Expansion
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For example, the M5S/League coalition suggested that it might issue a parallel currency, which lent further credibility to its threat of pursuing fiscal
expansion
in defiance of EU rules.
Since 2008, the US Federal Reserve has maintained zero interest rates, while pursuing multiple waves of unprecedented balance-sheet
expansion
through large-scale bond purchases.
Nor should anyone expect a moratorium on settlement
expansion.
For example, he points to the
expansion
– both geographic and substantive – of protections for individual and collective rights, as well as an overall reduction in violence.
Now, free-trade agreements are being negotiated – namely, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – that will undermine the continued
expansion
of Chinese exports to the extent that they raise entry barriers for Chinese firms.
The recent market turmoil has started the deflation of the global asset bubble wrought by QE, though the
expansion
of unconventional monetary policies may feed it for a while longer.
The US Federal Reserve, the US Treasury, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and other public financial regulatory entities are being pushed toward a further
expansion
of their roles.
Because internationally competitive firms are seen to benefit the country’s economy, governments – especially in developed countries, but increasingly also in emerging markets – support both state-controlled and private firms in FDI-driven foreign
expansion.
For example, the University of Chicago’s Amir Sufi and Princeton’s Atif Mian argue that credit
expansion
leads to nasty recessions, which emerge as soon as households, for whatever reason, lose access to the financing they need to roll over their debts.
European households almost everywhere became more indebted, but the impact of this credit
expansion
on private consumption was fundamentally different in the EU’s core countries, where current-account surpluses grew, and in the periphery, where countries accumulated deficits.
The pattern also includes an exuberant
expansion
of government spending, which can result in bloated public payrolls and large infrastructure projects, both of which are found to be unsustainable when oil prices fall.
The 1990’s concept of a “European Defense Identity” within NATO proved to be unviable – and since then
expansion
of the alliance and proliferation of NATO “partners” has made the idea of a special collective role for EU members all the more improbable.
The rapid progress that is needed will require major reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, achieved through increased investment in the development and
expansion
of cleaner and more efficient energy.
In January 2010, despite strict “administrative control” of financial credit lines (the PBC actually imposed credit ceilings on commercial banks), bank lending grew at an annual rate of 29%, on top of already strong
expansion
in the same period a year earlier.
Moreover, roughly 40% of the increase in bank credit in 2009 accommodated the fiscal expansion, as projects were started prior to the budget allocations needed to finance them.
Moreover, since the 1990’s, output growth in the EU has been primarily driven by
expansion
of services.
Traffic-clogged cities need better public transportation, and financing the
expansion
of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems is a proven way to reduce congestion, emissions, and commuting costs.
Moreover, these services are set to benefit from the broader trade
expansion
with China, potentially establishing a virtuous circle of investment and exports.
No period of
expansion
in the US has ever just fizzled out.
The answer, obviously, is recovery and
expansion.
Back then, the Soviet Union’s vast natural resources, industrial and military expansion, and state-controlled economy caused many economists to overestimate its leaders’ ability to manage risks.
And it is precisely this "irrational exuberance" (to borrow an expression used by Chairman Alan Greenspan of the Federal Reserve Board, when he reported to the American Congress last year) that in time could bring this phase of American economic
expansion
to an end.
It is also true that Latin American countries have pursued a massive
expansion
of economic ties beyond America’s sway.
China also views Burma as vital to its quest for security, as well as to the regional
expansion
of Chinese power.
As the late political scientist Samuel Huntington put it more than 40 years ago, “social and economic change – urbanization, increases in literacy and education, industrialization, mass media
expansion
– extend political consciousness, multiply political demands, broaden political participation.”
A combination of financial-sector recapitalization and rapid
expansion
of the Fed’s balance sheet prevented a complete credit lockup.
When smaller economies gain access to a much larger market, trade volumes expand and wages rise, with a small part of the trade
expansion
diverted from other countries (one of Russia’s concerns).
Evangelicalism is the fastest-growing world religion by conversion – a trend that underlies the strong
expansion
of Protestantism in traditionally Roman Catholic Latin America.
According to the International Monetary Fund, competitive devaluation occurs when countries are “manipulating exchange rates…to gain an unfair competitive advantage over other members…” But a key point is often missed when the term “currency wars” has been applied to monetary
expansion
by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan, and other central banks in recent years.
The impact of monetary stimulus on a country’s trade balance – and hence on demand for trading partners’ goods – is ambiguous: the expenditure-switching effect when the exchange rate responds is counteracted by the expenditure-increasing effect of
expansion.
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