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Even if we did not incur the same costs as the US over the past decade – the hundreds of billions of dollars spent, and the many young people killed or injured – we have paid the price that regional uncertainty always imposes: lost trade, lost growth, refugees, and violence.
More uncertainty followed with France’s change of government in May 2012, and then again with Greece’s inconclusive elections the following month.
Today’s uncertainty, magnified by signs that the UK economy’s positive momentum is waning, would remain the stuff of nightmares.
On the other hand, “frequent regional conflicts, global challenges like terrorism and refugees, as well as poverty, unemployment, and a widening income gap” are generating deep uncertainty.
Specifically, the question is not whether it can grow, but whether it can grow fast enough to propel a large economy that, according to the US Federal Reserve, faces “balance-sheet deleveraging, credit constraints, and household and business uncertainty about the economic outlook.”
Most provocatively, they questioned predictions that the uncertainty surrounding Brexit would have a profoundly adverse impact on economic performance.
Economists can’t measure uncertainty directly, they reminded us, while proxies, like the frequency with which the term appears in the financial press, do a poor job of capturing its effects.
Indeed, we economists have had little success at reliably predicting when and why uncertainty spikes.
Maybe we would be better off placing less weight on the effects of uncertainty when making forecasts in general, and in the case of Brexit in particular.
In the end, Emanuel’s office concluded that, “The uncertainty for taxpayers, coupled with FIFA’s inflexibility and unwillingness to negotiate, were clear indications that further pursuit of the bid wasn’t in Chicago’s best interests.”
As a result, while political uncertainty will take its toll on economic growth, the Arab Awakening countries should not have to face a transitional recession, as post-communist Europe did in the 1990’s.
On the economic front, Trump’s trade policies will become even less popular in the months ahead as the American economy cools from the “sugar high” of the corporate tax cut, as growing uncertainty about global trade policy hamstrings business investment, and as both the budget deficit and interest rates rise.
His strength today foreshadows greater uncertainty in Iran’s future.
In a time of global uncertainty, a vision of “made in the Americas” prosperity provides a unifying agenda for the continent.
The resulting uncertainty could trigger more volatility, especially in bond markets, potentially impeding economic recovery (for example, by pushing up long-term mortgage rates) or augmenting future inflation risk.
Scientific understanding of climate change continues to advance, but there are still areas of uncertainty, including the risks of major surprises, complications, or unexpected interactions.
This is a poor way to cope with uncertainty, and it stands in striking contrast to the methods of science and free inquiry.
In science, uncertainty is a powerful incentive for acquiring knowledge; indeed, it is the primary motivation for research, which is inherently uncertain.
But, whereas the scientific community embraces uncertainty, remains ever curious, and is confident about the power of science and technology to create new opportunities for mankind’s collective future, other segments of society do not necessarily share this outlook.
Uncertainty is a cunning force in nature and lived experience.
Because of uncertainty, our achievements are not always what we intended them to be, and our lives are never simply routine.
Our lives are probabilistic, not determined, and the more we realize this, the less we need to feel threatened by uncertainty.
If people feel engulfed by crises, and view the future as fragile and precarious, they will be reluctant to embrace uncertainty.
It alerts us to randomness in the physical and social world, and to the role that uncertainty plays in our communities and personal lives.
So, even before the recent reports of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s health problems, North Korea was already a country marked by growing uncertainty.
The “Dear Leader’s” declining health will add even more uncertainty and may cause international instability across East Asia.
Similarly, regulatory opacity – and, more broadly, uncertainty about the direction of economic policy – has discouraged investment.
They blame globalization for damaging their livelihoods and economic prospects, and they seek an enemy – some “other” – whom they can vilify for the uncertainty and downward mobility they have experienced.
But there is no escape from complexity in the British campaign; it simply reemerges in the uncertainty surrounding what a vote for either camp would actually mean.
With so much uncertainty, there are a number of directions that US policy could take in the coming years.
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