The path marked out by the deficit hawks and austerity advocates both weakens the economy today and undermines future prospects.

And restructuring weakens banks, which generally hold large portfolios of government bonds, thus making them less able to finance the economy.

The Fed has noted that structural problems in the housing market have impaired its ability to stimulate the economy through this channel.

In such conditions, most firms and consumers will be cautious about spending an option value of waiting thus further weakening the economy.

Of course, Germans are not entirely wrong the crisis in Europe s periphery is weakening Germany s economic growth prospects.

China is currently pursuing a contradictory set of policies that paradoxically undermines its own economy while propping up America s by accommodating pump priming by the Federal Reserve.

The US can undermine the Iranian regime by avoiding statements and actions that help drive energy prices higher and bolster Iran s economy. Administration officials should lower the political temperature.

Moreover, as Bilmes and I argued in our book The Three Trillion Dollar War, the wars contributed to America s macroeconomic weaknesses, which exacerbated its deficits and debt burden.

And we are now well on the way to diminishing returns.

Attempts to weaken the United Nations have failed.

Even Switzerland is intervening to weaken the franc.

That has weakened center left parties.

It is an element that weakens and undermines a genuine process of national reconciliation.

Progressive economists argue that the weakening of unions in the US, together with tax policies favoring the rich, slowed middle class income growth, while traditional transfer programs were cut back.

As in Japan, such measures would enhance long run fiscal sustainability without weakening demand at a time when the economy has not yet fully recovered from the Great Recession.

In the process, officials are weakening the yen.

Russia has sought to weaken Georgia s government for some time.

Poverty has an overall debilitating effect on the realization of all rights.

Monetary expansion generally makes it easier to borrow, and lowers the costs of doing so, throughout the economy. It also tends to weaken the currency and increase inflation.

If declining confidence in US fiscal policy leads to a weaker dollar, Europe and Asia may find it more difficult to export, and if the deficits prove a drag on the American economy, global growth may stall.

But, in the developing world, it is just the opposite a decline in exports, reduced remittances, lower foreign direct investment, and precipitous falls in capital flows have led to economic weakening.

That weakened the incentives for entrepreneurship.

Far from strengthening social institutions, this lack of attention weakened them.

Moreover, his party was weakened in the war against Japanese.

Thatcherism s second success was to weaken trade unions.

Instead, they imposed harsh terms, hoping to weaken Germany permanently.

Undermining any individual s rights jeopardizes everyone s rights.

Empowering the Iranian people means weakening Khamenei and his military allies.

Weakening Lebanon has also made it more difficult to rein in Hezbollah.

It also tends to weaken the currency and increase inflation.

The first is to weaken China s incentive to accumulate reserves.

All these contribute to the low level of public trust and confidence in these institutions.

will only serve to weaken the prospects for settlement and further complicate an already complex situation.

In such a scenario, the economy would gradually weaken, hampering the royal family s ability to continue buying middle class support, while enabling rebel groups in the east and the south to erode the government s authority.

Furthermore, trade tensions could weaken political ties.

Not allowing the necessary consolidation is weakening credit markets, not strengthening them.

Prolonged periods of strain tend to weaken the fabric of institutional cooperation.

Putin is shooting back, accusing the West of trying to weaken and dismember Russia.

Rather than diluting hard and soft power, immigration enhances both.

Third, the UK has once again weakened its own position within Europe.

But the evidence that Anderson, Gentile, and Buckley provide has weakened that defense.

As a result, Isabel weakened slightly to a Category 3 hurricane.

Instead, by weakening safety standards, bailing out foreign investors, and financing current account deficits, the ECB has undercut and replaced the private European interbank market.

Otherwise, the vast explosion of public debt will permanently depress per capita growth by one third or more in most advanced economies a stunning permanent stagnation and would hamstring governments ability to combat the next recession.

The peace talks will not paralyze the state or weaken its ability to act.