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As for absolute decline, the US has very real problems, but the American economy remains highly productive.
Moreover, when governments overspend to contain violence, they waste money that could otherwise be invested in more productive areas, such as infrastructure, business development, or education.
Usually, low interest rates lead firms to borrow more to invest more, and greater indebtedness is matched by more productive assets.
We have enough organic carbon-hydrogen bonds to break to provide us with calories; enough vitamins and other nutrients to keep us healthy; enough shelter to keep us dry; enough clothing to keep us warm; enough capital to keep us, at least potentially, productive; and enough entertainment to keep us from being bored.
It is well known that it can take a very long time for businesses to reimagine productive processes to exploit new technologies: railroads and electricity are two leading examples.
The light that it powers has enabled us to have active, productive lives past sunset.
Money put into banks and other financial intermediaries (such as pension and insurance funds) can finance productive activities or short-term speculation (for example, consumer loans and real estate).
As India’s labor market evolves in line with the shift toward a non-agricultural economy, the creation of “gainful employment” – safer, higher-paid, and more productive jobs – will be the true measure of economic health.
The idea of creating and publishing an index with country rankings is a strategy adopted by many organizations and social movements to raise awareness about issues such as corruption, governance, freedom, gender equality, competitiveness, productive knowhow, and the investment climate, among others.
Countries should, instead, focus on the ultimate goal: generating a rapid increase in the number of productive jobs.
The winner is a corrupt form of capitalism that is undermining the US economy, making it less productive and undermining people’s sense of fairness.
Companies in the productive sectors – which should be creating more and better-quality jobs – struggle to grow, much less compete in the global economy.
The result is environmental degradation, unsustainable public debt, and generations of under-educated, unemployable people who will have difficulty raising their own children to become productive adults.
At worst, it could bring to a grinding halt much-needed banking-sector reforms aimed at, among other things, ensuring productive, rather than politically motivated, lending.
Here, Sweden – which links the retirement age to life expectancy, thereby expanding a productive “silver” workforce – shows the way.
Amid increasingly intense international competition to attract foreign investment, reducing the corporate tax would actually increase Japan’s tax revenues, by spurring companies to invest their vast cash stockpiles in more productive activities.
Of course, once an apprenticeship program is operational, the larger benefits implied by a more productive economy and lower unemployment will become apparent.
The idea was that an individual could buy a computer and the software needed for a specific (and increasingly complicated) purpose, and immediately generate a productive result.
But whether the Trump administration and the new US Congress can design and implement a program of productive infrastructure spending remains to be seen.
But, rather than alarming anyone, this should be seen as reassuring, because the riskiest forms of international finance have been curtailed without disrupting more stable and productive forms of foreign investment.
Greece never had the productive structure to be as rich as it was: its income was inflated by massive amounts of borrowed money that was not used to upgrade its productive capacity.
But the bottom line is that Greece needs to develop its productive capabilities if it wants to grow.
So a company that fires all its workers and then ships from stock can look very productive – until it runs outs of stock.
Managers’ increased focus on maximizing shareholder value won many adherents when the idea was introduced in the 1980’s: the impersonal discipline of financial markets would force companies to become more productive and innovative.
Though GDP should never be taken as an accurate representation of a country’s economic health, in Egypt, the figures do reflect the collapse of the country’s entire productive capacity in the years following the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in 2011.
He called for financial transfers from advanced to developing economies to compensate for displaced productive and export capacities (and lost tax revenues), and to enable recipient countries to overhaul those capacities to become more competitive.
People might trade away cheaper goods for assurances that a wide range of productive and rewarding employment options would be available, now and in the future.
By distorting incentives through taxes, regulations, and a runaway welfare state, both countries discouraged growth in their most productive sectors.
Attempts to shift too much wealth from productive to non-productive sectors led to stagnation in both countries, with growing budget deficits, debt, and heavy unemployment.
If China comports itself well, and if the meetings are productive, this will be important in its own right.
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