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Moreover, public and private investment in the region – in infrastructure, education, health, and other services – has been geared toward the existing consumer base,
inflated
by the expat population.
We lived the better part of the subsequent decade with a misguided sense of extended prosperity and
inflated
a financial bubble.
Some say the bar to a good economy is the Continent's
inflated
welfare state and the solution is retrenchment, beginning with raising retirement ages.
I leave it to the Hungarian public to decide whether and to what extent the figure of 2,301,463 participants (out of a population of 9.8 million) was
inflated.
More recently, many advanced countries have discovered a “new” set of growth models with built-in structural limitations: excessive private or public consumption, or both, usually accompanied and enabled by rising debt and
inflated
asset prices, and a corresponding decline in investment.
The era of low interest rates that followed the decision in 1995 to introduce the euro
inflated
a massive credit bubble in southern eurozone countries, which was sustained until the end of 2013.
Greece never had the productive structure to be as rich as it was: its income was
inflated
by massive amounts of borrowed money that was not used to upgrade its productive capacity.
The bubble is
inflated
further by the asymmetry between those who bet that prices will rise and buy, and those who forecast a fall, but stay out because to sell short is too costly.
But, while the resulting surge in capital flows to emerging markets stimulated economic growth, it also
inflated
asset bubbles.
To be sure, minor enemies should not be
inflated
into deadly ones.
Today, roughly half of all revenue goes to fund the
inflated
salaries and perks of government officials, including parliamentarians, governors, local and national bureaucrats, and endless legions of administrators.
This would offer southern European countries a way out of their competitiveness trap, because if prices remained unchanged in the south, while the northern countries inflated, the southern countries could gradually reduce their goods’ relative prices without feeling too much pain.
If, say, southern Europe kept its inflation rate at 0% and France
inflated
at a rate of 1%, Germany would have to inflate by a good 4%, and the rest of the eurozone at 2% annually, to reach a eurozone average of slightly less than 2%.
If they yield to it, the Chinese economy, they argue, may fall into the same deflationary trap that ensnared Japan after the yen’s appreciation in the 1980’s – under US pressure –
inflated
a catastrophic asset-price bubble.
The ensuing bubble in Japanese housing and equity prices
inflated
and burst not because Japan succumbed to US pressure to allow the yen to appreciate, but because Japan, in the end, resisted that pressure.
These figures are inflated, however, by transactions with Hong Kong, which accounts for roughly 70% of international trade payments settled in renminbi.
Congress can obstruct Obama’s foreign policy as well, but this remains a domain where any US president “enjoys almost royal prerogatives,” to use Alexis de Tocqueville’s somewhat
inflated
description.
Populist leaders, in particular, have been eager to manipulate the migration debate, using
inflated
figures and other gross exaggerations to stoke popular fears.
The same dynamics that
inflated
the dollar value of GDP growth in the good years for these countries will now work in the opposite direction: stable or lower export prices will reduce real growth and cause their currencies to stop appreciating or even weaken in real terms.
That helped Germany and France, but it also
inflated
real-estate bubbles in Spain and Ireland.
The resulting economic slowdown has undermined the government’s capacity to maintain
inflated
asset prices and avoid pockets of credit distress.
Henry Paulson is WrongCHICAGO – When a profitable company is hit by a very large liability, the solution is not to have the government buy its assets at
inflated
prices.
Rather, governments should stop basing their legitimacy on
inflated
growth prospects.
That way, the power of competitive markets can ensure that, once a drug is developed, it is made available at the lowest possible price – not at an
inflated
monopoly price.
As it happens, everyday tourists avoid Olympic host cities during the Games, owing to crowds, transportation delays,
inflated
prices, and possible security threats.
Iranians would then be forced to abandon their
inflated
rhetoric and their evil threats.
Their worthy aim is to raise the price paid to developing-country farmers for their produce by excluding the
inflated
profits of the middlemen on whom they depend for getting their goods to distant markets.
But, while the industry faces the threat of
inflated
gas prices from around the world, its concerns closer to home are the abundance of EU and national energy regulations.
Even the US, for example, significantly
inflated
down its debt in the 1970’s, and debased the gold value of the dollar from $21 per ounce to $35 in the 1930’s.
This helps to explain the
inflated
rhetoric that surrounds them: the November 2010 summit in Lisbon, for example, was described as nothing less than “the most important in NATO’s history.”
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