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Financial-sector deficit hawks said that governments should focus on eliminating deficits, preferably by
cutting
back on expenditures.
Second, encourage spending and promote equity and efficiency by raising taxes on corporations that don’t reinvest, for example, and lowering them on those that do, or by raising taxes on speculative capital gains (say, in real estate) and on carbon- and pollution-intensive energy, while
cutting
taxes for lower-income payers.
In the oil market, the once-powerful OPEC cartel has stepped back from the role of swing producer on the downside – that is,
cutting
output in order to stop a disorderly price collapse.
However,
cutting
farm subsidies will increase food prices, at least initially, while reducing agricultural tariffs alone will not necessarily lead to an increase in food production in poor countries without complementary support.
For example, after Myanmar signed an agreement with China in 2005 to supply natural gas, India responded by
cutting
its own gas deal with Myanmar.
But, rather than simply
cutting
aid, as the Trump administration seems intent on doing, what the US should consider is reordering how – not if – it delivers aid.
The Next Phase of China’s Financial DeepeningHONG KONG – The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has reduced official interest rates for the first time in more than two years,
cutting
the one-year lending rate by 0.4 percentage points, to 5.6%, and the one-year deposit rate by 0.25 percentage points, to 2.75%.
Back in 1983, Congress agreed on a bipartisan basis that this threshold should be raised gradually from 65 years to 67,
cutting
the long-run cost of Social Security by about 1.2% of GDP.
Environmentalists’ plan to obtain 20-50% of all energy from biomass could mean a tripling of current biomass consumption, placing its production in direct competition with that of food for a growing global population, while depleting water supplies,
cutting
down forests, and reducing biodiversity.
But we are about to diminish biodiversity, over-extract water, make food more expensive, and waste hundreds of billions of dollars – all while
cutting
down trees to burn them and potentially increasing CO2 emissions.
In September, Portugal planned to pursue a form of “internal devaluation,” by
cutting
payroll taxes and increasing the VAT; this has now been shelved, presumably because it is politically unworkable.
This will require
cutting
red tape and deregulating the economy.
High-income countries, already on the
cutting
edge of productivity, must earn their increases through technological and organizational breakthroughs; as a result, their typical growth rate is about 3%.
More important, Padoan has started to implement fiscal stimulus by
cutting
taxes and maintaining public spending plans, in defiance of German and EU Commission demands to tighten his budget.
According to the World Bank, the first MDG –
cutting
the rate of extreme poverty (defined as income below $1.25 per day) to half its 1990 level by 2015 – was achieved by 2010.
Atonal music, hardly the
cutting
edge today, was precisely the kind of thing that Hitler’s minions loathed – and ultimately banned.
Things are even worse in Palestinian towns farther afield, such as Hebron, where Israeli settlers often behave like Wild West gunslingers, flouting the laws of their own country as they drive away Palestinians by
cutting
down their trees, poisoning their livestock, and subjecting them to other forms of torment, including fatal shootings, which have gone unpunished.
To be fair, the IPCC’s latest assessment report highlights the imperative of
cutting
CO2 emissions drastically to avoid exceeding the world’s small – and still risky – carbon budget.
Cutting
a deficit in a slump could never cause a recovery.
Any Keynesian knows that
cutting
the deficit in a slump is bad policy.
While exiting and devaluing the new currency would increase their debt-to-GDP ratio, remaining in the euro and
cutting
prices to enact a real devaluation would do exactly the same.
Europe’s Fast Track to Youth EmploymentBRUSSELS – Italy’s new prime minister, Matteo Renzi, wants to attack high youth unemployment by
cutting
taxes on labor.
Wolfensohn led the World Bank onto the
cutting
edge of every important development debate, and was at the forefront of the effort to combat HIV/AIDS, as well as other deadly diseases that threaten so many impoverished countries.
While celebrity activists focus entirely on
cutting
CO2, we could do much more – and at much lower cost – if we addressed urban heat islands.
Policymakers normally respond to recessions by
cutting
interest rates, reducing taxes, and boosting transfers to the unemployed and other casualties of the downturn.
Republicans argue that the national debt’s growth should be limited only by
cutting
government spending.
While this method does indeed increase total revenue, the economic effect of limiting tax expenditures is the same as it is under any other method of
cutting
spending on those programs.
But while the government wants to move beyond low-skilled mining into higher-value processing, De Beers has balked, because it already has well established, cost-effective
cutting
operations abroad.
Despite their declining incomes, households raised their spending in early 2012 at a rapid pace by
cutting
their saving rate to just 3.7%.
Higher energy prices are reducing real household spending on non-energy goods and services; weakness in Europe and Asia will hurt America’s exports; state and local governments are
cutting
their spending; and concerns about higher taxes in 2013 will dampen both business investment and big-ticket consumer spending.
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