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India is running high current-account and fiscal deficits; food-price inflation is in the double digits; and the rupee has weakened.
(Indeed, the Soviet Union was gravely, perhaps fatally, weakened by its war in Afghanistan.)
In a world of fiscal problems and massive restructuring, business will be weakened.
The fight – led by the United States, with the rest of the West providing lower-key support– has weakened Al Qaeda’s influence and capacity.
They also narrowed credit spreads on private assets, boosted the stock market, weakened the currency, and reduced real interest rates by increasing inflation expectations.
This has weakened growth in international trade.
But the shared understanding that unity delivers peace, prosperity, and democracy has been weakened over time by persistent crises, and it could now be lost completely unless it is reinforced by a forward-looking message.
The answer was always the same: Japan was afraid of US trade retaliation if the yen weakened.
The EU, for its part, clearly has a strong multilateral bent, but it is weakened by internal divisions.
The rupee seems to have weakened by about 6% against the dollar since the beginning of 2015.
The foundational principles of our democratic traditions are at stake – principles that are being weakened by the clash itself.
But a sustained period of populist policies has weakened trend growth and exacerbated inflation.
While they have not yet weakened support for the government, they probably will.
At the same time, a minority federal government’s foreign policy would undoubtedly be weakened, and Merkel would find it difficult to play an active part in European politics.
Economic globalization has blunted the instruments of national economic policy and weakened the traditional mechanisms of transfers and redistribution that strengthened social inclusion.
Part of the answer is as old as civilization itself: droughts, floods, conflict, and displacement have hurt harvests and weakened output.
Reconfirming the connection between bad economics and political extremism – highlighted by John Maynard Keynes in the aftermath of World War I – a decade of austerity in Europe has weakened the foundations of the welfare state and driven millions of voters into the arms of populists.
But, at a time when shortsighted, radical, and inexperienced figures are gaining power, both of these bulwarks against war have been weakened.
To accommodate this change in spending patterns, the dollar weakened, enabling the US to export more.
Both of these forces threaten the EU’s structure of peace, and the bloc will be weakened further without the UK, its traditional guarantor of stability.
At a strategic level, Turkey is correct in thinking that the Arab revolutionary process has weakened its direct rivals.
As the government’s fiscal position has steadily weakened, the jobs have become far scarcer.
Finally, hysteresis further weakened actual growth.
Presumably, Putin hopes to whip up nationalist sentiment to strengthen his weakened hold on power at home.
Bush’s termination of the ground war in Iraq after only four days was motivated in part by humanitarian concerns about the slaughter of Iraqi troops, as well as by an interest in not leaving Iraq so weakened that it could not balance the power of neighboring Iran.
More fundamentally, the rush to beat TV by breaking stories has weakened journalists’ incentive to perform due diligence, in terms of researching stories and verifying claims.
On the contrary, British withdrawal would likely inspire similar moves in other countries, with the risk that the EU, already weakened, might begin to fragment.
In this context, a weakened and fractured Europe – unable to confront threats stemming from its immediate environment – would be a more dangerous place to live.
Looking at the monetary tightening that began in February 1994 and June 2004, the dollar strengthened substantially in both cases before the first rate hike, but then weakened by around 8% (as gauged by the Fed’s dollar index) in the subsequent six months.
Just because the dollar weakened twice during the last two periods of Fed tightening does not prove that the same thing will happen again.
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