Sentences with phrase «global economic wars»

More than politicians and the invisible hand of markets, it is teachers working as professionals who recognize that students are not numbers to be thrown into global economic wars, but rather lives and bodies — bodies that sit in desks, that suffer, that grieve, that matter uniquely in the future we wish to create.

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It roiled world stock markets as investors worried that a trade war could derail global economic growth.

U.S. and Beijing could both lose 0.2 percentage points of growth within the first year of a «limited trade war», AMRO's economic team said, and an additional 0.2 percentage points for the U.S. by the third year given Washington's relatively greater openness to global trade.

In January the International Monetary Fund said China's economic growth would top 6.6 percent in 2018, but it could now drop by as much as 0.5 percent if these tariffs are imposed — and it could slow even further if a global trade war truly heats up.

Markets have been on edge over elevated trade rhetoric between the two countries possibly resulting in a potential trade war, which would be a negative for global economic growth.

«Ultimately it will be in the interest of both sides not to pursue an all - out trade war,» said Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist at the Economic Outlook Group.

The planned tariffs have roiled world stock markets as investors worried about the prospect of an escalating trade war that would derail global economic growth.

Fears about a trade war between the world's two biggest economic powers emerged in March after Mr. Trump unveiled tariffs on global imports of aluminum and steel.

Oil plunged another 4 percent, while safe - haven government U.S. and German bonds, and the yen and the euro, rallied as widespread fears of a China - led global economic slowdown and currency war kicked in.

The country's economic success, which may be the most important global event since the end of the cold war, was buoyed by a combination of low wages, cheap credit and strong demand for exports.

After a series of tit - for - tat tariffs between the economic giants, there has been widespread concern that these moves could lead to a trade war which would slow down Chinese growth and trigger a global recession.

Any estimate of the economic costs of protectionist measures, let alone trade wars, is subject to uncertainty given the complexity of global supply chains.

However, Hansen explained that the economic data and the growing threat of a global trade war don't support aggressive action from the Federal Reserve, which should be positive for gold prices.

First, the tail risks (low - probability, high - impact events) in the global economy — a eurozone breakup, the US going over its fiscal cliff, a hard economic landing for China, a war between Israel and Iran over nuclear proliferation — are lower now than they were a year ago.

The ongoing trade war between the two economic superpowers has had a significant impact on the global community at large.

We spoke of the global dimension of the social organisation of society, of the political not only the economic dimension of the problem of the problem of refugees throughout the world, the process of democratisation, the problem of private property, of taxation, of the problem of unemployment, of the state, of oil and its significance for the Gulf War, of the question of the right to live and of nuclear apartheid etc..

It is likely that low - intensity - conflict planners, in the post-Reagan phase of their global war against the poor, will continue creatively to mix military, economic, psychological and diplomatic aspects of warfare in response to specific needs.

«Hmm, oh look those planes are about to hit the building and start a huge backlash that will lead to massive islamaphobia, two worthless wars, loss of life, global economic backlash, and a whole shitload of other things.

The demise of the Cold War helped the emergence of a new aggressive competitive global economic order.

This is due also to forums such as the United Nations and especially to the post-World War II development of a global economic system.

«The Balkan region, and eastern Europe more generally, have been largely left out of the global conversations on science and the media, partly due to language barriers and economic isolations of the regions — and in some cases, war,» said Mićo Tatalović, chair of the Association of British Science Writers and a judge of the 2018 EurekAlert!

The Nazis took advantage of the extreme economic hardship that followed the First World War and a global depression, but today's populist movements are growing powerful in wealthy European countries with strong social programmes.

The global economic crisis that was installed in 1929 only ended with the outbreak of World War 2.

We do not mean to be Apocalyptic, but, in the catalog of wars launched by states and of examples of dysfunctional management of our global ecology, we should also include the social wars that have broken out more or less openly, revealing an almost permanent demonstration of exclusion and of economic and social inequalities in the low - income districts of towns, both large and small, in every continent.

