Say there has been some sort of terrible global calamity and we only have ten people left.
There has been too little rebalancing of global demand towards big emerging economies.
Two years after the Asian currency crisis abruptly slammed booming economies into reverse and threatened a global recession, there has been much talk about reforming the international financial architecture, but less action.
Top NASA climate scientist James Hansen said in the past few years there has been a temporary "apparent standstill in global temperatures" that is heavily due to more frequent cooling La Ninas.
At a more substantive level, there has already been intelligent commentary on what MF Global means in terms of the real role and efficacy of market regulation, and the purportedly uncoordinated roles of the various agencies.
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With less than 5% of the global smartphone market, there has been little incentive for app developers to target the platform.
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There is nothing in our weather that has not been changed by global warming.
The man who coined the term BRIC to explain a structural shift in the global economy over the last decade thinks there has been a new twist.
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However, there has been no massive government stimulus package like the one launched after the global financial crisis in 2008, mainly because that move led to a sharp rise in consumer prices.
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They point out, for example, that by "no statistically significant global warming", Prof Jones means that there still has been warming, just not that you'd notice.
Outside the personal history of Lisson Gallery, there has been a transition that has occurred from local to international and now on to global.
We had got used to big-name foreign stars arriving at the start of each season but this year has been incredibly quiet on that front and the global economic situation means there haven't been any 'Galactico' signings.
Brian Coulton, head of global economics at Fitch Ratings, told the Today programme that there has been "surprising stickiness" in the rate of inflation, currently at 3.2%, which has not fallen as fast as the bank had expected, given the recession, "and that's something the bank has to worry about" when considering interest rates.
One of these oral medicines, Sensipar, made by the global biopharmaceutical company Amgen, has been singled out in media reports, even though there are up to five other products affected that account for two thirds of the spending in this group of medicines.
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In recent weeks, there has been a growing debate over whether to allow American liquid natural gas (LNG) to be exported to the global market.
Lately there have been fewer worries that the global economy is headed for a sharp slowdown, Melek added, which has allowed all commodities, platinum included, to rally in January.
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The eurozone debt crisis continues to remain a threat to overall global growth, while the recovery in the US economy has been fragile and consumer confidence there remains low.
There has never been a period in history when 20 governments have agreed on anything, much less something as important as the global banking system.
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