified, because there remains substantial uncertainty about the extent of the costs of global climate change, and because these costs will be incurred far in the future.
However, I believe that Stern’s fundamental conclusion is justified: we are much better off reducing CO2 emissions substantially than risking the consequences of failing to act, even if, unlike Stern, one heavily discounts uncertainty and the future.
Following a “business as usual” policy, by 2200, the losses in GNP have an expected value of 13.8%, but with a degree of uncertainty that makes the expected loss equivalent to a certain loss of about 20%.
The higher the waves of doubt and uncertainty become, the more the common approach is needed.
Uncertainty is a reality, and judgment is required.
Among the costs and risks of their low-interest-rate policies are a return to the leveraged growth pattern and growing uncertainty about the limits of a central bank’s balance-sheet expansion.
This requires eliminating uncertainty about the future price of carbon and the future regime for data protection.
In those panics, financial innovation caused uncertainty and nervousness, but also induced an important and beneficial learning process.
As a result, Japan’s commercial banks, hypersensitive to the risk and uncertainty associated with interest-rate fluctuations, have not responded to QE by increasing their lending activity.
In today’s inter-connected global economy, uncertainty about the US economic outlook increases one day, and Dutch consumer confidence, for example, takes a tumble the next.
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