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In the US, the
expansion
of home ownership – a key element of the American dream – to low- and middle-income households was the defensible linchpin for the broader aims of expanding credit and consumption.
This is not, of course, the first time in history that credit
expansion
has been used to assuage the concerns of a group that is being left behind, nor will it be the last.
The deregulation and rapid
expansion
of banking in the US in the early years of the twentieth century was in many ways a response to the Populist movement, backed by small and medium-sized farmers who found themselves falling behind the growing numbers of industrial workers, and demanded easier credit.
Governor Mervyn King of the Bank of England once called it the NICE decade (No Inflation, Continuing Expansion) – a time when the economy reached the promised land of high growth and price stability.
Little wonder, then, that the Commission has issued a warning that crisis-related fiscal
expansion
and the aging population raise questions about the sustainability of public finances in the EU.
These past 13 years have been fair-to-middling for the country: mediocre economic growth, but no collapse; democratic rotation in power, with no uprisings or massacres; a slow but steady
expansion
of the middle class; and a slow but steady drop in corruption.
Addressing them successfully would allow the country to generate the savings needed to meet its huge looming public-investment requirements:
expansion
of productive infrastructure (roads, ports, and airports) in order to remove severe bottlenecks to faster non-inflationary growth; unprecedentedly large planned investment in oil exploration and electricity generation; and forthcoming international sporting events (the World Cup and the Olympic Games) that Brazil will host in the next few years.
And yet, by invading Iraq in 2003, the US under Bush gave Iran its greatest historical opportunity for westward
expansion.
Since 1964, two key forces have fueled exceptionally fast GDP growth: the
expansion
of the labor supply, driven by rapid increases in population, and steady productivity gains.
Cancer epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat identifies several factors, including “the success of the environmental movement; a deep-seated distrust of industry; the public’s insatiable appetite for stories related to health, which the media duly cater to; and – not least – the striking
expansion
of the fields of epidemiology and environmental health sciences and their burgeoning literature.”
Some favor a permanent
expansion
of the East Asian Summit.
The next wave of NATO
expansion
promises to lap onto Russia's border and indeed surpass the old Soviet borders by taking in the Baltic states.
This fantasy, derived, no doubt, from American history – from westward
expansion
and Manifest Destiny, from the Gold Rush and a settlement policy that valorized staking a claim to the wilderness and subduing it – is powerfully appealing to men in general, and to many women as well.
After pointing to soaring credit growth in most South American countries (in Brazil, growth in mortgage lending exceeded 40% during 2010, more than tripling the stock of credit outstanding in 2007), the Fund concluded that “the current
expansion
does not yet rise to the level of a credit boom,” though “it would if the
expansion
were sustained for a prolonged period.”
Once upon a time in Latin America, fiscal policies were extremely pro-cyclical: whenever commodity prices fell, governments lost access to capital markets, so they had to eliminate their deficits just when conditions called for fiscal
expansion.
The resulting monetary
expansion
in the second half of the 1980’s fueled Japan’s massive asset-price bubble, the collapse of which seemed to lead directly to the country’s “lost decade” of stagnation.
Meanwhile, the US dollar is strengthening in anticipation of Trump’s fiscal
expansion.
Of course, given the role that the continual
expansion
of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine has played in hampering progress toward peace, it merits a more thorough and sober examination by all relevant parties – especially Israel.
Saudi Arabia’s Phony War on TerrorBERLIN – Containing the scourge of Islamist terror will be impossible without containing the ideology that drives it: Wahhabism, a messianic, jihad-extolling form of Sunni fundamentalism whose international
expansion
has been bankrolled by oil-rich sheikhdoms, especially Saudi Arabia.
Unless the
expansion
of dangerous ideologies like Wahhabism is stopped, the global war on terror, now almost a generation old, will never be won.
The precise impact of Asia’s IP
expansion
is impossible to predict.
In particular, three changes are necessary: the relaxation of the 1% rule, the
expansion
of eligibility criteria to include more than just reforestation, and the removal of the 60-year replacement rule (which mandates the replacement of temporary with permanent credits after 60 years, regardless of the state of the underlying forests).
A century ago, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Angell argued in The Great Illusion that economic security enables military expansion, not vice versa.
In good times, when firms want to expand, it is the hiring costs that bind, and making it easier to fire workers will remove a key impediment to investment and capacity
expansion.
The European Central Bank has just started a €1.1 trillion ($1.17 trillion) bond-purchase program to bypass the German veto on fiscal
expansion.
The 5% figure is grossly misleading, with surrounding areas taken or earmarked for expansion, roadways joining settlements with each other and to Jerusalem, and wide arterial swaths providing water, sewage, electricity, and communications.
During his presidency, Dmitri Medvedev pledged to reverse the mid-2000s
expansion
of state-owned companies and privatize all “non-strategic” firms.
Instead, we should map out a forward-looking plan based on reasonable assumptions about the primary surpluses consistent with the rates of output growth, net investment, and export
expansion
that can stabilize Greece’s economy and debt ratio.
Nowadays, we are witnessing the application of Sun’s ideas in Africa, where China’s prime objectives are to secure energy and mineral supplies to fuel its breakneck economic expansion, open up new markets, curtail Taiwan’s influence on the continent, consolidate its burgeoning global authority, and clinch for themselves African-allocated export quotas.
First, the
expansion
of GVCs seems to have ground to a halt in recent years.
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