You better grab that pension and beat it, before these walls get to ya.

Discredited regimes may cling all the more ruthlessly and ruinously to power, as in Syria.

Likewise, French banks holding Greek bonds cling to whatever thin reed of optimism they can and lobby furiously against restructuring.

Economies hooked on this model find themselves excessively specialized in primary products that promise little productivity growth.

But no one knows what will happen in the red states, where the Republican political infrastructure is digging in its heels.

So now America plows on with the cheap option flood the pipes and see what comes out.

Yet despite the world apos s condemnation of its illegal occupation of East Timor, Indonesia adamantly clings to its

Invariably, the middle income trap afflicts those emerging economies that cling to early stage development models for too long.

They embrace the vital roles of the judiciary and the legislature in ensuring that Governments take a balanced and lawful approach to complex issues of national interest.

Thus, 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia spends only half what Europeans do on defense yet Europe still clings to the notion that its security depends on American protection.

But if Palestinians in Gaza demonstrate that they can rule themselves and be a good neighbor, a key justification for Israel s continuing occupation elsewhere will weaken.

The 23 million people of Taiwan represent too significant a portion of the world's population to be denied membership again and again in an Organization that adheres to the principles of universality and self determination among the peoples of the world.

Serbia remains stuck in a nineteenth century world of nationalism and refuses to recognize the new global realities of economic interdependence, inter state reciprocity, and collectivism all of which characterize today s EU.

Asian central banks are still nervously clinging to the dollar. But with the US printing debt and money like it is going out of style, it would appear the euro is set to appreciate against the dollar two or three years down the road, if the euro is still around, that is.

Exchange rates are another wild card. Asian central banks are still nervously clinging to the dollar. But with the US printing debt and money like it is going out of style, it would appear the euro is set to appreciate against the dollar two or three years down the road, if the euro is still around, that is.