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Nonetheless, like Warsh, Taylor has long believed that monetary conditions are excessively generous.
Trying to achieve 2% inflation in a context of such shocks, the BIS warns, would lead to excessively easy monetary policies, which would put upward pressure on prices of risk assets, and, ultimately, inflate dangerous bubbles.
A recent paper by MIT Professors Nittai Bergman and Derk Jenter suggests that management tends to award employee options when employees are excessively optimistic about the outlook for company stock – thereby in effect opportunistically substituting overpriced options for full pay.
Excessively low interest rates have generated a mismatch between housing prices and the available supply, because they serve as hidden subsidies for those who can borrow – for example, the rich and SOEs – and thus stimulate demand for luxury property.
Even the reduced global forecast of 3.4% GDP growth for this year is likely to prove excessively optimistic.
Unfortunately, it is more likely that investors’ outlook is excessively rosy.
But the default option in the context of political gridlock – a halting, slow-growth strategy, focused excessively on fiscal austerity and featuring high unemployment (especially for the young) – is unlikely to remain workable for long.
Given this, officials, investors, and business leaders in search of revolutionary ideas, cutting-edge solutions, and untapped talent should not allow turbulence in some societies, or tranquility in others, to influence their decisions excessively.
Economies hooked on this model find themselves excessively specialized in primary products that promise little productivity growth.
Moreover, rapid population growth and bungled economic policy have made Iran excessively dependent on food imports.
But, without institutional reforms, this round of privatization may look similar to the one conducted in the 1990s, with excessively low prices preventing the government from solving its fiscal problems or establishing the legitimacy of private property.
The laws of economics, they assert, ensure that in the long run there will be jobs for everyone who wants them, so long as government does not interfere in market processes by setting minimum wages or ensuring job security, or so long as unions don't drive up wages excessively.
The US Federal Reserve is sometimes blamed for the current mortgage crisis, because excessively loose monetary policy allegedly fueled the price boom that preceded it.
There is, however, scant evidence that the real problem holding back investment is excessively high wages (many corporations reduced overtime and benefit contributions, and even cut wages during the recession).
While wage inflation in the US is contained, global monetary policy is probably excessively loose – one reason that oil prices have taken off.
What is really needed is a top-to-bottom reexamination of the system, with an eye to changing excessively broad or stringent protections, aligning the rules with current realities, and enabling competition to drive innovation and technological diffusion.
One set of reforms to consider would focus on improving institutional processes, such as by ensuring that the litigation system does not favor patent holders excessively.
Of course, if regulators do decide to tailor patents to different types of innovations, they must take care not to complicate patent regimes excessively.
Countries that substitute government spending for market spending either generate inflationary budget deficits, or end up with excessively high tax rates that destroy incentives.
For example, many central banks followed the Federal Reserve’s excessively loose monetary policy.
It has depended, perhaps excessively, on American influence to balance its rivalries.
I have lost track of the number of US states that are suing the Obama administration over executive orders viewed as excessively “gay-friendly.”
In the longer term, the authorities must put in place stricter regulations to ensure that local-government infrastructure investments are sustainable and do not depend excessively on revenue from land sales.
Though the EU as a whole maintains a balanced energy mix, with supply divided relatively evenly among gas, coal, oil, renewables, and nuclear generation, individual countries are often excessively dependent on a single source and, more dangerously, a single supplier: Russia.
The only upbeat note was struck by someone who remarked that Davos consensus forecasts are almost always wrong, so perhaps this time it would prove excessively pessimistic.
But, as creed, clan, culture, climate, and currency cause the world to become increasingly alienated from the US-centric international order, such declarations may be excessively optimistic.
But trusting solely in a diplomatic dialogue and sanctions to bring about a lasting peace may be excessively optimistic.
But whether “Obamacare” succeeds in curbing excessively high health-care costs is not assured.
Credit terms worsened abruptly, and what was left was the thoroughly overpriced rump of economies that had become excessively dependent on foreign financing.
To be sure, behind the Union’s great schemes lurks another EU, one that is excessively bureaucratic.
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