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Unfortunately, along with this life support came the pain of withdrawal – not only for asset-dependent consumers and businesses in the United States, but also for foreign economies dependent on capital inflows driven by QE-distorted interest-rate spreads.
Those high interest rates strangle businesses and households, causing further economic collapse and making debt ever more unsustainable.
Much of the money provided in the United Kingdom poured into the housing market rather than being lent to small and medium-sized businesses.
With more money moving around, businesses rehire employees and ask existing employees to work more hours.
The newly hired workers and newly formed businesses spend money, which induces more hiring, more start-ups, and yet more spending.
Hence, even if businesses get easier access to money and loans, many firms will still decline to hire on a large scale, fearing that they would be saddled with a large payroll in a future downturn.
For example, The Economist’s recent portrait of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti shows that Italy continues to be stymied by labor rules that make businesses reluctant to expand beyond 15 employees (after which it becomes hard for a firm to downsize).
It is simply too difficult to launch many types of businesses in many places, and to expand those that are started.
While the relative absence of Facebook-style mega-entrepreneurial successes in Europe is regularly bemoaned, the difficulties of opening hairdressers, basic retailers, and simple mail-order businesses may have an equally profound overall effect.
But existing businesses and already-employed workers prefer the status quo, and can powerfully inhibit policymakers.
Beyond this point, businesses will be able to ramp up production primarily by employing machines and software.
The deposits can be individuals’ paychecks and the loans can be to small businesses.
The net national saving rate – the broadest measure of domestic saving, which includes depreciation-adjusted saving of households, businesses, and the government sector – averaged 10.1% during those two years (1964 and 1981).
In one sense, we should be grateful for our hard-working M&A technicians, well-paid as they are: it is important that businesses with lousy managements or that operate inefficiently be under pressure from those who may do better, and can raise the money to attempt to do so.
Some 700,000 small businesses (including low-wage workers who are forced to operate as private service providers) will have to pre-pay 100% (yes, you read that right) of next year’s taxes.
But, with funding costs for businesses trending up, this is finally starting to change.
Early this year, the State Council, China’s cabinet, made lowering funding costs for businesses, especially small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), a top priority.
But it can avoid the pitfalls of such an approach by placing it within a broader, more comprehensive strategy that accounts for the underlying causes of the increase in funding costs for businesses.
In fact, the rising cost of intermediation – largely a result of the distortions in China’s financial system – is among the most important factors driving the rise in borrowing costs for Chinese businesses.
Third, financial-market participants and, increasingly, real businesses are pricing in a possible breakup of the eurozone, if not the end of the euro itself.
After all, a large share of the borrowing by households and businesses in the periphery is indexed to short-term rates, which are set by the ECB, not the markets, and therefore have remained low.
How worried should businesses, investors, and policymakers around the world be about the end of near-zero interest rates and the start of the first monetary-tightening cycle since 2004-2008?
It is hard to imagine many businesses, consumers, or homeowners changing their behavior because of a quarter-point change in short-term interest rates, especially if long-term rates hardly move.
A significant strengthening of the dollar would indeed cause serious problems for emerging economies where businesses and governments have taken on large dollar-denominated debts and currency devaluation threatens to spin out of control.
A 12.5% tax is levied on capital gains from government bonds, while entrepreneurs risking their own capital to launch new businesses must pay roughly 50% of their start-up costs in taxes.
Above all, what the American economy needs now are managers who know and care about their businesses.
Patent rules, for example, reflect the long-held assumption that strong protection provides an essential incentive for businesses to pursue innovation.
Policymakers can mitigate these risks by building the institutions, knowledge, and skills that are needed to manage water more effectively, including among households, farmers, and businesses.
And Fabius is well aware of the potential value of Iranian markets for French businesses.
Today, Thai businesses are accused of piracy as often as Chinese companies.
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