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In inflationary periods, high outstanding government liabilities impair fiscal policy, because higher taxes are needed to finance the same level of real government spending.
During
periods
of recession or stagnation, additional interest payments by banks would burden the economy, whereas public debt may enable the economy to reach full employment.
Neither presidential (the prime minister is accountable to the National Assembly, whereas there is no accountability in a presidential regime) nor parliamentary (the president is elected by direct suffrage and has significant power), the system has seen increasing
periods
of “cohabitation,” which has generally proven inefficient.
In any case, even if firms are cash-rich, they do not typically expand investment during
periods
when consumption is slowing.
The lesson of earlier
periods
is that populism thrives in environments where longstanding sources of identity – for example, class or nation – have weakened.
Overcrowded classes in often inadequate physical surroundings without necessary equipment have led to ever longer
periods
of study, a deterioration in the quality of degrees, and much unhappiness among both students and professors.
While India’s president may be only a ceremonial head of state, during
periods
of political instability – especially in the current age of coalition governments – it is the president who makes crucial decisions about governing parties.
This anti-Semitism, which systematically marginalized Jews in the medieval and early modern periods, was supplanted by a pseudo-scientific race-based discourse that culminated in Auschwitz.
How can one compare cost-of-living indices in different
periods
when new goods are constantly upending traditional consumption models?
They have always caused economic distortions and political complaints, but many have endured for surprisingly long
periods.
Although Zhao was no visionary, no Vaclav Havel or Lech Walesa, and not even anti-communist, his agenda in the mid-1980’s embraced the economy, politics, culture, media, and society, and it led to one of the most open and intellectually rich
periods
of Chinese history.
During these three
periods
of military rule, the country was able to align itself quickly with the US.
But, in the long term, the greatest boon of all, for both food security and the environment, will likely be the ability of new crop varieties to tolerate
periods
of drought and other water-related stresses.
As happens during
periods
of major and rapid change, the country will experience social tension, uncertainty, and unease.
This method can reveal selection in action, working over
periods
of time as short as one generation – so that it can answer the question of whether modern culture has stopped evolution.
According to Harvard’s Benjamin Friedman, prolonged
periods
of economic distress have been characterized also by public antipathy toward minority groups or foreign countries – attitudes that can help to fuel unrest, terrorism, or even war.
Indeed, even if there were no trade barriers at all, trade might grow significantly more slowly than GDP in some
periods.
Of course, crises inevitably produce major setbacks with long recovery periods, drastically reducing growth in income and wealth.
While many of these economies, especially those that are dependent on hydrocarbon exports, have experienced
periods
of stronger growth, no durable catch-up has occurred.
Royalty Pharma focused on approved drugs with blockbuster potential, creating stable revenue streams and impressive equity returns – even during
periods
of extreme stock-market volatility.
There are prolonged
periods
when prices are moving away from any theoretical equilibrium.
One can think of periodic systemic risk as an inherent tendency toward reversion to the mean: short- and medium-term returns can deviate considerably and for extended
periods
from the expected long-run returns associated with various investment strategies and capabilities.
Perhaps most importantly, short- and medium-run returns, especially during
periods
when they are high, should not be taken as accurate signals of long-run returns.
Can we draw some lessons from those earlier
periods
of existential self-doubt?
It is unclear whether their conclusions extend to other
periods.
In revolutionary periods, the impossible can become inevitable in a matter of months.
The postal industry, for example, could learn a lesson from airlines, train companies, travel agencies, and hotels, all of which increase their prices during
periods
of high demand.
But, even if managers and boards at publicly traded firms focus excessively on their quarterly results, and even if median stock-holding
periods
have shortened greatly in recent decades, it is difficult to know whether stock-market trading has become more rapid in ways that would make managers pay even more attention to quarterly results.
One way to measure the average stock-holding period and its change over the past quarter-century is to add up all holding
periods
of all investors at the end of the year and divide the total by a weighted average of the stockholders.
Furthermore, in the past, the Fed and the Bundesbank coordinated their interventions during certain
periods.
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