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Countries may be able to absorb these costs for a time, but we believe they are unsustainable in the long run.

Much of that spending has been slow to generate significant returns and is therefore considered to be largely unsustainable, Zhao said.

But, banks should also be brave enough to say that, at current low interest rates, the free-if-in-credit model of banking is unsustainable.

Corporate earnings have strengthened, but companies are still cutting spending, pointing to an unsustainable rebound, he said.

In the long run, experts say two centers of power in Russia, some call it a co-presidency, are unsustainable.

Even where troubled euro-zone countries had not been profligate, they have been running unsustainable current-account deficits.

On the federal budget deficit, Bernanke warned Congress that over the long term the federal budget appears to be on an unsustainable path.

In an interview with the Times, he said the current number of people being sent to prison was "financially unsustainable" .

Nonetheless, a significant portion of the finance boom also seems to have been unrelated to economic performance and thus unsustainable.

But I can tell you that the wrong answer is to pretend like this problem will go away if we maintain an unsustainable status quo.

Indeed, the statement ignores the fact that there was no delivery during the exceptional but unsustainable prosperity of the last decade.

Modern consumption tends to be unsustainable on the long run.

But since the adoption of a single currency, devaluation is no longer available to correct an unsustainable current account deficit.

Aquaculture is often accused of being unsustainable and not environmentally friendly.

"Saying growth will be lower but comparing this with growth that was unsustainable is a bit misleading, " he said.

As the American way of life becomes increasingly unsustainable, the rest of the world will be trying to catch up.

during the boom times, nobody told them this was an unsustainable bubble until it was already too late.

Increasing longevity is not the only reason that the current pension arrangements look unsustainable.

Mr. Obama has made clear that he has no enthusiasm for "nation building" projects in Afghanistan that go on for years or are unsustainable.

A rising global population and greater prosperity, said the report, 'are putting unsustainable pressures on resources. '

Once investors realised that this was unsustainable, capital took flight and the country's foreign reserves dwindled.

International investors began to target Ireland as a weak link in the euro zone, raising its borrowing costs to unsustainable levels.

Ordering the parliamentary inquiry, the prime minister, David Cameron, said the situation was "unsustainable" .

When a government is in an unsustainable fiscal position, spending more money does not improve the economy.

The bad news is that the United States continues to run a large and unsustainable trade deficit with China, she said.

The U. S. and the euro zone already have had to confront unsustainable trends in fiscal entitlements programs.

'Clearly, one must assume that investors fear that there is something unsustainable about current margins and cash flows, ' he said.

Mr. Su , the vice minister, said the ' unsustainable sales surge ' of 2009 and 2010 isn't likely to be maintained .

Certainly there's an argument to be made that this situation is unsustainable.

An unsustainable recovery might be better than none, but it is not good enough.

The line they have been insisting on so far is untenable, unsustainable in the face of the stark realities of the world security situation.

And that rate of spending was already unsustainable at a time when the baby-boomers are starting to retire in large numbers.

When the movie starts you see a deserted planet earth where garbage has completely overrun the planet and made life unsustainable.

One of Premier Wen Jiabao's favourite adjectives, used in connection with China's unbalanced, investment-led economy, is "unsustainable" .

He recently declared that Chinese share prices were "clearly unsustainable" , with a risk of a "dramatic contraction" .

Greece would thus get a modest haircut and a precious grace period that would save it from draconian, unsustainable budget cuts.

Beyond saying that such a deficit is unsustainable, however, it is not obvious when a crisis point will be reached.

From the 30, 000-foot level, we have to realize that this is OK. . . as the 'unsustainable' is finally showing to be, well, unsustainable.

From a state of unbalanced creation (being that which you create) the results are distorted, unsustainable and lacking in endurance.

Pushing yourself and those around you to be the best is unsustainable.

"Yet, those debts are as unsustainable in the hands of the public sector as they were in the private. "

The rising pressure on the yuan would not be soothed, however, by the temporary and unsustainable deficit in March, said Dong.

As long linear extensive mode of economic development, lead to the excessive consumption of energy and the unsustainable of ecosystems.

Two years in, and this means the US remains on an unsustainable fiscal course.

But Brazil's maddening bureaucracy, complex tax code and severe infrastructure woes make such a clip unsustainable.

This could be considered unsustainable due to the fact that oil is largely unrenewable and, when burned, is damaging to the environment.

