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Within the EU, however, the barriers between states – and thus the economic and political risks of independence – are lower.
If that is true in the United States, where unemployment is 40% lower than in Europe, the prospects for European growth appear bleak indeed.
For starters, lower interest rates that follow from Eurobonds or some similar mechanism would make the debt burden manageable.
Conservatives demand lower taxes, but this is unpopular: almost 65% of Swedes live on public salaries or social transfers.
These changes have made significant contributions to productivity, but they have also created the perception that jobs were outsourced, as manufacturing moved to economies with lower labor costs.
Some argue that Greece’s real GDP would be much lower in an exit scenario than it would be during the hard slog of deflation.
As a result, interest rates in those countries are lower than they would otherwise be.
And with that lower saving rate will come a smaller current-account surplus.
But they should be careful what they wish for, because a lower surplus and a stronger renminbi imply a day when China is no longer a net buyer of US government bonds.
One team of economists has found that respondents “primed” by references to lobbyists or the Wall Street bailout display significantly lower levels of support for anti-poverty policies.
India has also, of course, benefited from lower oil prices.
To be sure, expectations of stimulus, lower taxes, and deregulation could still boost the economy and the market’s performance in the short term.
The legislation also imposes a tax on universities like Harvard and Princeton – sources of numerous important ideas and innovations – and will lead to lower local-level public expenditure in parts of the country that have thrived, precisely because they have made public investments in education and infrastructure.
Democracy carries certain costs, but they are always lower than the costs of evading popular participation.
Their objections range from lower farm subsidies for the candidate countries to the new decision-making mechanism in the EU that was adopted at the Nice summit two years ago.
Much of lower Manhattan would still be a swamp, rather than being turned into the powerhouse of New York City, at a huge cost to society.
A country with higher GDP generally has lower child mortality rates, higher life expectancy, better education, more democracy, less corruption, greater life satisfaction, and often a cleaner environment.
To be sure, total spending on research and development is lower in Europe than in the US, but not by much.
US automakers gained access to labor-intensive parts at lower cost from Mexico, and Mexican producers gained access to less expensive capital-intensive parts from the US.
Moreover, with more central banks creating liquidity, and international financial centers offering pools of it, such a system would entail a lower risk of cash crunches.
The intervention had its low points, perhaps none lower than the bombing of the Chinese Embassy, which was misidentified as a building that housed Serbian security assets – instruments of repression against Kosovo.
Annual inflation in most candidate countries has fallen to 4-5% - not much higher than in many EU countries, and lower than in The Netherlands last year.
This overall rise in real wages in the face of lower productivity growth for the service sector boosts relative prices and keeps inflation above the eurozone average.
Clinton also aims to close the “carried interest” loophole that currently allows hedge-fund managers to pay lower tax rates on their incomes than almost everyone else, and she proposes imposing a “risk fee” on big financial institutions that would rise as they grow.
Today, the lower capital gains rate is available on shareholder profits made when selling stock held for one year or more.
If stockholders know that holding a company’s stock will eventually allow them to benefit from a lower tax rate, the argument goes, they will be more willing to withstand a drop in that company’s quarterly earnings.
After all, existing tariff levels on manufactured goods are already much lower than those on agriculture or dairy products.
American voters traditionally have favored smaller government and lower taxes than Europeans have favored (or at least tolerated).
In the US, which has the most progressive income tax among the major economies, federal tax reforms that would lower the rates and broaden the base are being discussed.
China has a clear comparative advantage in infrastructure construction, owing to its lower labor costs (the cost of a project site foreman in China is one-eighth that of OECD countries) and vast domestic market, which have enabled it to achieve economies of scale that other countries simply cannot.
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