All of this serves to increase the political uncertainty that threatens the region s stability.

Moreover, political and policy uncertainties on the fiscal, debt, taxation, and regulatory fronts abound.

On the contrary, the recent resignation from the premiership of Yukio Hatoyama created more uncertainty than his own government did.

Repeatedly pretending to move forward, then pulling back at the critical point, exacerbates political uncertainty and economic vulnerability.

Continued congressional polarization would maintain policy uncertainty, confound debt and deficit negotiations, and impede economic growth.

Today s new service economy is driven by the resulting uncertainty over identity.

In the case of uncertainty, expectation is what is considered the most likely to happen.

But uncertainties about value also expose deep problems in the political order.

Greater Europe s three parts are, then, in a state of strategic uncertainty.

While proponents argue that investment treaties reduce uncertainty, the ambiguities and conflicting interpretations of these agreements provisions have increased uncertainty.

The Dear Leader s declining health will add even more uncertainty and may cause international instability across East Asia.

Today, the global economy is facing many known unknowns, most of which stem from policy uncertainty.

The everyday consequence for the middle class is a stagnant paycheck and growing job insecurity.

Central banks have expanding balance sheets, but prices continue to fall and uncertainty rises.

Imposing controls also spawns uncertainty about a country s policies.

With growing political uncertainty and a slowing economy, Egypt is likely to witness decreasing government revenues, increasing demands for urgent spending, and rising interest rates on government borrowing.

It is for their survival that Afghans leave Afghanistan for European countries, where the record for welcoming them is generally poor and where political uncertainty is extending their miserable lives in limbo by the day.

As a result, fiscal uncertainty is affecting all major industrial countries, and producing political paralysis.

SEOUL Emerging economies are facing significant uncertainty and serious downside risks.

His delegation also supported the deletion of draft paragraph 1 (c), since it would create a situation of legal uncertainty.

Markets and economic power rest upon political frameworks in chaotic conditions of great political uncertainty, markets fail.

With uncertainty, volatility, and tail risks on the rise again, the correction could accelerate quickly.

Furthermore, Putin himself is interested in preserving uncertainty with regard to his successor for as long as possible.

The uncertainty and disorder that have plagued Egypt for the last 18 months are fueling increasing lawlessness in Sinai.

Arab States of Uncertainty

During a period characterized by heightened political uncertainty in the country, southern Lebanon enjoyed a relative calm.

However, a climate of political uncertainty and insecurity still lingers in certain parts of the country.

Without the preconditions that made the Brady Plan work, simply transplanting a debt write off would only augment uncertainty and fuel the political revulsion that already threatens to undermine European integration.

Current political and economic uncertainty has exacerbated the situation, driving policymakers to settle on simplistic solutions that, as Snowden made starkly apparent, can undermine the values that the West espouses.

Recession insurance might, indeed, help alleviate the economic crisis by reducing uncertainty.

And governments must forswear changes in these policies, lest the uncertainty itself act as a transaction cost.

The uncertainty values were then mapped into the appropriate uncertainty band, to yield a conservativeness factor.

International investment was spurred by the significant progress Peru made during the 1990s toward economic, social, and political stability, but it slowed again after the government delayed privatizations and as political uncertainty increased in 2000.

While that intervention provided a temporary respite, uncertainty persists in financial markets.

Japan s growth revival comes at a time of increasing economic uncertainty in much of the developing world.

Needless to say, demographic transitions, commodity constraints, and geopolitical uncertainties complicate all of this.

Eventually, however, the uncertainty created by these CDOs nearly brought down the entire US banking system.

Here is the moment of strategic uncertainty.

A dictator s sudden death almost always triggers political instability.

Political instability, war, and terrorism could result, with dire effects both at home and abroad, including in Europe.

Nevertheless, economic and political instability, as well as unemployment are rising in the country.

So I cannot predict the outcome, and neither can the masters of the universe in the City of London, who always become jittery in the face of political uncertainty. What I can do is try to explain why that uncertainty exists.

This will create space for rising powers like China, but it will also expose the world to a period of heightened geopolitical uncertainty.

The uncertainty values have been grouped into five sets of uncertainty bands, with corresponding conservativeness factors, by assigning a given uncertainty values to a given band.

We've surrendered our power, trading off our discomfort with uncertainty for the illusion of certainty that they provide.