The Great Depression was caused by Fed expansion of the money supply in the 1920s, which led to an unsustainable credit-driven boom.

One explanation is that this simply reflects unsustainable pre-crisis growth, fuelled by imports of capital and too much domestic liquidity.

'Imagine doing that for two to three years of maturities at the same level, ' Mr. Malik said. 'Unsustainable. '

We are burning, as you heard, so much energy, not understanding that such an unsustainable way of life can not last for long.

Eventually the gap between the trend and its biased interpretation grows so wide that it becomes unsustainable.

On this analysis it is not the output loss after a crash that has to be explained, but the unsustainable high levels that preceded it.

The cost of continuously upgrading and integrating new systems into the enterprise infrastructure has reached unsustainable levels.

S. While the controls seemed to help at first, they turned out to be unsustainable, and eventually were lifted.

Governments with unsustainable debts should be forced to restructure them, damage to their sovereign creditworthiness or not.

There is no unsustainable progression driving the mechanism of a pay-as-you-go pension system and so it is not a pyramid or Ponzi scheme.

Still, he warned that trade imbalances between the U. S. and China are 'politically unsustainable. '

Back in March 2007 Mr Wen was cocksure enough to pronounce the Chinese economy "unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable" .

The OECD also said in its report that past growth in Britain had been unsustainable and driven by a credit boom.

In the second half of this year, China may once again run up big surpluses that are, in the long run, unsustainable.

His handling of the Yom Kippur war has left America with what may prove to be an unsustainable commitment in the Middle East.

His report warned that the public finances will be set on an 'unsustainable upward trajectory' as Britain's population lives for longer.

That is because, in subsidising unsustainable practices, governments are promoting a licensed form of theft by one generation from the next.

The long-term budget deficit and debt projections are on an unsustainable path.

It would be hard to devise a more wasteful, damaging, unsustainable system.

Food consumption, according ot Monbiot, especially in North America where on average a person eats 4 lbs of meat a week, is unsustainable.

Our most pressing priority is to break the vicious circle of unsustainable debt, financial turbulence and sub-optimal growth.

This month, borrowing costs on Italian bonds have almost returned to the unsustainable levels they were at when Mr. Berlusconi resigned.

'We must avoid ever-increasing and unsustainable imbalances in trade and capital flows, ' he said.

He said Democrats are spending too much and causing an unsustainable level of debt.

China's growth has been a source of strength in the crisis, but its leaders know their growth model is unsustainable.

In a report entitled "Averting the Old Age Crisis" , it argued that pension arrangements in most countries were unsustainable.

Our human constructs are fragile, unsustainable, and disposable -- we can no more be a part of them than a brain can be a part of a robot.

In general, this newspaper's instincts lie with small government and against ever higher taxation to pay for an unsustainable welfare state.

But then as now, those signs of recovery were unsustainable and only provided a false sense of stability, said Rosenberg.

Without effective controls, this was unsustainable, and was abandoned by Tuesday.

The country's growth has been fuelled over the past decade by an ever-growing trade surplus that has reached unsustainable levels.

But with a debt so large, even a small increase in interest rates would start to eat up an unsustainable amount of the country's revenues.

China must be careful to avoid Japan's practice of muting the effects of restructuring through unsustainable government spending.

As the labour force begins to shrink, the current pay-as-you-go pension system will become unsustainable.

But that would do little good if increases in desired savings led to chronic recession or commitments to unsustainable current spending.

Spending cuts could then be sold as a necessity rather than a choice, the only way to eliminate an unsustainable budget deficit .

the expansion of the money supply in the 1920s that led to an unsustainable credit-driven boom.

As that model turns out to have been unsustainable, the resulting retrenchment in finance will curb overall growth.

Some reckon that the debt position of many rich countries is now unsustainable.

"Whatever it means economically, this is socially and politically unsustainable, " he said.

That would be profoundly unsustainable, and invite more speculation than any resumption of U. S. pressure on the yuan.

When it comes to the cost of health care, this much is clear: The status quo is unsustainable for families, businesses, and government.

"The [renminbi] is where it is because of historical reasons that no longer apply and are unsustainable, " he said.

Geithner called on the IMF to provide rigorous surveillance that will identify trends that could lead to the next unsustainable boom.

It is worth recalling that only a few months ago economists warned that Chinese GDP growth was too high and therefore unsustainable.

And a technology, investment and stock-market boom, unsustainable it turned out, lifted the national psyche.

