loosecannon
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Gone the way of the WTO, G-7, World Court, EU, UN, Copenhagen summit and nearly every world body the developed states have erected to coordinate a global government overpowering nation states: death by gridlock. Or perhaps death by insubordination amongst developing nations.
We are really just a hop skip and a jump away from the next world war.
G-20 leaders not inclined to compromise
At the Group of 20 summit in Seoul, Obama's effort to win consensus on a unified approach to boost the world economy appears doomed, raising the specter of countries pursuing their own interests.
Reporting from Seoul
President Obama appeared to fall short in his attempt to forge a unified approach to boosting the global economy as a frequently rancorous meeting of world leaders seemed set to conclude in Seoul on Friday without agreement on specific steps to avert damaging currency and trade wars.
Leaders of the world's biggest economies showed that they were in no mood to compromise during the two-day summit. Instead, they were headed toward broad, general pledges that did little to mask their inability to find common ground for immediate action.
That failure to find consensus among the Group of 20 nations a self-appointed steering committee of the global economy raised the specter of countries pursuing their own interests at the expense of coordinated and balanced global growth.
British Prime Minister David Cameron warned of the risks of that route at the summit opening, saying failure by the G-20 to accomplish some sort of global accommodation could lead to "a return to what happened in the 1930s: protectionism, trade barriers, currency wars, countries pursuing beggar-thy-neighbor policies; trying to do well for themselves but not caring about the rest of the world."
Many countries, however, appeared to be doing just that. In particular, they took aim at the Federal Reserve's recent decision to pump $600 billion into the U.S. financial system, a move that critics saw as an attempt to lower the value of the dollar and therefore make U.S. exports more competitive.
We are really just a hop skip and a jump away from the next world war.