While the euro faces strong headwinds, the dollar s early sailing wasn t always smooth, either.

Yet, two decades on, the global spread of democracy has been encountering increasingly strong headwinds.

Looking ahead, strong headwinds imply that it will be difficult to achieve better economic performance in the rest of the year.

We continue to face strong headwinds originating from the deepening European debt crisis, as well as geopolitical tensions in the Middle East.

The Global Economy s Chinese Headwinds

The United Kingdom, like the eurozone, has already endured a double dip recession, and now even strong commodity exporters Canada, the Nordic countries, and Australia are slowing in the face of headwinds from the US, Europe, and China.

This is one reason why successful mitigation at the global level faces stiff headwinds.

But, looking forward, as these headwinds fade, faster growth and poverty alleviation are becoming easier to achieve.

The economic and financial headwinds from outside the US are strong and gusting, owing largely to the ever worsening European crisis, which is now entering an even more disruptive and unpredictable phase as depositors in some countries step up their withdrawals from local banks.

To be sure, the economy faces other headwinds, especially from the policy induced cooling of an overheated housing market.

In fact, the other 30 has not done a bad job, especially considering the severe headwinds coming from consumers 70 .

Economic growth rates in other systemically large countries, including Turkey and Mexico, have risen as well, despite European and US headwinds.

But, rather than catalyzing sensible policy discussions, these issues played into polarized and polarizing politics, creating new and more immediate headwinds to economic growth.

But their control of the clock is less than perfect and it will become increasingly ineffective if economic improvement faces additional political headwinds in the months ahead.

There is certainly cause for concern. Slow and uncertain growth in Europe a major trading partner for both the US and China is creating headwinds for the US and China.

In the United States, for the fifth year in a row, Congress has yet to pass a full fledged budget, let alone dealt with the economy s growth and employment headwinds.

Taken together, African politics, demography, and the delayed arrival of new technologies imposed severe headwinds against per capita growth of agricultural output in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Of the assorted headwinds that he cites, the enormous increase in inequality and the plateau reached in educational attainment represent threats that differentiate America s position from that of other advanced countries.

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With significant elements of the global economy and external demand facing headwinds, China s acceptance (so far) of a growth slowdown, while its new growth engines kick in, is a good sign, in my view.

Creditors would then ask many more questions before adding to their already considerable holdings of US government debt, generating still more headwinds in a US economy that already faces an unemployment crisis and uneven growth.

Strong currencies make strong countries, a senior United States policymaker used to say.

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Japan's disasters will add to the global economy s headwinds be they the impact of the initial fall in consumption in the world s third largest economy, or disruptions to global supply chains (particularly in technology and autos).

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For other countries, including the US, medium term issues came to the fore. But, rather than catalyzing sensible policy discussions, these issues played into polarized and polarizing politics, creating new and more immediate headwinds to economic growth.

At that time, the defense of my country was about one thing and one thing only how strong was our army, how strong was our air force, how strong was our navy and how strong were our allies.

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The political will to protect the euro is strong perhaps strong enough to override moral hazard concerns.

Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their foreheads.

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