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And despite its young population and strong growth, India’s per capita income will only have reached 45% of the US level when its old-age population
peaks
in or around 2040; and that assumes, optimistically, that India will maintain very strong growth over the next few decades.
Some 30 companies have already been awarded licenses to bottle water from Tibet’s ice-capped
peaks.
So far, nearly 50 countries have or may have reached their emissions peaks, and more may soon join their ranks.
It incarnated the irrational exuberance that often breaks out as a boom
peaks
and did not deliver deeper permanent changes in the economy.
In such periods, interest in social problems
peaks
to make the state, which does not limit its presence in theeconomy, provide for exorbitant promises in the social sphere through releasing more money into circulation or building up its internal and external debt.
(The exact number depends on how
peaks
and troughs are defined.)
Unlike European countries, the Committee uses no quantifiable rule in determining the US economy’s
peaks
and troughs.
Equity prices and other risky assets have fallen sharply from their
peaks
of late 2007, but there are still significant downside risks.
But, according to the Sentix indicator, the perceived likelihood of “Grexit” remains, despite a recent surge, well below its previous
peaks.
Falling oil and commodity prices – already down 15% from their
peaks
– will somewhat reduce stagflationary forces in the global economy, yet inflation is becoming more entrenched via a vicious circle of rising prices, wages, and costs.
Robert Shiller’s cyclically adjusted price-earnings ratio is now above 30 – a level previously reached only twice, at the
peaks
of 1929 and 2000, both of which were followed by stock-market crashes.
The widespread view that plunging oil prices augur recession is a clear case of the belief that this time is different – a belief that typically takes hold in financial markets at the
peaks
and troughs of boom-bust cycles.
Likewise, capacity utilization in manufacturing is roughly at the same level as in the previous two
peaks
(2007-2008 and 2013), meaning that there is almost no spare capacity to be put to use.
This is not surprising if one considers that on both sides of the Atlantic prices have reached historical
peaks
and, until recently, had accelerated.
All previous
peaks
were followed by several years of declining prices (in real terms).
A fashionable approach was known as “twin peaks,” whereby one regulator handled prudential regulation – setting capital requirements – while another oversaw adherence to business rules.
But twin
peaks
itself was further subdivided.
And the continuing travails of the Dutch banking system – another bank was nationalized last month – suggest that it is easy to fall into the gap between twin
peaks.
A world population that
peaks
at 9-10 billion is not one in which we have to worry about Parson Malthus, the English 19th century economist who prophesied a future in which people multiply faster than the resources needed to sustain them and hence starve to death by the millions.
In short, the US stock market today looks a lot like it did at the
peaks
before most of the country’s 13 previous bear markets.
While the direct fiscal costs of supporting the financial sector were 2.5-3% of GDP in developed countries (with
peaks
around 4.5%), the total fiscal impact of the crisis is much larger, amounting to the total expected increase in public debt – an estimated 40% of GDP.
The debacle on the other side of the globe was almost as big and the
peaks
and troughs were within a day or two of those in India: in Argentina, stock prices fell 16.1%, in Brazil, they fell 14.7%, and in Mexico, they fell 13.8%.
Likewise, in Asia, stock prices fell 11.5% in Korea, 9.3% in Hong Kong, and 8% in Japan from their respective
peaks
to troughs over very nearly the same time period.
An interconnected energy system would make particular sense for the UK and Germany, which could use the one-hour time difference between them to smooth out the
peaks
and troughs in demand.
While these cycles reached similar peaks, the downswings’ intensity has varied according to global economic growth.
The Fed on a Tiger’s BackNEW YORK – After two months of volatility in global financial markets, major equity indices in the United States have returned to their
peaks.
New issuance activity has shifted to the CLO market, where the amounts outstanding have soared, hitting new
peaks
almost daily.
Oil and metal prices have dropped more than 50% from their 2011
peaks.
But the same pattern followed the 1973-4 and 1979-80 oil crises, when prices dropped from their highest peaks, but stayed quite high for years, representing a drag on the stock market, the housing market, and the world economy.
The turning point in this transition occurs either when the pool of transferrable unskilled labor is exhausted, or, in some cases, when the expansion of labor-absorbing modern activities
peaks
before the pool is empty.
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