The future's in the air

A major slowdown seems to be looming.

Nor does a global solution to the challenge of climate change appear any closer.

And Europe would avert the looming depression.

Alas, that prospect is not yet even a glimmer on the horizon.

So I do not believe that a lasting rift looms.

But, at least in the short term, there seems to be no alternative to Calderón s strategy.

Indeed, the long dreaded impact of climate change is already upon us.

A seismic shift is at hand, and America s recent fiscal follies may well be the tipping point.

That inattention will end soon a decision about the province s fate is looming.

But China s looming slowdown is likely to be both manageable and welcome.

A sea change in drug policy seems to be in the making.

Even as the risk of recession looms, the country has been forced to implement a drastic austerity program.

Last year, Chinese GDP growth reached a 13 year low, and no upturn is in sight.

But, while Cameron should know from grim experience what is looming, it seems that he has abandoned rational considerations.

In this sense, the looming prospect of a full blown Italian debt crisis could prove beneficial by focusing European minds.

But Europe can take other steps to redress or adapt to the looming demographic imbalance.

Housing prices are being propped up temporarily by myriad subsidies, while a commercial real estate tsunami looms.

Finally, the two events saw the emergence of two rival political courts, each exuding the faint but unmistakable odor of a looming conflict.

In East Africa, where millions of people already are dependent on food aid, a sharp rise in the cost of staple crops looms.

But it is not on the horizon yet, which means that there would be no positive private spending response to buffer public spending cuts.

Faced with the threat of financial sanctions, Iran s political elite is increasingly realizing the price of its confrontational course.

Shortage of demand for currently produced goods and services and mass unemployment no longer loom as the region s biggest macroeconomic problems.

In particular, the US trade deficit looms as a massive source of instability should long term asset prices fall significantly.

Such a future seems to be on the horizon not only in Europe, but everywhere, unless governments rein in their spending.

Most analysts suggest that this visible disagreement between Putin and Medvedev over Luzhkov s fate is a sign of a looming contest for the presidency in 2012.

The reformers believe that such reforms are the only way for Saudi Arabia to survive the threat of violence, instability, and national fragmentation that is looming on its horizon.

A change on the horizon that will exacerbate current frictions is the growing importance of individualized health care.

Much of the western part of the country has been ceded to insurgents, the prospect of holding free and fair elections in January is fast receding, civil war looms.

It is an exciting time for health care, with many disruptive innovations on the horizon.

A part of the European public, looking at Europe's looming population decline, wants to head in the other direction, promoting a return to larger families.

NEW DELHI At a time when Asia is in transition, with the specter of a power imbalance looming large, it has become imperative to invest in institutionalized cooperation to reinforce the region s strategic stability.

An enormous youth bulge in the Arab world's demographic tables looms, with 45 of the population now under the age of 14, and the population as a whole set to double over the next quarter century.

That is a Keynesian ambition, but can it be accomplished? A latter day Keynes is nowhere to be found, and no Bretton Woods style global consensus to reform central banking is on the horizon.

That clearly shows that the gap between the two groups of countries continues to widen, and that there is no solution yet in view to the basic problems that make it difficult to overcome poverty in many developing countries.

Inequality on the Horizon of Need

15. Recognizes the completion of the establishment of democratic institutions according to the Bonn process, notes the challenges lying ahead identified in the Afghanistan Compact,S 2006 90, annex. and calls upon the international community to continue to provide sustained support

ROME A severe food crisis currently threatens southern Sudan. In East Africa, where millions of people already are dependent on food aid, a sharp rise in the cost of staple crops looms.

BEIJING Today s financial crisis and looming global recession are challenging China s export driven economic model as never before in the 30 years since Deng Xiaoping opened the economy.

Reform is in the air in part because of the scandal, but also because of the UN s inability to deal effectively with challenges ranging from Rwanda and Kosovo to Iraq and, most recently, Sudan.

Change, however, was in the air.

In 1994, when I became State Secretary for Financial Affairs in Sweden s Ministry of Finance, recovery appeared to be on the horizon, following the abolition of the fixed exchange rate, the ensuing sharp depreciation of the Krona, and lower interest rates.

It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near.

And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

But this regulation, when combined with China s aggressive pricing, suggests a desire to assert monopoly control, and the de facto ban of rare earth exports to Japan looks like an effort to test the benefits of this looming monopoly.