A powerful feature of the Egyptian revolution was the equality between the very different actors who initiated it.

While the decline in aggregate demand led to reduced imports, the combination of higher interest rates, lower public expenditure, tax increases, and wage deflation boosted unemployment and triggered recession.

Both are important triggers of change.

5aled_DH I hope this is the spark that wakes up the nation from its slumber

This sparked the brief but bitter civil war.

Forty years ago Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution.

Second, China s central bank still controls interest rates by enforcing a roughly three percentage point spread between deposit rates and lending rates.

The second adverse effect of deflation is to raise the real interest rate, that is, the difference between the nominal interest rate and the rate of inflation.

Under the current system, the fixed differentials between interest rates on deposits and those on loans translate into monopolistic profits for commercial banks.

In both cases, there is no link between inflation and interest rates.

Given these conditions, even a small spark could ignite a wildfire.

The politically charged questionnaire that triggered the protest on November 26, 2012.

Nothing works as potently to inflame protectionist sentiment as large trade deficits.

Fear over the growth effects of the European Central Bank s 2006 rate increases is based on confusion between real and nominal interest rates.

For a long time, Brazil s interest rates were among the highest in the world.

The quality of this metadata varies considerably across agencies and, in some cases, is almost useless

Sometimes we rely on our judgment in combining interest rate action with open market operations.

His presence in the country might well spark a clamor for his reluctant return to politics.

4 days after 4 yr anniversary of the start of the Arab Spring, Tunisia votes Sunday. A bright spot of democratic growth in a field of weeds Brian Klaas ( brianklaas) December 19, 2014

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Some evidence suggests that the prevalence of uncertainty may boost competition, thereby sparking innovation.

The MDG summit is missing an opportunity to begin this much needed revolution in our understanding of economic development as well.

To define an interest rate fully, allowing comparisons with other interest rates, both the interest rate and the compounding frequency must be disclosed.

Since the interest rate set by the ECB is now less than 1 , there is little difference between its current monetary policy and what the Bank of Spain would do if it could set its own interest rate. But when the euro zone starts to recover, the ECB might choose to raise the interest rate before a higher rate would be appropriate for Spain, which could exacerbate Spanish unemployment.

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Rising energy and commodity prices helped create the global food crisis, which fed the financial crisis.

The fuses were the new information technologies of the Internet and satellite television, such as Al Jazeera.

The trigger for the current controversy came during a scene in a musical by the National Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Culture and Youth, performed for young students at the National Theater.

At times, as seems to be the case with the video that triggered the current protests in cities across North Africa and the Middle East, a long period may elapse between the offensive material s dissemination and an outpouring of popular rage.

In such situations, the relationship between credit availability and interest rates has implicitly changed, such that either credit becomes less available at any given official interest rate, or there ceases to be a clear relationship between interest rates and credit availability (i.e.

(Over the course of the euro s first decade, interest rate spreads between ten year government bonds nearly disappeared.)

A hot, dry summer (in some places) has triggered another barrage of such claims.

They provided an early spark, but it looks like the spark did not catch.

FEZ Just over a year ago, the Arab Spring sparked dramatic change throughout the Arab world.

That expected inflation rate is consistent with the difference in interest rates between ordinary US government bonds and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities.

That is why climate advocates are increasingly looking for other means of triggering action. Finance is at the top of their list.

As many might remember, it was in Tunisia, as a result of the demonstrations in Sidi Bouzid, where the revolutions and uprisings, collectively known as Arab Spring, came into being.

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