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South America's unfolding crisis points out, once again, three major problems in today's international financial system: pegged exchange rates, volatile international capital movements, and the International Monetary Fund itself.
It is now pretty much agreed that fiscal tightening has cost developed economies 5-10 percentage points of GDP growth since 2010.
As he points out, if you want a new business model, you don’t fix an old company; you start a new one.
It points to America’s “rebalancing” strategy, to military and/or diplomatic support for those countries with which China has bilateral territorial disputes, and US support for Japan’s revision of its post-WWII “peace constitution” as a precursor for what China views as significant Japanese rearmament.
This might appear substantial, but it is only a few percentage points higher than in Germany.
Indeed, although Belgium’s debt ratio is above the euro area average (at around 100 % of GDP), the country still pays a risk premium of less than 100 basis points – despite being without a government for more than a year.
The Commission points out that EU and US flights produce more than 75% of the emissions from flights entering or leaving Europe.
But the combination of full employment and low growth rates actually points to an underlying problem: very slow productivity growth.
And that points to another piece of the solution: improved labor-market efficiency.
Indeed, a large literature on knowledge spillovers points to their remarkably narrow geographic range.
Likewise, the multi-indicator Brookings – FT TIGER Index points to a “broad-based and stable” recovery.
This points to another vulnerability: weaknesses within labor markets that have proved particularly damaging for the young.
This points to a clear need to revisit the terms of the Nice Treaty.
Historically, the real interest rate on ten-year Treasuries has been above 2%; thus, today’s rate is about two percentage points below its historical average.
To understand what is at stake, a few basic economic points need to be spelled out.
While there is undoubtedly some validity to both points of view, I worry more about the destabilizing role of the US.
Much evidence points to the affair originating not in a systematic nationalization project, but rather in the Kremlin’s perception that Khodorkovsky aimed to use his wealth to privatize the Russian state itself.
Those who summarily dismiss the loss of jobs miss a key points: America's economy has not been performing well.
With a tally of 42%, down seven points compared to the November 2015 election, the AKP was able to secure 293 of the parliament’s 600 seats.
Beyond Secular StagnationNEW YORK – As Larry Summers rightly points out, the term “secular stagnation” became popular as World War II was drawing to a close.
Recent reports commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) neatly summarize where we are with two key data points: While global investment in renewables increased by 17% last year, 116 of 140 countries registered a deterioration in their stock of natural capital.
When Jon Huntsman, an early contender, displayed some real intellectual heft by making a few useful points about dealing with China, punctuated by a brief display of his own mastery of Mandarin, some other candidates responded with derision.
But this misses two obvious points.
That is why this week’s Moscow meeting of these new development partners points toward the future.
Strong evidence points to television as the major, but not the only, culprit.
And America’s share of world manufacturing exports, which declined by 4.5 percentage points from 2000 to 2008, has stabilized – and even increased by 0.35 percentage points in 2012.
All of this points to the costly skills mismatch at play in today’s economy.
In the past, the Fed has moderated recessions by cutting short-term interest rates by around 500 basis points.
That is why I recognized the possibility of a Trump upset, despite Clinton’s significant lead in the polls (five points, just before the election).
First, the ECB’s renewed bond purchases must express the clear intention of reducing sovereign interest rates to sustainable levels, which are at least 200 basis points below their July averages.
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