In some countries, lower military expenditures and interest rates has helped to improve a weak fiscal position.

Overall economic performance, measured in terms of trends in total output, payments position, fiscal situation, external debt position and price trends, was generally weak.

Unfortunately, women s political position is weak.

His position in the nationalist opposition was weak.

Huge tax cuts and rising military spending have fueled an enormous rise in imports, and therefore a yawning trade deficit now accompanies America s weak fiscal position.

In other words, America s fiscal problems explain its extremely weak economic recovery.

Heavy reliance on what turns out to be disputed evidence now leaves the fiscal hawks in a weak position, to say the least, vis à vis their opponents.

But, with the exception of China, fiscal positions around the world are currently weak.

China s strong fiscal position today gives it a window of opportunity.

France and Germany, by contrast, have an inherently strong fiscal position.

The current election campaign is accordingly centered on France s fiscal position.

Countercyclical fiscal policy had been largely discredited because of the delays involved in implementing fiscal changes and households weak response to temporary tax cuts.

To judge China s economic dynamism, the key indicator is its fiscal position. When, and only when, China s fiscal position is worsening rapidly will its economy suffer a hard landing.

Moreover, China s fiscal position is one of the best in the world.

At the same time, it spares an already weak economy damaging fiscal contraction in the short run.

As its economy slows, the improvement in its fiscal position may be minimal.

Third, China s financial stability and fiscal position may deteriorate in the medium term.

As the government s fiscal position has steadily weakened, the jobs have become far scarcer.

It was hard work engineering a five trillion dollar deterioration in America s fiscal position.

Across the Atlantic, America s fiscal crisis and weak economic growth will force it to reduce its global military commitments.

In the United States, where markets, the judiciary, and regulation are highly developed, the imperative is not institutional reform, but policy reform addressing the weak fiscal position, income and wealth inequities, unemployment, health care, and deteriorating physical infrastructure.

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

On the supply side, permanently lower output makes fiscal adjustment even more compulsory but, on the demand side, a weak private economy lacks the resilience needed to weather fiscal retrenchment.

But politics, not economics, explains why the Fed chairman changed his tune about America s weak external position.

None of this would resolve Europe s fundamental problems, namely weak fiscal positions, poorly functioning financial sectors, and lack of competitiveness.

Confidence is fragile in an environment characterized by ongoing deleveraging, macro uncertainties, weak labor market growth, and a fiscal drag.

Given the disadvantaged position of developing country suppliers in terms of capital, management techniques and access to technology, local distributors are in a weak competitive position.

Despite the parlous fiscal position, for now the market for Japanese government bonds (JGBs) remains stable.

So grim has Japan s fiscal position become that bond issuance has exceeded tax revenue since 2009.

Thus, Latvia today enjoys a sustainable fiscal position, with output close to its potential and growing.

Counsel argues that the State party's position also reflects weak confidence in the integrity of the Egyptian guarantees.

In the US, the uneven and weak recovery has been sustained by extraordinarily expansive monetary policies and ongoing large fiscal deficits.

Putin might also argue that Russia s fiscal position is far stronger that of the other G8 members.

Most countries in post conflict situations suffer from weak fiscal positions, rendering the provision of internally financed subsidies impractical in most cases.

But austerity undermines growth, worsening the government s fiscal position, or at least yielding less improvement than austerity s advocates promise.

But Western nations are in a weak position to make this response, because they inflict so much unnecessary suffering on animals.

While the right medicine needed to avoid fiscal train wrecks is well known, the main constraint to fiscal consolidation and discipline is that weak governments around the world lack the political power and willingness to implement austerity.

Spain was not in an enviable position. The rapid deterioration of fiscal position after the crisis made any substantial countercyclical response impossible, while regulatory constraints limited the economy s structural flexibility.

Unrestricted capital flows could indeed spell disaster for an economy that has dysfunctional financial markets, high levels of corruption, and weak monetary and fiscal policies.

In Europe, many governments, having embarked on the path of fiscal consolidation while their economies were still weak, are now struggling with the growth consequences.

Despite the weakness of Japan s fiscal position, the market for Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) remains stable, at least for now.

It ardently championed global fiscal stimulus on the order of 2 of world GNP a position that is all the more remarkable in view of its traditional conservatism on all fiscal matters.

Finally, economically and politically, Syria is in a weak position, and its interests are by no means congruent with those of Iran.

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