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Such strong incentives to hoard rather than spend can keep demand low and falling, and unemployment high and rising, for a much longer time than even the most laissez-faire-oriented politician or economist had ever dared contemplate.
Over the longer term, more money for fertilizer, and other aid to promote self-sufficiency, is also essential.
What is certain, though, is that the longer Algeria remains politically polarized and economically stagnant, the greater the risk of rekindling the Algerian spring – and fueling a very hot summer.
If prices rise simply because investors decide that there is no longer any risk, then prices will collapse all the more precipitously if investors collectively change their minds.
The White House MountaineerOur lives no longer feel ground under them.
Free market critics, sensitive to the problem of excluding people from living a longer life simply because of their income, look to the welfare states of Northern Europe for guidance, because they do not use the price system to allocate healthcare.
The Maastricht-compliant part of its members’ sovereign debt would be restructured with longer maturities (equal to the maturity of the ECB bonds) and at the ultra-low interest rates that only the ECB can fetch in international capital markets.
This move toward support of effective demand must be combined with the kind of structural reforms that will allow more rapid, supply-side growth in the longer term.
Certainly better regulation is part of the answer over the longer run, but it is no panacea.
In the longer term, however, a better overall system for skills upgrading could be designed – one that could be integral to facilitating upward mobility.
The longer we wait, the worse our problems will become.
In the short term, Palestine needs more water to provide employment and income from farming; in the longer term, educational, cultural, and political changes are needed in order to develop a capacity to adapt.
The longer the ECB maintains its inflationary bias, the steeper the consequent economic decline as the economy crumbles under the weight of the skyrocketing euro and interest rates that are too high for current economic realities (though lower than where the ECB hawks had planned to go before the current financial crisis hit).
Unsustainably high debt should be reduced in a rapid and orderly fashion, to avoid a long and protracted (often a decade or longer) deleveraging process.
I believe that this amount could be at least doubled and assured for a longer time span.
Even the elderly are increasing their savings, owing partly to longer life expectancy and a surge in medical costs.
This might boost growth in the short term, but unproductive investments can also threaten macroeconomic stability in the longer term.
On the contrary, the North’s real objective has always been to ensure the survival of the Kim regime and, in the longer term, to secure the reunification of the Korean Peninsula under that regime’s leadership.
With the budget cuts in place and the markets reassured, Britain no longer risks resembling an unruly Mediterranean country.
In the longer term, Kim appears to hope that he can convince the international community that it can co-exist with a nuclear North Korea, much as Pakistan did.
South Koreans no longer fear brutal dictatorship; they fear economic monopoly, and the resulting dearth of opportunity.
Is it to buttress GDP growth when the UK is no longer part of the European single market and customs union?
As a result, the price formation process is much clumsier nowadays, with considerably longer adjustment lags.
A collapse in fertility rates, coupled with longer life expectancy, is driving a rapid and pronounced aging of populations.
This type of extreme financial incentive is particularly true in some countries like Belgium or the Netherlands with easily accessible early retirement schemes - schemes which, to boot, often fail to adjust benefit levels to offset their longer duration.
The longer we wait to address the climate challenge, the more devastating the disruption will be.
But as a result of these policies, every country in the group is starting 2012 with larger international reserves and foreign debts with longer maturities than they would have had otherwise.
If not halted, such measures could call into question the Jewish presence on the Continent in the longer term.
(I examine these issues in greater depth in a longer forthcoming article.)
To reach a target of 4% inflation, they might have to implement even more unconventional monetary policies over an even longer period of time.
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