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High and intractable unemployment has serious negative long-term consequences that threaten to become exponentially worse.
Policymakers managed to pull the global economy back from the brink, using massive monetary stimulus, including quantitative easing and near-zero (or even negative) interest rates.
The policies in question include setting the interest rate on the ECB’s main refinancing operations to zero; raising monthly asset purchases by €20 billion ($22.3 billion) to €80 billion; and pushing the interest rate on money that banks deposit with the ECB further into negative territory – to -0.40%.
Moreover, the ECB has launched a new series of four targeted longer-term refinancing operations, which also carry negative interest rates.
In fact, S&P 500 reported earnings per share were negative during the fourth quarter of 2008, partly owing to financial-crisis-induced write-offs.
Today, advanced economies borrow in their own currencies at near-zero (and sometimes negative) interest rates.
Nonetheless, it roundly failed to anticipate the problems that the scheme would cause, and to use its autonomy to improve implementation and minimize negative effects.
He recently noted that, whereas a typical British home has a carbon footprint of around 20-21 tons, a CLT home has a negative footprint of 19-20 tons.
Japan has returned to negative territory.
Aggregate economic balance may require a negative real interest rate; but with inflation at an all-time low – the IMF expects it to be negative this year and next in the advanced economies, and zero in the emerging economies – this is not feasible.
There are several reasons why the equilibrium interest rate could have reached negative territory.
From 1980 to 1985, the US dollar appreciated by 50% against the currencies of Japan, West Germany, France, and the United Kingdom;America’s current-account deficit was approaching 3% of GDP; and its top four competitors had massive surpluses and negative GDP growth.
Household savings became negative for the first time since the Great Depression, with the country as a whole borrowing $3 billion a day from foreigners.
While most of the blame lies with George W. Bush, numerous negative trends had preceded him.
But it reflects some negative trends – starting with long-term weakness in productivity growth.
Among its main demands is that access to China’s market be governed by a negative list (a list of exceptions to what would otherwise be open market access), rather than by a lengthy government-approval process.
Last December, the State Council decided to introduce a negative list for market access that applies to all investment activities in China, by both domestic and foreign investors.
Indeed, growth in southern Europe is expected to be close to zero or negative for the next two years, and is not expected to exceed 2-3% even in the longer term.
Indeed, excessive wage deflation is likely to have negative effects on productivity.
The right approach must combine reasonable wage restraint and low (but not negative) inflation with microeconomic policy measures aimed at encouraging productivity increases.
Growth in the eurozone has turned negative overall, significantly so in the south.
Italy is the only debt-distressed eurozone country in which the negative competitiveness trends (productivity relative to income) have not reversed direction in the post-crisis period.
So a negative domestic demand shock need not completely constrain the roughly one-third of the Italian economy that is tradable – and thus could grow and generate employment if the competiveness parameters were reset quickly.
Such a chain reaction would include a negative downward spiral in global trade and investment dynamics.
At first, virtually all drug companies would have negative scores.
The impact on growth will almost certainly be negative, even if domestic demand compensates fully for the decline in external demand.
These and other developments will have a negative effect on living standards and opinions of the electorate before the parliamentary election in the fall.
The analogy with the two-phase tragedy in the Balkans may turn out to be rather close, though in negative terms.
The McKinsey report also found a negative correlation between tasks’ wages and required skill levels on the one hand, and the potential for their automation on the other.
If tourists are avoiding a city – or having a negative experience because of the Games – they will have nothing good to report back to their family and friends.
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