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The experts – including five Nobel Laureates – compared ways to spend $75 billion on more than 30 interventions aimed at reducing malnutrition, broadening educational opportunity, slowing global warming, cutting air pollution, preventing conflict, fighting disease, improving access to water and sanitation,
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trade and immigration barriers, thwarting terrorism, and promoting gender equality.
Lastly, the Euro crowns these developments by adding huge scale,
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the cost of capital and that helps growth for the wider range of users.
Policies aimed at increasing female labor-force participation and
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private education spending would also help.
After all, when faced with falling GDP growth, a financial system on the verge of collapse, plummeting real-estate prices, and a lack of consumer confidence, the needed monetary-policy response is clear: keep
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nominal interest rates until they reach the zero bound, then pull out the big, unconventional guns.
Now these importers form a powerful bulwark against any policy that causes deflation, even though
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prices – and thereby redirecting Greek demand from foreign to domestic products and helping tourism – is the only way to put the Greek economy back on its feet.
Now, however, US President Donald Trump has promised to create “unbelievable prosperity” by discarding regulations intended to reduce toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants,
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or eliminating fuel-efficiency standards for automobiles, and dismantling the EPA.
First, China can help boost the EU’s exports by
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its administrative trade barriers to products from the EU.
Both the velocity of upgrade and the secondary market for solar power could be improved by
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the transaction costs associated with adopting new solar technology.
I warned that the upturn would be much more tepid than expected: unlike previous business cycles, the recession that began at the end of 2007 was not caused by high interest rates, so
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rates would have little impact.
New communication technologies help as well, not only as a means of doing business, but also in
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social barriers.
This throwback to the cottage industries that preceded modern production is possible today because the Internet is
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the costs of dispersion that once compelled the concentration of work in factories and offices.
Moreover, the system for payments and settlement has been made safer, thereby
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the threat of a “sudden stop” in economic activity, like the one that occurred in the fourth quarter of 2008.
Imports from Mexico support US jobs in three ways: by creating a market for US exports; by providing competitively priced inputs for US production; and by
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prices of goods for US consumers, who then can spend more on other US-produced goods and services.
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taxes on the poor and raising unemployment benefits while simultaneously increasing taxes on the rich can stimulate the economy, reduce the deficit, and reduce inequality.
By contrast, German sovereign yields have fallen sharply,
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public and private-sector borrowing costs.
Smuggling is abetted by the tobacco industry in order to gain market share and scare finance ministers into
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taxes.
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the prestige of the government right now is the fact that Kan has not shown any talent for turning himself into a TV personality who can project a grand image of leadership.
For starters, making it easier, safer, and more financially attractive for private investors to enter power markets would boost competition, thereby spurring innovation and
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costs.
Entrepreneurs, executives, and stockholders face similar uncertainty as disruptive technologies change the rules of the game by reducing entry barriers and
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the minimum efficient scale (the smallest amount a company must produce while still taking full advantage of economies of scale).
Global competition for investment, including lower corporate-tax rates among US competitors, seems to have strengthened the case for
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the US statutory rate, which, at 39% (including state taxes), is the highest in the OECD, more than 50% above the average.
Indeed, German support for solar power is aimed at
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the cost of solar panels, which is the main justification for paying a high feed-in price (currently about €200/MWh, compared to current electricity prices of roughly €55/MWh).
Adoption of the Euro should foster even greater trade integration by eliminating exchange-rate risk,
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transaction costs, and promoting greater price transparency and competition.
But, as the US government knows well, countries with faltering economies cannot be asked to refrain from
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interest rates just because the likely effects include currency depreciation.
In fact, they have been remarkably successful in lengthening their debt maturities, accumulating cash, and
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their future interest payments.
That means less competition and higher prices – as sure a way to lower real incomes as
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wages directly.
Another is to ensure that companies pay taxes – perhaps by
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the corporate-tax rate for companies that invest and create jobs in America, and raising it for those that do not.
It might also be able to cobble together a majority to reform the US tax code – in particular,
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the high rate for corporations and raising taxes on the wealthy.
Higher transactions taxes increase the cost of capital, ultimately
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investment.
There is no inconsistency between a progressive, balanced deficit-reduction plan and
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the corporate tax rate.
This illustrates a fundamental point: in the short run, reduced economic activity is the principle way of
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oil demand.
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