Inflated
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No one expects venture capitalists to divert their resources to village schools, but perhaps they could focus a little more on training new employees rather than poaching them from the competition at
inflated
salaries.
A not-so-legal approach is to issue false or
inflated
trade invoices – essentially a form of money laundering.
The real estate bubble
inflated
and collapsed partly because millions of Americans borrowed more than they could afford to repay – and knew it.
A quarter of the labor force and half of Spain’s youth are unemployed, reflecting the country’s loss of competitiveness in the wake of the real-estate bubble
inflated
by cheap euro credit in the pre-crisis period.
Obama’s ascension to the US presidency represents a revolutionary landmark in America’s history that should not be allowed to fall victim to
inflated
expectations.
Moreover, while China may have profited from the rise in government-bond prices over the last few years, prices have been
inflated
artificially by expansionary monetary policy in advanced countries, which implies that the bubble could burst.
Accordingly, in a country where foreign corporations own a significant share of manufacturing and other assets, GDP will be inflated, whereas GNI shows only income the country actually retains (see chart).
There was a housing bubble, and loans were made on the basis of
inflated
prices.
Although everyone knew what happened, no one dared publish details of the
inflated
profits or the tip-off until we broke the silence.
After Greece was allowed to enter the eurozone, interest-rate convergence, combined with
inflated
property prices, fueled an increase in household debt and caused the construction sector to overheat, placing the economy on an unsustainable path.
In economics, RCTs have been all the rage, especially in the field of international development, despite critiques by the Nobel laureate Angus Deaton, Lant Pritchett, and Dani Rodrik, who have attacked the
inflated
claims of RCT’s proponents.
Simply put, surging capital flows into the US artificially held down interest rates and
inflated
asset prices, leading to laxity in banking and regulatory standards and, ultimately, to a meltdown.
As the scare stories become more inflated, so, too, does the likelihood that they will be exposed for the exaggerations that they are – and the public will end up tuning the whole thing out.
But an important insight from history is that unsustainable fiscal policies are more likely to result in defaults when fiscal problems cannot be
inflated
away.
Similarly, central banks’
inflated
balance sheets – the result of short-term crisis-response measures – could, through refinancing arrangements, be used to boost green investment.
Likewise, only by adopting such a strategy can the US start to compress the Pentagon’s
inflated
budget and begin to address its many domestic woes.
Ideological polarization, leadership struggles,
inflated
egos, and inexperience in coalition management and negotiations caused serious rifts within the ranks of opposition politicians.
Then, in the early 2000s, he committed a far more serious blunder, insisting that a credit-fueled housing bubble,
inflated
by “innovative” financial products, posed no threat to the US economy’s fundamentals.
Worse, Trump will be changing the rules of the game at a time when the global economy is already fragile, China is confronting a massively
inflated
bubble in its financial sector, and Europe is asleep at the wheel of a slow-motion train wreck in Italy’s banking sector.
In fact, as Carmen Reinhart and I discuss in our recent book on the history of financial crises, This Time is Different, cash-strapped governments will often forcibly convert indexed debt to non-indexed debt, precisely so that its value might be
inflated
away.
Britain joined America’s Iraq adventure with the same
inflated
perceptions of its military capacity and diplomatic clout that trapped Bush.
There may be a silver lining to our
inflated
sense of understanding.
Kan’s status quo approach to alliance management won’t hold up long, because Hatoyama’s bungling has
inflated
Okinawans’ expectations about evicting the Marines.
Meanwhile, the bulk of its obligations are social security and health care, which cannot be
inflated
away.
Clearly, trade data are being
inflated
as companies carry out fake transactions to bring capital into the country.
In short, Israel’s current leadership has
inflated
“security” into a surreal new cult, trumping morality.
As investigations later discovered, that figure was
inflated.
Exchange rates have a nasty habit of overshooting their equilibrium values, then knifing back on countries, especially those who have been spending too much based on
inflated
income valuations.
More importantly, the fears underlying the bicycle theory are wildly
inflated.
Aron exaggerated the power of reason, while Sartre
inflated
the power of action.
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