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The fact is that China remains gripped by deflation, with prices and output in a downward spiral.
If the downward trend in ice volume of the past 20 years merely continues at a constant pace, practically no ice will be left in 10-15 years.
But the two motivations are consistent: market forces would not be placing downward pressure on the renminbi if China’s economic fundamentals did not warrant it.
Volume guarantees are one way to spur competition and put downward pressure on prices in such niche markets.
Trade and immigration (legal and illegal), if left unchecked, will continue to exert downward pressure on rich countries’ labor markets.
The availability of inexpensive products from China has long placed downward pressure on prices even of non-Chinese goods in the US market.
As markets grasp that a vicious downward spiral is structurally embedded in the euro, the consequences for the next crisis become profound.
Others, however, expect China’s GDP growth to continue to trend downward, with the possibility of a hard landing.
As central banks attempt to combat these pressures by lowering interest rates, they are inadvertently causing releveraging (an unsustainable growth pattern), elevated asset prices (with some risk of a downward correction, given slow growth), and devaluations (which merely move demand around the global economy, without increasing it).
Given that private investment responds mainly to demand, such measures would likely reverse its current downward path.
One possibility is that expanded public and private investment begins to reverse the downward productivity trend, thereby generating real growth.
And the November figure will be adjusted downward because of a recently discovered statistical error by Canadian authorities.
And, while increased supply – particularly from North American shale resources – has put downward pressure on prices, so has weaker demand in the eurozone, Japan, China, and many emerging markets.
By that autumn, when a real-time assessment of fiscal performance was carried out, it had been revised sharply downward, by 0.2%.
Even a downward revision by 0.2% of GDP is meaningful: it implies a deterioration of the structural deficit by about 0.1% of GDP – not a trivial number in a fiscally constrained environment.
Owing to the inverse relationship between oil prices and the dollar, the weaker dollar increases oil prices, which increases the trade deficit further, putting more downward pressure on the dollar.
Proposals to increase housing density are frequently met by opposition from current residents, whose fears range from adverse impact on services to downward pressure on existing home values (or upward pressure and gentrification).
It’s time to end the downward spiral, through sufficiently expansionary policies in the advanced economies of Europe and the United States, and a reversal of IMF monetary advice in the developing world.
The IMF’s world saving rate has maintained a fairly consistent downward trend since the early 1970’s, and, while it has picked up since 2002, it is still well below the peak levels attained in the previous three decades.
Under this interpretation, the term’s popularity is a source of concern: it may indicate a market psychology that could lead to downward volatility in prices.
Despite a recent increase, real coal prices have been trending downward since the 1950s.
With many more countries set to tap shale-gas reserves over the next decade, this downward trend will most likely continue, helping to lower the price of electricity generation further.
Furthermore, bonuses should not be paid immediately, but rather placed in a company account for several years and adjusted downward if the company subsequently learns that the reason for awarding a bonus no longer holds up.
The result is a trap in which poverty causes bad governance and bad governance causes poverty – a two-way spiral downward that can lead to such extreme deprivation that the government, lacking computers, telephones, information systems, and trained civil servants, couldn’t function honestly even if it wanted to.
And, contrary to critics’ warnings, it has not pushed up health-care costs; in fact, there is some hope that the cost curve may finally be bending downward.
With the right tools and support, private employment agencies can help to arrest the downward spiral of youth unemployment.
In order to stop these securities’ downward slide – and thus to save itself – the ECB bought these government bonds and announced that, if need be, it would do so in unlimited amounts.
China’s annual economic growth has slowed to around 7.5%, while Indonesia and India – and, outside Asia, Brazil and South Africa – are experiencing sharp downward pressure on their exchange rates.
As a result, defaults, bankruptcies, and economic decline become more likely, putting further downward pressures on prices.
There was huge downward pressure on manufacturing prices from low-wage Asian economies, while unemployment in the developed world averaged 5-6% – about twice as high as in the earlier post-war decades.
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