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When the collateral that underpins excess leverage comes under severe pressure – as was the case for Japanese businesses in the early 1990’s and American consumers in the mid 2000’s – what Koo calls the “debt rejection” motive of deleveraging takes precedence over discretionary spending.
By these measures, American consumers’ balance-sheet repair is, at best, only about half-finished.
As long as the stock of debt remains excessive, consumers will dismiss the reduction in interest expenses as nothing more than a temporary subsidy from the Fed.
At worst, it could very well spark retaliatory measures that will only exacerbate the plight of beleaguered middle-class American consumers.
The new tariffs will boost the price of foreign-made solar panels – the functional equivalent of a tax hike on energy consumers and a setback for efforts to boost reliance on non-carbon fuels.
American consumers are already on the losing end in the Trump administration’s first skirmishes.
Workers in certain industries find their skills in higher demand as foreigners spend their increased dollar earnings, consumers benefit from lower prices, and shareholders and managers see their companies’ profits increase.
In fact, such a large increase has seldom – if ever – been attempted, owing to the risk that it would spur consumers to spend before it takes effect, thereby reducing future consumption.
But tax cuts that must soon be reversed--due mainly to demographic pressure on public pensions and healthcare--are unlikely to stimulate demand as consumers lose confidence in government's ability to control deficits.
Instead, we are left with the usual microeconomic measures to prepare people for algorithmic employment – that is, the use of big data to match people with the jobs they will need to remain consumers.
That they should be high is obvious - America's economy has been expanding for 100 months without interruption, technology and competition abound, initiative is plentiful and consumers spend everything they get in pay and more.
To be sure, free trade can reduce prices for consumers and raise real incomes for some workers.
Breaking up monopolies often yields dramatically lower prices and thus higher living standards for consumers, because the same wage buys a lot more.
Consumers gain, but some workers lose.
But this does not make governments’ political task much easier, because the benefits are diffuse: consumers paying less for airline tickets may not attribute it to deregulation.
The Bolkestein directive on services played badly, but there is no question that European consumers pay too much for many services.
But, even in the US and Britain, where capital markets play a much larger role in corporate finance, asset-price inflation did little to encourage consumers to spend or companies to invest.
The principal effect is likely to be a series of negative demand shocks: investors withdrawing, travelers staying home, and consumers closing their wallets.
In the end, any effort to impose a bilateral solution on a multilateral problem will backfire, with ominous consequences for American consumers.
At other times, they will propel economic transformation and poverty reduction, as they have done on a massive scale in China, generating gains not just for the home economy but also for consumers worldwide.
Its economy, for example, cannot recover properly because consumers, lacking confidence in the ability of their political leaders to solve the economy’s manifold economic problems (budget deficits, pensions, etc.), are saving for a rainy day they feel is just around the corner—and businessmen are reluctant to invest, because they don’t trust government to make the necessary economic reforms.
Does anyone really believe consumers are holding back on spending —and businessmen postponing their investments—in anticipation of that next drop in interest rates?
So do the consumers who bought into the company’s “clean diesel” marketing and purchased one of the 11 million affected Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda, and Seat cars.
The behavior of companies like Volkswagen may end up encouraging consumers to shift from the industry’s incumbent manufacturers to newcomers such as Google’s forthcoming self-driving cars and Tesla’s electric models, which challenge the very premise of emissions tests.
And the rise of new challengers would accelerate as consumers let companies know that business as usual – poor corporate governance and empty promises – will no longer be tolerated.
Faced with higher import prices, consumers will shift their spending toward domestic goods.
Consumers are hurting worldwide, especially the poor, for whom food takes a major bite out of household budgets.
Politicians often seek to shield consumers through price controls on staple foods and energy.
If the country is a producer of the commodity in question, it may use export controls to insulate domestic consumers from increases in the world price.
Oil prices could fall, stock markets could celebrate, consumers could resume spending, and business could step up capital expenditures.
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