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A presidential election could be held as early as May, but there is considerable uncertainty ahead.
Or should it be viewed as yet another source of instability and weakness in Europe – one that would increase uncertainty in other countries and parts of the world?
With periodic bouts of contagion in the eurozone and residual uncertainty about America’s commitment to a strong dollar and fiscal discipline, major reserve holders in Asia and the Gulf need to become a stabilizing counterweight.
But, taken together, they would help reduce uncertainty and restore a pattern of stability and inclusive growth to the global economy, thereby bolstering its continued openness.
Like people, nations that deceive themselves are consigned to a future of uncertainty and instability.
While their use of a range of unconventional monetary-policy tools has had benefits, it has also generated significant uncertainty, without fully stabilizing the world economy.
Uncertainty about whether these deficits can be financed is one reason why the world economy, under current arrangements, faced a succession of crises in recent years.
Issuing the new global money would reduce this uncertainty.
A Time to ExperimentCAMBRIDGE – The world economy enters 2009 with more uncertainty (and anxiety) than at any time in recent memory.
But America’s large fiscal deficit, along with continuing uncertainty about its financial markets, mean that the dollar is also potentially vulnerable.
And there were no significant FDI inflows, because, as Macri’s critics had cautioned, the uncertainty surrounding his policies deterred investment.
These factors largely explain the Taliban’s violent revival, and the uncertainty of many Afghans about whom to support.
With uncertainty plaguing Europe’s finances and China slowing, the last thing the global economy needs is a stagnant or shrinking US economy.
From anti-immigration policies in the United States to flaring geopolitical hotspots in the Middle East and East Asia, disruption, upheaval, and uncertainty seem to be the order of the day.
Uncertainty may lead to lower consumption and investment (which is why governments should aim for rules that buttress stability).
Uncertainty is also coming from other directions: Italy will hold a constitutional referendum by the end of this year, and France and the Netherlands will hold elections next year.
The EU is a new and marvellous experiment, which, as with all experiments, entails a degree of uncertainty.
The biggest global economic uncertainty is the price of oil.
But we are now in the worst of all possible worlds—prices so high that they are damaging the global economy, but uncertainty so severe that the investments needed to bring prices down are not being made.
But there is uncertainty about how much.
And this is not a zero sum situation, with America’s gains equal to Europe’s losses: the uncertainty is bad for investment on both sides of the Atlantic, and if lack of confidence in the dollar leads to a shift out of American bonds and stocks, the American economy could be weakened further.
Today's instabilities may be unusually varied and severe, but human life is one of ceaseless uncertainty at all times.
Such uncertainty can lead to a frozen state of near-entropy.
More frequently, uncertainty leads to someone claiming to know how to eliminate it - frequently through arbitrary powers that benefit but a few.
While that intervention provided a temporary respite, uncertainty persists in financial markets.
Likewise, companies today are faced with so much uncertainty and so many risks that ever-lower costs of capital have not enticed them to invest more.
Keynes never tired of arguing that monetary policy becomes ineffective if uncertainty is sufficient to destabilize the expectations of consumers and investors.
What it will do is fuel global uncertainty if tit-for-tat responses escalate.
The calculus of probability…was supposed to be capable of reducing uncertainty to the same calculable status as certainty itself…”For Keynes, this is untenable: “Actually…we have as a rule only the vaguest idea of any but the most direct consequences of our acts.”
A Germany that abandons Kohl’s legacy would suddenly become a source of deep uncertainty, rather than a bastion of stability at the center of Europe.
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