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It will also require policies and programs that provide some financial cushion to displaced workers; otherwise, the owners of machines and equity will seize on technological disruptions to capture an even larger share of the economic pie.
Such weak recoveries, by definition, lack the cushion of V-shaped rebounds.
This protracted “global output gap” underscores the absence of a cushion in today’s world economy, as well as its heightened sensitivity to shocks.
Nor does time cushion anemic post-crisis recoveries from the inevitable next shock.
Borrowing and lending institutions will need to change, so that they better cushion people against the risk of personal bankruptcy.
Other factors will also cushion the blow of Brexit.
Emerging-market policymakers believe that they lack recourse to safety nets that would cushion the impact of volatile flows.
The government should have moved in aggressively to cushion the workout of Lehman’s complex derivative book, even if this meant creative legal interpretations or pushing through new laws governing the financial system.
They would charge more, curtail some short-term lending, or both, and they would insist that firms like MF Global maintain a larger equity cushion.
The government countered that official creditors were nickel-and-diming the country, rather than providing the financial cushion needed to restore confidence and re-engage private capital.
But many investors see a substantial chance of 2008 and 2009 redux, whether triggered by a full-fledged euro crisis or by some black swan that we do not yet see, and fear that, unlike in 2008 and 2009, governments would lack the power and will to cushion the economic impact.
In 1997, two years before the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland became full members, the Alliance reached an agreement with Russia – the so-called Founding Act – to cushion the impact.
For example, stability can be achieved by allowing the largest banks to dominate, while requiring that they hold large amounts of high-quality capital to cushion against shocks.
But if the stock market collapses too quickly, the Fed should worry about a recession and react aggressively to cushion the fall.
Governments should advocate for trade agreements that cushion the impact when manufacturing jobs are lost, while laying the groundwork for the transition to more tech-heavy industries.
For those without an equity cushion, refinancing was not a possibility, and rising interest rates have led to default, foreclosure, and homelessness.
Of course, this cushion would effectively vanish in six years if foreign reserves were to continue falling at the same $500 billion annual rate recorded in 2015.
With that guarantee broken by Lehman Brothers’ collapse, every financial institution immediately sought to acquire a much greater capital cushion in order to avoid the need to draw on government support, but found it impossible to do so.
When the packages were unwrapped, most of their contents turned out to consist of pools of toxic assets for which there was no proper due diligence, no evidence of capacity to repay, and little cushion to cope with a market downturn.
Countries typically cushion such negative price shocks by putting aside some money in good times and borrowing or using those savings in bad times, so that imports need not decline by as much as exports.
Indeed, come 2021, the UK will still be hurtling toward a “cliff edge”: a full break from Europe, with no alternative arrangement in place to cushion the blow.
But in countries where the adjustment does not come until a budget crisis forces it, there may be no money for transfers to cushion the pain.
These aging workers might now be saving as much as they possibly can, to build up a financial cushion for impending retirement.
That tempers the risks to credit quality and, along with relatively low loan-to-deposit ratios of around 65%, should cushion the Chinese banking system.
The prime justification for creating one is not that certain public goods should be reserved to the EU’s eurozone members, but that a common fiscal instrument would cushion country-specific shocks and complement the European Central Bank’s monetary policy when facing common shocks.
Japan could rely on its large stock of domestic household savings to cushion the corporate sector’s adjustment and to finance massive fiscal spending, with government debt now around 230% of GDP.
Even in China, where the government has deep pockets to cushion the fall, one Lehman Brothers-size bankruptcy could lead to a major panic.
Announcing the abolition of the hukou system might be easy, but it would mean little without institutions that can cushion the risks faced by rural migrant workers in China’s cities.Making public services like education and the formal social safety net available to rural immigrants, even at a lower level due to limited public resources, is the key to success here.
In a low-inflation environment like the one prevailing today, central banks can cushion the impact of such reforms through expansionary monetary policies.
In 2006, the EU established a “Globalization Adjustment Fund” to cushion those sectors hardest hit by rising imports.
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