Built on specific English and world history state standards, the project covered concepts including the pre-World War II global economic crisis, the rise of totalitarianism, and the societal moral dilemmas that world leaders at that time faced, and then had students draw parallels to similar fictional themes in the book.

In the past, political coalitions of influential leaders have placed responsibility on schools to solve national political, social, and economic problems ranging from segregation, to Cold War rivalry with the Soviet Union, to the United States» current economic struggle as it competes with global rivals.

Democracy may yet come to Iraq and the region, but so too may civil war or a regional conflagration, which in turn could lead to spiraling oil prices and a global economic shock.

On Thursday, the two economic powerhouses kicked off the second round of trade talks in the hopes of averting a global trade war.

Since the end of the Korean War, the country of South Korea has been continually progressing towards its current status as a global economic force and major player in the worlds of technology and culture.

Given that sabbatical (during which the Hong Kong - born, New York - based artist set up his Badlands Unlimited publishing house), perhaps it's fitting too that the first section of the book brings together a series of texts — «What Art Is and Where It Belongs» and «On Art and the 99 Percent» among them — that, at their heart, consider questions concerning the definition of art and its role in society, with a particular focus on its relation to ideas of home and community, much of it in the context of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the subsequent global economic recession.

Comparing current global conditions to the turmoil that followed each of the World Wars, he has said the international exhibition is a response to economic, political and social crises, including «a humanitarian catastrophe on the high seas, deserts, and borderlands, as immigrants, refugees, and desperate peoples seek refuge in seemingly calmer and prosperous lands,» and the uncertainty and insecurity that accompanies such desperate disorder.

It was an appreciation for the possibility of chaotic, catastrophic consequences of unfettered economic competition (including global wars) that led people to create the Bretton Woods institutions.

Climate change, global economic instability, overpopulation, erosion of community, declining biodiversity, and resource wars, have all stemmed from the availability of cheap, non-renewable fossil fuels.

The Oil Depletion Protocol: is a global framework for distributing the world's remaining oil reserves more equitably than free market forces would allow, to avoid resource wars, profiteering and economic collapse.

Global Witness calls on them to counter the vested economic interests in maintaining the war by dismantling the web of secrecy around Angola's oil revenues.

Global Witness» new report «All the Presidents» Men» links these two issues: economic and political disorder from the war has been exploited to loot the Angolan state through kickbacks on arms trafficking and a highly over-priced military procurement process.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

The same techniques are used today to sell wars, economic repression and the theory of man - made global warming which survives in the face of historical experience and contemporary observation.

If isolationist policies, including pulling out of the Paris Agreement and weakening the Western alliance, lead to a global trade war and thence to an economic depression, the shutdown of significant chunks of the economy could lead to a larger reduction in greenhouse gas emissions than any careful, deliberate decarbonization policy.

I conclude that for the past 33 years there has been an increase of no more than 0,3 deg C, which would represent a «global warming» trend of around 0.9 C per century, due to unknown factors related to the Sun, and surly nothing to warrant a huge economic disruption caused by a fanatical U.S. war on carbon aimed at driving up the cost of conventional fuels aimed at unnecessarily reducing their consumption.

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Examples of science fiction based on devastating climate change are Ready (1998), well - meaning but scarcely noticed; Turner (1989), a story of civilization collapsing under the pressures of war and economic forces as well as global warming (noted fairly widely for its literary quality); and, by two of the field's major authors, Silverberg (1994)(little noted), emphasizing the greed, stupidity and ambitions that were bringing vast destruction through ozone as well as global warming, and Sterling (1995), where colossal storms mingle with stormy political conspiracy.

The upside for Bitcoin is as the greater global economy continues to spiral downward, and a growing number of nations begin a war on cash, as Middleton said earlier, people will slowly discover Bitcoin to be a valuable alternative, either as a currency or as an economic «safe haven.»