Accordingly, faced with a weakening global economy, they confront two basic policy choices.

The ECB should drop its inflationary bias because the European economy is weakening, and the weaker economy will contain whatever inflationary pressures now exist.

Of course, we must respond to both the weakening economy and financial instability in a virtual state of emergency.

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

This promoted inequality, and led to the under regulated financial system s seizure of power over the entire economy, destabilizing the real economy by fatally weakening its capacity to react to external shocks.

Oil prices may fall once these shocks dissipate, but speculative effects could keep them relatively high, weakening the world economy and depressing stock markets.

With the Chinese economy far less threatened by export led weakening than it was three and a half years ago, a hard landing is unlikely.

NEW HAVEN Recent indications of a weakening global economy have led many people to wonder how pervasive poor economic performance will be in the coming years.

Opposition forces were also to blame they refused to cooperate with the Brotherhood, betting that political isolation and a failing economy would end up weakening their opponents.

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.

The Narrative Structure of Global Weakening

So any weakening of the EU in its foreign relations entails a corresponding weakening of the member states individual interests.

Although cutting the Federal Funds interest rate from 5.25 in the summer of 2007 to 3 now contributes to dollar depreciation, this has been aimed at stimulating a weakening economy.

Today s emerging countries have considerable policy flexibility and much greater latitude to act than they had in the past. Accordingly, faced with a weakening global economy, they confront two basic policy choices.

In the process, officials are weakening the yen.

By that time, the German economy will also be weakening, so that Chancellor Angela Merkel will find it even more difficult than today to persuade the German public to accept additional European responsibilities.

Second, and equally important, the extremist vote is weakening.

Declining house prices are key to the financial crisis and the outlook for the economy, because mortgage backed securities, and the derivatives based on them, are the primary assets that are weakening financial institutions.

Though the full implications of this uniquely high ratio for macroeconomic stability need further investigation, it certainly implies financial fragility and a weakening of the PBOC s ability to control overall liquidity in the economy.

For example, sustained low interest rates hurt savers who traditionally prefer safe short term investments. Pensioners and those near retirement, facing low income from interest, may cut back further on consumption, weakening the economy.

Since mid 2007, expectations regarding long term sustainability have been weakening.

But the outlook for 2007 is for weakening global economic growth.

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

The regime has lost all legitimacy, and its effectiveness is weakening.

This worked for three decades, but now the link is weakening.

It recurved toward the southwest while gradually weakening for several days.

NEW HAVEN Recent indications of a weakening global economy have led many people to wonder how pervasive poor economic performance will be in the coming years. Are we facing a long global slump, or possibly even a depression?

Since exports and investment account, respectively, for 30 and 40 of China s GDP growth, its economy is particularly vulnerable to weakening external demand and accumulation of non performing loans caused by excessive and wasteful spending on fixed assets.

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

It is weakening the West s leading power and strengthening the West s enemies.

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

First, with the current raw materials bonanza driving up prices of exported goods, the region is increasingly vulnerable to the so called Dutch disease, whereby higher wages and prices spread throughout the economy, weakening competitiveness, particularly in industrial markets.

In the last decade, Uribe s government made great strides in weakening the FARC.

Merely weakening this loop, as European officials recently advocated, could prove deeply insufficient.

A5 2 was a deliberate weakening of the algorithm for certain export regions.

But these mechanisms are weakening everywhere, and are virtually non existent in European countries.

Any weakening of these two institutions would cause severe damage to common European interests.

Meanwhile, housing in the United States is weakening again the third large global risk.

The pandemic has a great effect on youth, weakening family and social coping mechanisms.

One strategy for weakening ties among potential evaders is to introduce various conflicts of interests.

In turn, this risks weakening both the government s fiscal position and the economy s external account.

Our animal spirits, to borrow a phrase made famous by John Maynard Keynes, are weakening.

Amid weakening competitiveness, the rupee was propped up by increasingly unstable foreign sources of funds.

Second, there is now evidence of weakening performance in China and the rest of Asia.

The yen s weakening will mean higher import costs, and therefore a higher rate of inflation.