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Another aspect of America’s domestic practice of liberal democracy that is currently being debated is how the country deals with the threat of terrorism.
In the climate of extreme fear that followed the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration’s tortured legal interpretations of international and domestic law tarnished American democracy and diminished its soft power.
For China’s effort to make Internet giants like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft kowtow to its domestic political controls, and its push in Africa and Latin America to create blocs of nations that pursue economic development while ignoring human rights and environmental conservation, is a poor model for the developing world.
And it has intensified the domestic debate over the death penalty.
When US President Donald Trump’s administration imposes tariffs on China, it is raising the cost of imports that domestic small businesses desperately need to keep operating.
Budget deficits and the resulting national debt are important not only in themselves; they also contribute to a country’s current-account deficit, which is the difference between its level of domestic investment by businesses and households in structures and equipment and the amount that it saves to finance those investments.
The US and others have made progress in punishing domestic firms that engage in corrupt practices abroad.
With the post-crisis resetting of domestic consumption and savings, US aggregate demand will remain depressed.
Imports could fall, as they did during the crisis, but that was due to declining demand, not to a shift in demand in favor of domestic producers.
“The risk of an exodus should be disregarded,” the commission says, noting that the advantages of being a global financial center have been accompanied by serious associated risks to the domestic economy.
But the effectiveness of a fixed exchange rate is determined by how developments in the export sector influence domestic industries and the national economy as a whole.
If growth in the trade sector boosts that of domestic non-trade sectors, then a fixed exchange rate will not put pressure on the external balance of payments as demand for imports rises.
Equally important, unlike other East Asian economies during their early take-off stages, the expansion of China’s export sector in the last decade has not been closely linked to the development of its domestic non-trade sector, because the expansion has been fueled mainly by foreign direct investment (FDI).
Most of China 460,000 foreign-owned enterprises are concentrated in manufacturing and assembling, increasing the import-intensiveness of exports and de-linking the external-trade sector from domestic industries.
But the surplus merely masks the structural problems of China’s domestic economic sectors and poorer regions.
With its huge domestic economy, China would never have been able to accumulate such an enormous external surplus if its growth had not been confined to such enterprises.
And why, despite international pressure and domestic desire, did he not appoint a successor to the ailing Crown Prince Sultan, for the tradition of the Saudi kings is to have not only the direct but the second in line to the throne known?
Trump’s administration has often emphasized its plans to look inward, focusing on domestic policy and putting America first in foreign policy.
The result was a vast amount of cheap liquidity that helped to stabilize the financial sector, restore stock and real-estate prices, and increase domestic demand.
Beyond the domestic sphere, unconventional monetary policies have had far-reaching spillover effects.
The crisis struck domestic demand, and the tradable sector was incapacitated, because the rapid rise in relative unit labor costs, combined with an over-valued euro, had undermined competitiveness.
Indeed, though domestic investment is constrained by credit availability, major European and Latin American multinationals have begun investing in the Spanish economy, attracted partly by its enhanced competitive posture and structural flexibility, and, on a slightly longer time horizon, by a recovery in domestic demand.
There is no chance in either country that domestic demand alone will support sustained growth in the short to medium term.
At the end of the day, cutting taxes for the wealthy is their top priority, regardless of whether such cuts lead to more domestic investment.
Further down, he claims that the bill “would reduce [the corporate-tax] rate to 25% or less,” which, he asserts, is “likely to boost domestic corporate investment.”
After all, the crisis originated in the US and left American policy focused on its domestic troubles, opening up room for global leadership by others.
When domestic needs become paramount, global economic cooperation suffers.
The Great Depression was aggravated by the trade barriers that countries imposed to protect domestic employment.
And banks – whether explicitly nationalized or not – will be under pressure to prioritize domestic borrowers.
Such companies bring technologically advanced imports and new management techniques that foster growth in domestic firms, while spurring industrial modernization.
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