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Climate changes resulting from greenhouse-gas emissions exacerbate water-supply problems, accelerate desertification and water stress, and worsen the
unpredictability
and severity of weather events, all of which adversely affect agriculture in much of the world.
Biased views and misconceptions among market participants introduce uncertainty and
unpredictability
not only into market prices, but also into the fundamentals that those prices are supposed to reflect.
The mechanisms underlying this political
unpredictability
are not unique to the Arab world.
But Trump has so far shown such indifference to rules and norms, such a disregard for limits, and such unpredictability, that the prevailing mood among Democrats and Republicans alike is one of uncertainty and unease.
Likewise, Europe’s latest existential identity crisis is again creating a great deal of policy uncertainty and
unpredictability.
On the other hand, Trump might maintain his aura of
unpredictability
by not pursuing tax cuts, significant infrastructure spending, or even his promised Mexican border wall.
But for nearly everyone else, Trump’s
unpredictability
is an albatross.
Russian and foreign businesses have always been worried about the
unpredictability
of the country’s political leadership.
Such long-term
unpredictability
is why the former European Union foreign-policy high representative Javier Solana and former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer assert that talks in Geneva are the only viable way out of the Syrian morass.
In southern Ghana, for example, farmers have managed to reduce crop failures arising from rainfall variability and
unpredictability
by cultivating several drought-tolerant types of the same crop species.
The proposed reforms would make it easier for firms to dismiss employees, decentralize bargaining between employers and workers in small firms (by eliminating sector-level agreements), and introduce a ceiling on indemnity for wrongful dismissal, providing firms relief from the
unpredictability
of damages awarded through arbitration.
Scaling up military missions is costly, and the
unpredictability
of terror strikes often requires extra spending on security, which sometimes causes governments to miss their fiscal targets.
The challenge is to develop macroeconomic models that can work in stormy conditions: models that incorporate radical uncertainty and therefore a high degree of
unpredictability
in human behavior.
For the world’s poorest smallholder farmers and pastoralists,
unpredictability
is the only constant.
Grumbles about Trump’s
unpredictability
punctuate unofficial conversations in government circles, with some of the government coalition’s more right-wing members having even accused Trump of betrayal.
For starters, price
unpredictability
makes it virtually impossible to detect the depletion of natural resources merely by looking at short-term changes in value.
Global investors tend to overlook human rights, and to prefer stability and autocratic resolve to the
unpredictability
of democracy.
But the US may be uniquely resilient: because it has historically been the global safe haven in times of economic uncertainty, it may be less affected than other countries by political
unpredictability.
A big country like the US can generally impose the costs of its
unpredictability
on other countries, and especially on emerging markets.
With Trump’s victory, the world has decisively entered a period of increasing
unpredictability
and instability.
In the case of defence and warfare,
unpredictability
includes the possibility of young men dying in action.
Unpredictability
can provide a tactical advantage, but it is also a strategic liability.
Authoritarian regimes, especially those with severe income and wealth inequality, inherently create a risk of arbitrariness, unpredictability, and instability.
If the world is characterized by ambiguity and unpredictability, then the economic theories of the pre-crisis period – rational expectations, efficient markets, and the neutrality of money – must be revised.
Missiles, Mickey Mouse, and North KoreaPYONGYANG: The most predicable thing about North Korea is its
unpredictability.
The floating exchange-rate system works surprisingly well, but currency volatility and
unpredictability
look likely to remain an enduring constant in 2011 and beyond.
Americans’ pragmatism, opportunism, fair-mindedness, inventiveness, adaptability, optimism, and, above all, their inherent competitiveness offset their tendencies toward violence, impatience, self-righteousness, and unpredictability, their fondness for novelty and celebrity for their own sake, and their self-assertion en masse – getting there, as they like to say, “fastest with the mostest.”
But now that
unpredictability
is the order of the day, and a collective “me first” outlook has taken hold, we should prepare for the possibility that turmoil could go global.
As orders crumble and become harder to maintain or manage, traditional and potential leaders increasingly consider the challenge too great, or they rely heavily on quick fixes and stop-gap measures, further fueling
unpredictability
and instability.
They’re torn between their qualms about his inexperience, unpredictability, and vulgarity, and the fact that many of their constituents like him.
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