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With inventory investment unlikely to keep accelerating at anything close to its recent rate, overall GDP growth can be expected to converge on this more subdued pace of final demand.
Although annual GDP growth was 3% in the first quarter of this year, almost all of it reflected inventory accumulation – some of which, no doubt, was unwanted build-up caused by disappointing sales.
When inventory accumulation is excluded, first-quarter growth of “final sales” was just 0.8% in annual terms – and 0.2% compared to the fourth quarter of 2009.
Although annual GDP growth was 3% in the fourth quarter of 2011, more than half of that reflected inventory accumulation.
Oil producers can also restrict supply by holding oil inventory in tankers at sea or in other storage facilities.
The information about Costa Rican deer ticks comes from an inventory of parasites of vertebrates in northern Costa Rica, but it is the only inventory of its kind ever undertaken.
Simply put, we must complete the global inventory of species.
The second category of recessions arise by chance, for example when consumer confidence dips, or businesses become uneasy and cut back on investment and/or inventory.
One cannot rule out a couple of quarters of sharp GDP growth as the inventory cycle and the massive policy boost lead to a short-term revival.
(Technically, the pace of inventory investment should be included, but this is a cyclical buffer between production and sales rather than a source of final demand.)
Products will not need to be made in those factories and then shipped to customers or to inventory centers.
Production and distribution processes are being transformed, not just through robotic auto painting or assembly, but through such things as scanner_based retail inventory control and robot_guided hip surgery.
After all, knowledge is acquired in different ways, and empirical positivism is only one method in a larger epistemological inventory.
Second, there is a large inventory of technologies that the developing world is yet to acquire, adopt, and adapt.
The US Congress and the White House should begin now to develop an inventory of infrastructure projects that could be implemented when the economy slows.
While volatile trade and inventory numbers have depressed the recent GDP figures, the more fundamental measure of final sales to private purchasers has been rising in real terms at an annual rate of about 2.5%.
Previous recessions were often characterized by excess inventory accumulation and overinvestment in business equipment.
While this will eventually turn around as the inventory of unsold homes shrinks, the recovery will be slow.
Annual GDP growth in the first three quarters of 2010 averaged only about 2.6% – and most of that was just inventory building.
Without the inventory investment, the growth rate of final sales averaged less than 1%.
Among the main problems China faces are over-leveraged local governments and SOEs, manufacturing overcapacity, excessive real-estate inventory, rising production costs, corruption, inequality, environmental degradation, and inadequate technological innovation.
The internet is now used for not only for retail sales, financial transactions (from banking to insurance to stock market purchases), inventory management, airline ticketing, online newspaper and magazine delivery, and management of transport logistics.
Nearly half of 2013 third-quarter GDP growth was inventory accumulation, implying that final sales rose by only about 2.5%.
A genuine recession is very different from an inventory correction.
This effect means that there will be more production and inventory building in the run-up to the year 2000, and correspondingly inventory run-offs and less production in the beginning on next year.
The inventory adjustment that drove most of the GDP growth for a few quarters is complete, and tax policies that stole demand from the future (“cash for clunkers” all over Europe, etc.) have expired.
On the business side, investment and employment follows demand once the inventory cycle has run its course.
It’s a sobering inventory.
Clearly, other factors – ranging from supply-side factors and global demand to speculative demand and inventory adjustment – are also playing a major role in driving outcomes in commodity markets.
But, despite these positive developments, the two largest powers in the region – the United States and Russia – each still possesses thousands of nuclear weapons, accounting for more than 90% of the world’s nuclear inventory.
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