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Underestimating in sentence

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Despite the International Monetary Fund’s mea culpa for underestimating the short-run adverse effects of fiscal austerity on European growth, over the longer term, Fund studies make clear, “reducing government debt is likely to raise output, as real interest rates decline and the lighter burden of interest payments permits cuts to distortionary taxes.”
He did not mention Europe, but underestimating Europe’s power is a mistake.
The Dutch government of Premier Wim Kok resigned after a report that it had commissioned accused the government of 1995 (also headed by Mr. Kok) of acting irresponsibly in underestimating the threats faced by Dutch peacekeepers.
Criticizing the Fed for underestimating the dangers from the underground rumblings that were about to explode makes it seem that particular players just got it wrong.
In fact, underestimating financial risk is a general problem – the rule, not the exception.
The climate crisis is the new wall that divides us from our future, and current leaders are vastly underestimating the urgency, and potentially catastrophic scale, of the emergency.
Markets are also underestimating today’s geopolitical risks, many of which stem from Trump’s confused and risky foreign policies.
The liability side will expand as social insurance grows – but slowly, owing to a fear of underestimating the liabilities being created.
But such expectations significantly overestimate the benefits of Brexit for the rest of the EU, while vastly underestimating the risks.
It misjudged the consequences of fiscal consolidation and credit constraints, underestimating the contraction of employment and overestimating exports and privatization receipts.
The rest of us need to avoid underestimating him – or we will all risk becoming collateral damage.
Outsiders may misunderstand the complexities, but perhaps even Spaniards are underestimating the odds of resolving the crisis.
They may think that the median investor is underestimating risk in general or underestimating the downside in countries that have some particular characteristic.
Are investors underestimating the risk that the EU’s third-largest economy could plunge into a downward spiral into polarization and paralysis?
So are China’s leaders again underestimating their economy’s growth capacity?
Sadly, there is another lesson as well: beware of underestimating these gains because tomorrow’s booming profits will inevitably lead to future expropriations.
Or are they underestimating risks in lower-grade US corporates (USEM yields are too low)?
Another reason for underestimating the speed of today’s energy transition is that the scale is different from previous conversions to new technologies.
But by targeting Suleimani, the US, too, might have miscalculated, by underestimating Iran’s own ability and willingness to respond.
Similarly, as I have argued previously, markets are vastly underestimating the risk of a war between the US and Iran this year; the deterioration of Sino-American relations is accelerating as each side blames the other for the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Why, then, are so many economists now worried about a US recession and convinced that financial markets are underestimating the downside risks to economic growth?
This outlook may be justified, or it may be that markets are underestimating the likelihood of a severe second wave this winter, and overestimating the efficacy and impact of the first-generation vaccines.
While European pundits are correct to doubt that the old transatlantic alliance will simply return to its pre-Trump state, they are underestimating what a Biden victory would mean for US foreign policy.
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