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French politicians underestimate the negative impact they have in these countries when they repeatedly refer to a Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis and criticize “excessive” enthusiasm for the transatlantic alliance.
Two of the “big three” central banks, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan, have lowered their policy rates into negative territory and continue to add to their balance sheets.
The global financial system reinforces this concentration, with negative real interest rates promoting financial repression on household savings.
We may be in a permanent liquidity trap, in which nominal interest rates cannot fall below zero, but the expected rate of return to investment remains negative.
Unconventional monetary policies like quantitative easing may inflate a new generation of asset bubbles, but the underlying problem – negative returns to new investment – will not have been solved by the time the next crash comes.
Prolonged labor-market slack means falling real wages for most workers, with the negative effect growing as one moves down the wage distribution.
And, through a combination of positive and negative incentives, it has checked the threat posed by the Houthis in Yemen.
There are several possible explanations for the negative effect of antioxidant supplements.
Not only are oil supplies plentiful, but demand in the US and Europe has been lower, owing to decreasing car use in the last few years and weak or negative GDP growth in the US and the eurozone.
With the persistence of Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis, safe-haven effects have driven the yield of ten-year US Treasury bonds to their lowest level in 60 years, while the ten-year swap spread – the gap between a fixed-rate and a floating-rate payment stream – is negative, implying a real loss for investors.
This gauntlet of scrutiny is why young women with great leadership qualities are often reluctant to enter the public eye: they see this abuse, whether “positive” or negative, as a no-win proposition, one that powerful men simply do not face.
But, in an environment of slow growth and high unemployment, sentiment in the advanced countries regarding efforts to liberalize trade is distinctly negative.
Given the potency of the recent oil-price shock, the risk is that inflation may temporarily slip into negative territory in the coming months.
If what is happening now turns out to be something worse than a temporary soft patch, the market correction will continue further, thus weakening growth as the negative wealth effects of falling equity markets reduce private spending.
And, unlike in 2007-2010, when every negative shock and market downturn was countered by more policy action by governments, this time around policymakers are running out of ammunition, and thus may be unable to trigger more asset reflation and jump-start the real economy.
But, in recent months, measures of economic “surprises” have turned negative, as growth momentum has weakened in Europe and beyond.
So, given the seemingly negative impact of the launch on neighboring South Korea and Japan, why didn’t the North hold its fire?
This latter behavior hints strongly at America's interest in maintaining a strong currency despite the possible negative effects on US exports.
So the “natural” rate of interest – the rate at which the demand for investment equals the supply of savings – has fallen, and arguably has become negative.
But, because real interest rates cannot be strongly negative unless inflation is high (which it is not), there is a savings glut.
Whatever the acronym – first, ZIRP (the zero interest-rate policy of the late 1990s), then QQE (the qualitative and quantitative easing launched by BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda in 2013), and now NIRP (the recent move to a negative interest-rate policy) – the BOJ has over-promised and under-delivered.
If a “surplus country” such as Germany wanted to lower non-wage labor costs and increase value-added tax in order to boost its competitiveness, it would simultaneously have to adopt an expansive fiscal policy to compensate for the negative effects on its partners’ foreign trade.
The need to protect vital assets from the negative effects of unexpected events has driven the development of sophisticated insurance markets around the world.
The danger now is that a negative feedback loop between economies and markets will take hold.
These risks include the negative supply shock that could come from a trade war; higher oil prices, owing to politically motivated supply constraints; and inflationary domestic policies in the US.
But its benefits will not be fully realized unless governments take steps to empower the forces of change, ensure that the massive positive externalities are internalized, and minimize the negative impacts.
One negative consequence is the persistent deepening of income inequality.
The longer-run impact is thus different and much less negative.
All of this takes time, but, as it occurs, it mitigates the negative impact: the demand and supply curves shift in response to higher prices (or to anticipation of higher prices).
But if they do not, the Fed’s continued interest-rate hikes would stimulate investors to trade their German and Japanese bonds, in particular – which are now bringing low and even negative returns – for higher-yielding US varieties.
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