"That would result in unsustainable growth featuring industrial overcapacity and intensive resource consumption. "

Any practice that causes an irreversible resource depletion or long term environmental pollution is an unsustainable practice.

"Prices are going up fast but I don't think that this market is unsustainable. "

Even if its populist measures boost short-term growth, this could come at the cost of creating an unsustainable fiscal deficit.

The US still consumes too much and China is still running an unsustainable export surplus vis-? -vis the US.

Establish the ratio of interns to staff. A high ratio can be a sign that the employer's business model is unsustainable.

The economy is not as solid as it seems, fuelled by unsustainable government investment.

People then started to worry that the potato was too popular, and that its abundance was causing an unsustainable increase in population.

But this would lead to five years of ever-deepening depression, while making public debts more unsustainable.

Now that the demographics have turned against the system, it is literally unsustainable.

However, everyone has a clear awareness that it is an unsustainable increase in such high investment, high pollution but low profit.

Our generation's challenge goes to turn the world from its unsustainable course.

But sending an individual data stream to each viewer is inefficient and will be unsustainable in the long run if mobile TV takes off.

Analysis shows the unsustainable links between currency mismatch and external imbalance, which need orderly adjustment, ultimately.

If China adopts the unsustainable lifestyle of most western nations, a new set of environmental problems could arise.

Mr El-Badri warned that biofuel production could prove unsustainable in the medium term as it competed with food supplies.

Since any subsidy distorts decisions towards greater profligacy, government debt will probably swell, possibly to unsustainable levels.

Even in the days of hunting and gathering societies, some were unsustainable, and therefore cannot be regarded as ecological.

Part of what led to this crisis were not just decisions made on Wall Street, but also unsustainable mortgage loans made across the country.

All of these indicators point to the fact that the Chinese economic story is unsustainable.

Congressional Budget Office projections show that the current budget trajectory is grossly unsustainable.

Neither a weak US recovery nor unsustainable US debt dynamics are likely to be good for the world.

If heavily indebted countries have to pay heavy risk premiums, their debt becomes unsustainable.

Recession, onerous interest payment schedules, and severe fiscal adjustment measures can quickly make debt levels unsustainable.

Depending heavily on massive monetary expansion and fiscal deficits in erstwhile high-spending countries will ultimately be unsustainable.

That's because some of the major factors contributing to global warming are related to unsustainable practices in agriculture and forestry.

In the first couple decades of the Internet, we had a simple, if unsustainable, solution.

Unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable development remains a prominent problem.

The dissertation brings forth actual visage of the regional SD and reveals reasons of inducing unsustainable development.

The huge US current account deficits had become unsustainable and called for a big decline of the dollar.

But it is also evident that an open world economy will be unsustainable if it remains dependent on bubbles.

Too much control, and the business will ultimately cease to grow. Too little, and growth could be unsustainable.

Without a faster return to growth, the public debt will quickly become unsustainable.

The unsustainable collection of turtles for food and to supply a lucrative pet trade are the key drivers behind the fall in numbers.

However, analysts warned that current price levels were unsustainable and the market could be approaching another correction.

Yet such a level of growth is unsustainable, given the contraction of global demand.

Surplus countries are unwilling to stimulate consumption, while deficit countries are building unsustainable public debt.

The administration rightly calls its own projected numbers for public debt unsustainable.

For some developers, however, the business model is unsustainable: raising funds at ever higher rates to acquire ever more expensive land.

The last G-20 summit in November warned of "unsustainable global macroeconomic outcomes" behind the current crisis.

Virtually all bank loans and OTC derivatives have been issued against inflated and unsustainable asset values .

It is inevitable, as the structure of your society is collapsing, as the old ways of life are undesirable and unsustainable.

He also pointed out, in China, that the policy is, as a practical matter, unsustainable.

Nothing is permanent, though. The excessive optimism is unsustainable and leads to a correction.

This eliminates the possibility of a large, unsustainable loss by any member of the group.

Given that sudden rush, the cost of pensions may start to look unsustainable.

But the costs of criminalization have proved to be enormous, perhaps unsustainable.

Just last month, an expert study concluded that the costs of treating cancer are now unsustainable in even the richest nations.

This has provided a sizeable but ultimately unsustainable stimulus to the rest of the world, notably east Asia.

The real estate market growing external risks, investment properties has led to a full apprehensively unsustainable path.

Risks that may appear sensible in isolation can be unsustainable from a systemic perspective.

