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Similarly, environmentalists boast that households in the United Kingdom have reduced their electricity consumption by almost 10% since 2005.
Some 17% of households are now energy poor – that is, they have to spend more than 10% of their income on energy; and, because elderly people are typically poorer, about a quarter of their households are energy poor.
In Germany, where green subsidies will cost €23.6 billion this year, household electricity prices have increased by 80% since 2000, causing 6.9 million households to live in energy poverty.
Redistributive measures go quite well with stimulus policies, because they may be expected to increase aggregate demand in the short term (owing to lower-income households’ higher propensity to consume) and minimize the economy’s dependence on debt financing in the long term.
Studies show that when life expectancy is low, so too are many kinds of investments in the future, such as school attendance, personal saving by households, and foreign investments.
Labor force participation is lower - and a substantial part of that lower labor force participation is not the result of untrammeled choice but of discouraged workers and institutions that make it very difficult for households that have every adult at work.
Indeed, by the end of 2007, more than 26.5 million rural households were using household biogas digesters, thereby avoiding CO2 emissions by 44 million tons.
There have been boom times for the very wealthy, such as the Gilded Age in the late nineteenth century, when 2% of American households owned more than a third of the country’s wealth, or indeed our own time, when the top 1% owns almost half the wealth.
While American households have reduced their debt considerably (mainly through mortgage defaults), household debt in many other countries has continued to grow rapidly.
As the Great Recession grimly illustrated, when a period of soaring real-estate valuations and rising household debt is followed by a period of falling prices, and households attempt to deleverage, the results can be catastrophic.
Asian households put money in the banks which was then lent to Asia’s enterprises.
Unfortunately, foreign bankers were not conservative like Asian households.
But as the market grows, banks will need to rethink their strategies focusing more on other customer segments, such as small and medium-size businesses and households.
According to the US Census Bureau, fewer than half of eligible adults with family incomes of less than $20,000 per year voted in the 2012 presidential election, whereas voter participation among households with incomes of more than $75,000 was 77%.
In the 2014 midterm election, the think tank Demos reports, 68.5% of people in households earning less than $30,000 per year didn’t vote.
While monetary policy can play an important role in boosting growth and inflation, structural policies are needed to increase potential growth and keep firms, households, banks, and government from turning into zombies, chronically unable to spend because of too much debt.
A helicopter drop (through tax cuts or transfers financed by newly printed money) would put money directly into the hands of households, boosting consumption.
Expecting that taxes would have to rise to “pay for” the extra spending, households and companies would increase their saving.
When Greek households have to pay higher taxes, they can simply withdraw the funds from their savings accounts and continue spending much as before.
The average cost of new loans to Greek enterprises and households is still only 6-7%.
On the other hand, when the foreign assets of the country are held not by households, but by institutions, such as pension funds, they can be identified and taxed.
But the new statistic is a reminder that American households don’t save enough.
Many other countries, such as Korea and Singapore, have regulations – loan-to-value ratios, for example – limiting how much households can borrow.
But it will not be the poor who ultimately lose out; it will be the relatively affluent households that were not previously subject to the wealth tax.
Ahmedinejad’s election two years ago came with great expectations, with the new president pledging to “bring oil prices to the dining table of all households in Iran,” and to crack down on corruption.
Higher prices encourage firms to raise production and households to increase their spending.
Most of al-Shabaab’s fighters are forced conscripts – young boys offered up by frightened, destitute households in lieu of taxes.
Health-care workers who serve expectant and new mothers could also be trained to provide in-home care for the elderly in multigenerational households.
Chinese households are also squeezed.
Unless Chinese households are able to reap their fair share of the benefits of economic growth, it is difficult to imagine how a consumption boom is supposed to happen.
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