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The biggest beneficiaries will be the top 1% of domestic households which own about half of outstanding shares.
In addition, Germany has much more inner stability than the US, because it does not have the problem of heavily indebted households that are now restricted in their borrowing.
If the government cuts taxes, increases public expenditure, or distributes money directly to households, and if the central bank creates permanent new money to finance this stimulus, citizens’ nominal wealth will increase; and, unlike with debt-financed deficits, they will not face increased future taxes to pay off the debt incurred on their behalf.
An obvious problem lies in the fact that we measure the size of the middle class according to household-income data, but with little knowledge about these households’ patterns of saving.
If today’s higher incomes are consumed and tomorrow’s incomes decline (which is likely if the economy slows), middle-class households with no savings buffer could easily slip back into poverty.
Such households are especially vulnerable if their purchases are financed by credit.
With consumption rising faster than incomes, and with larger debts to finance, households may end up worse off – an irony often missed by those advocating wider access to banking services.
The ultimate objective of economic policy is to increase households’ consumption potential, which requires giving them unhindered access to the cheapest-possible goods and services.
The labor market is at full employment, the inflation rate is rising, and households are optimistic.
The price of homes, the most important asset for US households, rose by 5% during the most recent 12 months.
This needs to be carried out for insolvent governments, households, and financial institutions alike.
The system protects not only the unemployed, who can continue to pay their mortgages and interest, but also indirectly the banks, because their loans to households are repaid even in times of recession.
Like the Republicans’ health-care proposals, their tax plan offers little to struggling middle- and working-class households.
Companies operate with a much longer time horizon than households, and are unlikely to boost investment in response to cuts that last only ten years.
It is on the way to a US-style capital market where households hold funds and companies issue paper and stocks, intermediation margins are small and governance significant.
She knows that Brazil’s progress under Lula was supported by stable economic growth, higher social transfers to poor households through programs such as Bolsa Familia, and democracy.
This will require reversing the sharp decline in the proportion of middle-income households, which is down to 67.5%, from 75.4% in 1990.
With more than half of these households earning less than they spend every month, household debt has been rising fast, and now stands above 160% of disposable income – one of the highest levels in the OECD.
Transferring unused corporate savings to households, while reducing the number of low-wage temporary and part-time workers, would boost domestic demand and reduce income inequality.
Most of the tax reductions will be saved by households rather than used to finance additional spending.
Similarly, the tax changes in such a stimulus package should provide incentives to increase spending by households and businesses.
Since share ownership (including mutual funds) of American households totals approximately $17 trillion, a 15% rise in share prices increased household wealth by about $2.5 trillion.
Since US households’ after-tax income totals $11.4 trillion, a one-percentage-point fall in the saving rate means a decline of saving and a corresponding rise in consumer spending of $114 billion – very close to the rise in consumer spending implied by the increased wealth that resulted from the gain in share prices.
Will the strong economic growth at the end of 2010 be enough to propel more spending by households and businesses in 2011, even though house prices continue to fall and the labor market remains weak?
This propped up the dollar and reduced the cost of borrowing for US households, encouraging them to live beyond their means.
US households will have to start saving again.
And when property booms head south, efforts by companies and households to deleverage can undermine growth – even if banks are not allowed to fail.
The division of economics into macroeconomics (the study of economic performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making at the national, regional, or global level) and microeconomics (the study of resource allocation by households and firms) is fundamentally incomplete and misleading.
As households’ purchasing power declined, the number of people in poverty most likely increased.
Excessive private credit growth in the advanced economies before 2008 left many companies and households overleveraged, and their attempted deleveraging after the global financial crisis erupted that year threatened Chinese exports, employment, and growth.
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