Indeed, Premier Wen Jiabao sees China's growth as "unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated and ultimately unsustainable" .

This is not the result of industry but of unsustainable agriculture.

Unfortunately, our irresponsible and unsustainable consumption of fish is destroying fisheries that these people depend on.

It's relative resilience looks unsustainable and a deeper sell off looks likely.

Conducting policy without such support is very difficult in the short term and unsustainable in the long term.

In 1998 and 1999, studiously bearish investors questioned stock market valuations and called the run-up in stocks unsustainable.

But this standard of living has come at a cost: the IMF says its public debt is too high and may be unsustainable.

They claimed that the surge in demand for automobiles was caused mainly by unsustainable government subsidies and tax rebates.

For Europe, it's about responding to a painfully obvious reality: The current setup is unsustainable.

Since 92. 6% of water on river basin scale is consumed the water resources of this city is in a critical unsustainable status.

As the eurozone crisis enters its next phase, that stance is both politically and financially unsustainable.

There would have to be much tighter constraints on countries to prevent them from running unsustainable public finances in the future.

The Fed is right to worry about "failing to address our unsustainable fiscal situation" .

But since political and military power usually track economic power, American hegemony in the Pacific Ocean may ultimately be unsustainable.

Greece, Portugal and Ireland have been financially bailed out over unsustainable debt levels.

But in Europe, incomes and growth are also lower, and many countries are saddled with unsustainable budgets.

at some stage, debt dynamics become unsustainable, markets react and fiscal deficits become counterproductive.

Greece's debt may be on an unsustainable path whatever it does (see article).

That lending is leading to unsustainable asset-price inflation, while wasteful investment is producing oodles of excess capacity.

Another year has passed and the imbalance continues with little sign of significant adjustment despite being considered unsustainable.

and a government that is financing growth through a potentially unsustainable rise in public debt.

S. and European countries have been faced with unsustainable welfare programs of the situation.

The target reductions in fertility rates were reached long ago. Current rates, he says, are below replacement levels and are unsustainable.

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This opens the possibility of telling apart sustainable and unsustainable fisheries of the same species.

The daring move is raising eyebrows and sparking talk that China's dot. com boom could be turning into an unsustainable bubble.

Unsustainable development means that we have not done well in saving energy and resources and protecting the environment.

But what about the claim that none of this matters, because Medicare as we know it is unsustainable?

Zhang Xin, CEO of SOHO China, agrees that the soaring prices are unsustainable, breaking ranks with other real estate tycoon s.

FOR years foreign observers gave warning that Japan's combination of economic stagnation and rising public debt was unsustainable.

Several Middle East governments have taken similar steps, even when such measures mean unsustainable rises in budget spending.

By October, the situation had become unsustainable and stockholders panicked.

Vaccination also counters unsustainable population growth, Melinda Gates said.

However, at the stage of China's energy consumption, in a sense, which is unsustainable, mainly in two aspects.

If American growth stays slow, the public debt burden will become unsustainable and inflation will revive.

When interest rates go up, these payments will (when the rate is variable) also go up, possibly becoming unsustainable.

And though the government may muddle through for a few years yet, ultimately the situation is unsustainable.

Presto -- unsustainable current account gaps would narrow and global rebalancing would commence.

Eventually that kind of risk-taking is unsustainable and you get a burst of the bubble.

The anti-Keynesians retort that US fiscal policy is already on an unsustainable path.

But why should it be wasted in unsustainable consumption when it could be usefully invested, instead?

The economies of grasshopper colonies, in turn, come to depend on unsustainable capital inflows and excessive consumption.

China's industrial development is unsustainable because its people, resources and environment cannot cope.

the capital chain unhealthy, unsustainable power companies, the brand is not suitable for.

More reform by national governments is needed, not least because their public finances are otherwise unsustainable.

Unprecedented, definitely yes. Unsustainable at the current pace of growth? That's a bigger and significant call.

This country suffers from an unsustainable budget deficit, high inflation, severe banking problems, and political unrest.

If that was not unsustainable enough, Japan's ageing population is piling even more pressure on the public finances.

But this has come at the expense of an unsustainable squeeze on China's export competitors.

Relatively short-term problems relating to the build-up of unsustainable debt burdens have caused the difficulties.

Unfortunately, no amount of diversion can hide the message from the new numbers: America's budget is on a dangerously unsustainable course.

What China needs to make its urbanization strategy the solution rather than an unsustainable bubble machine.

