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But any such speculative boom is inherently unstable, as the stories evolve in time and with new shocks, whose effect on markets is most uncertain.
Increasingly unstable Arab neighbors might give the Israelis a motive to make peace in a small area and thereby hold at bay the chaos outside.
Europe’s Hard-Core ProblemPRINCETON – President Emmanuel Macron’s election in France and the likely continuation of Angela Merkel’s chancellorship in Germany are dramatically at odds with developments in the rest of Europe, which has become increasingly unstable and unpredictable.
But the global financial system that emerged was fundamentally unstable, because it was built on the false premise that financial markets can be safely left to their own devices.
(And, in the latter case, would the US follow its pattern of ousting a Middle Eastern government without a succession plan?)Regardless of the goal, the end result would be more troops and ships in the region, more resources appropriated to fight new or revitalized terrorist organizations, and more arms for allied countries, many of which are themselves unstable.
Once Japan’s sovereign-debt market becomes unstable, refinancing difficulties will hit domestic financial institutions, which hold a massive volume of public debt on their balance sheets.
Bhumibol’s death further destabilizes an already unstable region.
Until China puts its responsibilities as a modern global power ahead of its narrow national interests, the danger from North Korea will grow as the Kim regime becomes ever more unstable.
The bad news is that it has become increasingly clear that, at least for large countries, currency areas will be highly unstable unless they follow national borders.
The location of life-supporting pasturelands is determined by the unstable and largely unpredictable rains, rather than by political boundaries.
And, finally, regional politics is highly unstable, leaving the Horn extremely vulnerable to conflict.
And if that were not enough, Mexican capital and currency markets will bear the brunt of the pain from unstable US monetary and fiscal policy.
Getting an accurate count of the homeless is difficult, in part because it is an unstable population.
So long as Asia remains unstable, the negative impact of RMB devaluation on the regional market for Chinese goods and the Hong Kong dollar will be the primary focus of Chinese policymakers.
Most notably, the decline in prices is creating serious challenges for Iran, the Kingdom's main rival in the region, as well as for the unstable, oil-dependent economies of Russia and Venezuela.
Today, Egypt not only remains vulnerable to unstable domestic politics; owing to the depletion of its international reserves – at a rate of roughly $2 billion a month since last October – the country now also faces the threat of a currency crisis.
But such a defensive posture is bound to be unstable, due to pan-Arab feelings.
“I ask you,” he said in 1963, “to stop and think for a moment what it would mean to have nuclear weapons in so many hands, in the hands of countries large and small, stable and unstable, responsible and irresponsible, scattered throughout the world.”
Half of all civil wars are post-conflict relapses, and recent negotiated peace settlements have left many countries unstable.
But globalization has its downside: financial markets are unstable; free competition creates and reinforces inequalities nationally and internationally; collective interests, from preservation of peace to human rights and environmental protection, receive short shrift.
Today's market fundamentalist creed fails to recognize that financial markets are inherently unstable.
The threats concentrated in the Middle East are diverse: regional conflicts, totalitarian religious ideologies, terrorism, nuclear armament programs, blockades to modernization, unstable regimes and hegemonic ambitions.
The difficulties presented there are not confined to the chronically unstable Middle East, and Europe must confront the situation immediately.
Without such solutions, the system will tend to become periodically unstable, and to go off on unsustainable paths that end destructively.
Before his abdication in 1918, German Kaiser Wilhelm II did not need to pretend to be unstable; he really was.
But, in an unstable global economic environment, the failure of a few Southeast Asian states to take meaningful action toward cleaning up graft could be a trigger for larger political unrest.
Securing Europe’s Energy FutureMost Europeans agree that reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy is crucial to Europe’s security and prosperity; that energy can be used as a political weapon, as when Russia shut off gas to Ukraine in January 2006; and that Europe is far too dependent on energy supplies from undemocratic and unstable countries or regions.
The world is not running out of oil, but two-thirds of oil reserves are located in the politically unstable Persian Gulf region.
But economic codependency is as unstable as human codependency.
He thinks banks are still dangerously unstable.
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