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Monetary interest rates have increased steadily, owing to rampant regulatory arbitrage (whereby banks find loopholes that enable them to avoid unfavorable rules) and the fragmentation of the credit market, while return on capital has fallen rapidly because of overcapacity.
The increased pace of warming reflects the impact of complex non-linear factors and a variety of “tipping points” that can result in acceleration of the process.
From 2005 to 2015, the monetary base soared at an annual rate of 17.8%, whereas the CPI increased at an annual rate of just 1.9%.
Essentially all of the increased reserves ended up being “used” to support increased commercial lending.
The Fed increased its securities holdings from less than $1 trillion in 2007 to more than $4 trillion today.
But, rather than being used to facilitate increased commercial bank lending and deposits, the additional reserves created in this process were held at the Fed – simply the by-product of the effort, via QE, to drive down long-term interest rates and increase household wealth.
In the past two decades, Mozambique has become a functioning democracy; grown its agriculture sector; raised literacy rates; increased water supply and electricity in rural areas; and reduced child mortality dramatically, from 219 per 1,000 live births in 1990, two years before the civil war ended, to 135 per 1,000 in 2010.
More than half of French naval forces were deployed during the Libyan crisis, during which their normal activity rate increased by 10-40% – at a cost of €40 million ($50 million), not to mention disruptions of standard training and maintenance.
Above all, European leaders must promote increased naval cooperation.
Freedom House, a non-governmental organization, listed 86 free countries at the beginning of the Bush years, a total that increased slightly, to 89, by the end of his term.
Five years of declining GDP have depressed tax receipts and increased transfer payments.
Meanwhile, social movements in the Middle East, India, Russia, Malawi, the US, and elsewhere have challenged corruption, demanding increased accountability and transparency from governments and business leaders.
In the longer run, that gap needs to be filled by higher foreign demand and increased export potential.
The Bush Administration believes that US military power buys security, even though terrorism has increased since the Iraq War.
The annual military budget, which has increased by $150 billion since Bush took office, will need to be cut in coming years to get the budget under control;The US is borrowing massively from abroad.
Exposure to the outside world through travel, satellite TV, and the Internet has increased public demand for political rights, including the democratic representation that state paternalism has historically denied.
The United Nations Population Fund, for example, estimates that increased use of contraceptives in developing countries would reduce annual maternal deaths by 70,000, and infant deaths by 500,000.
Like many other southern European countries, however, labor-market and other rigidities dramatically reduced the speed and increased the costs of structural economic adjustment, resulting in lower levels of growth and employment, especially for young people and first-time job-seekers.
While America benefits from increased demand for its Treasury bills (which reduces borrowing costs), developing countries receive a return of just 2% - essentially zero in real terms.
While the researchers who originally published those studies may have profited from increased funding and recognition, the patients who need new cancer treatments gained nothing.
This explains the almost continuous stream of measures that emanate from Beijing these days: increased public spending, monetary easing, pressure on state enterprises to expand activity, subsidies to exporters, partial convertibility of the remninbi to spur trade with neighboring countries, and so on.
The increased FDI would create 18,000 new jobs in the pharmaceutical industry.
Following the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, these and other national broadcasters increased their output of pro-Kremlin propaganda.
And rising real incomes increased leisure time, thereby boosting demand for smiles and the products of minds.
The Iraq war has been financed entirely on credit; and partly because of that, the US national debt has increased by two-thirds in just eight years.
Emission targets implicitly tend to obey a formula that quantifies three major principles: all countries should rein in their emissions, but rich countries should accept bigger cuts than poor countries; countries where emissions have recently increased rapidly should be given some time to bring them back down; and no country or group of countries should suffer disproportionately large economic costs.
Poverty and inequality increased; unemployment rose; and foreign debt grew – and continues to grow – at an alarming rate.
The currency depreciation, it was assumed, would address external imbalances, by encouraging, with the help of lower export taxes, increased production of tradable goods.
Moreover, Argentina’s fiscal deficit has increased, owing to the drop in revenues brought about by the recession.
Coupled with this is a zero-sum view of the world, in which any Chinese gain in the share of the global economy, or any increased presence in many parts of the world, must be at the expense of the US or other powers.
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