The experts know when a situation is unsustainable and will even say so, but then years go by without action.

Unsustainable economic growth would, by definition, be reduced, as would gini coefficients (i. e. the gap between rich and poor).

"Current global trends in energy supply and consumption are patently unsustainable, " the report states.

He described it as "unstable, unbalanced, un-coordinated and unsustainable" .

They use a baseline model that assumes a given growth rate and an unsustainable fiscal policy.

The scale and profitability of the media and banking industries were wholly unsustainable.

"Yields at this level are clearly unsustainable, " said Paul Marson, chief investment officer at Lombard Odier, the Swiss private bank.

It's time to move beyond user-centered innovation paradigms that have brought us into this unsustainable economy.

Today the prices of many assets are being held up by unsustainable fiscal and monetary stimulus.

More broadly, a situation in which the US accounts for 75 per cent of the military spending in Nato was "unacceptable" and unsustainable.

If credit becomes too cheap and then too expensive for borrowers, then an unsustainable boom is followed by a bust.

These economies are on an unsustainable course, but not for lack of effort by their governments.

But unsustainable consumption needs to be curbed.

However, it conveniently forgets about the enormous embodied energy in this, actually, most unsustainable building type.

The spike in yields fanned fears that the country will find it unsustainable to raise funds in the market if the trend persists.

Now, anyone who finds the status quo undesirable, unacceptable or unsustainable must take an anti- European stance.

Environmental destruction and unsustainable land use also contribute to the cocoa crisis.

In all five countries, as budget deficits grow, worries that public finances may get onto an unsustainable path are rising (see article).

This approach is unsustainable on an application-wide scale.

If the US persisted with historic revenue, relative to GDP, the fiscal position would become unsustainable.

These will only lead to overcapacity in production, increased pressure on environmental resources, and unsustainable economic growth.

Whether a current account deficit is unsustainable depends on the type of and the reason for capital inflows.

They include bringing inflation to heel and phasing out unsustainable subsidies for fuel, fertilizer and food.

In addition, the recycling of petrodollars is driving down interest rates providing an unsustainable boost to US private consumption.

Economists have been branding China's surpluses as unsustainable for years.

Too much stimulus over too long a period would saddle future generations with unsustainable debt.

His aides say GE's earnings growth and unerring ability to beat analysts' expectations under Mr Welch were unsustainable.

But in the long run today's fiscal laxity is unsustainable.

Subsidies are ultimately unsustainable, though.

A houses value should not double in three years, that kind of growth is unsustainable.

The potential for catastrophic damage could make the fragile financial infrastructure unsustainable.

An unsustainable emphasis on heavy industry contributed greatly to the Soviet collapse.

Corporate welfare states are unsustainable in a dynamic and open economy.

The current mismatch of globalised finance and national governance is unsustainable.

Walsh added that the sector's "unsustainable" financial state, with a total loss of $9bn forecast this year, made fare rises inevitable.

They warn citizens that government finances may be unsustainable.

The idea is to support sound resource and land use and to avoid recreating any unsustainable patterns that existed before the tsunami.

This has forced all those who consider the status quo unsustainable or intolerable into an anti-European posture.

This horrible diet is simply unsustainable, offering little nutrition calories, or taste.

All this is, almost certainly, unsustainable.

Only unsustainable volumes of chemicals are currently keeping black Sigatoka at bay, experts point out.

Now analysts are also predicting that the red hot Chinese modern art market is unsustainable.

Analysts worry that, with consumers keeping a low profile, a hoped-for recovery in the second half may be unsustainable.

Despite this oversupply, I'm not sure prices are unsustainable over the short term.

The euro is currently on an unsustainable trajectory.

There is no denying that the increase in food trucks is unsustainable.

And while Brazil's progress and potential are not an illusion, its economy still rests on unsustainable features.

One is tempted to write this bullish sentiment off as unsustainable exuberance that will fade once fundamentals reassert themselves.

Ultimately, this simply becomes unsustainable.

Are we consuming something that doesn't belong to us, and leaving an unsustainable environment for future generations?

Q1 earnings came in better than expected largely due to cost cuts, which is unsustainable.

The second was a regrettable response to an unsustainable bubble.

Everyone will by then recognise that adding more debt to already unsustainable levels makes little sense.

But even by the leadership's own reckoning, the country's present development model is unsustainable.

As a result, anyone who considers the status quo undesirable, unacceptable or unsustainable has had to take an anti-European stance.