In short, the world s financial system remains dangerous and dysfunctional.

We must replace our current system of contracts and conditions of service, which are dysfunctional and demoralizing.

A bloated and dysfunctional financial system had misallocated capital and, rather than managing risk, had actually created it.

Kennan was right the dysfunctional features of Soviet system, and its over extension internationally, would lead to its demise.

Asia s Dysfunctional Democracies

India, with which Pakistan shares a similar background, went through 40 years of dysfunctional democracy with a one party system.

Only recently has it become clear that these seemingly disparate issues are a collective manifestation of a dysfunctional energy system.

A cooperative US Russia relationship is essential if the international system, now almost dysfunctional, is to work properly in the future.

Asia u0027s Dysfunctional Democracies.

Europe s Dysfunctional Growth Compact

Latin America s Dysfunctional Democracy

Japan s deflation and economic stagnation over the last two decades stemmed largely from a dysfunctional financial system and a lack of private demand.

Immediately after that decision, short term funding for even the best capitalized firms virtually collapsed and the entire financial system simply became dysfunctional.

Seemingly lacking a central nervous system, it has become a dysfunctional creature with little capacity to recognize any common national, much less international, interest.

Strikingly energetic and self confident, Obama has set out on a titanic journey to remake America s economy and redress a broken and dysfunctional international system.

From asset bubbles and a dysfunctional financial system to currency suppression and monetary policy blunders, Japan has been in many respects the laboratory of our future.

Dysfunctional government and pervasive corruption make modernization difficult.

Such banks are dysfunctional and must be unwound.

The problem with these patents is that the mechanisms are obscure and the patent system is dysfunctional, and as a result, most of these lawsuits end in settlements.

Given dysfunctional US fiscal policy, the dollar s resilience is surprising.

Hundreds of billions have been spent to preserve these dysfunctional institutions.

To be sure, an improvement in the currently dysfunctional financial system will allow banks and other financial institutions to start lending to borrowers who want to spend but cannot get credit today.

As these Chinese see it, the US has a rather dysfunctional government, but nevertheless insists that its political and economic system is the best in the world, and that everyone should emulate it.

America faces long run and short run problems decaying infrastructure, weakening educational systems, and a dysfunctional health care system that produces sub standard outcomes at twice the cost of any other industrial country.

Yet California s technological and entrepreneurial might standing alone, the state would be the world s eighth largest economy coexists with a dysfunctional political system that has brought it to the edge of fiscal bankruptcy.

The solution to dysfunctional democracy is not military dictatorship, but more democracy.

But investors seem to underestimate how dysfunctional US national politics has become.

But they have lost confidence in America s government and its dysfunctional economic stewardship.

Africa faces a crisis of leadership and governance, owing to a dysfunctional ethos.

We Americans are either too incapable, or too dysfunctional, to help ourselves right now.

When those price bubbles burst, households lost substantial wealth and financial markets became dysfunctional.

That move marks a shift in the character of the global financial crisis, away from concern with banking problems and toward a focus on the world s dysfunctional exchange rate system or, rather, its current lack of one.

NEW YORK A sure sign of a dysfunctional market economy is the persistence of unemployment.

The franc zone s plight is being compounded by distorted and dysfunctional economic and monetary policies.

The effects of POPs exposure include birth defects, cancers, and dysfunctional immune and reproductive systems.

The fiscal drag from rising taxes and spending cuts will hit growth, and the political system is dysfunctional, with partisan polarization impeding compromise on the fiscal deficit, immigration, energy policy, and other key issues that influence potential growth.

The end of bilateralism stems also from the dysfunctional political systems of both Palestine and Israel.

There is no indication that the markets are dysfunctional and overstating the differences between countries creditworthiness.

Americans are behaving like a dysfunctional family by shielding sex criminals in their midst through silence.

The latter point, which no doubt reflects the Obama administration s attempts to reform the dysfunctional system it inherited, is particularly important, as the sharpest declines in investment intentions were among those who had lost confidence in the government s ability to regulate.

The dysfunctional system of European fiscal governance should be dismantled fiscal responsibility should be returned to member states and, to minimize the risk of excessive future lending, private lenders should be required to bear the losses implied by unsustainable sovereign debt.

But the real source of Iran s dysfunctional economy is the country s peculiar political and economic power sharing.

They also sustained, against all odds, a democracy that, however imperfect and dysfunctional, is nonetheless amazingly vibrant.

After World War II, it was a beaten and devastated nation with a history of dysfunctional nationalism.

As in continental Europe, productivity has suffered from a combination of insufficient profitability and dysfunctional capital markets.