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First, a trade-imbalance levy would be charged annually to each central bank’s Kosmos account in proportion to its current-account deficit or surplus and paid into a common NICU fund.
The trade-imbalance levy is intended to motivate surplus countries’ governments to boost domestic spending and investment while systematically reducing deficit countries’ international spending power.
But in the case of EU-Mexico trade liberalization, the growth of imports from the EU has exceeded the growth of exports to Europe, resulting in a widening Mexican trade deficit with the EU.
Because India is still running a trade deficit, there could be some pressure on the rupee following any negative shock.
The downside risk of higher volatility for the rupee is aggravated by some serious problems, including a deficit running at 6% of GDP and the strategic stand-off with Pakistan.
The post-2010 recoveries in both countries came despite significant cuts in the structural (cyclically adjusted) budget deficit, suggesting that both recoveries occurred in the face of fiscal contraction.
According to the IMF estimates, the structural budget deficit was cut from 8.4% of potential GDP in 2010 to 4.1% in 2014 in the UK, and from 9.1% to 4% in the US during the same period.
In the US, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that President Barack Obama’s proposed policies would cause the federal government’s fiscal deficit to exceed 5% of GDP in 2019, even after a decade of continuous economic growth.
If the presidential promise to reduce the fiscal deficit was really a commitment to cut spending and raise taxes, we could see today’s dangerous deficit trajectory be reversed.
The gargantuan US trade deficit?
Interestingly, both sides cite America’s gaping trade deficit – believe it or not, the US is soaking up two-thirds of global excess saving – to support their arguments.
Perhaps the biggest weakness in the true believers’ argument is the trade deficit.
Individually, these are each highly plausible scenarios, and collectively they would hit the US trade deficit like a perfect storm.
Somewhat higher inflation in the surplus countries and larger cross-border resource transfers would give the deficit countries more time, allowing for structural reforms to produce results and reducing the need for deflation.
Because the US enjoys financial stability --full employment, very moderateinflation of 2 -3 percent per year, a budget deficit smaller (as a share of GDP) than that of Japan or Germany, a public debt ratio that is enviably low compared to most industrial countries – dollar decline is just not a threat.
It is time for politicians to own up to the uncomfortable truth: The saving deficit is the single greatest threat to the American Dream.
But there is a risk that fiscal consolidation will wane as soon as a degree of deficit reduction has calmed the markets.
De-politicization of surveillance is best achieved by creating an independent body, whether formal or informal, while stricter and more binding rules must include a stronger link between deficit and debt criteria.
Structural reforms and fiscal consolidation are, incidentally, tasks not only for countries with a current-account deficit.
Essentially, this aimed to prevent irresponsible budgetary policies after the euro's launch, while leaving sufficient room for cyclical oscillations of the deficit within the 3% limit.
France now has a 2%-of-GDP current-account deficit, compared to Germany’s 8%-of-GDP surplus.
Unlike the Brussels-based European Union, long beleaguered by its democratic deficit, the Strasbourg-based ECHR is, if anything, too well loved.
If the central bank attempts to spur inflation by expanding its own balance sheet through monetary expansion and by lowering interest rates, it will cause the budget deficit to fall further, reinforcing the cycle.
In such a context, Sims argued, monetary policy alone would not be adequate to raise inflation; fiscal policy that increases the budget deficit would also be necessary.
The strong dollar--far more than Japanese protectionism--fuelled the bilateral deficit with Japan.
By the end of this year, America’s debt-to-GDP ratio will have climbed to 87% from 73% in 2008, and, with next year’s deficit set to reach 11% of GDP, it is certain that the ratio will surpass 100% during 2011.
But this adjustment of relative prices via currency movements is stalled, because surplus countries are resisting exchange-rate appreciation in favor of imposing recessionary deflation on deficit countries.
America’s Exploding Budget DeficitCAMBRIDGE – The United States has an enormous and rapidly widening budget deficit.
During this period, the deficit as a share of GDP will increase from 4% to 5.1%.
The primary drivers of the deficit increase over the next decade are the higher cost of benefits for middle-class older individuals.
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