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Moreover, growth forecasts are gloomy.
However, even the most pessimistic forecasts from the UN project that by 2100 the average person in developing countries will be richer than the average person in developed countries is now.
But even if the Fed does not admit it in its forecasts, the price of this “insurance policy” will almost certainly be higher inflation down the road, and perhaps for several years.
The US Federal Reserve Board’s published forecasts suggest only three quarter-point rate hikes this year, and futures markets have priced in just two such moves.
But whether the Fed tries to counteract it by raising interest rates more aggressively than its current forecasts imply, or decides to move cautiously, keeping short-term interest rates well behind the rising curve of price growth, bond investors will suffer.
But another factor has attracted little notice: systematically over-optimistic official forecasts.
Such forecasts underlie governments’ failure to take advantage of boom periods to strengthen their finances, including running budget surpluses.
These forecasts supported enactment of large long-term tax cuts and faster spending growth (both military and otherwise).
The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has perennially turned out optimistic budget forecasts.
For the quarter-century until 2009, the OMB’s three-year forecasts of economic growth were biased upward by a whopping 3.8%, on average.
But, in order to get buoyant budget forecasts out of the rival Congressional Budget Office, which is more independent than the OMB, a more extreme strategy was required.
Unrealistic macroeconomic assumptions, farfetched theories about tax cuts, and legislation that deliberately misrepresented policy plans all worked as intended, yielding overly optimistic forecasts, which in turn help to explain excessive budget deficits.
In particular, such forecasts explain the failure to run surpluses during the economic expansion from 2002-2007: if growth is projected to last indefinitely, retrenchment is deemed unnecessary.
In almost all industrialized countries, official forecasts have an upward bias, which is stronger at longer time horizons.
The result is that, unlike in most industrialized countries, Chile’s official forecasts of growth and fiscal performance have not been overly optimistic, even during economic booms.
And, as has happened repeatedly over the last decade, a few months into the year, others’ more optimistic forecasts are being revised downward.
By now, the disruption to trade appears extensive enough to factor negatively into forecasts for economic growth.
As the trade war broadens and deepens, however, economic-growth forecasts around the world are darkening.
The forecasts show US growth slowing from 2.9 % in 2018 to 2.1 % in 2020.
Goldman Sachs forecasts a base case (with the 10% tariff on the rest of Chinese imports taking effect early in the second quarter of 2019) in which the impact on US core inflation reaches 0.17% by June.
I am more pessimistic than institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, which anticipate Chinese growth in 2012 of 8.5-9% – forecasts that do not take into account the sharp cooling of China’s housing market.
Based on current policies, the government forecasts that Medicare spending per beneficiary will grow at an average annual rate of 4.3% and will rise to 6.7% of GDP over the next 75 years.
STANFORD – Economic forecasts for 2017 project continued frailty in the global economy, and subpar growth for most countries and regions.
Four Steps to US Fiscal HealthWASHINGTON, DC – The United States has a significant budget deficit, likely to be $1.3 trillion (10% of GDP) this year, and the long-term forecasts are worrying.
So judgment calls and best guesses are an inevitable part of “scientific” economic forecasts.
CAMBRIDGE – After nine dreary years of downgrading their GDP forecasts, macroeconomic policymakers around the world are shaking their heads in disbelief: Despite a populist-propelled wave of political tumult, global growth is actually set to outperform expectations in 2017.
The candidate (or incumbent) forecasts an increase in tax receipts, based on forecasts that national income will grow faster.
SANTIAGO – With the International Monetary Fund having just cut its forecasts for economic growth in Latin America for the fifth year in a row, the region’s countries are casting about for ways to reignite investment and boost productivity.
Indeed, the International Monetary Fund now forecasts sovereign-debt stabilization by 2016 throughout the eurozone, except Greece.
The International Monetary Fund’s latest forecasts bear this out.
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