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There is now widespread bipartisan support for increased spending on infrastructure of all kinds, just as there was in the 2007 downturn.
If there is no downturn during the next several years, it would still be desirable to start some of those projects.
But a significant economic downturn with limited scope for Fed action would leave Congress with little choice.
In the best case – without a sharp decline in financial assets accelerating an economic downturn, a sudden collapse of a defective growth model, or even rapid increases in liabilities associated with demographic shifts or health-care technology – it might make sense to focus only on controlling liabilities.
LONDON – The economic downturn has produced an explosion of popular anger against bankers’ “greed” and their “obscene” bonuses.
In that case, rather than bringing the hoped-for end of the Great Recession of 2008, a downturn that has lasted too long and caused too much suffering, 2012 may mark the beginning of a new and more frightening phase of the world’s worst economic calamity in three-quarters of a century.
Most Americans, however, are focused on today’s downturn, not tomorrow’s.
Gordon Brown’s slump in the United Kingdom; the brutal shock of Spain’s economic downturn; the difficulties of renewing Socialist leadership in France; the collapse of the center-left coalition in Italy; and severe infighting within Germany’s SPD: all point to social democracy’s seeming inability to seize the opportunity – which the current financial crisis should present – to exert greater influence.
When Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff wrote their influential study “Growth in a Time of Debt,” they asked the following question: “Outsized deficits and epic bank bailouts may be useful in fighting a downturn, but what is the long-run macroeconomic impact of higher levels of government debt, especially against the backdrop of graying populations and rising social insurance costs?”
The deeper the downturn, the more powerful the snapback, and the greater the cumulative forces of self-sustaining revival.
The downturn in the US began with a failure in the financial system, which quickly was translated into a slowdown in the real economy.
On June 23, a United Nations conference focusing on the global economic crisis and its impact on developing countries reached a consensus both about the causes of the downturn and why it was affecting developing countries so badly.
Every downturn eventually comes to an end.
The mark of a good policy is that it succeeds in making the downturn shallower and shorter than it otherwise would have been.
The mark of the austerity policies that many governments embraced is that they made the downturn far deeper and longer than was necessary, with long-lasting consequences.
Moreover, the current economic downturn is creating especially severe problems for the Salvadoran economy.
The case of France is interesting, because the country has fared slightly better than most in confronting the downturn, thanks to its well functioning welfare state.
Economic theory holds that there are incentives for some market participants to delay a resolution, and these are particularly costly in situations such as those in East Asia and Argentina, where corporate distress is prevalent and where the economy faces a major economic downturn.
The danger is that overpriced assets and high-risk loans could lose value and cause an economic downturn.
But there is a clear risk that a decade of excessively low interest rates will cause a collapse of asset prices and an economic downturn.
And the persistence of large deficits reduces the room that governments have to increase spending when there is an economic downturn or a threat to national security.
The Black Hole in America’s GDPCAMBRIDGE – The massive downturn in American’s economy will last longer and be more damaging than previous recessions, because it is driven by an unprecedented loss of household wealth.
So it is not clear what will occur to reverse the decline in GDP and end the economic downturn.
Of course, no one would deny that there are cyclical elements in the downturn of 2008.
And, finally, America has exported its economic downturn.
This year’s deficit will approach a half-trillion dollars; next year’s will be even larger, as the US downturn steepens.
But Wall Street’s fiscal conservatives (yes, the same people who brought us this downturn) will now be calling for deficit moderation (reminiscent of Andrew Mellon in the Great Depression.)
The unanticipated severity of China’s downturn is the latest factor upsetting the BOJ’s forecasts.
Unless a future government is bold enough to violate the pact with abandon, its only alternative will be to increase taxes, which would merely prolong the very downturn in private-sector demand that has kept unemployment high.
At a time when China’s economic downturn and unilateral territorial claims are posing serious challenges to the region, ASEAN’s weakness could prove highly dangerous.
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