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Smart taxes should be phased in gradually to allow households and firms time to adjust and for new technologies to come on stream.
Time may be necessary, in many cases, to ensure that social safety nets are in place to protect low-income households and to provide retraining programs for workers in energy-intensive industries.
With households desperately trying to rebuild their balance sheets, and with capital investment remarkably healthy, the only places to boost spending to restore capacity utilization and unemployment to normal levels are exports, government purchases, and construction investment.
The advanced economies, benefiting from a half-decade of painful private-sector deleveraging (households, banks, and non-financial firms), a smaller fiscal drag (with the exception of Japan), and maintenance of accommodative monetary policies, will grow at an annual pace closer to 1.9%.
At first blush, this statement may seem counter-intuitive – not least because wealthier households receive larger wealth transfers than poorer ones.
It helps that wealth transfers generally flow toward poorer individuals or households, especially from richer parents to poorer children.
Commercial banks, investment banks, and hedge funds all owe their ongoing trouble to its decline, which in turn is jeopardizing the plans of companies and entrepreneurs to launch enterprises and make investments, and of households to consume.
But that effect quickly disappeared, because households failed to maintain the stoves and used them irregularly, inappropriately, and increasingly infrequently.
As oil prices fall, households' real (inflation-adjusted) income should rise, because they do not have to spend as much on fuel and heating.
Lower oil prices make life easier, not harder, for highly indebted households in the US or the eurozone periphery.
Spam, viruses, cyberattacks, and other kinds of security breaches can impose major costs on businesses and households.
With American households saving more in order to rebuild their retirement accounts, the country has to export more.
Lower interest rates worked, but not so much because they boosted investment, but because they led households to refinance their mortgages, and fueled a bubble in housing prices.
The state now accounts for more than 40% of the country’s operating capacity for wind-generated power, and has one of the world’s highest penetration rates for solar (one in four households has a photovoltaic system).
Even in the most Godless households, most children in Western societies probably know the details of the Christmas story.
Had our policy recommendation been adopted, stockholders and debt holders (who have a higher propensity to save) would have experienced greater losses than they did, whereas lower- and middle-income households (which have a higher propensity to consume) would have experienced relief from their mortgage debt.
And for rural households facing slightly higher fuel taxes, it is convenient to believe that climate change is just a hoax propagated by political elites and “the media.”
Moreover, as proposed, the tax (which has now been rescinded) was neither revenue-neutral nor intended to fund expenditures aimed at helping France’s struggling households, especially in rural areas and smaller cities.
Seventy-nine percent of Gaza’s households live in poverty; eight out of ten depend on food assistance.
UNICEF works with partners to get water, hygiene, and medical supplies to households and health facilities.
The global financial crisis and ensuing eurozone crisis lowered many households’ living standards considerably, and some five million people now in absolute poverty.
And with older households’ real income (and wealth) well above those levels, aggregate data do not capture how grim the situation has become for younger and middle-age households.
Rich households also hold significant resources that could be deployed in support of both consumption and investment.
It is also true for many households.
The government would have to close the banks for a week or two, print emergency currency, strictly limit households’ access to their deposits, and introduce capital controls.
Even before the Great Recession, American workers and households were in trouble.
Hard-pressed American households slashed their savings rates, borrowed against their home equity, and increased their debt to maintain consumption, contributing to the housing and credit bubbles that burst in 2008, requiring painful deleveraging ever since.
Tax rates should be raised now to provide better guidance to households about how much they can really afford to spend.
Moreover, the short-run effect is lower in highly indebted countries, and can even be negative during economic expansions if households and firms, expecting higher taxes to pay for future spending, save, rather than spend, the cash.
The central bank would lower interest rates; households would spend in anticipation of lower taxes; and business confidence would rise.
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