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It is consistent with Article XII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (the WTO’s predecessor), which states that any country “in order to safeguard its external financial position and its balance of payments, may restrict the
quantity
or value of merchandise permitted to be imported.”
As a result, there is now a very strong case to turn the focus of the US economy from measures aimed at increasing demand to measures aimed at boosting employment directly (without worrying much about whether these measures are efficient in the sense of substantially raising the
quantity
of goods and services produced).
Thus, deflationary pressure will to some extent result in downward
quantity
adjustments, which will deepen the real crisis.
Policymakers have shifted from working on the
quantity
of money (QE, CE, and foreign-exchange intervention) to working on the price of money (first ZIRP, then FG, and now NIRP).
Ironically, the encouragement of housing debt in the US doesn’t even succeed in raising homeownership rates relative to other countries: even at the peak of the housing boom, the subsidies drove up the price of housing more than the
quantity.
By 2020, the
quantity
of stored data could be 50 times greater than it was in 2010.
If it goes the latter route, it must state the
quantity
and strength of steel that is needed, its chemical composition, the dimensions of the product (pipes or sheets, for example), and so forth; and it must submit a separate application for each type of steel, even if the only difference is in dimensions.
The good news is that the
quantity
of water that is needed for drinking, cooking, other household chores and sanitation is small.
As it moves, it changes in
quantity
and quality, and it supports different ecosystems.
In order to set clear targets for managing water scarcity, reliable, timely data are needed to understand variations in the quality and
quantity
of water caused by climate change and environmental degradation, as well as to identify patterns of water consumption by households, farmers, and industry.
Tight constraints on the
quantity
of such monetization would be essential, but the alternative is not no monetization; it is undisciplined de facto monetization, accompanied by denials that any monetization is taking place.
QE is supposed to work via “portfolio balance effects,” which implies that markets are not fully efficient: purchases of longer-term bonds affect financial conditions by changing the types and
quantity
of financial assets the public holds.
Should chaos of the kind witnessed in Libya occur in the Persian Gulf countries, for example, the world could literally come to a standstill, given the
quantity
of oil that they supply.
But today’s funding challenge is no longer just about
quantity.
Ultimately, Brazilians may just be too unsure about handing power to Silva, who has become a media phenomenon but remains an unknown
quantity.
Standard aerial or satellite imaging techniques to measure the
quantity
of oil spilled do not work well.
For one, they will likely introduce
quantity
controls on bank lending, though the effects of such regulations are diminishing because banks and other financial institutions have developed a range of ways to circumvent them.
Moreover, individual habits such as diet, exercise, the quality and
quantity
of sleep, and substance abuse also play a major role, as do early life experiences that set life-long patterns of behavior and physiological reactivity.
Since this
quantity
is required by the government to be blended with gasoline, regardless of the price of ethanol, corn, or gasoline, the demand that it creates for corn is not at all responsive to the price of corn.
Although governments may try to cram public debt down the throats of local savers (by using, for example, their rising influence over banks to force them to hold a disproportionate
quantity
of government paper), they will eventually find themselves having to pay much higher interest rates as well.
During the 1980's, the Bank of Japan fed the bubble in stock and land prices by permitting the
quantity
of money in Japan to grow rapidly --13% per year in 1990.
The
quantity
of money declined a trifle in 1992 and from then to mid-1998 grew by only 2.6% per year.
If Argentina has a balance of payments deficit, i.e. the dollar receipts from abroad are less than the payments due abroad, the
quantity
of currency (high-powered or base money) automatically goes down.
Under the pegged system, when Thailand had a balance of payments deficit, the Bank of Thailand did not have to reduce the
quantity
of high-powered money.
Setting targets based on quality rather than
quantity
will be difficult but not impossible.
The
quantity
theory states that the general price level will rise proportionately to the increase in the money supply.
If there is unused capacity in the economy, part of any increase in the
quantity
of money will be spent on increasing output rather than just buying existing output.
Export restrictions in producing countries and price controls in importing countries both serve to exacerbate the magnitude of the world price upswing, owing to the artificially reduced
quantity
that is still internationally traded.
It has shifted its focus from the price of credit to influencing the credit cycle’s
quantity
dimension through the liquidity injections that quantitative easing requires.
For the atmosphere, that would mean calculating what
quantity
of greenhouse gases the world as a whole can safely emit up to a given date, and dividing that by the current population of the world.
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