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The overall unemployment rate (12%) has yet to peak, led by an alarming lack of jobs among the young (24% joblessness in the eurozone as a whole, with highs of 59% and 56% in Greece and Spain, respectively).
The stock market is hitting record highs.
Real-estate and other asset prices are at record highs in much of the world.
Don't Write off The New Economy as DeadCAMBRIDGE: Until recently America's booming New Economy reigned supreme: no inflation to speak of, stocks at all time highs, four years at over 4% growth, full employment, and budget surpluses.
Food prices, too, are at historical highs, contributing to poverty and political unrest.
Such is the urgency of healthcare reform in Germany today that her government’s poll numbers dropped to new lows even as World Cup football boosted Germany’s image in the international community to new highs.
Oil prices are at historic highs.
Major stock-market indices hit record highs in September, in the United States and elsewhere, and equity prices are high relative to benchmarks like earnings and dividends.
Most obvious, housing prices in the United Kingdom and the US were at record highs relative to benchmarks like rent, raising the risk of a collapse.
It seems that this thinking is heavily influenced by recent record highs in stock markets, even if these levels are practically meaningless, given inflation.
Corporate profits may be near all-time highs, but their variance among firms and industries has also increased significantly.
Is there a risk that rising oil prices – already reaching all-time highs – will cause further debt defaults worldwide?
With America bogged down in Iraq and oil prices hitting record highs, regime hardliners see little reason to compromise these days.
In fact, the Dow had already hit nine record highs before the election, when Hillary Clinton was projected to win.
Many other rich countries’ debt levels are also uncomfortably close to 150-year highs, despite relative peace in much of the world.
This will place even greater pressure on interest-rate differentials, already at historical highs, and fuel exchange-rate volatility.
The Stock-Bond DisconnectCAMBRIDGE – How should one understand the disconnect between the new highs reached by global equity indices and the new depths plumbed by real interest rates worldwide?
With fears mounting that one or another euro-zone country may default, yield spreads on government bonds between EMU countries have reached record highs.
Indeed, with profitability at or near record levels, cash holdings by the corporate sector in the United States have piled up quarter after quarter, reaching all-time highs – and earning very little at today’s near-zero interest rates.
And eurozone unemployment is at record highs, with nearly one in two young people jobless in Spain and Greece.
Although index readings have eased since the start of 2018, they remain close to 30-year highs.
On the contrary, polling data show that Americans’ concern with global warming is now at or near all-time highs.
While profits have bounced back in many sectors, investment remains weak, owing to a combination of cash hoarding and increasing financialization, with share buybacks – to boost stock prices and hence stock options – also at record highs.
Excesses can always return; indeed, equity and real-estate markets in some advanced economies are rising to new highs, despite mediocre growth prospects.
The Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq composite index have all reached record highs lately, with emerging-economy financial markets also performing strongly, as investors search for stability amid widespread uncertainty.
After the US Federal Reserved revealed its decision last month to leave interest rates unchanged, the Dow Jones industrial average set intraday and closing records; the Nasdaq, too, reached all-time highs.
Yet internet stocks recovered from a short dip; some soon rose to new highs.
But, whereas metal prices have fallen, oil prices are reaching record highs.
Risk spreads have declined from their mid-crisis highs, but credit in many sectors remains tight or barely available, while the financial sector is set to become more conservative – and is likely to be re-regulated with higher capital, reserve, and margin requirements.
But the same sort of thing happened regularly in the Great Depression: the news media were constantly reporting record highs for one economic indicator or another.
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