An economic crisis alerts both officials and the private sector to the dangers of excessive leverage; the resulting regime of public regulation and private caution brings a long era of stability.
The IMF, which has warned of a slowdown in the global economy, urged British policymakers to be on alert for economic shocks and even raised the prospect of a UK interest rate cut.
"We must be alert of economic and political risks in excessive holdings of U.S. dollar assets," Guan, head of the international payment department at SAFE said in the article on the website of China Finance 40 Forum, a Beijing-based think-tank of Chinese economists, bankers and officials.
ADDRESSING THE NATION -- Groping along with his constituents is President Bush, who speaks to the nation next month in his State of the Union address at a time of war, terror alerts and economic uncertainty.
Second, he believes (or, rather, hopes) that social instability and economic frailty at home may alert Morocco to the expense and difficulties of occupation.
The government, perhaps reluctant to incur the economic costs that a red alert would have entailed, came in for heavy criticism on social media – and implicitly from the central government – for failing to impose a red alert last week.
Local authorities, and not just those in London, need to be alert to innovative economic opportunities, especially where more conventional plans for growth hit by a cyclical downturn have fallen through.
NOW that Alan Greenspan is on record as alert to the economic slowdown unfolding in the United States, investors can breathe a collective sigh of relief and start buying stocks again.
In a statement, the committee said it was standing down from what amounted to a heightened state of alert for further economic weakness, reflecting the view of Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman, that a recovery is well under way and that further rate cuts are unlikely.
The America's Economy app provides constantly updated statistics on key economic indicators, lets users set alerts for when new data will be released and makes it easy to share that data on Facebook and Twitter.
But many say Mr. Greenspan was alert in recognizing the economic slowdown that began in early 2001.
