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That intellectual question leads directly to a practical one: Will the ECB ever be able to translate quantitative easing into stronger economic growth and higher inflation?
This strategy is unlikely to work in the eurozone, because the unemployment rate is still nearly 12%, about five percentage points higher than it was before the recession began.
The ECB’s quantitative easing policy can probably achieve higher inflation only through the increase in import prices resulting from a decline in the value of the euro.
Its first sentence read: "How genes might specify the complex structures found in higher organisms is a major unsolved problem of biology."
Thus, they run the risk that a spike in interest rates would feed back relatively quickly into higher borrowing costs.
In the second mode, asset prices fall because investors recognize that they should never have been as high as they were, or that future productivity growth is likely to be lower and interest rates higher.
But the Fed has shifted over the past two months toward policies aimed at a second-mode crisis – more significant monetary loosening, despite the risks of higher inflation, extra moral hazard, and unjust redistribution.
Multiple higher courts were too difficult to maintain, so a single court replaced them.
The media understandably tend to focus on the latter – like the much higher sea-level rise predictions compared to the previous IPCC report of 2007.
CO2 levels are already far higher than they have been in a million years, as ancient air bubbles trapped in the Antarctic ice show.
Startups anywhere contribute to job creation, competitiveness, higher productivity, and economic growth, while helping to reduce poverty and fight climate change.
That triggers one of those great bursts of laughter that, as I noticed in Boston, raise her high cheekbones still higher.
Saddled with an economic contraction of 8% of GDP, higher than any other Latin American country, Mexico is also slipping in the global competitiveness index, lags behind in key social indicators, is being downgraded by investment ratings agencies, and faces the prospect of declining oil revenues, owing to a dramatic drop in production.
The problem is that most of China’s NPLs are off-balance-sheet loans, so the NPL ratio may be much higher – and China’s financial sector much riskier – than anyone realizes.
Indeed, ECB President Mario Draghi has advocated higher spending by more fiscally strong countries like Germany.
Americans wanted additional demand for their goods and higher prices, while the Germans and Japanese defended their export industries.
Professor Claudia Kemfert of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) argues that spending $14 billion to $30 billion to reduce methane would create benefits – from the reduction in warming – between 1.4 and three times higher.
Before Obamacare, hospitals would simply pass the higher costs of treating them on to other patients.
EDINBURGH – People with higher intelligence test scores in childhood and early adulthood tend to live longer.
Parents’ occupations are also related to their child’s intelligence and later risk of illness: children from more privileged backgrounds tend to have higher intelligence and better health, and to live longer.
However, there is no convincing evidence that parental background explains the link between higher intelligence and longer life.
People who react faster have, on average, higher intelligence scores and live longer.
Therefore, the reason that intelligence and death are linked might be that people with higher intelligence in childhood make better decisions about health, and have healthier behaviors.
A fourth type of explanation is that people with higher intelligence in childhood tend to attain better educational qualifications, work in more professional jobs, have higher incomes, and live in more affluent areas.
So, perhaps that’s it: higher intelligence buys people into safer and more health-friendly environments.
If the growth trend is one percentage point lower – a distinct possibility in an era of protracted consumption weakness – budget deficits would be a significantly higher.
Moreover, unemployment and poverty rates are higher in Nigeria’s north than in other parts of the country.
Alternatively – and more likely – the data may not include some projects, lenders, or borrowers, meaning that the debts could be much higher.
(If Romania and Moldova were included the figures would be slightly higher).
A Weaker Euro for a Stronger EuropeCAMBRIDGE – Despite the recent upturn in some of its member countries, the eurozone’s economy remains in the doldrums, with the overall rate of annual GDP growth this year likely to be only slightly higher than 1%.
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