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But interest rates remain extremely low, and are even negative in some countries, and QE has been taken close to its limits, with public support for the policy waning.
Such major losses in fishing capacity, with their far-reaching negative socio-economic consequences on the human populations affected, are bound to have major, mostly favourable, effects on the fish stocks.
The build-up of real and financial problems – the worst US housing recession ever, oil at $90 a barrel or above, a severe credit crunch, falling investment by the corporate sector, and savings-less and debt-burdened consumers buffeted by multiple negative shocks – make a recession unavoidable.
And although lower-ranking US officials, including the Senior Director for Asia on the National Security Council, have met with their Cambodian counterparts to press them on rights issues, Trump has said nothing negative about Hun Sen’s actions.
Worse, the education policies that follow from current beliefs have serious negative consequences for opportunities for young people and the quality of education itself.
Countries like this explain why large international studies often find a negative relationship between education and growth rates.
In the aftermath of the negative referendum votes in France, the Netherlands, and Ireland on European constitutional reform, it is close to inconceivable that EU heads of government would agree to set off down that path again.
But Israel’s current passivity – with all of its negative long-term consequences for the country – is likely to continue as long as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu considers his coalition’s survival more important than a decisive peace initiative.
As the country’s exports accelerate on the back of today’s synchronous global economic expansion, the negative effects of the November 2016 demonetization of high-value bank notes and the enactment last July of a new goods and services tax (GST) are receding.
Here, several proposals have already been put forward, including a universal basic income, currently being piloted in Finland and some sub-national jurisdictions such as Ontario, Canada; a negative income tax; and various types of portable social security accounts that pool workers’ benefits.
Harvard economist Alberto Alesina recently summarized evidence concerning whether government deficit reduction – that is, expenditure cuts and/or tax increases – always induces such negative effects: “The answer to this question is a loud no.”
Besides being morally inadmissible, this will eventually have negative repercussions on the firm's economic efficiency.”
Transferring liability for foreign debt to Mubarak should not have negative economic consequences for Egypt in the long run.
For some reason, achieving a level of investment that would generate full employment seems to require negative real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates, which is another way of saying that people have to be paid to invest.
But in a world of low inflation and zero nominal interest rates, getting to the required negative real rate may be a challenge.
As with negative real interest rates, but in a more targeted and efficient manner, we may have to pay to make valuable investments happen.
So he will not allow government largesse to become excessive and thus risk a negative reaction in the financial markets.
Japan’s economy has swung from negative to positive growth and is on the verge of breaking free from chronic deflation.
Now, however, South Korea must learn from Japan’s negative experiences.
The referendum majority on June 23 was much narrower than that in Scotland’s 2014 independence referendum, or the negative votes on EU treaties in Ireland, Denmark, and the Netherlands, all of which were subsequently reversed.
Almost surely, this stimulus would exceed the contractionary effect of money being taken out of the system and the negative wealth effect of the decreased value of “carbon assets.”
But, though inflation is very low, and even negative in a few countries, something more must be going on, because commodity prices are falling relative to the overall price level.
In the US, the skew has been so negative only three other times since 1960: at the time of the 6.7% drop on May 28, 1962, the record-shattering 20.5% plummet on October 19, 1987, and the 6.1% decline on October 13, 1989.
Stock markets’ unusually negative skew is not inconsistent with booming price growth in recent years.
Nor is the negative skew inconsistent with the fact that world stock markets have been relatively quiet for most of this year.
Is psychology somehow behind the pervasive negative skew in recent months?
Maybe we should ask why the skew is so negative.
But big negative returns have an unfortunate psychological impact on markets.
Perhaps the buy-on-dips confidence index has slipped lately because of negative news concerning credit markets, notably the US sub-prime mortgage market, which has increased anxiety about the fundamental soundness of the economy.
The Barcelona municipal council, as part of a broader social-cohesion plan, launched the “anti-rumor campaign,” which uses a comic book series to combat negative stereotypes about migrants.
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