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President Barack Obama’s administration seems to think that the problem is one of demand, and has passed stimulus measure after stimulus measure, reducing taxes and increasing transfers and government spending in order to boost consumption and investment.
Second, older people who depend on interest income, hurt further, cut their consumption more deeply than those who benefit – rich owners of equity – increase theirs, undermining aggregate demand today.
While gains from fundamental tax reform – say, replacing the current tax system with a broad-based consumption tax – are large, on the order of 0.5-1 percentage point per year of economic growth for a decade, corporate-tax reform would also boost growth.
These figures give us a glimpse of both cyclical trends and China’s structural rebalancing away from exports and toward domestic consumption.
The ratio of Chinese monthly retail sales to industrial production, while erratic, has been slowly trending higher since 2008, and there appears to have been another uptick in consumption recently.
Why would Chinese officials fiddle with consumption data while allowing the industrial-output figures to register a decline.
This new approach stressed three major components: a shift to services to boost job creation; accelerated urbanization to raise real wages; and a more robust social safety net to provide Chinese families with the security needed to channel their newfound income from fear-driven precautionary saving into discretionary consumption.
As a result, personal consumption inched up from just 35% of GDP in 2010 to only about 37% in 2015.
Matters could get worse in 2011, as rising unemployment cuts household consumption.
They see what Iran has done to Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, and they hear what Iran and its allies say in their local media (never for Western consumption) about their hostile intentions toward the Kingdom and its rulers.
It was too heavily tilted toward tax cuts that would tend to boost saving rather than consumption.
China represents what might be called the Economic Security State: seeking to channel domestic savings into household consumption to sustain GDP growth and popular support, while using its investment power abroad to secure the commodities and energy that underpin its industrialization.
Confidence in local products boosts domestic consumption and makes exports more attractive in foreign markets.
This positive trend is likely to persist, given that it is based on structural geographic and demographic factors, such as rising exports, improved trade conditions, and steadily increasing domestic consumption.
And yet the UK could improve its energy security dramatically, because it has enough gas reserves to cover roughly the entirety of its gas consumption for a half-century or more.
This emphasis on the supply side (increasing access to energy fuel) has obscured cheaper and possibly more beneficial actions on the demand side (cutting energy consumption by changing people’s behavior).
Developing countries will argue that their need for cheap energy to lift their people out of poverty is greater than rich countries’ need to maintain their often wasteful levels of energy consumption – and they will be right.
Indeed, according to a recent World Health Organization report, a reduction in the consumption of processed and red meat would have the additional benefit of reducing cancer deaths.
The trend toward rising meat consumption should be reversed.
If this trend continues, in 2050, governance systems will be even more poorly equipped to deal with the fundamental problems of perpetual population and consumption growth or wealth inequality.
While the two countries together consume slightly less than half as much oil as the US, their consumption is increasing faster.
In the past, rising prices helped slow oil consumption in the US.
For example, Germany could try to stimulate domestic consumption through more rapid wage increases.
As a result, overall consumption might even decline.
Even after the global economy began to recover, governments channeled their resources toward dubious and uncoordinated schemes to support energy production and consumption, rather than effective investments aimed at driving a shift toward more sustainable energy systems.
This is all the more urgent, given that consumers will not accept policies aimed at reducing emissions, such as a carbon tax, if they do not have an affordable alternative; after all, no one is expecting a drop in overall energy consumption.
According to UCLA geography professor Gregory Okin, if all the dogs and cats in the U.S. comprised a separate country, that country would rank fifth in the world in meat consumption, behind only Russia, Brazil, the United States and China.
Moreover, capital inflows frequently finance consumption or unsustainable real-estate booms.
After all, capital inflows cause the greatest harm when they drive rapid increases in credit-financed consumption or real-estate speculation.
Of course, much of this is intended for domestic consumption – a way to mobilize public opinion behind authoritarian rulers.
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