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The World u0027s Runaway Train

The runaway driver is currently being sought.

A runaway boxcar is about to run over five people walking on the tracks.

That will lead to double dip recession, even larger fiscal deficits, and runaway debt.

Decision makers have not faced up to just how close the world may be to the climate tipping point. But, while a runaway climate remains a risk, runaway politics are already a fact.

CAMBRIDGE The global economy is a runaway train that is slowing, but not quickly enough.

It is time to put the brakes on this runaway train before it is too late.

It would be far preferable to balance tax increases with some reversal of runaway government spending.

In China, political leaders seem genuine in their commitment to reduce the carbon content of their runaway economy.

Climate is a profoundly complex, nonlinear system, full of runaway positive feedbacks, hidden thresholds and irrevocable tipping points.

Runaway population growth becomes controllable when women have access to literacy and business opportunities as well as to contraception.

This runaway train global economy has all the hallmarks of a giant crisis in the making financial, political, and economic.

Having sought to cool the property market by reining in runaway prices, Chinese leaders will be hard put to restart growth.

Argentina seems set to join the long list of countries Brazil, Korea, Russia, Thailand, and Indonesia that managed devaluations without runaway inflation.

Instead, we faced a catastrophic economic situation runaway inflation, unsustainably high interest rates, a collapsed currency, and a general loss of confidence.

Let's take Bogota. Poor, Latino, surrounded by runaway gun violence and drug trafficking a reputation not unlike that of the South Bronx.

Runaway growth and development have left about 70 of China s lakes and rivers severely polluted, many unfit for human use of any kind.

It would allow the central bank to raise interest rates aggressively to control runaway credit and investment growth, and keep inflation in check.

If so, the consequences will be a choice between the destructive runaway inflation familiar from much of post WWII Latin America and stagflation.

It remains traumatized by its historical memory of the 1930 s, when runaway inflation in the Weimar Republic led to the rise of Hitler.

France and other countries were willing to show solidarity, but Germany, traumatized twice in the twentieth century by runaway prices, was allergic to any buildup of inflationary pressures.

Certain indicators have given the combined opposition hope that they might win a larger proportion of the SMDs and at least prevent a runaway victory for the government.

Instead, each side has caricatured the other supporters emphasize that QE has nowhere led to runaway inflation, while opponents point out that nowhere has QE alone reignited robust growth.

It is an apt metaphor for the situation in which the US and China now find themselves on a planet in the process of being dangerously warmed by our own runaway progress.

If not reversed, this combination of very loose fiscal and monetary policy will at some point lead to a fiscal crisis and runaway inflation, together with another dangerous asset and credit bubble.

In an open letter issued by the Communist Party s central committee in September of 1980, the One Child Policy was suggested in order to relieve the demographic tensions of runaway birth rates.

More flexibility would help attain more balanced and sustainable growth. It would allow the central bank to raise interest rates aggressively to control runaway credit and investment growth, and keep inflation in check.

CAMBRIDGE The global economy is a runaway train that is slowing, but not quickly enough. That is what the extraordinary run up in prices for oil, metals, and food is screaming at us.

The most obvious explanation for the German peculiarity is an obsession with the lessons of German history, particularly the two episodes of runaway inflation in the twentieth century, in which holders of monetary assets were expropriated.

The government must avoid relying too much on proposals for tax increases, which ultimately feed back on growth and sustainability. It would be far preferable to balance tax increases with some reversal of runaway government spending.

First, although differences on trade and economic policy must be addressed, short sighted self interest must be countered actively. Excessive surpluses in some countries and excessive debt in others, fueled by undervalued currencies and runaway government spending, respectively, must be curbed.

But if China does not accelerate the renminbi s revaluation, the world might see a large burst of consumer inflation in China in the next two or three years. If so, the consequences will be a choice between the destructive runaway inflation familiar from much of post WWII Latin America and stagflation.

If not reversed, this combination of very loose fiscal and monetary policy will at some point lead to a fiscal crisis and runaway inflation, together with another dangerous asset and credit bubble. So the key emerging issue for policymakers is to decide when to mop up the excess liquidity and normalize policy rates and when to raise taxes and cut government spending (and in which combination).

The consequences of this would be devastating inland areas desiccated, low lying coastal regions battered and flooded as polar ice melts and sea levels rise, and possibly further warming and a runaway greenhouse effect due to an increase in atmospheric water vapor. The only rational course of action would seem to be to curtail global consumption of fossil fuels, as the Kyoto Treaty's proponents contend, and invest in alternative energy sources.