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To combat the effect of high oil prices, consuming countries adopt expansionary economic policies,
lowering
interest rates and increasing government spending.
As a result, a subjective twilight is
lowering
over the European project.
The debate about the timing and technical form of euroization must address which monetary regime--full-fledged euroization or floating exchange rates--is more effective in
lowering
risk premiums in the candidate countries.
Lowering
the tariffs on consumer goods and simplifying customs procedures would improve consumer welfare while causing no significant harm to domestic industry.
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them or making them rise more slowly than prices in competing countries is painful and unnerving.
The government has announced that these measures, which work (if they do work) by
lowering
interest rates, are temporary.
Deregulation also leads to economies of scale,
lowering
prices even further, as we all know when shopping at the hypermarket rather than the corner grocery store.
Public-sector co-investment properly targeted, however, could shift these incentives by
lowering
the cost of private technology investment.
In doing so, however, it put itself in peril, because the only way to implement the shift was by
lowering
the collateral requirements for refinancing credit.
Another goal of
lowering
the yield on long-term bonds was to stimulate demand for equities.
In short, the ECB would be unable to respond to an economic downturn by
lowering
interest rates and buying long-term bonds.
Second, the authorities want to reduce spending by
lowering
subsidies, rationalizing the country’s massive public investment program, and diverting spending on arms away from foreign purchases.
Because the downturn was not caused by high interest rates,
lowering
them could not lift the economy out of recession.
And declining economic activity in the rest of the world is
lowering
demand for US exports.
Moreover, officials intend to stimulate innovation through research and development, including by
lowering
tax rates for high-technology firms.
Shelter from the Storm in EuropeLAGUNA BEACH – Dark clouds are
lowering
over Europe’s economic future, as three distinct tempests gather: the Greek crisis, Russia’s incursion in Ukraine, and the rise of populist political parties.
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private and public consumption in order to boost private savings, and implementing fiscal austerity to reduce private and public debts, aren’t options, either.
His new government vows to continue eliminating the public deficit and
lowering
unemployment.
But that, in turn, requires
lowering
the cost of doing business, fighting corruption, promoting transparency in mining deals, and channeling natural-resource revenues in ways that enhance economic diversification and competitiveness.
This virtuous circle is the reason why Poland is introducing a stringent anti-cyclical budget rule that prohibits any unwarranted fiscal loosening, while gradually
lowering
its debt/GDP ratio to about 40%.
Second, encourage spending and promote equity and efficiency by raising taxes on corporations that don’t reinvest, for example, and
lowering
them on those that do, or by raising taxes on speculative capital gains (say, in real estate) and on carbon- and pollution-intensive energy, while cutting taxes for lower-income payers.
EU cooperation thus should be directed to
lowering
trade costs.
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volatility and sopping up excess liquidity can be beneficial, but there are risks here as well: regulators can easily overshoot the mark, leaving financial markets with weakened capacity for price discovery and too little liquidity.
The Fed waited too long to start the normalization process, and because it was more aggressive in
lowering
rates in the downward phase of the interest rate cycle, has had to be more aggressive in raising them in the upward phase.
If the central bank attempts to spur inflation by expanding its own balance sheet through monetary expansion and by
lowering
interest rates, it will cause the budget deficit to fall further, reinforcing the cycle.
Of course, all of that CO2 was soaked up from the atmosphere the year before; but, had we just left the barley where it was, it, too, would have soaked up quite a bit,
lowering
the reduction relative to coal to 20 tons.
Desperate for funds for reconstruction, that new regime could sell large amounts of oil,
lowering
global oil prices.
This external drag is likely to continue, as politics in developed countries impedes efforts to implement the structural reforms – such as reducing wages,
lowering
social benefits, financial deleveraging, and consolidating budget deficits – needed to revive economic growth.
Monetary policy may have bolstered stock prices in two ways, either
lowering
the discount rate by compressing the equity risk premium, or simply reducing risk-free rates for long enough to raise the present value of stocks.
The particular case that John Maynard Keynes identified was the “paradox of thrift”: if everyone tries to save more in bad times, aggregate demand will fall,
lowering
total savings, because of the decrease in consumption and economic growth.
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