Unsustainable in sentence

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Yes, by our standards, China’s imbalances are unstable and unsustainable.

Still, fiscal conditions in the advanced economies remain unsustainable, with many OECD members’ debt levels hovering around 100% of GDP.

Large losses in household wealth, deleveraging from unsustainable debt, weak wage growth, and a decline in labor’s share of national income to a historic low have combined to constrain consumption growth.

First, the fiscal-stimulus policies that are currently pushing the annual US growth rate above its 2% potential are unsustainable.

Moreover, populist policies in countries such as Italy may lead to an unsustainable debt dynamic within the eurozone.

But growth at this level reflects an unprecedented – and unsustainable – rise in domestic investment to nearly 50% of GDP.

But this didn’t necessarily apply to Greece in 2009, when its public debt was high – at 127% of GDP – but not unsustainable.

The balance-of-payments crisis of 1966-7 reflected the tendency of British wages to grow faster than productivity, the consequent trade deficits, and foreign investors’ reluctance to finance a position they saw as unsustainable.

For a while, reality reinforces the misconception, but eventually the gap between reality and its false interpretation becomes unsustainable.

If nothing else, that current path unacceptably accentuates the differences between member states in a way that is politically and economically unsustainable in the longer term.

Indeed, China’s slowdown reflects an economic model that is, as former Premier Wen Jiabao put it, “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable,” and that now is adversely affecting growth in emerging Asia and in commodity-exporting emerging markets from Asia to Latin America and Africa.

Clearly, America's current account deficit is unsustainable.

As the late economist Herb Stein, an advisor to President Richard Nixon, used to say, if something is unsustainable, then someday it will stop.

As the late Rudi Dornbusch (who preceded me as the author of this series of commentaries) used to say, unsustainable capital inflows always last much longer than economists, who tend to focus firmly on the fundamentals, believe possible.

Both sides are acutely aware that the status quo implies a high cost, by hampering their EU accession bids and imposing an unsustainable burden on their respective economies.

A Loan and a PrayerNEW YORK – The countries known collectively as the PIIGS – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain – are burdened with increasingly unsustainable levels of public and private debt.

The real depreciation necessary to restore external balance would drive the real value of euro debts even higher, making them even more unsustainable.

This means extending the maturity dates of debts and reducing the interest rate on the new debt to levels much lower than currently unsustainable market rates.

China’s growth has been unsustainable for a while.

Eventually, these debts will become unsustainable.

In new EU member states, the EIB has supported mostly high-carbon energy, which traps these countries in unsustainable energy systems.

Unsustainable production systems, combined with wasteful and excessive consumption in some regions of the world, have had serious consequences in terms of climate change, disease transmission, and nutritional balance.

It soon became obvious that, given Poland’s constitutional 60%-of-GDP debt limit and 3%-of-GDP cap on the budget deficit, together with the squeeze on public finances in the wake of the global financial crisis, the OFE funding model was unsustainable.

Then there are those who believe that fundamentals are in fact weak, that the current upswing will prove unsustainable, and that investors should regard stock-market gyrations as a necessary wakeup call.

It seems puzzling – and unsustainable – that people would tie up their money for 20 or 30 years to earn little or nothing more than these central banks' 2% target rate for annual inflation.

We cannot point to a lonely Cassandra like Robert Shiller of Yale University, who regularly argued that house prices were unsustainable, as proof that the truth was ignored.

But providing energy to all will require governments to discontinue subsidies for fossil fuels and unsustainable agriculture.

A bubble occurs when public expectations for future price increases become exaggerated, pushing prices up to unsustainable levels.

Given modern communications, a cover-up of the kind engineered by Mussolini in 1931 would most likely be unsustainable today.

Perhaps the unsustainable pre-2008 bubble was larger in the UK; perhaps the UK’s structure (particularly the larger share of finance in its GDP and the continued decline in energy output) made the initial downturn less reversible.

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