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The internal market’s four pillars – the free movement of goods, services, capital, and people – have underpinned broader EU measures, in areas like foreign policy and justice and home affairs, and will now be subsumed under new policy labels, from economy and financial affairs to the digital agenda.
Faced with higher import prices, consumers will shift their spending toward domestic
goods.
It will take time to reallocate resources toward the production of traded
goods.
True, in recent years, commodities have become more like assets and less like
goods.
Economically, border controls act just like taxes; they distort activity, by increasing transaction costs and reducing cross-border flows of
goods
and services.
As China becomes an even greater economic power, it will become increasingly dependent on shipping routes for its imports of energy, other inputs, and
goods.
The exact amount depends on how rapidly Americans re-direct their spending from imports to domestically-produced goods, and how much of an expected recovery in the dollar's exchange rate is needed to persuade investors to hold US assets while the spending switchover takes place.
Dollar devaluation will only secondarily affect Americans who consume imported
goods
or who work in businesses that distribute imports to consumers.
Meanwhile, the trade surplus is rising again, in part because China is dumping its excess supply of
goods
– such as steel – in global markets.
One government minister at the CDF noted that the one million Chinese tourists who went abroad last year used their credit cards to buy about $1 billion worth of
goods
that they cannot obtain at home (while noting the irony that some of those European and American branded
goods
are actually manufactured in China).
In the case of a tariff, for example, lower demand from the larger economy will tend to push down the prices of the
goods
that it imports.
The smaller economy is unlikely to have enough of an impact on overall demand for the
goods
it imports, and thus on their prices.
In order to regain competitiveness, the southern countries will have to reduce their
goods
prices, while the northern countries will have to accept higher inflation.
Long-term security depends on a government’s willingness to provide adequate public
goods
and services.
Here, the rule should be: deem something essential only if the EU's four freedoms - free movement of goods, services, people and capital - will be seriously impaired without such a designation.
This implies that public
goods
of a limited dimension in space should be provided on the local or regional level, those of a larger size should be supplied on the national level and that Europe-wide public
goods
be dealt with on the European level.
The dominance of processing trade in China – the import of raw materials and components and the export of finished
goods
– makes the effectiveness of devaluation even more dubious.
Citizens in a democracy would never allow their government to have an automatic right of forced entry into their homes on the off-chance of finding stolen goods, so why should the state have an automatic right of forced entry into bank accounts on the off-chance of finding a few tax evaders or criminals?
Some 90% of the refinancing debt that the commercial banks of the GIPS countries (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain) hold with their respective national central banks served to purchase a net inflow of
goods
and assets from other eurozone countries.
As more of China’s oil imports come to be priced in its domestic currency, foreign suppliers will have more renminbi-denominated accounts with which they can purchase not only Chinese
goods
and services, but also Chinese government securities and bonds.
Steel comprises a relatively homogeneous class of
goods.
If the value of money goes up (prices fall), the interest he pays will cost him more, in terms of
goods
and services he can buy, than if prices had stayed the same.
Fundamentally, GDP is a materialistic concept: higher production is the sole imperative; the more
goods
produced and services rendered, the better.
Consequently, policymakers deliberately changed national income to gross national product, which merely showed the total dollar value of
goods
produced.
National income and GNP were numerically identical – overall income generated is, by definition, equal to the value of
goods
produced.
In wartime, it may be reasonable to concentrate on the production of
goods
needed to win.
But in peacetime, he pointed out, production of
goods
was just a means to a higher end: the take-home income generated and available to the people.
Not only have they enabled investors to avoid paying for their poor decisions; they have also given overpriced southern European countries the opportunity to defer real depreciation in the form of a reduction of relative prices of
goods.
This would offer southern European countries a way out of their competitiveness trap, because if prices remained unchanged in the south, while the northern countries inflated, the southern countries could gradually reduce their goods’ relative prices without feeling too much pain.
Removing them would increase consumption of all goods, including imports.
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