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But a clear commitment by policymakers to achieve a steadily rising carbon price – ideally one that increases more rapidly whenever fossil-fuel prices are at a cyclical low – is also required.
On this view, if fiscal austerity relieves households of the burden of future tax increases, they will increase their spending.
The unusual nature of current unemployment increases the risk of future inflation still further.
Some suggest focusing on rapid increases in the volume of bank and nonbank lending to the non-financial private sector as an indicator that lending is growing riskier.
They began to expand their welfare state, pushing the government’s share in GDP from 39% to 49% and welcoming union-proposed double-digit wage increases.
The country will inevitably become poorer as it depletes its natural resources, unless the value of its human and physical capital increases.
This is significant because, thanks to compounding, small increases in a growth rate produce large benefits down the road.
The large increase in saving was offset by smaller increases in investment, inventory accumulation, and the statistical discrepancy.
Yes, the US needs tax increases to move the federal budget into surplus and policies to boost private savings.
Something may well happen in the next several years to radically boost America’s savings rate by making US households feel suddenly poor: tax increases, a real estate crash, rapidly-rising import prices caused by a plummeting dollar, a deep recession, or more than one of the above.
That causes unemployment and increases what the blogger Clay Shirky calls “cognitive surplus” – unused brainpower.
If an increase in the short-term rate were expected to persist or to be an indicator of further increases in the future, the long-term rate would also rise.
My own forecast assumes an even greater rise in the debt level, owing to continued increases in government spending and extensions of recent reductions in personal income tax.
It also increases the likelihood that asset purchases will become necessary once again.
Now, if nuclear proliferation increases, the threshold for using nuclear weapons will likely fall.
Increases in civil service salaries are not a sufficient policy response; structural reforms also are needed.
Instead, they have produced record increases in budget deficits, particularly during the terms of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
So India will need huge increases in water efficiency.
That commitment will be virtually impossible to fulfill, unless political participation by young people increases considerably.
Their lack of monetary tools, together with the absence of exchange-rate adjustment, might also justify some discretionary cyclical tax cuts and spending increases.
Brazil’s abundance of energy, food, water, and biodiversity increases its stake in a security environment characterized by rising competition for access to, or control of, natural resources.
Because oil is priced in dollars, a weak dollar makes oil cheaper to users in other countries, which increases global demand.
A third argument is that if speculation were to blame for price increases, there should have been an increase in oil inventories, because speculators do not consume oil but instead store it for later sale.
Brad Delong and Larry Summers have argued that in a repressed economy, short-term increases in borrowing can pay for themselves, even if the expenditures do not directly increase long-run potential.
Indeed, tax savings will outweigh cost-of-living increases for most low- and middle-income earners – the majority of the population – while a smaller number of higher income earners will bear most of the expense.
But in many parts of Europe today, high unemployment (12% on average, 25% in the worst-affected countries), combined with austerity-induced cutbacks in social protection, has resulted in unprecedented increases in vulnerability.
Even before the recent food-price increases, a billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food-insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world’s population.
The World Bank estimates that recent food-price increases have driven an additional 44 million people in developing countries into poverty.
Of course, if you are hungry or undernourished today as a result of food-price increases, that is a distinction without a difference.
Instead of focusing on structural reforms to liberate the economy’s productive forces, it relied on income cuts and tax increases.
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