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But the global downturn may also accentuate protectionism, especially if nationalistic impulses gain the upper hand, perhaps stimulated by fire-sales of domestic assets (as we saw during the Asian financial crisis).

One reason the US recovery is only partial is fiscal drag, a lingering effect of the post-2008 downturn, which shifted some leverage to the public sector, resulting in a growing debt burden that has been addressed – controversially so – by immediate austerity.

This tendency at times of economic downturn suggests that SWFs are not the long-term, stable shareholders of foreign firms that they (and some commentators) claim themselves to be.

Those who said that there would be no downturn, or that recovery would be rapid, or that the economy’s real problems were structural, or that supporting the economy would produce inflation (or high short-term interest rates), or that immediate fiscal austerity would be expansionary were wrong.

Despite government subsidies and cheap loans, soaring labor costs proved too much to bear amid the economic downturn, and these companies were forced to reduce hiring.

To combat the downturn, Brazil’s government implemented measures that are now yielding clear dividends.

Internationally he will have to get the Israeli economy out of its current recession, a downturn that it was thrown into because of the deadlock of the peace process as well as the total mismanagement of the economy under Mr Netanyahu.

Last year, total CO2 emissions from the energy sector remained unchanged year on year for the first time (in the absence of an economic downturn).

Either central banks would manage somehow to thread the needle and guide exchange rates and asset prices back to some stable and sustainable equilibrium configuration, or the chaos and disruption in financial markets would spill over into the real economy and a major global downturn would begin.

Although the country was never as protected from the global downturn as its authorities claimed, the country benefits from some factors that do help ease the damage inflicted by the international crisis, especially with regard to the availability of foreign currency in these times of restrictions on external financing.

I believe the downturn would have come earlier and more precipitously.

The truth that politicians (David Cameron’s UK government excluded, at least for now) are reluctant to admit is that Western Europe’s current morass is distinct from the global US-made downturn.

In fact, China, with its need for high growth to pay for social peace, may be the country most at risk from a severe global downturn.

The big issue is not how to deal with a downturn, but rather how to sustain today’s global boom and the capital flows that go with it.

Economists around the world have condemned that target as punitive, because aiming for it will inevitably result in a deeper downturn.

Many will be staying there, because the global economic downturn has hit China hard, costing them their jobs.

There is no guarantee that protectionist and xenophobic sentiment in America will not hit China-US relations, or that the economic downturn will not fuel new unrest in China.

Meanwhile, Obama, too, claims credit for the strong economy, arguing that his policies prevented a far worse downturn following the 2008 financial crisis.

To their credit, Reagan and Bush both saw the problems before them and supported successful responses, despite the predictable political costs of the downturn that followed each episode.

In the event of a downturn, voters will be quicker to blame Trump than they have been in giving him credit for today’s boom.

The type of social unrest recently witnessed in Greece may spread, because the downturn is likely to take a disproportionate toll on Europe’s young people, who are seeking jobs at a time when hard-pressed European businesses will be able to offer them very few.

The very existence of our Union, and particularly of the euro, has already helped to prevent the competitive devaluations and beggar-thy-neighbor policies that ravaged Europe during the 1930’s – the last time the continent faced so brutal an economic downturn.

Trump’s Protectionist Threat to Latin AmericaWASHINGTON, DC – Despite many dire predictions, the ongoing trade dispute between the United States and China has not resulted in a global economic downturn.

He has also had to govern in a persistently difficult environment: a lame-duck president next door in the United States, a severe economic downturn, and the legacy of corruption, negligence, and complicity handed down by his predecessors since 1968, when Mexico’s old one-party political system began to crumble.

The global economic downturn has led most of the world to rally together, not only in the hunt for the terrorists, but in reinforcing global cooperation.

When an economy faces a downturn, one should engage in expansionary fiscal policies.

But in a downturn tax revenues fall.

Either way, such policies will exacerbate the downturn.

But the EU--indeed, every country--should seek automatic stabilizers, policies that automatically boost the economy in a downturn.

As tax revenues drop due to the economic downturn, the states are cutting back on expenditures, exacerbating America's slump--and the world's.

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