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When output crumbled due to a profound banking and financial crisis (linked to the collapse of the gold standard), tax revenues plummeted in the US and Europe, and conservative governments tried to cut budget spending to limit budget deficits.
The explanation for this demographic trend is straightforward: global fertility rates have plummeted, from five children per woman, on average, in 1950-1955, to 2.5 children per woman in 2010-2015.
Home prices in the United States, as measured by the Standard ampamp;Poor’s/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, have plummeted more than 40% in real inflation-adjusted terms in some major cities since the peak around the beginning of 2006.
Commodity exporters faced a setback around 2014, when prices plummeted.
But, abstracting from high-frequency fluctuations, average annual world prices (in US dollars) plummeted about 60% between 2012 and 2016.
But with the doubling of US import tariffs on Turkish steel and aluminum, the lira plummeted by another 12% in a single day.
But when the price of oil plummeted in 2014, the mask slipped, and the economy imploded.
Natural gas emits only half as much CO2 as coal, and occupies a rapidly increasing share of electricity generation – up 37% since 2007, while coal’s share has plummeted by 25%.
With the introduction of Apple’s iPhone in the middle of that year, Nokia’s market share shrunk rapidly and revenue plummeted.
America’s stock market plummeted for technical reasons in the fall of that year.
Car production plummeted to around 10% of pre-war output.
And, as Figure 2 shows, Japan’s export growth plummeted.
By 2016 the annual total had plummeted to $4.3 trillion, or 6% of the global economy – a lower share than in 1980.
Last year, the country’s GDP growth slowed, manufacturing plummeted, and inflation and corruption grew uncontrollably.
As a result, trust in government has plummeted.
Global capital markets lost confidence in Venezuela in 2013, and the price of oil plummeted in 2014, making these policies unsustainable and sending the economy into a tailspin.
Emerging-market equities may have plummeted, but this, too, is a shock absorber.
Incomes in the country’s major economic sector plummeted by around half.
Growth has slowed, exports have plummeted, and unemployment has jumped, and the prevailing view has been that a “blame America first” strategy makes the most sense.
When growth slowed sharply and credit flows collapsed in the wake of the Great Recession, budget revenues plummeted, governments were forced to socialize private-sector liabilities, and fiscal deficits and debt soared.
In 2014, global investment in renewable energy increased by 17%, even as oil prices plummeted, according to a recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Prices plummeted by more than half in a period of just a few months last year, catching many oil traders and analysts by surprise.
As a result, capital expenditure – already a fragile proposition, given weak demand – has plummeted, triggering a vicious circle of shrinking GDP, lower tax revenues, higher expenditures, and further destabilization of public-debt positions.
This display of weak-kneed diplomacy appalled many Japanese, and popular support for Kan’s administration has plummeted.
Though he was reelected president in a landslide in March, his approval rating has since plummeted to 45%.
China’s inward FDI fell 1.2% in the first seven months of 2006, after a 0.5% decline in 2005, while combined investment from Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan plummeted 31% in the first half of 2006, compared to the 6.5% decline in 2005.
Educational opportunities have multiplied, air and water pollution have plummeted, and life expectancy has increased almost to West European levels across the region.
When the crisis hit, both kinds of spending plummeted, and the investments that should have picked up the slack never materialized.
When the financial crisis erupted in the fourth quarter of 2007, Italy’s GDP plummeted by 7%, then picked up by 3%, dropped again by 5%, rebounded by a measly 0.1%, and lately, during the first half of this year, shrank again, this time by 0.3%.
In the first half of 2008, commodity prices moved up quickly – and plummeted just as fast in the second half of the year.
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