Cutting
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Mobile broadband is already connecting even the most distant villages in rural Africa and India, thereby
cutting
down significantly on the need for travel.
The first might cause the economy to expand, because the government was increasing public spending; the second, because they were
cutting
it.
Cutting
public spending, it turned out, was not the same as
cutting
the deficit, because it cut the economy at the same time.
Some economists claim that governments faced a balance of risk in 2010:
Cutting
the deficit might have slowed growth; but not committing to cut it might have made things even worse.
If public opinion believed that
cutting
the deficit was the right thing to do, then allowing the deficit to grow would annul any of its hoped-for stimulatory effect.
They could create a fiscal illusion by
cutting
less than they promised.
With its attention focused on macroeconomics, the EU neglected to take the measures that would have put economic growth back on track: freeing up markets,
cutting
spending (rather than raising taxes), and, above all, further developing its greatest asset, the single European market.
After decades of research, some of the big pharmaceutical companies are raising the white flag and
cutting
back on efforts to develop new anti-anxiety drugs.
America – and the world – would also benefit from a US energy policy that reduces reliance on imports not just by increasing domestic production, but also by
cutting
consumption, and that recognizes the risks posed by global warming.
The country is the world’s lowest-cost oil producer; and, though its political rigidity is beyond question, it is showing economic flexibility by
cutting
its budget and introducing wide-ranging reforms.
A New Macroeconomic StrategyNEW YORK – I am a macroeconomist, but I dissent from the profession’s two leading camps in the United States: the neo-Keynesians, who focus on boosting aggregate demand, and the supply-siders, who focus on
cutting
taxes.
Governments are
cutting
back public investment in the name of budget balance, and private investors cannot invest robustly and securely in alternative energy when publicly regulated power grids, liability rules, pricing formulas, and national energy policies are uncertain and heavily disputed.
But, by
cutting
public investment, they are hindering private investment.
The US leads the world in obesity, and is at the
cutting
edge of the debate.
The European Union is now
cutting
off not just Eastern Europe but also the United States, seen now as one of Europe's main rivals.
There, leading politicians who choose to call themselves “fiscal conservatives” – such as Paul Ryan, now the Republican Party’s presumptive vice-presidential nominee to run alongside presidential candidate Mitt Romney in November’s election – care more about
cutting
taxes, regardless of the effect on the federal deficit and total outstanding debt.
Cutting
down legal impediments and changing attitudes won’t happen overnight.
Not one of his New York Times commentaries in the first half of 2013, when “austerian” deficit
cutting
was taking effect, forecast a major reduction in unemployment or that economic growth would recover to brisk rates.
With unemployment still high, governments returned to pre-Keynesian orthodoxy,
cutting
spending to reduce their deficits – and undercutting economic recovery in the process.
In the past, the Fed has moderated recessions by
cutting
short-term interest rates by around 500 basis points.
Fiscal policy –
cutting
taxes or raising public spending – is too constrained by high government debt to be much use in stimulating demand, and attempts to use it to redistribute resources from rich to poor have created their own problems.
In the short to medium run, fiscal consolidation – whether in the form of
cutting
government spending or increasing revenues – results in lower output and employment, which means lower tax collection, higher deficits, and escalating debt relative to GDP.
In fact, Hedegaard believes that
cutting
emissions has become so easy that European leaders should be more ambitious and unilaterally aim for a 30% reduction below the 1990 level – an idea that has won support from David Cameron’s new British government.
Indeed, it is raising the specter of a chain reaction by invoking the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, and threatening to punish any restructuring by
cutting
banks’ access to liquidity.
German public opinion also prevents the ECB from
cutting
interest rates and expanding the supply of money and credit.
The Fed hopes that it can handle the current situation without being forced to rescue market liquidity by
cutting
interest rates and thus giving what it fears would be an unhealthy boost to spending.
The problem arises because America’s chronic saving shortfall has now moved into the danger zone, making it much more difficult to fund multi-year deficits today than was the case when
cutting
taxes in the past.
If it loosens monetary policy further – by, say,
cutting
banks’ reserve requirement ratio – the momentum for restructuring could be lost; and there is no guarantee that the additional liquidity would flow into the real sector.
The question remains whether there is a non-faith-based argument for
cutting
back spending to stimulate an economy.
This can be terribly dysfunctional,
cutting
off much of what still must be learned.
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