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While that’s an improvement from the unprecedented negative saving position in 2008-2011, it remains far short of the 6.3% average that prevailed over the final three decades of the twentieth century.
Even the most conservative estimates of the federal budget deficit suggest that the already-depressed net national saving rate could re-enter negative territory at some point in the 2018-2019 period.
Ironically, in the coming era of negative saving, the US will find itself increasingly dependent on surplus saving from abroad.
Wall Street has wobbled, but there has been nothing resembling its sharp negative reaction to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930.
Taxing intermediate inputs will hurt efficiency, while shifting resources away from dynamic high-tech sectors in favor of old-line manufacturing will depress productivity growth, with further negative implications for investment.
The Boehner ShockWASHINGTON, DC – Ever since the financial crisis erupted in 2008, media outlets and specialists alike have devoted much attention to anticipating negative shocks to the global economy.
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a helpful report in July that spelled out some of the consequences of the 2013 confrontation over the debt ceiling – including how it pushed up the government’s borrowing costs and the negative impact this had on the economy.
And over the longer run, the effects on the global balance of power and the liberal international order – in which Britain has a strong national interest – would be negative.
China may be home to 20% of humanity, but for more than two decades its fertility rate has been lower than the “replacement” level (that required to maintain the current population), with population growth expected to turn negative within the next two decades.
Land-use patterns interweave industrial and residential districts, exposing vulnerable (and growing) populations to a host of negative spillover effects.
Low interest rates have eased the burden of those debts (in effect, negative real interest rates are a tax on bondholders), but rates are on the rise.
If Syria could break free of the negative influences of regional politics, genuine change without continued violence might become possible.
But countries like Lebanon have become resistant to its effects – for example, by developing creative industries – diminishing its negative impact on economic, social, and intellectual development.
The historical dynamics and empirical evidence in respect to anti-globalization and closed societies clearly indicate negative outcomes.
Taking adaptation into account, rich countries will adapt to the negative consequences of global warming and exploit the positive changes, creating a total positive effect of global warming worth about 0.1% of GDP.
But no one can deny that some individuals do face discrimination because of their “religion” (according to a recent Pew survey, 45% of Europeans have a negative image of Islam).
Barack Obama’s American RevolutionFor eight years, George W. Bush has managed to incarnate and reinforce all the prejudices and negative stereotypes the world has of the US.
Even before the current diplomatic controversies, China’s leaders were gleefully drawing attention to how much more effective their stimulus package had been than Obama’s in countering the negative effects of the financial crisis.
By providing extra liquidity, central banks merely reduce the amount of money withdrawn from expenditure on goods and services, which mitigates, but does not reverse, the negative demand shock that hit the world economy.
Today’s near-zero – even slightly negative – short-term policy interest rates do not mean that longer-term rates, which are more relevant to investment financing, have also hit zero.
For example, negative interest policy rates (NIRPs) are now standard in Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, the eurozone, and Japan, where the excess reserves that banks hold with central banks as a result of QE are taxed with a negative rate.
Nominal interest rates are now negative not only for overnight debt, but also for ten-year government bonds.
Indeed, about $6 trillion worth of government bonds around the world today have negative nominal yields.
With banks unable to switch into cash (thereby earning zero rates), central banks could go even more negative with policy rates.
In Italy and Spain, growth is negative, and youth unemployment is 35% and 55%, respectively.
This undoubtedly had a negative impact on productivity growth.
This implies that much, if not most, of the political uncertainty with potentially negative impact on economic prosperity has already been factored in during the previous period and is now a "built-in" element in the Hong Kong economy.
Little has been done to make the aviation industry pay for its negative effect on the environment.
Opinion polls in Taiwan reflect public dismay over the Chinese legislation, and this negative sentiment will raise the pressure on President Chen, who recently antagonized some of his more ardent pro-independence supporters by reaching out to the pro-unification opposition People First Party.
Because the inflation rate is also about 2%, this implies a negative real interest rate, which is confirmed by the interest rate of -0.6% on ten-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS), which adjust interest and principal payments for inflation.
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