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Earlier this year, the Congressional Budget Office warned that the potential US growth rate has declined as a result of years of subpar investment rates, the aging of the population, and smaller productivity gains.
McKinsey estimates that big-data analytics could add about $325 billion, or 1.7% to annual GDP in the retail and manufacturing sectors, while generating up to $285 billion in productivity gains and cost savings in health care and government by 2020.
Abolition of taxes on realized capital gains increased the sales of shares enormously.
These gains, more than a third of which can be realized in the US alone, would be enough to meet half the world’s current infrastructure needs.
Otherwise, the remarkable gains made in improving global health in the last 25 years will be overwhelmed by a rising tide of people who suffer and die from chronic diseases that we know how to prevent and treat.
Indeed, after sucking resources and money from Russia and its citizens, Putin and his obedient oligarchs have been allowed to invest their ill-gotten gains in European and US banks and real estate, paying fat fees that have fueled profit growth for Western firms.
Techno-optimists, such as the McKinsey authors, look at such numbers as an opportunity: There remain vast productivity gains to be had from the adoption of new technologies in the lagging sectors.
Peasants could be transformed into factory workers virtually overnight, implying significant productivity gains for the economy.
Wolf recently excoriated the world’s big banks as an industry with an extraordinary “talent for privatising gains and socialising losses... [and] get[ting]... self-righteously angry when public officials... fail to come at once to their rescue when they get into (well-deserved) trouble....[T]he conflicts of interest created by large financial institutions are far harder to manage than in any other industry.”
Even if gains were much lower, it is clear that this would be a sound investment in the region’s future.
But such modest gains are more than offset by the security setbacks that China has suffered as a result of its assertiveness in regional territorial disputes.
Perhaps ordinary citizens always knew that when they sold houses for real gains, ultimately they were profiting at someone else’s expense.
Instead, they are gradually increasing their spending, taking advantage of restored income growth and large gains in purchasing power caused by collapsing oil and commodity prices.
In 2005, colleagues of ours at the RAND Corporation projected that America could save more than $80 billion a year if health care could replicate the IT-driven productivity gains observed in other industries.
If America is any indicator, the sky is the limit when it comes to potential gains from health IT.
By contrast, the Chinese markets are dominated by retail investors, who are more likely to pursue short-term gains and engage in momentum trading, thereby exacerbating volatility and creating a greater disconnect between equity prices and real economic growth.
But once unification has happened, the pain of dismantling the political and economic settlement usually overwhelms the apparent gains from a break-up.
But as long as China takes a purely tactical approach, it will reap purely tactical gains.
When it comes to building friendships that can withstand strategic conflict with the US, those gains will not be nearly enough.
There is only one main way that the necessary productivity and outcome gains can be achieved: excess demand in the public sector must be shifted elsewhere.
This is a tragedy in the making, because the gains available from what has already been agreed upon in the negotiations are considerable, and would provide a major boost to the global economy.
Private investors are then granted significant tax incentives to reinvest their unrealized capital gains into OZs through “Opportunity Funds.”
These include a temporary tax deferral on unrealized capital gains; a step-up in basis on the capital gains earned and reinvested in such funds; and a permanent exclusion from taxes on capital gains earned on fund investments held for ten years or more.
A recent Brookings Institution report estimates that, “Individuals in a high-tax state and with short-term capital gains can avoid $7.50 in taxes for each $100 they invest, even before considering any return on their Zone investments.”
States and territories will also need to bring their tax systems into line with federal law, especially if they are currently taxing capital gains as ordinary income, as California does.
I was swayed by talk of friends and elders about how once a girl undergoes “the cut,” she gains respect and grown men consider her suitable for marriage.
Regardless of how fast GDP grows, an economic system that fails to deliver gains for most of its citizens, and in which a rising share of the population faces increasing insecurity, is, in a fundamental sense, a failed economic system.
In the 1990’s, in the run-up to joining the eurozone, Greece achieved substantial gains on this front.
Many economists subscribe to the view that central banks can generate output and employment gains through expansionary monetary policy only if they are able to produce surprise inflation in the short run.
Several factors underpin the recent dramatic gains in survival at older ages.
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