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The Hungarian Government’s Failed Campaign of LiesNEW YORK – In October, Hungary’s government mailed questionnaires to all four million of the country’s households asking for peoples’ views on seven statements describing my alleged plan to flood Europe, and Hungary in particular, with Muslim migrants and refugees.
Rich-country households have suffered a momentous loss of wealth (amounting to tens of trillions of US dollars).
For low-income households, which are the most likely to consume inexpensive imported goods, this has been a godsend, as it has effectively raised their purchasing power.
First, high household debt means that if interest rates rise, as they do in a normal recovery, households will find themselves strapped.
Moreover, real estate prices might fall dramatically, in which case many households may find the value of their mortgage exceeding the value of their house.
Monetary loosening worked only because households took on more debt, leaving the economy more vulnerable to rising interest rates.
In particular, they should pursue policies that foster the creation of quality jobs and the transfer of more corporate savings to households.
Already, $2.2 trillion of wealth has been wiped out, and about eight million households have negative equity: their homes’ are worth less than their mortgages.
By 2010, the fall in home prices will be close to 30% with $6.6 trillion of home equity destroyed and 21 million households – 40% of the 51 million with a mortgage – facing negative equity.
The main question is whether the tax rebate that US households will receive in mid-2008 will be consumed – thus leading to positive third-quarter growth – or saved.
Given how financially stretched US households are, a good part of this tax rebate may be used to pay down high credit card balances (or other unsecured consumer credit) or to postpone mortgage delinquency.
As a result, households want to spend less and pay down their debts.
If the Occupy Wall Street movement tells us anything, it is that the last thing the US economy needs is more households overwhelmed by debt.
Early contributions to the economics of gender focused on the division of labor within households.
Median household income in the US is still below its 2007 level – indeed, close to its level two decades ago – and roughly 90% of all US income gains in the post-crisis period have accrued to the top 1% of households.
But what is really needed is a shift in the distribution of income toward households.
Without a concerted effort to increase households’ share of total income and raise consumption’s share of aggregate demand, growth of consumer products and services on the supply side will remain inadequate.
Fortunately, Chinese households’ relatively low leverage means that the kind of balance-sheet damage that occurred in some advanced countries during the crisis, leading to a huge drop in demand, is unlikely, even if real-estate prices continue to decline.
More generally, China must deploy its large balance sheet to deliver income or benefits that expand what households view as safely consumable income.
If an ever more aggressive policy convinces the public that calamity is around the corner, households may save rather than spend.
Furthermore, social transfers, including unemployment benefits, should have allowed households to stabilize their consumption.
Recent electoral outcomes, including Trump’s election, highlight the intensifying economic grievances of many households across the developed world.
And yet the incomes of a crucial group – lower middle-income households – barely rose at all.
But the problems facing these households are not isolated.
Poor people have had their incomes complemented with a monthly allowance under a conditional cash-transfer program called “Bolsa Familia,” which now reaches more than 12 million households.
By some reckonings, more than two-thirds of the increase in output and employment over the past six years has been real estate-related, reflecting both new housing and households borrowing against their homes to support a consumption binge.
One of the great paradoxes of our time is that workers and middle-class households continue to struggle in a time of unparalleled plenty.
Because of rising energy prices from green subsidies, 800,000 German households can no longer pay their electricity bills.
According to a recent World Bank study, distributed renewable energy “will be the lowest cost option for a minority of households in Africa, even when likely cost reductions over the next 20 years are considered.”
China’s population is aging rapidly, and Chinese households are saving for retirement.
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