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Weakness in the rest of the world implies a stronger dollar, which will invariably weaken US growth.
Indeed, the European Central Bank is dithering about how much to expand its balance sheet with purchases of sovereign bonds, while the Bank of Japan only now decided to increase its rate of quantitative easing, given evidence that this year’s consumption-tax increase is impeding growth and that next year’s planned tax increase will weaken it further.
If anything, the rise of nationalistic, populist, and nativist parties in Europe, North America, and Asia is leading to a backlash against free trade and labor migration, which could further weaken global growth.
This should spur a stock-market rebound, boost household consumption, weaken the yen’s exchange rate, and halt deflation.
Either growth will weaken dramatically, as implied by bond-market expectations, or interest rates will rise dramatically, because bond-market expectations turn out to be completely wrong.
GDP growth is unlikely to weaken, given the big fiscal stimulus, very high business confidence, and strong growth in personal incomes resulting from rapid job growth.
They believe that it would weaken Republicans and benefit Democrats, and they are right: there is no doubt that the left stands to gain more in the short term from such a requirement.
Statistical evidence suggests that this relationship will weaken once the real-estate market recovers, but this remains a long-run prospect.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s unpredictable and often provocative policies represent an additional impetus for improved ties – as do China’s increasingly visible plans to weaken South Korea’s alliance with the United States.
Still, even if today’s US-China standoff does not evolve into a new cold war, it could weaken both countries and usher in a more multipolar world.
But that would weaken the value of the US Treasuries that it continues to hold.
When Assad declared in a recent speech that, “Western powers sent Al Qaeda terrorists to turn Syria into a land of jihad…to weaken Syria,” Westerners chuckled incredulously.
After the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005 led the international community to finger Syria as the culprit, Assad stonewalled a United Nations tribunal investigating the matter and silenced domestic critics by once again conjuring foreign bogeymen scheming to weaken the country.
Hungarians and Poles must be reminded that Russian President Vladimir Putin is actively attempting to divide and weaken the EU and NATO.
The terrorists’ intention is to sow mistrust and stoke fears; their aim is to weaken the democratic rule of law and to shatter citizens’ confidence in public institutions.
Instead, the Obama administration is seeking a trade deal with India that would weaken competition from generics, thereby making lifesaving drugs unaffordable for billions of people – in India and elsewhere.
Low salaries – about $160 per month – weaken motivation and encourage corruption; reports of officers colluding with rapists and other offenders for personal gain abound.
Yanukovych’s policies will significantly weaken Ukraine’s hard-won independence and its ability to pursue closer ties to the Euro-Atlantic community, which the US has supported.
And, as for external demand, the generally strong dollar, together with the global and eurozone slowdown, will weaken US exports, while still-elevated oil prices will increase the energy import bill, further impeding growth.
While China’s dramatic demographic change will weaken its comparative advantage in labor-intensive industries, it has not gained a compensating level of competitiveness in capital- and technology-intensive industries.
If America spends the spring debating an enormous tax cut, you can bet that business and investor confidence will continue to weaken.
But even a purely rhetorical structure would probably sound the death knell of the OAS, and weaken its human rights instruments, which have proved increasingly valuable and effective.
For example, if companies reduce investment, they will weaken growth and boost their leverage ratio further.
Instead, they imposed harsh terms, hoping to weaken Germany permanently.
But monetary tightening would weaken already-slow growth.
Even China briefly allowed its currency to weaken against the dollar last year, and slowing output growth may tempt the government to let the renminbi weaken even more.
And the US authorities have become increasingly critical of Germany and the eurozone for adopting policies that weaken the euro while avoiding those – for example, temporary fiscal stimulus and faster wage growth – that boost domestic demand.
The peace talks will not paralyze the state or weaken its ability to act.
The damage they will do will likely weaken the US and add instability to the world economy.
The dollar may weaken, and fears of inflation may become more pronounced.
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