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At the time, there was some disagreement about how long the downturn would last (I was a pessimist, and unfortunately I have been proved right).
But to insist on an arbitrary budgetary position in an economic downturn is to ignore everything we have learned about economics in the past seventy years, risking the well being of millions of workers who are thrown out of employment.
US Democrats argued that if America faced an economic downturn, the government needed the flexibility to run a deficit.
In fact, the post-war era has been the longest sustained period of trade liberalization in history – a particularly impressive feat, given that the world has just suffered the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.
And their verdict is clear: Greece’s downturn in 2015 was due to the “Troika effect.”
For America today, the real question is only whether there will be a short, sharp downturn, or a more prolonged, but shallower, slowdown.
If Europe deteriorates, or there is gridlock in dealing with America’s “fiscal cliff” at the beginning of 2013 (when tax cuts expire and automatic spending cuts kick in), a major downturn will become far more likely.
The downturn in Southeast Asia has meant a decline of Japan’s exports to the region.
If the costs of firing workers are prohibitively high, firms may not hire additional workers in a market upturn, for fear that they will be unable to reduce their labor costs in a future downturn.
Meanwhile, governments were running large deficits – a legacy of the economic downturn – which renewed growth was supposed to shrink.
Because the period of rapid IT spending in Europe coincided with a cyclical downturn in the world economy, it may still be too early to see its benefits.
China's economy continued to grow at 7%;Malaysia had the shortest and shallowest downturn.
If there is a global downturn, any region that is long stocks and short bonds is going to get burned.
Pressure to reduce costs in the recent downturn may have accelerated the movement of jobs to low-wage locations, but this accounts for only 15-35% of the decline in employment since the downturn began.
Delayed job recovery from the global downturn remains a major challenge for poverty reduction in the coming years.
The crisis in agriculture led to a decrease in demand for urban goods and thus to an economy-wide downturn.
By January and February 2009, it was clear that the downturn was greater and a larger stimulus was needed.
These are the lessons that we should keep in mind as we prepare for the next economic downturn.
Central banks can play an important role in a cyclical downturn.
Given massive global corporate debt and a soaring US stock market – the cyclically adjusted price-to-earnings ratio is high by historical standards – one possible trigger for a downturn in the coming years is a negative shock that could send securities tumbling.
That is why, as Martin Feldstein recently pointed out, the Fed should be “raising the rate when the economy is strong,” thereby giving “the Fed room to respond in the next economic downturn with a significant reduction.”
Hence, even if businesses get easier access to money and loans, many firms will still decline to hire on a large scale, fearing that they would be saddled with a large payroll in a future downturn.
The recession of 2001 combined an inventory downturn with an investment downturn.
In the United States, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has executed the Friedmanite playbook flawlessly in the current downturn, and it has not been enough to preserve or rapidly restore full employment.
China’s Recovery and Global GrowthCAMBRIDGE – China is likely to be the first of the major economies to recover from the current global downturn.
Fiscal austerity, in Greece and other relatively weak countries, helped fuel an overall economic downturn.
The economy was in a downturn when he took office in 2001, and 9/11 and Iraq made matters worse.
Or is the economic downturn since the vote an indication of how valuable integration and the free movement of Europeans was to the UK’s own vitality?
Even during the recession of 2001, those assembled in Davos believed that the downturn would be short-lived.
And its automatic stabilizers, with spending automatically increasing as economic woes increased, held out the promise of moderating the downturn.
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