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The interest rate on ten-year Treasuries increased from about 4% in the mid-1960’s to 8% in the mid-1970’s and 10% in the mid-1980’s.
As for the United States, plummeting gas prices – an extraordinary 25% decline in roughly one month – have increased consumer confidence and spending at a time when consumers were supposed to be in full retreat because of the housing market decline.
In 35 years, Germany’s trade increased tenfold;Japan’s trade almost twenty times.
France’s socialist government, for example, knows that privatization means increased productivity but also dramatic job cuts.
Improved finances might, in time, improve the investment climate so that the increased insecurity of voters is eased by a growing economy and more jobs.
Communist leaders, first and foremost Gorbachev, expected increased democratization to strengthen the party's hand.
The upshot of this retreat was that dissatisfaction with Gorbachev increased among party and state structures, but their obstructions remained disorganized.
Since then, the number of women in parliament has steadily increased, aided by a 33% quota and rules dictating how many women must be included on party lists.
But how can the status quo be changed, and female electoral turnout increased?
Having reached the point at which taxes can scarcely be increased further, these governments cannot both repay their debts and keep welfare spending at current levels.
Obama campaigned on the goals that everyone should have health insurance, that high medical costs should not bankrupt anyone, and that increased efficiency in the production and delivery of care should slow the overall growth of health-care costs.
Most of this increased cost would, in principle, be financed by $215 billion of taxes on high-premium insurance policies, and by about $400 billion of cuts in payments to physicians and hospitals that provide services to older patients in the Medicare program.
Increasing the number of insured by 35 million and broadening protection for some who are now insured implies increased demand for health care, which could raise the cost of care paid for by the government as well as by private health-care buyers.
According to the OECD, in the last decade, productivity within “frontier firms” – defined as the top 5% of firms in terms of productivity growth – increased by more than a third, whereas the rest of the private sector experienced almost no productivity growth at all.
At the macro level, aggregate US productivity has increased by more than 250% since the early 1970s, while hourly wages have remained stagnant.
To varying degrees, conventional “retain-and-invest” strategies are being replaced by “downsize-and-distribute” strategies, whereby profits are spent on increased dividends, stock buybacks, and mergers and acquisitions.
But, in the end, there are only three ways to secure additional financing for development aid or debt relief: higher taxes, increased indebtedness (that is, higher taxes for future generations), and/or monetary expansion.
The IMF’s creditors consider it a necessary safeguard against increased risks in the Fund’s credit portolio.
To use IMF gold for further debt relief in the face of increased risk threatens the Fund’s financial integrity and contradicts the recent decision to increase the IMF’s precautionary balances.
That is true even in a country as flexible, small, and open as Ireland, where unemployment increased last month to 14.5%, emigration notwithstanding, and where tax revenues in November ran 1.6% below target as a result.
Education is the most cost-effective investment we can make, so the economic case for increased funding could not be clearer.
The exhibition is a good example of the increased attention AMR is receiving.
Similarly, China, like the US, can reduce CO2 emissions through increased energy efficiency and a new fleet of electric vehicles.
There are many reasons for the dramatic increase in world food prices, but the starting point is increased food consumption, again strongly powered by China’s economic growth.
As prices went up and recessionary pressures increased, many homeowners failed to pay their mortgages.
In 2015, Ireland’s reported GDP increased by an eye-popping 26.3%.
Exports from Africa to Asia increased more than sixfold between 2001 and 2011.
But these countries’ openness has increased the economic and political salience of investments in human capital and a strong social safety net.
Each further round of budget cuts has worsened the recession, increased social tension, and further reduced confidence… Neither the IMF nor anybody else would advise any developed country to adopt such masochistic and self-destructive policies….
Since the mid-1980’s, big banks’ share in credit allocation has increased dramatically – and what it means to be “big” has changed, so that the largest banks are much bigger relative to the size of the economy (measured, for example, by annual GDP).
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