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Today, German strength is not a matter of concern;German weakness is.
The irony is that, with insufficient aggregate demand the major source of global weakness today, there is an alternative: invest in our future, in ways that help us to address simultaneously the problems of global warming, global inequality and poverty, and the necessity of structural change.
But today’s debt crisis has exposed a fundamental weakness in the eurozone’s architecture: insufficient integration.
India should take to heart former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s prescient observation that “China, a nation of foreign and security policy realists, respects strategic strength and is contemptuous of vacillation and weakness.”
One can also say that both Putin and the Islamic State have drawn much of their strength from the West’s weakness, particularly its failure to have enforced clear and credible limits to their actions.
Its fiscal weakness limits its ability to act as global policeman.
Of course, some of the pessimism arises from the weakness of Europe, which has agreed only that the European Central Bank be lender of last resort; and some stems from recognition of the limits of quantitative easing.
Study after study emphasized asymmetries within the future common-currency area, the possible inadequacy of a one-size-fits-all monetary policy, the weakness of adjustment channels in the absence of cross-border labor mobility, and the need for some sort of fiscal union involving insurance-type mechanisms to assist countries in trouble.
Putin’s only strength lies in Europe’s weakness and irresolution.
First and foremost, it has been anemic, projecting an image of weakness that undermines its ability to reverse Russia’s annexation of Crimea, which has been tacitly accepted, or counter its aggressive behavior toward eastern Ukraine.
To be sure, much of the criticism that his administration’s foreign-policy choices – for example, the decision to stay out of Syria – reflect weakness or indecision is inaccurate.
Indeed, the official unemployment rate understates the weakness of the labor market.
The weakness of America’s economy is not limited to the household sector.
Higher energy prices are reducing real household spending on non-energy goods and services; weakness in Europe and Asia will hurt America’s exports; state and local governments are cutting their spending; and concerns about higher taxes in 2013 will dampen both business investment and big-ticket consumer spending.
Surely, they think, economic weakness must be due to something more tangible than a feedback loop.
Some nine years later, that weakness has not been addressed adequately.
Another, complementary interpretation is that the pound’s weakness, notwithstanding its potential cyclical benefits, reflects a risk premium on the UK, owing to its tricky EU exit path and other policy uncertainties.
The political recalibrations occurring in the world’s major economies highlight the limits on the level and pace of immigration a society can absorb without excessive disruption; on citizens’ willingness to abide centralized, let alone supranational, rule; and on public tolerance of economic weakness.
Hamas’s strategy is to expose the Palestinian Authority’s weakness by demonstrating that it cannot control the West Bank, as it promises in negotiations.
A unilateral blanket bailout would stress the banking union, stretch public finances, and leave the Italian banking system with its structural weakness.
But it reflects some negative trends – starting with long-term weakness in productivity growth.
Trenin believes that the West should fear Russia’s weakness more than its imperial designs.
Given the weakness of other European currencies, however, and Germany’s desire to keep markets open, there was very little that its officials could do.
The Chinese economy’s institutional weakness is reflected in international survey data.
The EU and the War MachineBRUSSELS: For many years, the most glaring weakness in the European Union has been its inability to mobilise a common foreign and security policy (CFSP).
The biggest obstacle to fighting graft is the weakness of the judiciary, especially at sub-national levels.
In a forthcoming book, they argue that the collapse of advanced-country growth is not merely a result of the financial crisis; at its root, they argue, these countries’ weakness reflects secular stagnation in technology and innovation.
But the EEAS’s chief weakness is not so much material as intellectual.
And European weakness, not to mention the “treason” of its liberal scribes, paving the way to an Islamist conquest of Europe (“Eurabia”) is seen as a ghastly echo of the appeasement of the Nazi threat.
Lower demand reflects both the current weakness of economic activity, particularly in Europe and China, and, more important, the longer-term changes in technology, which will increase cars’ fuel efficiency and induce the use of solar power and other non-oil energy sources.
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