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If a country’s firms can do that, the economy will be competitive, capital will accumulate quickly, the endowment structure will change, areas of comparative advantages will shift, and the economy will need to upgrade its industrial structure to a relatively higher level of capital intensity.
Not only did they fail to mitigate the risks, underscored in the 2007 collapse, that new retail investors introduce into the market; they actually exacerbated them, by allowing, and even encouraging, those investors to accumulate leverage through margin buying.
When, as is usually the case, the long-term interest rate is higher than the GDP growth rate, the wealthy may accumulate wealth faster than the rest of the economy – a point made by the economist Thomas Piketty.
A duty to accumulate wealth catalyzed the former; a duty to civilize inspired the latter.
Companies borrow a lot to start up, accumulate large fixed costs, and offer such low prices at first that they lose money.
Public investment serves to accumulate assets, rather than consume them.
Unlike in the past, however, emerging and developing countries avoided the worst, precisely because they had learned to accumulate foreign reserves and regulate cross-border capital flows, and to ease such measures to prevent or mitigate sudden stops.
The expectation was that import compression would permit them to accumulate sufficient dollars to purchase capital imports from the US.
With its huge domestic economy, China would never have been able to accumulate such an enormous external surplus if its growth had not been confined to such enterprises.
Why, for example, did China’s decision to accumulate foreign reserves result in a mortgage lender in Ohio taking excessive risks?
So households accumulate large amounts of cash as a hedge against the possibility that those funds will be needed some day for hospital care.
The Chinese government recently modified the tax law to exclude employers’ contributions to employee pension plans from taxable income and to allow the funds in those plans to accumulate tax-free.
It is the fear of having to pay for expensive medical conditions that now drives individuals to accumulate substantial cash reserves.
But it would at least head off one danger, namely the urge to accumulate even more reserves.
No wonder, then, that members rely more on their capacity to accumulate reserves than on the Fund’s ability to provide opportune, affordable, and reliable financial support.
Put simply, every new labor-force entrant would be equipped with a lifelong individual account, thereby accumulating points in the same way airline travelers accumulate miles.
When they are negligible, they flatter profit statements, while balance-sheet problems slowly accumulate.
Running surpluses has helped them accumulate foreign-exchange reserves, which serve as a form of insurance.
Most important, it highlights the need for climate policy that focuses on the deployment of CCS systems, which use various industrial processes to capture CO2 from fossil-fuel use and then store it in underground geological formations, where it cannot accumulate in the biosphere.
After all, why should the central banks of China, Japan, South Korea, and other Asian countries accumulate vast holdings of US Treasury bills if the dollar is likely to lose value in the years ahead?
Politics complicates matters further, because the exclusively short-term focus on the fiscal impact of spending and revenues clashes with policies whose benefits accumulate over time.
Even if a country agrees to broad ranging IAEA inspections, it can legally accumulate enriched uranium (or reprocessed plutonium) under the guise of a peaceful energy program, and then suddenly declare that circumstances have changed and withdraw from the treaty - with the ability to produce nuclear weapons on short notice.
At the same time, they played their advisers against one another, so that none would accumulate too much power.
The main distinction between the two is that capital is something you can buy, own, sell, and, in principle, accumulate without limit, as the super-rich have done.
If high national debt is associated with slow economic growth, is it because excessive debt impedes growth, or because slow growth causes countries to accumulate more debt?
Yes, China continues to accumulate a vast fund of foreign-exchange reserves.
Countries running surpluses accumulate massive stocks of foreign assets, and those resources have to be invested somewhere.
Local governments are saddled with a mountain of debt and wasted investments, banks accumulate risky loans, and farmers lose their land.
A system that requires banks to accumulate more substantial buffers in good times so that they can let them run down in bad times makes sense both from a micro viewpoint and from a macro viewpoint.
Moreover, the ability of the financial authorities to stimulate the economy is constrained by the unwillingness of the rest of the world to accumulate additional dollar reserves.
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