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But, because expectations adjust to central bank behavior, discretionary monetary policy is futile: it yields higher inflation but no output or employment increases.
That means channeling resources according to burden rather than according to prevalence, particularly as co-morbidity (two or more diseases in the same patient) increases.
As this debt increases, the value of banks’ assets falls.
This does not mean that Germany’s government should not contemplate any tax reductions or spending increases.
But that is no reason for the government to waste its sizable fiscal surplus on economically useless tax cuts and spending increases.
That, in turn, allows Gazprom to boost its profitability through price increases, despite stagnant production.
From 2000 to 2007, the US ran a cumulative current-account deficit of roughly $5.5 trillion, with nearly symmetrical offsetting increases in reserves in China and Japan.
Holes in the social safety net have led to high and rising levels of precautionary saving – driving a wedge between increases in labor income and any impetus to discretionary purchasing power.
At present, our methods of calculation treat all increases in the money supply as temporary.
As time passes, the central bank receives interest income on its bonds, and, if it does not pay interest on excess reserves, this income increases its net worth.
Recognizing this difference is important, because under the current convention for calculating seigniorage, a fiscal stimulus financed with helicopter money widens the fiscal deficit and increases public-sector debt.
She argues that the new energy abundance increases US power.
Italy’s experience is enlightening: the large tax increases implemented by former Prime Minister Mario Monti’s technocratic government in 2012 had a higher-than-expected impact on demand.
A “speculative bubble,” I wrote then, is “a situation in which news of price increases spurs investor enthusiasm, which spreads by psychological contagion from person to person, in the process amplifying stories that might justify the price increase.”
Implicit in this definition is a suggestion about why it is so difficult for “smart money” to profit by betting against bubbles: the psychological contagion promotes a mindset that justifies the price increases, so that participation in the bubble might be called almost rational.
We know from influenza that a new epidemic can suddenly appear just as an older one is fading, if a new form of the virus appears, or if some environmental factor increases the contagion rate.
All are based mainly on predicted shortfalls in revenue and excessive current spending, rather than increases in investment spending over and above the Chancellor's ambitious plans.
Broadly speaking, the idea behind the reform is to link future pension increases with the overall performance of the economy.
But as long as poorer member states grow faster than their richer counterparts, one should not be overly concerned about temporary increases in intra-national disparities.
Either the Fed pursues the first goal by keeping rates low for longer and normalizing them very slowly, in which case a huge credit and asset bubble would emerge in due course; or the Fed focuses on preventing financial instability and increases the policy rate much faster than weak growth and high unemployment would otherwise warrant, thereby halting an already-sluggish recovery.
Producers are typically willing to accept relatively lower prices to hedge their risk because they can’t pass cost increases on to their customers.
The IMF often ruthlessly requires a reform program which, inter alia, increases tax revenues, restricts the printing of money, and frees up international trade and payments.
But globalization also increases competition and exposes weaknesses.
The relentless competition for talent and skills is being underscored daily by the increases in R&D investment in China and India, whose growing middle classes are only too keen to seek better educational opportunities for their children.
Coen went on to argue that, “the likelihood of a future financial crisis occurring only increases with time.”
The EU, on the other hand, demanded – and imposed – increases in all three tax rates.
As the emotions in Washington today suggest, the aversion to tax increases runs far deeper than concern about their effect on current economic performance and job growth.
More broadly, increases in the supply of weapons funneled to rebel forces by Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and others have correlated with surges in the civilian death toll, suggesting that they cost more lives than they save – and with no evident strategic gains.
Nineteen states rang in 2017 with increases in their minimum wage.
That is why the success of “Abenomics” hinges not on the short-term stimulus provided by aggressive monetary expansion and fiscal policies, but on a program of structural reform that increases competition and innovation, and that combats the adverse effects of an aging population.
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