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As new forms of money reduce these costs, the richness and complexity of our economy will be increased.
In other words, since 1999, wage costs have increased by about 20% less in Germany than in southern Europe.
It is no coincidence that from 2010 to 2014, the largest banks, firms, and investment funds increased their cash holdings by $3 trillion – roughly the amount by which central banks in reserve-currency countries expanded their balance sheets over the same period.
The Chinese presidency’s authority has certainly increased; but Xi is powerful only when he has the votes.
Several solutions to this problem have been proposed, and some – such as increased capital requirements and restrictions on risky investments – are headed toward implementation.
For this to occur, public funds on research and development must be increased dramatically.
As domestic saving plunges, the US has two options – a reduction in investment and the economic growth it supports, or increased borrowing of surplus saving from abroad.
During the 1990’s, however, Anwar increased his influence within the party, unsettling many of the old guard.
On one hand, there is a need for increased media literacy on the part of consumers, who need to be taught, from a young age, about the real-world consequences of online hate speech.
Unit labor costs have increased by 10-20% more than in Germany.
Orphans, whose number has increased sharply over the past quarter-century as a result of wars, economic sanctions, and terrorism, are especially vulnerable to the cruelest type of physical and psychological violence.
Such crises cause major negative demand shocks, as excess debt and falling asset prices damage balance sheets, which then require increased savings to heal – a combination that is lethal to growth.
Structural reforms, together with increased investment, are also needed.
As in Asia, there is a pattern at work: growing Chinese influence begets increased support for Chinese policies.
While significant change is on the way, including increased integration of Europe’s armed forces, the road toward a well-functioning European defense union is long.
By the time of the ruble crisis of August 1998, output had fallen by almost half and poverty had increased from 2% of the population to over 40%.
And, third, if tax cuts and increased military and infrastructure spending push up deficits and the public debt, interest rates will have to rise.
Republicans point to Europe and other parts of the world where a VAT rate started low and gradually increased to double-digit levels, exceeding 20% in many countries.
Resignations have increased: ambassadors, ministers, significant media figures, and army generals.
While opposition fighters have grown more capable in recent weeks, defeating President Bashar al-Assad’s forces will be difficult, if not impossible, without increased external military assistance.
Conversely, Assad’s survival – or even a protracted civil war – would be seen as a US defeat, which could have serious regional consequences, including increased Iranian intransigence.
Second, American consumers increased spending as a result of their paper wealth, reducing or eliminating their savings from income because their stock market wealth would protect them in the future.
Or interest rates might remain high because of increased uncertainties about the size of future budget surpluses, or the risks of large tax cuts.
For many economies, exports to America would slow, and growth would depend either on finding new markets (say, increased sales in Europe and Japan if those economies picked up), or on being able to increase domestic consumption and investment within those economies.
In the past, when a stay-at-home wife went to work, the chance that her marriage would dissolve increased.
Ideas such as Eurobonds, a single European finance ministry, and increased capitalization of Europe’s common rescue funds (the European Stability Mechanism and the Single Resolution Mechanism) are not even being contemplated.
A similar dichotomy applies to many other critical issues, including adaptation to climate change, efforts to improve resource management, urbanization and the rise of megacities, increased labor mobility, and human-capital expansion.
But while this deserves attention, the bigger story is that, because more carbon dioxide fertilizes vegetation, climate change has actually increased the world’s green matter (plants of all sorts) since 1982 by the equivalent of an entire continent.
Dependent marijuana users are more likely to experience road and workplace accidents (if they drive or work while intoxicated); increased respiratory disease (if they smoke marijuana); exacerbations of some serious mental disorders; and impaired school and work performance.
Marijuana policy involves a choice between the evils of current repressive policies and the evils of increased use under a legal market.
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