After the Greek Default

In addition to the trade and budget deficits, there is a jobs deficit.

With his campaign apparently dead in the water, McCain reached out all right to the right wing fundamentalists in his own party.

The deepest problem is Europe s inability to grow at more than a snail s pace and to provide jobs to its citizens.

The global financial crisis thus revealed the Mexican economy s inability to innovate, promote investment, create jobs, or provide conditions for social mobility.

The Soviet Union could not keep up.

BEIJING In the last 200 years, there have been more than 250 cases of sovereign debt default, and 68 cases of domestic debt default.

Nor has its political evolution matched its economic progress.

The rest of Asia might be content to sit back and watch the spectacle of Japan s myopic politics if Japan s inability to work to help stabilize the region did not matter so much.

Will Medvedev succeed where all others have failed?

Somehow, all this talk about efficient markets has not discouraged him from trying, and succeeding.

The judicial system continues to be ineffective in dealing with cases of gender violence.

Putin still doesn t understand that a centralized political system is as incapable of comprehending and correcting mistakes now as it was in the Soviet era.

The Energy Deficit

The Powerlessness of the Powerful

The Skills Deficit

Powerlessness of the victim

The US budget deficit has been on a downward trend for now, helped by both higher revenues and lower pressure on spending (for example, payments to the unemployed have fallen as joblessness has declined).

Regrettably, the Union s inability to agree on a common policy has not only weakened its role on the international level, but has also become a major obstacle to determined action in the country itself.

Nor has the US space shuttle accomplished its goals.

When the ransom could not be raised, one was beheaded.

Israel s lightning victory recalls Hegel s dictum about the impotence of the winners.

It also notes the State party's failure to adequately address this claim and respond to the complainant's allegations.

The Global Trust Deficit

Persons disabled under age 30, by illness or job injury, acquire the right to disability pension if their pension seniority covers at least one third of their work life expectancy.

The fact that economists can t explain it is no reason not to be thankful.

But few official pronouncements, let alone policies, are addressing Europe s deficit of trust and credibility.

On one hand, wage restraint was the key element, though the government could not impose it.

We have a Group of Governmental Experts on information and telecommunications that was unable to submit a report.

The inability of India s current political system to provide effective government places the country in a different category a non performing state.

Unable to vote the general out of office, the public took to the streets.

The official line so far has been no default, meaning no sovereign default or that of any bank can be considered.

Apakah kekurangan energi benar terjadi?

The Sino American Trust Deficit

The Impotence of the Federal Reserve

Indeed, six months into his presidency, he has already undercut expectations.

Government inaction on the issue has incited a number of protests within the city and in the capital Skopje.

A factor that promoted the spread of secularism was the Church's inability to offer assistance against the Black Death.

The Conference on Disarmament in Geneva has failed to conduct substantive work for almost a decade.

The midterm review of the Second International Decade had revealed a serious information deficit.

Nor could it conduct credible negotiations with Israel or deliver necessary services to ordinary Palestinians.

The cellphone has empowered the Indian underclass in ways that 45 years of talk about socialism singularly failed to do.

The major ratings agencies are increasingly complaining about the country s lack of a growth strategy and its outsize budget deficits.

Moreover, ever since Clinton s election in 1992, those at the head of the Republican Party have believed that creating gridlock whenever a Democrat is in the White House, and thus demonstrating the government s incapacity to act, is their best path to electoral success.

No wonder domestic consumption cannot grow in a manner commensurate with GDP.