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That share drops to just 17% among those who don’t know the facts.
Allow for some substitution away from more expensive imported goods, and the number drops below 1%.
And if current conditions in the advanced economies remain entrenched a decade from now, helicopter drops, debt monetization, and taxation of cash may turn out to be the new QE, CE, FG, ZIRP, and NIRP.
The important thing is to make sure that someone assumes this role; if the IMF drops it, the World Bank must pick it up.
When a poor family’s income drops, one of the few expenses on which it can cut back is the cost of sending the children to school.
Rather than continue to allow misguided conventional thinking, centered on German economic ideology, to impede effective action, the ECB must pursue quantitative easing (QE) “for the people” – an adaptation of Milton Friedman’s “helicopter drops” strategy – to reverse deflation and get the eurozone back on track.
Such a strategy should be based on Friedman’s assertion that “helicopter drops” – printing large sums of money and distributing it to the public – can always stimulate the economy and combat deflation.
These were significant declines – larger one-day drops in the Dow, for example, have occurred only 35 times since January 1950, or about once every twenty months.
One-day drops in important stock markets have always had enduring and general effects, owing to market psychology.
If history is any guide, markets can be severely destabilized by one-day drops, which make powerful stories that have more psychological salience to investors than much larger drops that occur over longer time intervals.
But the December 6, 1928, event began a sequence of increasingly severe one-day drops in the Dow over the course of the following year.
This was followed the next day by a further 1.9% decline, and then, over succeeding months, by a series of sharp one-day drops that were precursors to the 22.6% collapse on October 19, 1987 – the largest-ever one-day correction.
These are mere drops in the ocean of the global labor market, replacing very few of the jobs that information technology has automated away.
(For North Africans, however, that figure drops to only 10-15%, which is unsurprising given the uncertainty generated by the region’s recent political turmoil.)
But few recognize similar drops in other sectors, despite such trends’ far-reaching economic, social, and political implications.
having true depression level drops, of 10% or more.
Although rules on shadow-banking have yet to be formulated, another problem exposed by the crisis has abated: America’s external deficit has shrunk to a much more manageable 2-3% of GDP, accompanied by drops in the surpluses run by Japan and China.
Helicopter drops are currently proposed by both leftist and centrist economists.
In a sense, even some “conservatives” – who support more public infrastructure spending, but also want tax cuts and oppose more borrowing – de facto support helicopter drops.
“Risk-off” episodes, in which investor sentiment sours, are likely to return if economic news worsens and confidence in policymakers’ effectiveness drops.
Harm reduction works everywhere, and the main financial benefactors are the countries themselves, which see reduced spread of HIV, drops in crime, and people returning to work.
Judging from the historical record, housing price declines fortunately tend to be relatively local, and nationwide drops are unlikely.
South of Gibraltar, income per capita drops more than fivefold.
So, by creating incompatibilities, some subtle and some obvious, that make its old software obsolete, Microsoft can sell its operating systems at high profit margins without fear that people will wait until the price drops.
Without it, effectiveness drops to non-protective levels.
But adverse global conditions, however troubling, should not lead central bankers to neglect the risks of untested policies – above all the “helicopter drops” that many are now proposing.
Conceived in 1969 by Milton Friedman as part of a thought experiment – not an actual proposal – helicopter drops got their name from the fantastic vision of fresh money being scattered from a helicopter whirring overheard.
But the point of helicopter drops – or what former US Fed Chair Ben Bernanke recently called a “money-financed fiscal program” (MFFP) – is simply to distribute newly printed cash directly to consumers, such as through tax rebates.
Turner believes that Japan, in particular, would benefit from helicopter drops.
Core samples from the Greenland ice cap, for example, show occasional sudden drops in temperature.
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