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Likewise, on the national level, pro-growth economic-reform initiatives – which seem to have lost some urgency in the face of overly complacent and
excessively
accommodating financial markets – need to be revitalized.
But a rising euro – pushed higher by
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early monetary tightening by the ECB – implies more real appreciation, further undermining competitiveness.
The result is
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high financing costs, which have made it impossible for firms in many manufacturing industries to maintain marginal profitability.
If
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high real interest rates are undermining the domestic demand that China needs to reverse the economic slowdown, one naturally wonders why the government does not take steps to lower them.
But policymakers must recognize the damage being done by
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high real interest rates.
But, for the Fed, it is, in the sense that
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easy monetary policy can no longer achieve a sustained increase in employment.
At the same time, integration into the wider European and global economy has no doubt contributed to
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fast expansion in private-sector and foreign-currency debt, which has complicated the crisis in many countries.
By contrast, an increase in the price of an asset like a stock raises expectations of a further increase, causing demand to rise, potentially to
excessively
high levels.
In Japan, an
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front-loaded consumption-tax increase killed the recovery achieved this year.
But it has become increasingly clear that
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strong or badly formulated intellectual property rights may actually impede innovation – and not just by increasing the price of research.
And it would be a catastrophe if the recovery were derailed by excessive devotion to anti-inflation shibboleths, much as some central banks were
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devoted to the gold standard during the 1920’s and 1930’s.
This failure was reflected in the Armistice itself, which imposed
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harsh requirements on Germany, including billions of dollars in reparations payments, due at a time when the country faced a deep economic crisis.
But the mutualisation of debt gave rise to huge moral hazard effects, inducing the states to borrow
excessively.
Even when compared to Singapore – traditionally dismissed by Hong Kong residents as an
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taxed authoritarian city-state, compared to their own low-tax laissez-faire economy – Hong Kong comes up short.
But much of the rise is not justified, as it is driven by
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optimistic expectations of a rapid recovery of growth towards its potential level, and by a liquidity bubble that is raising oil prices and equities too fast too soon.
Even where GE crops are being cultivated, unscientific,
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burdensome regulation has raised the cost of producing new plant varieties significantly, keeping many potentially important ones from the market.
Moon’s government can also contribute to private-sector job creation by easing regulations, helping small- and medium-size businesses to thrive, and ensuring a flexible labor market, in which full-time employment is not
excessively
protected and performance-based wage increases are applied.
But will rapid development exact an
excessively
high toll on human rights?
To this end, governments must abandon their outdated assumption that tapping unconventional water sources would be technically impractical or
excessively
costly.
With deposit insurance, clients who no longer risk losing their money have no incentive to monitor their bank, while banks, with no one watching, have incentives to invest in
excessively
risky projects.
The BIS maintains that
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low interest rates are a big reason why growth is disappointing.
So far, it is odd to claim that advanced countries have stimulated demand
excessively.
Because the unemployment rate is not
excessively
high, this might seem like a good thing.
But counting on this investment may be
excessively
optimistic.
The entire French political class has long delighted in taxing labor to finance the country’s generous welfare provisions, thus avoiding
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high taxation of individuals’ income and consumption – though that is about to come to an end as Hollande intends to slap a 75% tax on incomes above €1 million.
Artificially low exchange rates, restrictions on capital flows, and
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large currency reserves all create global imbalances.
But, even if managers and boards at publicly traded firms focus
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on their quarterly results, and even if median stock-holding periods have shortened greatly in recent decades, it is difficult to know whether stock-market trading has become more rapid in ways that would make managers pay even more attention to quarterly results.
It was obvious that the lending channels in the banking system had become dysfunctional;
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restrictive borrowing conditions were suppressing demand.
But, as Argentina’s situation demonstrates,
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sharp and sudden appreciation of such a systemically important currency risks unbalancing things elsewhere.
The same applies to corporate firms: some have bad luck and their business plans fail, while others borrow too much to pay their mediocre managers
excessively.
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