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The fiscal deficit is higher than 6% of GDP, the trade balance is negative, and public debt – albeit lower than in all other European countries except Germany and the Netherlands – is nonetheless 80% of GDP.
That makes the subsequent decline in the ratio an inaccurate measure with which to determine the negative impact on economic performance.
The absence of a framework that addresses the factors driving migration leaves politicians free to attend to their domestic markets, with little thought to the negative political and economic externalities that may be wreaking havoc outside their borders.
Second, the renminbi is expected to appreciate substantially in the coming years, owing not only to pressure over China’s huge trade surplus, but also to the Chinese government’s understanding that a stronger renminbi, despite its negative impact on exporters, is needed to fight inflation.
In other words, the government’s negative saving is being financed by the private and household sectors’ positive saving.
It is entirely possible that US inflation, measured over 12 months, will become negative by mid-2009..
But if nominal interest rates stay positive, while inflation is negative, then real interest rates may become too high for an economy in recession, causing recession to become more severe and prolonged.
But it is hard to ignore the huge constraint that an intensely partisan and negative political environment in the US has imposed.
Positive watersheds – opportunities to engineer seismic shifts in international or regional political affairs through nation-building, or to use economic and military assistance to prevent plausible negative watersheds – demand an equal level of commitment.
That failure placed the world on the path to the negative watershed posed by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
Had the Axis’s negative watershed succeeded, the US would have become a far different country.
America’s remarkable investment of resources in this outcome made both countries stable, peaceful democracies, thereby eliminating them as adversaries and turning them into vital bulwarks against the next harbinger of a negative watershed, the Soviet Union.
Moreover, the Japan shock is not the only negative factor at work today.
The negative effect is reinforced by the fact that, because CDS contracts are tradable, they tend to be priced as warrants, which can be sold at any time, rather than as options, which would require an actual default to be cashed in.
So, when Merkel argues that European integration is threatened by the public’s negative reaction to the mass flow of desperate people, it is the fate of the post-nationalist vision that she has in mind.
President George W. Bush won the 2004 election, despite the electorate’s profoundly negative view of the economy at that time.
Of course, from Israeli leaders’ perspective, the status quo, with its absence of terror and missile strikes, is anything but negative.
Given what we know now about the consequences of the high-carbon path for the natural environment and, in turn, health outcomes and quality of life, those costs could actually be negative.
If a consensus exists today, it is a negative one.
In addition, at least one of US President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Federal Reserve Board has mooted the idea of negative interest rates.
Let’s start with the most likely of the negative developments: a falling exchange rate relative to other currencies.
The immediate and medium-term prospects for economic growth in the United Kingdom are severely diminished, and the impact on the rest of Europe will be negative.
And that may be just the start of the negative impact on most Americans’ wellbeing.
And, although GDP is growing very slowly, and even turning negative from time to time, gross national income continues to rise steadily.
A negative oil shock, together with rising government-bond yields – could clip the recovery’s wings and lead to a significant further downturn in asset prices and in the real economy.
The only regulations that appear safe are those involving cigarettes (lawsuits filed against Uruguay and Australia for requiring modest labeling about health hazards had drawn too much negative attention).
As has been painfully obvious during the last several years, prolonged labor-market slack means falling real wages for most workers, with the negative effect intensifying as one moves down the wage distribution.
According to Nout Wellink, president of the Dutch Central Bank, failure to satisfactorily settle this issue could have serious negative consequences for the euro.
A major downturn in Europe or America would have a significant negative impact on these economies, which can generate enough incremental demand to sustain their own growth, but not enough to make up for a large drop in advanced-country demand.
And it is true that the benefits of deficit reduction, if achieved too fast, will be more than offset by the negative effect on growth.
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