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In cables made public by WikiLeaks, Robert Godec, the US Ambassador to Tunisia before the revolution, warned that the level of corruption stemming from Ben Ali and his family was deterring investment, and thus contributing to the country’s high unemployment.
Top military and diplomatic experts desperately warned Bush not to invade Iraq.
They were given the opportunity to go to the market themselves, but they were warned that the UK Treasury would inject funds into them if they failed to do so.
French Finance Minister Thierry Breton recently warned the ECB about “nasty surprises.”
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” Thomas Jefferson warned, “it expects what never was and never will be.”
“The Remain side are making all the running,” Farage warned his fellow hardline Leavers this weekend.
For, as the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has explicitly warned, if emissions do not fall before 2015, and only fall from then onwards (and the overall trend is that they have been rising), we will reach the point of no return.
As Michael Spence recently warned, the international order’s widening security deficit, reflecting the weakening of whatever global governance we have, is fast becoming the biggest risk facing the world economy.
In recent days, the United States has rightly warned that a possible referendum in the UK could mean that the country turns inward, while Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said that a British exit from the EU would be a “disaster.”
In a series of lectures at Columbia University in 1928, Cassel warned of “a prolonged and worldwide depression.”
There is even speculation that China was warned of the looming coup in Zimbabwe, if not consulted beforehand.
Back in 1986, Hyman Minsky warned about the longer-term dangers to financial stability if “Ponzi” borrowers – those who can service their debt only with new debt – become the main pillar of the economy.
It then took only a few years until, in 1965, an expert report – the first of many – to US President Lyndon B. Johnson warned of global warming: “By the year 2000, the increase in carbon dioxide will be close to 25%.
The Limits to Growth warned humanity in 1972 that devastating collapse was just around the corner.
At the time, some influential commentators warned that the Japanese had discovered a superior economic model, featuring strategic trade policy (among other attractions), and that the rest of us had better emulate them.
The director-general of the World Health Organization has warned that if the world falls back into a pre-antibiotic age, a scratch or throat infection could become lethal once again.
And the huge increase in leverage – non-financial debt has grown from less than 150% of GDP in 2008 to more than 250% today – might well lead, as People’s Bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan has just warned, to a “Minsky moment” of evaporating confidence and severe financial stress.
Five years ago, Wen famously warned of a Chinese economy that was in danger of becoming “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and unsustainable.”
The fact that Warren Buffet and the asset-management firm Black Rock have warned about the investment risks of climate change suggests that the battle is not yet lost.
But the alternative is global chaos, if not, as Pope Francis has warned, the beginning of World War III.
Moreover, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy has warned that the plan to repatriate certain powers from the EU could damage the single market.
In the past ten days, Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz and warned the United States against sending an aircraft carrier back into the Persian Gulf.
When horse-trading for Commission jobs took place in 2009, former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown was warned of the danger of allowing the French to hold the Internal Market post.
From the sidelines, the European Union and Pope Francis warned that no “military solution” is possible in Syria.
Indeed, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned of “the end of the Jewish state” if the country remains bogged down in the occupied territories and a Palestinian state is not established.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of the prospect of war-crimes charges against Assad.
Finally, Clinton, speaking from Delhi, warned Pakistan not to allow its territory to be used as a “launching pad” by terrorist groups, asserting that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was hiding in the country.
The low point came last May, when Trump warned his followers that, “We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country.
Chinese-style capitalism is flaunting its defiance of one Confucius’ basic teachings—don’t worry about poverty, he warned, worry about inequality.
He has denounced and warned Israel, recalled Egypt’s ambassador to Tel Aviv, and sent his prime minister to Gaza.
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