Greece s crisis was spectacularly outsize.

They took an abstract, outsize challenge and distilled it into achievable ends.

In Spain, for example, local savings banks (cajas) financed an outsize real estate boom.

In an era of outsize government deficits and subpar household saving, that may be America s toughest challenge of all.

Like Japan, America s post bubble healing has been limited even in the face of the Fed s outsize liquidity injections.

Given that China currently is the world s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, it clearly has an outsize role to play.

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

Policy interest rates are close to zero in the major economies in the developed world, and outsize budget deficits are the norm.

For too long, developed countries have clung to their outsize influence in the international financial institutions, even as their fiscal fitness has dwindled.

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Ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the US military has gained an outsize voice in the formulation of US foreign policy.

An undervalued currency also tends to produce an unbalanced growth model of the opposite kind an outsize tradable sector and insufficient domestic aggregate demand.

Second, the costs of the insurance premium the outsize, largely dollar denominated reservoir of China s foreign exchange reserves have been magnified by political risk.

As a result, outsize gains in asset markets and the related risks of new bubbles are needed to make a meaningful difference for the real economy.

STANFORD This year has proven to be yet another replete with futile efforts to manage the outsize grip that banks and bankers have on the world economy.

The worst consumer recession in modern history, featuring a record collapse in durable goods expenditures in 2008 2009, should have triggered an outsize surge of pent up demand.

Yet another vacuous budget deal, in conjunction with weaker than expected growth for the US economy for years to come, spells a protracted period of outsize government deficits.

For starters, China s new leadership has moved away from outsize fiscal and monetary stimulus and accepted an economic slowdown, betting on structural change, systemic reform, and sustainable longer term growth.

When both bubbles burst, over extended US households had no choice but to cut back and rebuild their damaged balance sheets by paying down outsize debt burdens and rebuilding depleted savings.

STANFORD Five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered the largest global financial crisis since the Great Depression, outsize banking sectors have left economies shattered in Ireland, Iceland, and Cyprus.

This implies that the pre crisis level of GDP simply was not sustainable, as it required capital inflows in excess of 20 of GDP to finance outsize consumption and construction booms.

Europe s sovereign debt crisis is an outgrowth of sharp disparities between the peripheral economies with outsize current account deficits especially Greece, Portugal, and Spain and core countries like Germany, with large surpluses.

Aside from his alleged involvement in assorted crimes, Bo was said to be a ruthless apparatchik, endowed with an outsize ego but no real talent. His record as a local administrator was mediocre.

America depends on China s trade surplus and savings to finance its outsize budget deficits, while China relies on its huge exports to the US to sustain its economic growth and finance its military modernization.

STANFORD This year has proven to be yet another replete with futile efforts to manage the outsize grip that banks and bankers have on the world economy. The global financial system remains distorted and dangerous.

Many worry about an upsurge in inflation, though, given the outsize slack in the global economy and the likelihood that it will persist for years to come that is not high on my watch list.

Thus, many emerging markets growth rates in the next decade may be lower than in the last as may the outsize returns that investors realized from these economies financial assets (currencies, equities, bonds, and commodities).

And when it comes to leadership, introverts are routinely passed over for leadership positions, even though introverts tend to be very careful, much less likely to take outsize risks which is something we might all favor nowadays.

And when it comes to leadership, introverts are routinely passed over for leadership positions, even though introverts tend to be very careful, much less likely to take outsize risks which is something we might all favor nowadays.

From a peak of 11.9 in the first quarter of 2010, China s annual GDP growth slowed to 7.6 in the second quarter of 2012 only about half the outsize 8.2 percentage point deceleration experienced during the Great Recession.

So the often heard assertion that rising inequality is the central economic fact of our times is probably due to a disparity of a different kind the outsize impact of rich country pundits and news outlets on international debates.

The economy from 1820 until World War I a kind of second ancien regime had two striking features slow growth about 1 a year and an outsize share of inherited wealth, which accounted for roughly 20 25 of GDP.

Even the most mission driven companies can be tempted to trade educational quality for outsize commercial returns. An E Corp designation would ensure that education leaders can continue to focus on the bottom line, but still rise to the top of the class.

Second, the costs of the insurance premium the outsize, largely dollar denominated reservoir of China s foreign exchange reserves have been magnified by political risk. With US government debt repayment now in play, the very concept of dollar based riskless assets is in doubt.

In Spain, for example, local savings banks (cajas) financed an outsize real estate boom. As the boom turned to bust, the losses threatened to overwhelm the capacity of the Spanish state, and the problem became European, because it threatened the very survival of the euro.

Moreover, the side effects of quantitative easing are significant. Many worry about an upsurge in inflation, though, given the outsize slack in the global economy and the likelihood that it will persist for years to come that is not high on my watch list.

This time, the descent has been far milder. From a peak of 11.9 in the first quarter of 2010, China s annual GDP growth slowed to 7.6 in the second quarter of 2012 only about half the outsize 8.2 percentage point deceleration experienced during the Great Recession.

Democracy, of course, is a process, not an event. But India s elections with their outsize logistical and security challenges, myriad languages, and candidates identified not just by name but also by electoral symbols to aid illiterate voters are events that evoke admiration each time they occur.

But a serious challenge to all of these views has now emerged, in proposals by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a rising Democratic star who has become increasingly prominent at the national level. In her view, the authorities need to confront head on the outsize influence and dangerous structure of America s largest banks.