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But, even without any confidence effects, the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office has concluded that, while cutting the US deficit does lower demand, it still leads reliably to a lower debt ratio.
Faster growth in consumer spending would also reverse the recent slowdown in GDP growth, providing the extra demand needed to create employment for the millions of Chinese who are leaving agriculture and the millions more who are graduating from the country’s universities.
Private providers will enter the market when they see that insurance has increased demand for such services.
Clearly, oil producers failed to anticipate the growth of demand in China—so much for the wisdom and foresight of private markets.
This too will dampen demand.
(A trade deficit is a subtraction from aggregate demand.)
And more migration will mean more demand for those services.
German exports would also benefit from a weaker euro, boosting overall economic demand in Germany.
This approach has meant that once interest rates reach or approach zero, central banks have little choice but to activate large asset-purchase programs that are supposed to stimulate demand.
But in too many cases, those scripts have led us astray, because they assume that monetary policy has a measurable and foreseeable impact on demand and inflation.
Recognizing the blatant injustice – not to mention the destructiveness – of this state of affairs, a new initiative, launched by the Carbon Levy Project and supported by a growing number of individuals and organizations, has emerged to demand compensation for vulnerable developing countries from the big polluters.
Indeed, in a world that has grown nervous about emerging economies, Mexico stands out as an island of opportunity, with a stable fiscal position and the prospect of rising demand for its goods as the US recovery gathers momentum.
Dozens of large and increasingly angry demonstrations have been held to demand that the government ensure women’s security and stop treating rapists with impunity.
What do people who demand rapid “fiscal consolidation” amid heavy unemployment need to believe about the economy to make their policy coherent?
The first of the implicit assumptions of orthodox theory that Keynes identified was Say’s Law, the doctrine that “supply creates its own demand.”
Some part of it may be “hoarded,” in which case demand may fall short of supply.
This means that, in a competitive labor market, real wages will always be instantly adjusted to changes in conditions of demand.
Workers bargain for money wages, and a reduction in their money incomes might leave total demand too low to employ all those willing to work.
Governments that guarantee bank liabilities, however, must then also demand that bankers exercise more prudence than they might on their own.
Prices moved smoothly up as demand outpaced supply and rushed back down when the tables were turned, keeping markets in equilibrium.
But even for them, the concept was only an assumption; they never managed to explain why wages and interest rates so often resisted the pressures of supply and demand.
Of course, if this works for one firm, it will work for others, and so wages will rise, and eventually the supply of labor will exceed demand.
Stronger growth in high-income economies will also create opportunities for developing countries – for example, through increased import demand and new sources of investment.
Rapid urbanization in many emerging markets has also driven up home prices, as demand outstrips supply.
Moreover, only a moderately wealthy population, with a healthy middle class, can adequately demand the rights that democracy provides.
Historically, a few small countries were lucky to have exports fill the gap in aggregate demand as public expenditure contracted, enabling them to avoid austerity’s depressing effects.
Conservatives demand lower taxes, but this is unpopular: almost 65% of Swedes live on public salaries or social transfers.
Though some PPP projects offer high returns, they also demand hefty additional guarantees from the host government to offset private-sector risk.
Not surprisingly, many Russians’ responses would strike an economist as failing to appreciate the market’s virtues as a mechanism to bring supply and demand into equilibrium.
For example, 66% of the respondents thought it unfair of flower-sellers to charge higher prices on holidays, when demand is much stronger and supplies may give out.
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