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And a waning bull market means that the day of reckoning may not be far off.
Meanwhile, not only is fiscal austerity pushing the eurozone periphery into economic free-fall, but the loss of competitiveness there will persist as relief at the waning prospect of disorderly defaults strengthens the euro’s value.
Waning external demand has undermined the capacity of China’s old manufacturing- and export-based growth model to sustain extremely high growth rates.
As a social anthropologist who trained in Eastern Europe in the waning years of communism, I observed firsthand what happens to a society devoid of civic trust.
But today, that confidence is waning.
That trend now appears to be waning.
Now that the era of cheap imports is waning, however, the effect on prices will be reversed, and those who benefited the most in the past may now suffer the most from Asian inflation.
But interest rates remain extremely low, and are even negative in some countries, and QE has been taken close to its limits, with public support for the policy waning.
As Ellen Lutz and Caitlin Reiger have pointed out, “the waxing and waning of political fortunes still dominates the extent to which former leaders are held judicially accountable for their crimes at all.”
Russia's Waning Clash with IslamAs the so-called "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West commands world attention, Russia's war in Chechnya has frequently been seen as a major front in that broader battle.
So it is noteworthy that, as the US-led invasion of Iraq--and with it, America's clash with the Islamic world--grows more heated, Russia's battle with Muslim Chechens may be waning into something like peace.
In 2013, amid waning Chinese demand, commodity prices fell.
T he IMF was created in the waning days of World War II, essentially as a United States-West European partnership.
While the situation undoubtedly remains tense and unwieldy, religion’s waning political role may create an opening for progress, much as, say, Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman’s willingness to discard fundamentalist imperatives favors modernization.
But the European pole’s power of attraction is waning.
If the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia did not adequately highlight the EU’s waning security credentials, the ongoing crisis in Ukraine certainly has.
And now, as the administration shifts to a more central focus on restoring growth and employment, it risks getting bogged down as declining economic performance relative to expectations translates into waning political support.
A more plausible explanation for improved market performance is waning pessimism.
Even before the May referendum, there have been indications that France’s ability to mold the European Union to its interests has been waning.
Pessimists worry that the productivity-enhancing benefits of technology are waning and unlikely to rebound.
The second reason for waning attention to the proposed partnership speaks to a broader issue: A seemingly endless stream of short-term political dramas has made it extremely difficult for both Europe and the US to focus for long on any secular and structural initiative.
Despite his numerous achievements as president, Lee is trumpeting his nationalist/anti-Japanese credentials in the waning days of his term, which ends in February 2013.
But waning interest in the Arab uprisings reflects a deeper shift: hope for new, more representative political systems has given way to despair, as expectant revolutions have morphed into counter-revolution, civil war, failed states, and intensifying religious extremism.
Aside from waning procyclicality, macroprudential policies and capital controls appear to help restrain the intensity of aggregate credit booms and asset bubbles, with policies in place during the boom enhancing economic resilience during the bust.
The waning of diversity in the Middle East goes back more than a century, to the bouts of ethnic and religious cleansing that took place during the Ottoman Empire, including the murder and displacement of 1.5 million Armenian and Syriac Christians in eastern Anatolia.
Europe’s security and defense policy has so far been dogged by EU countries’ waning military capabilities and a general lack of cohesion.
In the end, Huntington muses, it probably all boils down to rapid population growth in the Islamic countries over recent decades, a process that, Huntington concedes, is waning.
More broadly, support for China within both the US and the European Union has been waning for a number of reasons.
With communism discredited and Catholicism waning, the connection - mental, psychological, even spiritual - of the land with defense of the fatherland, appears to be Poland's last political certainty.
But while Western governments issue statements critical of Russia – for its detention of Sentsov and of another 150 religious and political prisoners – their commitment to isolating Putin’s Russia for its behavior is clearly waning.
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