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And the fact that higher wages in Germany will be matched by lower wages across southern Europe suggests that continent-wide inflationary pressures will remain subdued.
Unlike advanced countries, most emerging economies are exhibiting inflationary pressures, which could be exacerbated by another round of stimulus spending.
And yet, despite their potential, African SMEs are subject to significant internal and external pressures, including poor infrastructure, high labor costs, deficient governance, and a dearth of skilled workers.
Failure to address the deficit (and the mounting debt) will create pressures to reduce what the US spends on foreign aid, intelligence, and defense – although Republicans are more likely than Democrats to protect such spending (except for foreign aid).
The Thatcherite counter-revolution was so successful that it, too, began to incite countervailing pressures.
Today’s inflationary pressures are partly the result of the lagged impact of the stimulus package that China adopted in 2009 to fight off the effects of the global financial crisis.
As the demand for education, health care, and other public services continues to grow, social pressures will continue to mount.
To be fair, central banks are not immune to manipulation, and fighting off political pressures is an endless battle.
By splitting the responsibility between the country’s two main parties, the commission would free its members from the pressures of day-to-day politics and allow them to concentrate on the health of the economy.
With its more stringent local-content and minimum-wage requirements, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) injects new cost pressures into the GVC that has played an important role in the establishment of a fully-integrated North American auto production platform over the past quarter-century.
While this new strain of global pressures on US inflation reflects the impact of aggressive trade policies on GVCs, the domestic pressures stem from a more familiar source: an extremely tight labor market.
The first is a nascent increase in long-dormant wage pressures.
The second conclusion to draw from an extremely tight US labor market is that, unlike earlier periods of low unemployment when domestic wage pressures were constrained by GVCs, today’s mounting wage inflation will be tempered by a smaller GVC offset.
Absent an unlikely acceleration in productivity, it is the confluence of these two forces – a tight domestic labor market and new global pressures – that spells trouble on the US inflation front.
And that’s precisely the problem: Based on the confluence of global and domestic pressures outlined above, 3-3.5% inflation is well in sight over the next year.
The revaluation effect would be reinforced by rising wage pressures inside China, which are already leading some labor-intensive Chinese firms to invest abroad (there are more than 700 Chinese affiliates in Vietnam alone).
With swelling urban populations, it will become increasingly difficult to keep a lid on these pressures.
And from that remnant of the Biblical story of creation sprung the notion of a tree of life, alongside major concepts such as gradualism (the view that speciation does not occur abruptly) and the idea that minor selection pressures can, over time, have a profound effect on improved fitness.
Indeed, religions do not resist the pressures of economic change well.
To be sure, the ratio is a factor that would help us to assess risks of negative feedback, since the government must refinance short-term debt sooner, and, if the crisis pushes up interest rates, the authorities will face intense pressures for fiscal austerity sooner or later.
But, as I was told during my visit, the central government’s reluctance to move more quickly reflects its wariness of imposing immense fiscal pressures on local authorities.
Moreover, budgetary pressures will make it increasingly difficult for the central bank to raise short-term interest rates to fulfill its mandate of curbing excess inflation.
Both economic theory and past experience show that scattered national regulators who face conflicting pressures cannot efficiently manage such crises.
As for the United States, the Federal Reserve faces competing pressures.
The potential savings in health-care costs would ease pressures on government budgets and release resources to boost growth in the rest of the economy.
For governments to cope with these mounting pressures, they will need to rethink the key policy tools on which they have relied for well over a century, starting first and foremost with taxation.
Is this contracting in the light of our current fiscal pressures?
And time is not on Europe’s side, as external pressures from the likes of Turkey and Russia – both of which are exploiting the discord to their advantage – compound Europe’s internal political strife.
This could take the air out of incipient assets bubbles that might be forming and ease pressures on institutional investors who are struggling to find the yield they need to meet their insurance and pension commitments.
These migration pressures present a potential solution to Europe’s labor-market problem.
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