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It is the less efficient competitors, and not consumers, that are the most likely to benefit from punishing Intel for
lowering
its prices.
Just as Democrats have long championed more government spending, and more benefits for more people, either on ideological grounds or as a political coalition-building strategy, so Republicans have regarded the goal of
lowering
taxes.
With the collapse of the second bubble in a decade, central banks again acted quickly,
lowering
rates to zero (or close to it) almost everywhere.
Indeed, the US is the world’s largest producer of bioethanol, which – along with the production of shale gas – has helped reduce foreign oil imports by at least 25%, while
lowering
carbon dioxide emissions and creating local jobs.
Public health intervention to reduce the damage caused by drugs has been proven--by decades of research in dozens of countries--to be vastly more effective at
lowering
HIV infection rates and healthcare costs.
Year after year, the Russian Central Bank (RCB) blames the weather, the poor harvest, or other non-monetary factors for its feeble performance in
lowering
the inflation rate.
China is intent on
lowering
CO2 emissions, cleaning its air, and becoming the twenty-first-century leader in low-carbon technologies such as photovoltaics and electric vehicles.
The tax law could worsen these disparities by
lowering
the incomes of low- and middle-income Americans, many of whom are already living shorter lives, owing partly to the opioid crisis that is ravaging much of the country.
There is an old saying about monetary policy being useless in recession because the effect of
lowering
interest rates is like “pushing on a string.”
Lowering
trade barriers even more could double average incomes in the poorest parts of the world over the next 15 years.
Given all of this, the ECB was entirely justified in responding (belatedly) to the 2008-2009 global recession by
lowering
interest rates and undertaking quantitative easing, regardless of those efforts’ contribution to a depreciation of the euro.
But genuinely beneficial agricultural reform would need to go further than merely transforming export subsidies into other types of subsidies, because many supposedly non-distorting subsidies lead to more output, which hurts producers in developing countries by
lowering
prices.
Without competition,
lowering
tariffs may merely be reflected in higher profit margins for a monopoly importer.
A renewed renminbi appreciation would boost China’s outward FDI growth even further by
lowering
the cost of overseas assets for Chinese firms, which operate in a fairly competitive market and have strong cash reserves from both retained earnings and large-scale state credit allocations.
But, in large part – and with a few exceptions in Central and Eastern Europe – emerging-market economies improved their fiscal performance by reducing overall deficits, running large primary surpluses,
lowering
their stock of public debt-to-GDP ratios, and reducing the currency and maturity mismatches in their public debt.
By expanding humanitarian aid with no strings attached, the US could do more to address hunger, disease, and poverty, while reaping considerable benefits to its standing and
lowering
terror risks.
Moreover, the total effect on labor income – the product of jobs times hours worked times average hourly wages – has been more severe than that implied by the job losses alone, because many firms are cutting their workers’ hours, placing them on furlough, or
lowering
their wages as a way to share the pain.
In his classic 1944 book International Currency Experience, Ragnar Nurkse argued that reflationary policies following the collapse of the gold standard of the 1920s operated by
lowering
currencies’ foreign exchange value, with the 1931 devaluation of the British pound unleashing a spate of competitive devaluations worldwide.
Falling interest rates in recent years pushed up real estate prices and allowed America’s upper middle class to treat their houses as enormous ATM’s,
lowering
savings still more.
For example, price controls, rather than
lowering
prices, often cause scarcity and the emergence of a black market in which controlled commodities cost significantly more.
For decades, reform discussions in the EU have focused on reducing labor-market regulation, cutting red tape in product markets, privatizing state-owned enterprises, and
lowering
tax rates.
Government educates and invests, increasing the supply and reducing the premium earned by skilled workers, and
lowering
the rate of return on physical capital.
Lowering
the tax burden on firms – including the payroll tax – would also be useful.
In Nigeria, young people spearheaded the Not Too Young to Run campaign, which led to a constitutional amendment
lowering
the minimum age for candidates.
With another general election due next year, civil-society groups preferred that priority be given to
lowering
the 10% electoral threshold for parties to enter parliament, thus broadening political participation.
The government might have supplemented these “automatic stabilizers” with new spending or by
lowering
tax rates, further increasing the fiscal deficit.
By planting more beans, peas, and lentils, farmers would help combat climate change by
lowering
greenhouse-gas emissions, and would benefit from crops that are more resilient to drier, warmer weather.
Africa must make such opportunities easier to find, by consistently implementing good environmental policies; establishing national “green growth” road maps; devising innovative financing vehicles to minimize risk; and
lowering
transaction costs.
The ECB could deal with the other driving force, the lack of financing for sovereign debt, by
lowering
its discount rate, encouraging distressed governments to issue treasury bills, and encouraging the banks to subscribe (an idea I owe to Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa).
With the housing collapse
lowering
spending, the Fed, in an effort to ward off recession and help banks with fragile balance sheets, has been cutting interest rates since the fall of 2007.
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