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Some developing and postcommunist countries censor the Internet by
excess
taxation and/or by limiting access.
But, whether caused by an
excess
of cable television, or an
excess
of debates themselves, this “silly season” has seemed especially prolonged, even frightening.
When the US again shows signs of falling prey to financial excess, it will not receive as much foreign funding as freely as it has in the past.
Recent IMF research suggests that, given
excess
capacity, governments would probably benefit from substantial short-run multipliers.
In 2014, the services share of Chinese GDP hit 48.2%, well in
excess
of the combined 42.6% share of manufacturing and construction.
Greece will need to reduce its debt ratio considerably before it can return to the capital markets, which implies – even under an optimistic scenario – creating a primary surplus in
excess
of eight percentage points of GDP.
The
excess
liquidity spawned by the Fed’s balance-sheet expansion not only spilled over into equity markets, but also provided support for the bond market.
By conflating QE-induced wealth effects with the effects on borrowing costs that arise through conventional channels, Bernanke conveniently sweeps aside most of the risks described above – especially those pertaining to asset bubbles and
excess
leverage.
A survey of the cost of grooming a poodle in the Greater Boston Area conducted by Harvard's Kennedy School of Government revealed price differences in
excess
of 100%.
In 2003, all three large eurozone countries (France, Germany, and Italy) were running deficits in
excess
of 3% of GDP, the upper limit established by the SGP.
But the scale of
excess
is nonetheless staggering.
Moreover, the overhang of
excess
capital that accumulated during the crazy high-tech boom of the 1990's has now been mostly worked out.
Now only a few sectors suffer from
excess
capital accumulation.
Offshore systems harness the forces of the ocean, by using deeper waters and stronger currents to funnel
excess
nutrients and waste away from sensitive coastal ecosystems.
Given the huge gap, the US will have to grow in
excess
of its long run potential in order to get back to utilizing its resources fully.
Furthermore,
excess
savings could be more than just a cyclical phenomenon.
Likewise, the emphasis on markets’ “decisive role” in upgrading China’s industrial structure and eliminating
excess
capacity is compatible with the Third Plenum’s goal of achieving a market-based shift to a consumer society.
But, whereas America’s problem in the world today is that domestic pressures sometimes lead to an
excess
of fortitude, China’s problem is that similarly constraining pressures produce foreign-policy weakness.
It would have been far better if debts had never been allowed to grow to excess, if Greece had not joined the eurozone on fraudulent terms, and if Japan had deployed sufficiently aggressive policy to stimulate growth and inflation 20 years ago.
The extra $2 billion that it will have to pay in ten years is the compensation that investors demand for the likelihood of default, in
excess
of the already hefty coupon.
Within national income accounts, trade deficits represent the
excess
of a country’s consumption over production.
Japan is a country with a structural trade surplus – ie, exports are likely to remain above imports on a sustained basis because Japan’s trade surplus results from an
excess
of national saving over investment.
With Japan’s high saving rate (a function of Japan’s aging population) and with investments held down by rates of return that diminished as Japan invested heavily during the postwar period, Japan’s
excess
savings naturally sought outlets abroad.
While bureaucratic excess, entrenched corruption, and other inefficiencies beg remedy, the real challenge before India is its allegiance to a twentieth-century vision of modernity.
At the UN, the goal should be to turn the mantra of “access, not excess” into a reality, with an agreement to reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics in agriculture, and to spearhead a global awareness campaign.
The
excess
was mopped up through statutory reserve requirements amounting to as much as 20% of bank deposits.
China cannot complete its transformation from an export-led economy to one driven by domestic consumption and services unless value creation through innovation exceeds value destruction from
excess
capacity.
Realistically assessed, the full downside legal risks to financial institutions are in
excess
of $1 trillion – particularly if it can be demonstrated that the “mortgage-backed securities” sold to investors were not backed by mortgages at all, because the proper legal paperwork was never done.
This implies that the pre-crisis level of GDP simply was not sustainable, as it required capital inflows in
excess
of 20% of GDP to finance outsize consumption and construction booms.
Such proposed solutions assume that regulators will be able to identify
excess
risks, prevent banks from manipulating the regulations, resist political pressure to leave the banks alone, and impose controversial corrective measures “that will be too complicated to defend in public.”
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