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The Fed waited too long to start the normalization process, and, because it was more aggressive in
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rates in the downward phase of the interest-rate cycle, it has had to be more aggressive in raising them in the upward phase.
If China imposes a carbon price for its energy-intensive manufacturing industries, the US won’t need to do so at its border,
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risks to the international trading system on which both countries rely.
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trade barriers would mean that all countries could focus on doing what they do best, making everyone better off.
Weakness in the periphery has led to capital flowing back to Germany as a regional safe haven,
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German borrowing costs.
It also requires a substantial reform of the monetary union’s system of economic governance, aimed at restoring financial stability and
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borrowing costs, together with a boost in external demand in order to compensate for the effects of austerity.
In these cases, too many patents can drive up licensing and legal costs prohibitively,
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the payoffs to inventors and discouraging them from innovating.
The pessimistic argument ignored the fact that by
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the cost of goods, machines increased workers’ real wages – enabling them to buy more – and that the rise in labor productivity enabled employers (often under pressure from trade unions) to pay more per worker.
In response, China’s central bank is
lowering
interest rates to spur domestic investment, and the resulting depreciation of the renminbi’s exchange rate has helped to keep exports afloat.
And
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administrative barriers to imports might redirect more spending toward foreign goods than the authorities intend.
The Treasury and Federal Reserve are adding preferred stock to the balance sheets of the US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and FHLBC and the insurance giant AIG in the hope of shoring up their capital cushions and
lowering
their borrowing costs so that they can buy more mortgages.
The 2015 White House report, for example, found that a ten-percentage-point decrease in tariffs leads to a one-percentage-point drop in the wage gap between men and women, and that
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tariffs also reduces wage gaps based on race and immigration status.
In Brazil, early action by the government to treat people with HIV/AIDS resulted in several successful negotiations,
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drug prices considerably.
In addition to
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carbon-dioxide emissions and improving air quality, the city’s new transit system also slashed travel times by an average of 30% and cut transport costs for low-income households along the route by as much as 31%.
Gordon is essentially a supply-side pessimist, though he also points out that income inequality can act as a drag on growth, by
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effective demand.
Currency depreciation works by
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domestic costs in foreign-currency terms.
By eliminating nominal exchange rate uncertainty, a common currency area has the additional benefit of
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transaction costs and investment risks.
State orchestration should instead be focused on fighting corruption, reducing transaction costs, promoting competition,
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entry barriers, and removing excess capacity.
Keynesians thought that prudent monetary policy--central banks raising and
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interest rates to diminish fluctuations in private investment spending--could go part of the way toward stabilizing the economy.
Simply put, the long recession is
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Europe’s potential growth.
But France’s so-called socialist government is
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corporate taxes and cutting expenditures – a recipe almost guaranteed to weaken the economy, but one that wins accolades from Germany.
By
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the corporate-tax rate to a globally competitive level and granting better terms for repatriating profits, the tax package is expected to shift corporate earnings back to the United States.
The Big Bond approach represents a much-needed update to the ODA framework – one that supports higher and more sustainable growth in recipient countries, while
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the burden on donor countries.
But these countries still need to gain competitiveness by
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the relative price of their export goods, because they need to sustain external surpluses to correct accumulated imbalances.
To change the Israeli-Palestinian dynamic, external actors now need to influence the political calculus inside Israel and Palestine by
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the political cost of peace and raising the cost of occupation .
For example, Malaysian television producers could choose to comply with, say, America’s easier-to-meet safety standards, then sell the same product in both markets, reaping the benefits of economies of scale while
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compliance costs.
Decisions about data-center specifications are important for managing costs, obtaining a reliable supply of energy and water, and
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reputational risks, particularly given the increasing global regulatory focus on climate change.
For example, immunizations against bacterial brain and lung infections – like childhood pneumococcal illnesses and Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib – have dramatically reduced the disease burden in the US and around the world,
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the need for antibiotics in the process.
Unglamorous interventions like de-worming would allow children to be better nourished;
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the cost of schooling would see children and nations benefit.
For example, we believe that converting oil intospecial plastics for lighter-weight vehicles, thereby
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fuel consumption,would make more sense than burning it as gasoline or diesel.
In China, this would represent a significant shift from prevailing conditions, in which the children of poor households, especially in rural areas, lag in terms of nutrition and school enrollment, despite significant progress in recent decades on
lowering
infant mortality and raising educational attainment.
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