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Even soaring commodity prices, bolstered by strong demand from China, became problematic, with the expectation of a terms-of-trade reversal generating significant uncertainty.
All of this uncertainty says much about the state of affairs in Brazil and Colombia – and, indeed, in much of Latin America.
With that, it becomes more difficult to pursue longer-term policy objectives, which merely adds further uncertainty about the precise path of European economic and financial integration.
In fact, the slide has been long in coming, and recent market uncertainty has merely been a wake-up call.
But, given the new period of uncertainty under Trump, the European negotiating parties should now assume responsibility for maintaining the JCPOA, and they should urgently propose an initiative to increase stability in the region.
First among such sources of uncertainty is the global economy: will volatility and imbalances lead to collapse, or will greater multipolarity underpin greater resilience?
China’s naval expansion is the product of a deeply entrenched sense of vulnerability, uncertainty about how other powers will react to its rise, and a growing range of threats to its overseas interests.
The work of Duke neuroscientists Scott Huettel and Michael Platt has shown, through functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments, that “decision making under ambiguity does not represent a special, more complex case of risky decision making; instead, these two forms of uncertainty are supported by distinct mechanisms.”
The key theoretical point in the transition to a debt-fueled economy was the redefinition of uncertainty as risk.
Whereas guarding against uncertainty had traditionally been a moral issue, hedging against risk is a purely technical question.
The main uncertainty in life – the destination of one’s immortal soul – nudges one toward morality.
Even the existence of mundane uncertainty gives rise to conventions and rules of thumb that embody the best of human experience in dealing with the unknown.
The abolition of uncertainty abolishes the need for moral rules.
As Greece and other eurozone countries have already learned, attempting to rush fiscal adjustment increases the debt burden, as the liquidity squeeze and concomitant uncertainty undermine output and reform efforts.
That is a big gap, but also a perplexing finding: how can there be so much uncertainty?
Asia’s Almighty Middle ClassSEOUL – Despite recent economic uncertainty, Asia’s middle class is growing fast.
Continued congressional polarization would maintain policy uncertainty, confound debt and deficit negotiations, and impede economic growth.
There is always some monopoly power, insiders have more information than outsiders, ignorance and uncertainty are pervasive, and expectations are frequently disappointed.
Markets and economic activity can withstand a great deal of political stress and uncertainty – up to the point that the international order breaks down.
The Chinese do not, after all, like uncertainty, especially when it roils markets.
The only foreseeable benefit to be gained through a devaluation is a reduction in uncertainty as an end will be put to the rampant speculation on when the RMB will be devalued.
In this set of possible outcomes, one point stands out: the uncertainty of Europe’s role in the future global system.
Now the US faces the uncertainty of a presidential election, weaker parts of the eurozone continue to struggle, and Japan is teetering on the edge of outright economic contraction.
For starters, it creates a source of deep and prolonged uncertainty at a time when the eurozone crisis already has called into question the EU’s long-term health, if not its survival.
So, far from reassuring anyone (including Tory Euro-skeptics), Cameron’s stance heralds a new era of turbulence and uncertainty for Britain and its European partners.
(According to one measure, the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis and the 2013 government shutdown caused uncertainty comparable to that sparked by the September 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.)
Nothing substantial will have changed, but at least the diplomatic and commercial sniping and disruptive uncertainty will be over.
All of this serves to increase the political uncertainty that threatens the region’s stability.
Despite the uncertainty regarding Northern Ireland, negotiators have started to converge on other key issues, including the size of the UK’s exit bill and the future rights of EU citizens in Britain, and of British citizens in the EU.
In this age of uncertainty, when even the nature of the threats that nations face is uncertain, Japan’s strategic and military planners must continue to seek ways to adapt the SDF to today’s myriad current threats.
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