With the national savings rate escalating past 6.4percentt, one wonders whether the wealth effect itself is poised for a decline.
As prices were escalating past $80/bbl in August/September, OPEC announced, graciously in their view, that the 500,000 barrel/day cut would be reinstated, but not until November.
Officials said Saturday that there was growing frustration on their part over the military's fight against a Kurdish-led insurgency in the southeast, which has claimed as many as 40,000 lives and seems to have escalated in past months.
The new, never-before-heard claims from women who have come forward in the past two weeks with unsubstantiated, fantastical stories about things they say occurred 30, 40, or even 50 years ago have escalated far past the point of absurdity.
While breast cancer incidence rates have stabilised or even decreased in affluent western countries, the incidence of breast cancer in most Asian countries continues to escalate over the past few decades (Wang and Cao, 1996; Ravdin et al, 2007; Porter, 2008; Fontenoy et al, 2010).
"They were talking through ways of finding peace and ways of making sure it didn't escalate further". For the past few years, Wolf and his colleagues have been studying the impact of the Becoming A Man program, which targets at-risk male students in Chicago public schools.
Senate Republicans also played a role, ratcheting up partisan warfare over judges that has been escalating for the past generation by delaying even uncontroversial picks who would have been quickly approved in the past.
Shipping emissions have escalated in the past 15 years as China has emerged as the world's manufacturing capital.
