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Record levels of military expenditures are the only major source of expansion, and while such expenditures may be necessary and do stimulate the economy in the short run, they do not enhance its long-term competitiveness and strength.
In 2011, for example, the BRSA adopted a loan-to-value regulation on mortgages in order to limit rapid credit
expansion
stemming from growth in consumer loans.
Many countries now have over-heated property and equity markets; in the US, the S&P 500 index since 2009 has closely tracked the
expansion
of the Fed’s balance sheet.
Aggressive
expansion
of proven low-cost, high-impact micro-irrigation techniques would do more to help small-scale farmers.
India’s defense spending will hit a new record of $26.5 billion as the world’s fourth-largest military embarks on an aggressive drive to modernize its capabilities in the face of the deteriorating situation in Pakistan and China’s military
expansion.
Moreover, the rich countries can expect a massive
expansion
in the proportion of elderly people in their populations, owing to increased longevity, continued low fertility, and the progression of baby-boom cohorts through the population pyramid.
But the rapid
expansion
of credit brought about by foreign financial intermediaries using various channels (including direct lending, lending via banking subsidiaries, and lending via leasing subsidiaries) has fueled asset booms and heightened exposure to foreign-exchange risk.
It would allow host countries to impose restrictions on credit expansion, regardless of how a financial institution chooses to channel capital to its market, and would strengthen host countries’ rights to request information from home-country regulators.
All these features have been present in the current economic
expansion.
Prior to 1980, manufacturing employment increased during every
expansion
and always exceeded the previous peak level.
This time, manufacturing employment has actually fallen during the expansion, something unprecedented in American history.
Low interest rates eventually jump-started the
expansion
through a house price bubble that supported a debt-financed consumer-spending binge and triggered a construction boom.
However, in the Fed’s defense, low interest rates were needed to maintain the
expansion.
But Reagan’s 1986 reform prioritized working families over corporations, such as through the
expansion
of the Earned Income Tax Credit.
The
expansion
of military alliances, such as NATO, would be declared a threatening measure.
The first reason for this is that stock-market busts can be triggered by interest-rate increases, which are often a response to economic
expansion.
But, if more risk builds up through continued
expansion
of shadow credit, this risk buffer may become inadequate.
Its pace of
expansion
may not reach the double-digit rates of recent years, but China in 2010 will probably grow more rapidly than any country in Europe or in the western hemisphere.
That lack of spillover will reflect the recovery’s focus on
expansion
of domestic demand.
Continued fiscal
expansion
is certainly not the answer, as it ultimately damages both private spending and business investment.
It is all too easy to find examples of countries that subsequently suffered badly because of sustained fiscal
expansion.
Despite rhetoric about “inclusive growth,” India’s wealth gap has widened during the years of exceptionally rapid economic
expansion.
That agreement could generate momentum for further
expansion
and deepening of intra-regional trade.
This link is particularly obvious in developing countries, where economic
expansion
and rising incomes are preconditions for poverty reduction and improvements in health and education.
That means a constant and resolute effort to stop the caliphate’s expansion, cut off its sources of finance, deepen and expand intelligence cooperation among credible allies, end the oil-rich monarchies’ collusion with terrorist groups, and encourage reform (without engaging in grand state-building projects).
Today, the rapid
expansion
of Chinese financial institutions’ balance sheets – which grew by 92% from 2007 to 2011, alongside 78% nominal GDP growth – is fueling predictions that the country will soon experience its own subprime meltdown.
But her core problem remains that of promoting domestic economic
expansion
and achieving accord on a self-sustaining European strategy.
Germany is, of course, no advocate of an Anglo-Saxon growth model that requires monetary
expansion
and inflation.
Experts have always underestimated the expansionary character of American foreign policy, because they think of
expansion
in old-world terms: conquest, imperialism, and colonialism.
Given that services are a significant source of incremental employment, their expansion, in particular, would help to sustain inclusive growth.
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