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And even outside of high-cost regions, nearly two-thirds of US households lack the savings to cover a $500 shock such as a car repair or health-care expense.
Three out of four households that qualify for federal housing assistance are not receiving it, owing to conflicting eligibility requirements, duplicative applications, and complex multi-agency approval processes.
Interest rates were too low in Southern Europe, where governments and households binged on cheap loans, and arguably too high in Germany, which was already held back by the economic burden of reunification.
The clearly stated intent behind quantitative easing is that the operations will be reversed, and that any increase in government debt, even if currently held on the central bank’s balance sheet, will create a future debt burden for households and companies.
The savings rate for households has gone from 5% of American GDP in 1990 to zero in 2000.
Households would be behaving in a totally irresponsible manner.
High stock market valuations would reflect a radiant future, households would be behaving in a reasonable way, and America would be wise to run a trade deficit in order to invest.
Moreover, investment in public infrastructure and urban facilities will not create industrial “over-capacity”; instead, it will provide long-term public consumption durables that households and companies will use for years to come.
Simply put, ensuring that all households have access to the quantity, quality, and variety of nutritious foods that are necessary for a healthy and fulfilling life requires open, predictable, non-discriminatory, and fair trade.
Blaming China merely impedes the heavy lifting that must be done at home – namely, boosting saving by cutting budget deficits and encouraging households to save income rather than rely on asset bubbles.
With households focused on repairing severely damaged balance sheets, inflation-adjusted private consumption has expanded at an anemic 0.5% average annual rate over the past four years.
Delivering that certainty will not be easy, because much of the primary deficit reflects remaining energy subsidies to households and firms; increasing these so-called administered prices (of electricity and natural gas, among others) causes a one-off jump in the relevant price indices, and a temporary spike in inflation.
Second, inflows of new workers bring substantial benefits as well as losses: in France, which suffers a shortage of some 6,000 plumbers, there must be plenty of households that would be pleased to find someone qualified to do repair work.
And much of the additional spending needs be made by households, driven by a profound change in social attitudes to energy efficiency.
The new plan’s details reveal continued reliance on investment, including public housing, to support growth, rather than faster currency appreciation, substantial fiscal transfers to households, taxation and/or privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), liberalization of the household registration (hukou) system, or an easing of financial repression.
Several Chinese policies have led to a massive transfer of income from politically weak households to politically powerful companies.
This creates a powerful incentive to overinvest and implies enormous redistribution from households to SOEs, most of which would be losing money if they had to borrow at market-equilibrium interest rates.
More importantly, China needs either to privatize its SOEs, so that their profits become income for households, or to tax their profits at a far higher rate and transfer the fiscal gains to households.
Those outflows are partly a result of the Chinese government’s easing of capital-account restrictions – an effort that should allow households, corporations, and institutional investors to diversify their portfolios by increasing their foreign holdings.
Banks will not lend if the economy is in the doldrums, and American households will be particularly reluctant to borrow – at least in the profligate ways they borrowed prior to the crisis.
In Myanmar, for example, only 16% of farm households even use tillers or tractors to prepare the land for planting.
Steel production alone consumes 18% of the country’s energy resources, nearly twice as much as all Chinese households.
It suggests a framework for reducing emissions that respects the development needs of China’s households, addresses US firms’ competitiveness concerns, and adheres to the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities” embedded in international negotiations.
When the bubbles burst, households understandably became fixated on balance-sheet repair – namely, paying down debt and rebuilding personal savings, rather than resuming excessive spending habits.
Households with more education cope better with economic shocks and with extreme weather events.
We need more robust and transparent relationships between central and local governments, state and private education providers, and households and communities.
And that means overcoming the understandable caution of Chinese households in the face of an uncertain future.
Concurrent with diminishing labor income, government-imposed ceilings on bank deposits – the primary savings vehicle for most households – have held down household capital income.
Another route to improve consumption could be to offer households greater support .
Rich nations have all but eliminated goiter (swelling of the thyroid) by using iodized salt – a preventive measure lacking in 30% of developing world households, but that costs just $0.05 a year per person.
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