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Although genetic knowledge could be empowering, a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, especially if people take irreversible actions based on a “false positive” – or ignore measures like breast cancer screening because of a “false negative.”
Despite the recent rise in negative public sentiment, protest activity remains fragmented and invariably local in scope and demands.
Not only does excess capacity have a negative impact on growth; perhaps more important, sharply declining growth also contributes to massive redundancy in some industries (especially resources and the heavy and chemical industries).
The consumer price index (CPI) has remained below 2%, and the producer price index (PPI) has been negative, for 44 months.
All this has negative implications for US consumption, for the building industry, and for the banking system.
Poland’s experience serves as a warning to other governments that, unless a funded pillar is financed by additional private savings, the impact on overall savings and output can be negative.
The former approach tries to add up the number of positive moments that people have, and then to subtract the negative ones.
If the result is substantially positive, we regard the person’s life as happy; if negative, as unhappy.
So, to measure happiness defined in that way, one would have to sample moments of people’s existence randomly, and try to find out whether they are experiencing positive or negative mental states.
Precisely because of all the offsetting factors, the US Congress Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the recent tax cuts will add just 0.08 percentage points to the average annual growth rate over the next decade, and the long-run output effects could be smaller or even negative.
Once established, the ICU would tax persistent surpluses and deficits symmetrically, to annul the negative feedback mechanism between unbalanced capital flows, volatility, inadequate global aggregate demand, and unnecessary unemployment distributed unevenly around the world.
For example, rather than viewing monetary authorities’ activism as an encouraging sign of policy effectiveness, markets have been alarmed by the Bank of Japan’s decision to follow the European Central Bank in taking policy rates even deeper into negative territory.
According to our model, long-term rates in the US should be even lower than they are now, because both inflation and short-term real interest rates are practically zero or negative.
Because India is still running a trade deficit, there could be some pressure on the rupee following any negative shock.
Moreover, the extremely sharp contraction in first-quarter GDP may indicate that the disaster’s negative impact on the economy was more significant than expected.
With the trajectory of real (inflation-adjusted) growth having moved into negative territory, on average, for three consecutive quarters, Japan may once again be reverting to recessionary form.
In the interview, Hollande acknowledged that, despite his pledge, a reversal of the negative employment trend “didn’t happen” this year.
Using a sample of 20 developed countries, they find a negative correlation between the financial sector’s share of GDP and the health of the real economy.
But the rate of productivity growth in construction is low, and the value of many credit-fueled projects subsequently turns out to be low or negative.
The negative impact of such redundancies is serious.
The more important reasons for the unease are the negative demographic trends in Russia’s far-eastern Trans-Baikal region, and the fear – shared by all of China’s neighbors – of overweening Chinese power.
To be sure, the US may respond to China’s devaluation by postponing interest-rate hikes or moderating the pace of its withdrawal from quantitative easing, and Japan may intensify its own QE to cope with negative spillovers.
Falling property prices are starting a chain reaction that will have a negative effect on developers, investment, and government revenue.
Yet there is still hope that Putin encounters a sufficiently negative reaction that he changes his stance on WTO accession.
Some economists worry that negative second-quarter data will dampen inflation expectations, thereby undermining Abe’s plan for boosting growth.
All of these negative trends were symbolized by Jean-Marie Le Pen’s success in reaching the second round of the 2002 presidential election.
Better indicators would have revealed the highly negative and possibly long-lasting effects of the deep post-2008 downturn on productivity and wellbeing, in which case policymakers might not have been so enamored of austerity, which lowered fiscal deficits, but reduced national wealth, properly measured, even more.
Finally, the uncertainties associated with Japan: will it at long last fix its banking system, and if it does, how negative will be the short-term impact?
Likewise, America’s youth fetish reinforces negative attitudes toward older people.
After the bubble bursts, the same contagion fuels a precipitous collapse, as falling prices cause more and more people to exit the market, and to magnify negative stories about the economy.
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