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There could be a real disaster if US growth woes turn today’s mild downward pressures into something much more serious.
But the higher productivity growth and pressures to cut costs that result test a society's cohesion.
The New Economy’s social pressures are highest in America because (at least in comparison with Europe) its social safety net is riddled with holes.
The answer lies in this fact: increased competition and improving productivity reduce the inflationary pressures that arose during previous economic expansions.
Why exclude education, especially university education, from the free market (and its competitive pressures)?
But a far better approach than supply-side consolidation is aggressive demand-side expansion, which would counter deflationary pressures.
Pressures are mounting on the ECB to raise interest rates – and Berlusconi and Co.’s attacks are as much as an attempt to forestall future rate hikes as to get the ECB to loosen its monetary policy.
Environmental pressures are also worsening.
The pressures on our planet depend, of course, on our lifestyle.
The National Transitional Council, the governing body established in February by the various rebel groups, has functioned fairly well, given the mammoth centrifugal forces and other pressures at work.
But even for them, the concept was only an assumption; they never managed to explain why wages and interest rates so often resisted the pressures of supply and demand.
Indeed, last summer, when speculation that the Fed would soon begin to taper its purchases of long-term assets (so-called quantitative easing), financial-market pressures were strongest in markets suspected of having weak fundamentals.
That is a difficult challenge, because civil society organizations with the greatest interest in learning how to cope with the new pressures tend to specialize in specific development areas, such as the Millennium Development Goals, or sectoral issues, rather than having a broader view of how development finance institutions and their big shareholders operate.
Higher domestic consumer spending would otherwise create inflationary pressures.
Allowing the currency to appreciate will help to offset those pressures and restrain price growth.
In addition to the prospect of enormous human suffering, severe economic, political, and social pressures now threaten to overwhelm and destabilize developing countries, triggering conflict on an unprecedented scale.
Sooner or later, economic pressures will force Turkey to adopt fixes that will stabilize its currency and financial markets.
Europe’s future will ultimately be decided by the balance of competing political pressures, particularly at the national level.
Surely, those engaged in Libya today are feeling some of those same pressures.
Given the already high unemployment levels that exist across much of the Continent, and the already heavy pressures on government finances, European voters may be unwilling to accept more adjustments and the hardships they appear to bring, no matter the proposed long-term benefits.
The SDGs aim to relieve these pressures, by protecting the environment and improving the lives of people within their home countries.
For example, Pakistan, an already arid country, will suffer under the pressures of a rapidly rising population, which has grown from 42 million in 1950 to 184 million in 2010, and may increase further to 335 million in 2050, according to the UN’s “medium” scenario.
Electoral cycles (and the accompanying political pressures) are such that monetary policy, banking, and many other areas of policy and economic activity must be overseen by those with professional competence and a much longer time horizon than that of politicians.
Inflationary expectations, as measured by the rates on certain market instruments, actually fell after the hike, indicating increased confidence that the ECB will keep a lid on price pressures.
With political pressures encroaching on the bank’s policy decisions and a faux consensus, it is not surprising that there is now nostalgia in Frankfurt for earlier times and for Wim Duisenberg, even among his former critics.
If the US tips from mild recession into deep recession, the global deflationary implications will cancel out some of the inflationary pressures the world is facing.
But inflation pressures will be even worse if the US recession remains mild and global growth remains solid.
As the level and composition of debt has been shifted, deleveraging pressures have been reduced, allowing for a synchronized global expansion.
Independent expert panels, insulated from political pressures, are responsible for estimating the long-run trends that determine whether a given deficit is deemed structural or cyclical.
It should also be obvious that, in the absence of currency markets to act as a “valve” for economic and financial pressures, economic volatility may increase.
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