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Pessimists will claim that behaviors are hard to change, especially when doing so depends on explaining the science of germs to uneducated audiences.
America’s Day of ReckoningThe pessimists who have long forecasted that America’s economy was in for trouble finally seem to be coming into their own.
Pessimists claim that in the absence of well developed local financial markets and a global lender of last resort, emerging economies remain vulnerable to a sudden stop in capital flows.
Pessimists stress the feared reversal of private capital flows, owing to the US Federal Reserve’s tapering of its purchases of long-term assets, as well as the difficulties of so-called second- and third-generation structural reforms and the limits to “catch up” growth outside of manufacturing.
The pessimists’ third argument is that emerging economies are not implementing fast enough the structural reforms needed to support long-term growth.
Contrary to the pessimists who have long been wrong about looming threats to China’s GDP growth, I suspect that China’s ultimate undoing could actually be its hukou (household registration) system.
But today’s pessimists need to account for some fundamental differences between the two economies.
The pessimists, however, doubt that China can maintain catch-up economic growth.
The pessimists won, and now they’re feeling pretty hopeful.
Optimists predict a recession of the second type; pessimists suspect that a third variety recession is lurking in the economic shadows.
The picture for Europe, however, is not as bleak as pessimists assume.
Pessimists focus on the rapid decline of its demographic dividend, its high debt-to-GDP ratio, the contraction of its export markets, and its industrial overcapacity.
Pessimists note that our mounting economic woes around the world are being used as an excuse for inaction on cuts in carbon emissions.
Pessimists have been saying this for a long time.
Pessimists have long viewed the Chinese economy as they view their own economies – repeating a classic mistake that Yale historian Jonathan Spence’s seminal assessment warned of many years ago.
Pessimists see conflict of one kind or another as more or less inevitable, and adopt a highly wary and competitive approach to the conduct of international relations.
What motivates – or frightens – the growth pessimists, in particular, are (1) higher European interest rates, (2) the slowing US economy, and (3) the increase in the German value-added tax (VAT) from 16% to 19% set for the beginning of the year.
Growth pessimists have a point if they are wary about Europe’s prospects for structural reform to raise the growth ceiling.
As the old joke goes, optimists are learning to speak Chinese; pessimists are learning to use a Kalashnikov.
Pessimists, however, caution against believing that Kim is serious about denuclearization.
Second, given North Korea’s bad track record, the pessimists think it unlikely that Kim will permit intrusive nuclear inspections, which is a critical component of CVID.
But there may be a way to achieve denuclearization that satisfies both optimists and pessimists.
Pessimists worry that the productivity-enhancing benefits of technology are waning and unlikely to rebound.
Accepting pessimists – often center-right voters who are doing fine but are worried about the future – believe that shaking up the system is impossible or undesirable, so they grudgingly accept their country’s diminished prospects.
Anxious pessimists, often on the center left, are glummer about the future, but seem content merely to soften its hardest edges.
Finally, angry pessimists – often populists and their supporters – think economies are rigged, politicians corrupt, and outsiders dangerous.
Both accepting and anxious pessimists focus so much on the risks and difficulties of change that they ignore the pitfalls of inaction – not least the rise of populism – while angry pessimists assume that they can smash the system while maintaining its benefits.
As a result, accepting and anxious pessimists tend to elect governments that duck difficult decisions (witness Germany’s grand coalition), while angry pessimists make matters worse (by voting for Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda or for Brexit, for example).
Still, the pessimists’ concerns cannot be dismissed.
Containing China’s SlowdownSEOUL – Pundits love debating the Chinese economy’s growth prospects, and nowadays the pessimists are gaining the upper hand.
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