Cycle
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The credit
cycle
is an amplification mechanism.
Moreover, the extreme weakening and then tightening of credit standards seems particularly prominent only in the US, while the housing boom-bust
cycle
is prevalent throughout much of the world.
The result will be a virtuous
cycle
of development that benefits everyone – and that moves the world significantly closer to achieving the ambitious goals that it has adopted.
Short-term goals must have priority, because many Islamist parties are being pressed to produce positive results within a single electoral
cycle.
One idea is that environmental technology might feed a virtuous
cycle
of innovation and employment.
Yet he acted on the popular notion that anti-Semitic attacks by Arab youths in Europe are part of a
cycle
of reciprocal violence that yields a kind of moral equivalence.
Just as ecosystems reuse everything in an efficient and purposeful cycle, a “circular” economic system would ensure that products were designed to be part of a value network, within which the reuse and refurbishment of products, components, and materials would ensure the continual re-exploitation of resources.
They get trapped in a vicious
cycle
of poverty and, sometimes, crime.
The ongoing
cycle
of violence is a legacy of this struggle for control.
A combination of falling oil and primary commodity prices, an over-ripe business cycle, and the Fed’s announcement of its intent to start “tapering” its asset purchases brought the decade-long boom in many emerging markets to an end.
Indeed, tighter liquidity conditions and increased volatility in financial markets are the byproduct of the reversal in the long
cycle
of foreign purchases.
The change from the steady (and often predictable) purchases of the foreign central banks of the 2003-2013 era to the less predictable hands of private investors, who are more sensitive to changes in rates of return, is likely to be the signature of this stage of the global
cycle.
That argument was accepted, and the SGP was supposedly rendered more “intelligent” by, for example, permitting budget deficits to be adjusted for the economic cycle, adding medium-term objectives for expenditure, and introducing escape clauses.
Dealing with the short- and medium-run deficit would be fairly straightforward: decide how large a share of GDP the federal government should take up, set spending at that level, and set taxes so that the budget is balanced (or so that the debt-to-GDP ratio is not growing) over the business
cycle.
During the last tightening
cycle
between 2004 and 2006, households’ interest income rose 29%.
That is a thin basis on which to propose a new set of capital requirements, which would be “built up during upswings of the financial
cycle
and run down during periods of financial stress.”
The endless 24/7 media
cycle
and omnipresent social media are generating a taste for celebrity and an almost pathological preoccupation with current opinion polls, rather than serious political debate.
A ludicrous three-year electoral cycle, shorter than almost anywhere else in the world, makes it almost impossible to govern in a campaign-free atmosphere.
National and global leaders are not working to break the
cycle
of violence.
The children of young and poorly educated girls tend to perform worse in school and have lower earnings as adults, perpetuating the
cycle
of poverty.
The problem is that governments in the region have yet to realize that countercyclical fiscal policy implies rowing against the current in both parts of the cycle: spending more when times are bad (the easy part) and spending less when times are good (the true test of virtue).
The right has started to regroup, and Obama will surely point to this virtuous
cycle
as one in which the US has played a positive role, and can continue to do so.
Without international support, Somalia’s government lacks the resources needed to break the deadly
cycle
of drought, hunger, and poverty.
Third, foreign panic combined with the IMF credit squeeze created what economists call a debt-deflation
cycle.
Regardless of the president’s political slant, if the FA remains in office, the social-democratic reforms of recent years are likely to continue, although with different emphases and considerable variations imposed by the economic
cycle
and the government’s political resources.
Just 50 basis points won't be enough to break a
cycle
of slack demand, lack of competitiveness, and restraint.
It is an issue that has faced President Barack Obama in the wake of reports of Russian hacking during the United States’ recent election
cycle.
They even manage to tighten the loan limits or tax measures counter-cyclically, which is the recommended way to help stabilize the housing
cycle.
Anticipating such an outcome, the new shareholders might try to hide revenues, rather than invest in the company, further impeding efficiency gains and creating a vicious
cycle
of public distrust in private ownership.
This would help break the vicious
cycle
of low asset prices and the low legitimacy of private ownership.
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