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These factors, together with rent capture and winner-take-all markets, can entrench inequality and blunt markets’ competitiveness.
Vested interests prevailed: business groups attempted to capture specific markets, and public-sector workers fought to preserve their privileges.
While this solution would be good for the 45% of British exports that are sold in EU markets, it would reduce protection for British industries to zero.
Currencies that nose-dived in 1997/98 have strengthened substantially; markets that collapsed have turned up.
As China’s markets expand – the capitalization of the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets is on the order of $11 trillion – they are increasingly outstripping policymakers’ capacity to manage prices and valuations.
The only practical way forward is for the Chinese authorities to focus on regulatory and institutional development, while following through on their commitment to allow markets to play the decisive role in allocating resources.
But with the WTO stuck in drift and deadlock over the past few years, there is a race to secure preferential access to the markets of the major powers, and to defuse trade tension by locking into strong bilateral and regional partnerships.
Brands and advertisers can speak directly to customers, and markets no longer need the convening power of a newspaper to match buyers and sellers (the purpose of classified ads).
NEWPORT BEACH – Judging from the skittishness of both markets and “consensus expectations,” the United States’ economic prospects are confusing.
In the process, markets take investors on a wild rollercoaster ride, with the European crisis (riddled with even more confusion and volatility) serving to aggravate their queasiness.
So not only has the MPC kept interest rates at a rock-bottom 0.5% since 2009, but policy has been loosened further by the Bank of England’s so-called “quantitative easing” – that is, expanding the monetary base by the stroke of a pen in the hope of reinvigorating domestic credit markets.
But when bad things happen and there is pressure on financial markets, with fear of insolvency in the air, it matters a great deal if you have a claim on an insured bank in the United States or on an essentially unregulated offshore subsidiary.
In fact, such an approach would hurt virtually everyone, not just the wealthy elites who have benefited most from globalized markets.
On one side, sectors of the economy demonstrate extraordinary productivity, and have won big shares of international markets.
A Contagion of Bad IdeasNEW YORK – The Great Recession of 2008 has morphed into the North Atlantic Recession: it is mainly Europe and the United States, not the major emerging markets, that have become mired in slow growth and high unemployment.
Believers in low interest rates also emphasize shifts in income distribution in the United States away from labor and toward capital, which have greatly boosted firms' resources to finance investment internally and reduced their dependence on capital markets.
They also cite investment opportunities in emerging markets, and make the obvious point that if China and India stay on track, their economies' relative weight in the world will double in the next decade or so, as rapid real growth is accompanied by appreciation in their real exchange rates.
Even if an economist correctly understands fundamentals, Dornbusch warned, that doesn't mean that markets do.
In Latin America, and in emerging markets more generally, there will be lots of pressure.
Episodes of financial tightening at the center and falling stock markets scare emerging market investors.
The second dangerous corollary was that markets know best.
A man must be perfectly crazy, who, where there is a tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands, whether it be his own, or borrowed of other people...”A larger capital stock would mean thicker markets, a finer division of labor, and a more productive economy.
Given that the Doha Round has failed to address the main problems that the US and Europe have encountered in trade relations with China – non-compliance with intellectual-property rules, subsidies for state-owned enterprises, closed government-procurement markets, and limits on access to the services market – both are now emphasizing bilateral trade agreements.
The main puzzle is the disconnect between the performance of financial markets and the real.
While stock markets continue to reach new highs, the US economy grew at an average rate of just 2% in the first half of 2017 – slower growth than under President Barack Obama – and is not expected to perform much better for the rest of the year.
Lower long-term interest rates and a weaker dollar are good news for US stock markets, and Trump’s pro-business agenda is still good for individual stocks in principle, even if the air has been let out of the so-called Trump reflation trade.
It is little wonder that actual and potential growth is stuck at around 2%.Yes, inflation is low, and corporate profits and stock markets are soaring.
Today’s ultra-flexible labor markets, characterized by part-time, temporary, and zero-hours contracts, are very different from those that generated cost-push inflation in the 1960s and 1970s.
Just as labor markets can be too rigid, they can be too flexible.
China’s adaptive policymaking approach has produced both spectacular failures, with entire markets being shut down, and remarkable successes, yielding models that could be applied across the country.
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