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Since every dollar, euro, yen, rupee, or yuan borrowed today requires the same present value in future interest payments – and therefore future taxes – there are important long-term costs to balance against whatever benefits the deficits create today; there is no fiscal free lunch.
The impact of the economy on the budget balance is swifter, surer, and larger than the impact of the budget balance on the economy.
Given warnings from US companies about the impact of a stronger dollar on their earnings – not to mention signs of declining inward tourism and a deteriorating trade balance – this is not guaranteed.
In a globalized financial system, striking the right balance between home and host country jurisdiction, and between national and supranational oversight, is crucial.
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States allegedly changed everything - not only international relations, but the balance between rights and obligations that we long took for granted.
The state must be charged with ensuring an effective water system that meets the basic needs of all, but the balance of this system remains to be defined.
Conservation organizations like mine have long been working to balance the interaction between people and nature.
They should begin by reforming the property-rights regime to enable market forces to balance the supply and demand of savings and investments in a manner that maintains credit discipline and transparency.
The education sector must find a better balance between quality and financial returns.
QE is supposed to work via “portfolio balance effects,” which implies that markets are not fully efficient: purchases of longer-term bonds affect financial conditions by changing the types and quantity of financial assets the public holds.
But by vastly expanding central banks’ balance sheets, QE is hardly costless or risk-free.
The choices they make will depend on how they weigh the risks of bloating their balance sheets, imposing costs on banks and consumers, pursuing possibly unattainable inflation targets, and hurting debtors and producers at home.
Bondholders were saved because governments generally chose to infuse cash in exchange for common or preferred shares – which are subordinate to bondholders’ claims – or to improve balance sheets by buying or guaranteeing the value of assets.
These reforms include measures to remove labor-market rigidities while also accelerating the repair of banks’ balance sheets.
The Democrats’ best bet is to let Trump take the lead on global affairs, however unsavory, and actively work to check and balance his actions.
Fiscal and monetary policies had focused on boosting industrial growth, without regard to macroeconomic balance, resulting in chronically excessive demand and widespread shortages.
It has depended, perhaps excessively, on American influence to balance its rivalries.
Tariffs won’t do much for America’s trade balance, either.
The United States failed to strike this balance with respect to its 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Long periods of negative interest rates facilitated the unsustainable financing of asset purchases, with high-risk mortgages weakening national balance sheets.
Today, the rapid expansion of Chinese financial institutions’ balance sheets – which grew by 92% from 2007 to 2011, alongside 78% nominal GDP growth – is fueling predictions that the country will soon experience its own subprime meltdown.
In short, despite a strong national balance sheet and ample central-bank liquidity, China is confronting a localized subprime problem, owing partly to high reserve requirements.
At this point, any improvement in consumer balance sheets would directly stimulate the economy and create jobs.
The recovery could only be partial, because the previous level of output was unsustainable, but it was enough to allow the government to balance its books again.
As a result, Greece moved from a primary budget deficit (which excludes interest payments on debt) of more than 10% of GDP to a primary balance last year – by far the largest such reversal in post-crisis Europe.
In effect, America’s trade balance is like a water balloon – applying pressure on one spot would simply cause the water to slosh elsewhere.
More generally, China must deploy its large balance sheet to deliver income or benefits that expand what households view as safely consumable income.
Instead, the current crisis should reinvigorate debate about these issues, with the goal of refining the balance between public-health and business interests and thereby improving the global response to future crises.
As Japan, India, and others try to balance Chinese power, they welcome an American presence.
It is as if Mexico and Canada sought a Chinese alliance to balance the US in North America.
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