Here, for example, is what a scatterplot of fiscal consolidation (from the IMF Fiscal Monitor) and growth (including an estimate for next year, from the World Economic Outlook) looks like: But, you might object, maybe the causation runs the other way; maybe countries in trouble are forced into fiscal consolidation, so it's not the austerity what did it.
"When you give a girl in baad, they are beaten maybe, maybe she will be in trouble for a year or two, but when she brings one or two babies into the world, everything will be forgotten and she will live as a normal member of the family," he said.
The girl she was no more than a hundred feet away now raised her hand as if to flag us down, and I eased up on the gas, thinking that maybe they were in trouble after all, something wrong with the car, the engine overheating, the fuel gauge on empty.
He added: "I'm hoping the Red Bulls were on lighter fuel but if they're not maybe we're in trouble.
Maybe we are in trouble after all.
"If it gets published," he said, "maybe he gets in trouble with his superiors.
Maybe Blanche Lincoln is in trouble because her policy ideas -- not have decent health care, let Wall Street banks destroy the economy whenever they like -- are bad and people hate them?
But maybe they would get in trouble for meeting me without my translator.
Maybe the company is in trouble and needs to know how to deal with a crisis.
Asked to respond to the comparison, Mr. Mulgrew gave another belly laugh: "I can't answer that one without getting myself in trouble — maybe it's a good idea people believe you say what you're thinking".
