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This underscores an important risk that Yellen must now reckon with as she guides US monetary policy: in the longer run, the dominance of the Fed’s views in the market may cause serious economic harm.
As in any civil war, such entrepreneurs of violence become increasingly likely to carry the day the longer the conflict endures.
In the medium and longer term, the expected and hoped-for increase in China’s domestic consumption should be the most dynamic element of demand, with export growth continuing to slacken and investment remaining – except for brief periods – below 50% of GDP.
Although the current inability of Palestinians to work in Israel has had devastating economic consequences, there may be a silver lining: over the longer term resources might be reallocated towards export-oriented activities, as lower employment in Israel and lower levels of remittances pull down wages and thereby improve export competitiveness.
As a result, economic expansion continues for much longer – America’s current boom is its longest expansion ever -- allowing more and more people to become employed.
Over the longer term, it means awareness of structural risks like high sovereign debt, demographic shifts, and natural-resource scarcity.
But it is an uncertain outcome in the longer term, given the coalition’s considerable political baggage, and it is a bad outcome for democracy, especially at a time when populist forces are a growing threat.
The longer QE continues, the more vulnerable they will be.
Indeed, the Washington debate surrounding how to “fix Iraq” is irrelevant, because something that does not exist any longer – namely, Iraq as a functioning state – cannot be fixed.
Over the longer term, Europe will need a workforce trained for careers in the new digitized economy.
The situation is deteriorating, and, in the longer term, it is bound to become unsustainable.
The views of Cecil Rhodes, or Admiral Nelson, though fairly conventional in their time, are certainly no longer fashionable today.
The reason is clear: it is, thankfully, no longer fashionable to decry colonialism's evils in assigning blame for every national misfortune.
In the US, life expectancy has declined for the second year in a row; among those with only a high school education, the decline has been underway for much longer.
What good is a longer life if we cannot maintain our standard of living?
Over the longer term, however, this situation is definitely not stable.
Consider Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s proposal – which Vice President Joe Biden has endorsed – to use the capital gains tax to encourage shareowners to hold on to their stock for a longer time.
A longer one is subsidizing goods so that their price remains below cost.
While radical federalization could allow Ukraine to remain intact through the current crisis, it would most likely doom the country to disintegration and failure in the longer term.
Electoral cycles (and the accompanying political pressures) are such that monetary policy, banking, and many other areas of policy and economic activity must be overseen by those with professional competence and a much longer time horizon than that of politicians.
Because the debt can be refinanced at such low rates, rollover risk is very low, allowing debtors who would be considered insolvent under normal circumstances to carry on much longer than they otherwise could.
Today, these countries can simply refinance their obligations at longer maturities.
As such, its development into ever longer spans is following the historic pattern that in the past has led to failures.
Such beliefs, of course, have been around for much longer than the modern state of Israel.
This gives the US a longer time to address a current account deficit that is in the long run unsustainable.
By contrast, in the US, a much larger proportion of investment is financed by issuing bonds, which can have a longer maturity than bank loans.
In almost all industrialized countries, official forecasts have an upward bias, which is stronger at longer time horizons.
Yet, for India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, such ideas are no longer fashionable.
Given that it is less controversial than unconventional monetary policies, and will take longer to produce results, it should be given top priority.
First, low interest rates encourage firms to invest in more capital-intensive technologies, resulting in demand for labor falling in the longer term, even as unemployment declines in the short term.
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