This weakens overall demand, leading to steeper declines in prices.

A weak dollar also affects demand by increasing consumption.

This policy works, leading to a long period of stable, uninterrupted growth.

Animal spirits are not always shattered by extraordinary economic events. But then, not all economic convulsions are alike.

But the talk drones on and on without any change being decided upon.

The state owned monopolies occupy the majority of the country s resources, leading to annual loss of trillions of yuan.

The lethal combination of these factors thwarts any prospect of economic growth while leading to an unsustainable level of debt.

Food prices, too, are at historical highs, contributing to poverty and political unrest.

On the contrary, they may be harmful, leading to an increased risk of mortality in people consuming them.

Higher transactions taxes increase the cost of capital, ultimately lowering investment.

Expectations, usually set too high to begin with, fail to be met, resulting in anger, disillusion, and often in acts of terrifying violence.

They also know that such action fuels radicalism, leading to the kind of tragic consequences that are all too familiar nowadays.

As this is a minority view, they often couch their arguments in scientific rather than moral terms.

That trade imbalance implied a continuous drain on gold and silver coin, causing shortages of these metals in Rome.

They have even tried to persuade me using academic and social reasoning that supposedly underpins why I should be a feminist.

This transformation has become a virtuous circle where initial growth has spiraled into greater growth, leading to more growth.

Syrian Amal Hanano looks at it from a different perspective, sharing lines from a Houston song

Rising unemployment compounded the loss of household wealth, throwing families into deep economic peril and leading to further cutbacks in consumer spending.

Lawyers write a lot of contracts, and courts spend a lot of time enforcing them, but these institutions cannot cover everything.

Only when the West adopts a similar posture will Russia stop being a special case, baffling both experts as well as itself.

If so, the results could prove catastrophic, leading to a spreading war in an unstable country of 180 million people.

Will a rapid rise in the inflation rate reduce the real value of government, household, and commercial debt, leading to lower saving and more spending?

Global demand for fish consumption is growing, and so, too, is the global capacity to catch fish, driving some species to the point of extinction.

However, the decision opens the door for the leading glass manufacturer in Mexico to appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, claiming three inconsistencies.

Sustained higher levels of blood sugar cause damage to the blood vessels and to the organs they supply, leading to the complications of diabetes.

Rather than a clash of civilizations, we might instead be faced by multiple layers of conflict, which interact with each other in ways that increase global instability.

The resulting smog can cause serious breathing problems among sensitive groups of people, contributing to thousands of premature deaths each year.

Critics who argue that fiscal stimulus in Japan failed in the past leading only to squandered investment in useless infrastructure make two mistakes. First, there is the counterfactual case How would Japan s economy have performed in the absence of fiscal stimulus?

It was pursuing a two pronged strategy making the argument that all was well in Kashmir (a blatant lie) and supporting ethnic confrontation in Pakistan.

Opponents of fiscal stimulus cynically claim that all such efforts are bound to fail, citing as evidence US President George W. Bush s tax cuts!

Critics who argue that fiscal stimulus in Japan failed in the past leading only to squandered investment in useless infrastructure make two mistakes.

The Russians bombed numerous strategic and civilian targets in Georgia, destroying infrastructure and producing growing shortages of food, fuel, and medicine.

This rendered potentially insolvent commercial banks, whose balance sheets were loaded with such bonds, giving rise to Europe s twin sovereign debt and banking crisis.

The problem with revenge, however, is that it provokes further revenge, setting in motion a cycle of violence and counter violence the culture of vendetta.

She seized that opportunity by bravely traveling throughout the country, despite serious threats to her life, arguing for a democratic and pluralistic Pakistan.

But areas that used to be frozen are now thawing, releasing methane and thus contributing to further warming and to further thawing, which releases more methane.

A website called Understanding Charlie Hebdo breaks down the meanings behind the magazine's cartoons in general, presenting examples of different cartoons that have been published in the past.

Among the most potent causes of stress in adult life are those arising from competitive interactions between animals of the same species, leading to the formation of dominance hierarchies.

CARE, as both a relief and development agency, can take a long term approach to disasters, matching emergency relief with a rehabilitation and recovery phase.

Soon, they may begin to call for the filtering of the Internet to protect the right to be forgotten of others, arguing that even democratic Europe enshrines this right.

Taking two recent European examples, Poles and Slovaks will likely soon realize that their new populist governments do more harm than good to the people and their country.

Staying the course, as Summers warns, will lead only to needless suffering before that course inevitably collapses, bringing Greece and much else crashing down.

Eventually, central banks will need to exit quantitative easing and zero interest rates, putting downward pressure on risky assets, including commodities. Or the global recovery may turn out to be fragile and anemic, leading to a rise in bearish sentiment on commodities and in bullishness about the US dollar.

Or the global recovery may turn out to be fragile and anemic, leading to a rise in bearish sentiment on commodities and in bullishness about the US dollar.

If real estate prices were to fall dramatically, a chain reaction could occur, taking down big and small investors alike, and over time causing wide suffering to ordinary Africans.