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Nevertheless, fiscal rules and common banking supervision are still regarded in many
quarters
as an illegitimate encroachment on member states’ sovereignty.
And even the current mini-deal implies a significant amount of drag – about 1.4% of GDP – on an economy that has grown at barely a 2% rate over the last few
quarters.
Even in the United States, economic performance has remained mediocre, with growth hovering around 1.5% for the last few
quarters.
It was already evident in the first and second
quarters
of this year that growth in China and other emerging markets was slowing.
Moreover, the gap between growth in services and growth in manufacturing and construction widened over the first two
quarters
of 2013, following annual gains of 8.1% in both sectors in 2012.
It also requires the will to act – the understanding that true leadership means the courage to take and implement even decisions that are deeply unpopular in some
quarters.
One critical test of its trajectory will be how investment activity develops over the next few
quarters.
But GDP growth in the eurozone has been slowing since its peak in the third and fourth
quarters
of 2017.
It is encouraging that the US, following talks between Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, seems prepared to accept a role for senior Assad regime members in any settlement, and that constructive proposals are starting to emerge from at least some opposition
quarters.
In the 15
quarters
since the beginning of 2008, real consumer spending has increased at an anemic 0.4% average annual rate.
Political indecision in some
quarters
is making matters worse.
Fifth, some three
quarters
of a century since they were first and last used, and a quarter-century after the Cold War’s end, nuclear weapons are judged to have value.
This was a meaningful increase after ten consecutive
quarters
of deceleration, and it marks the Chinese economy’s second soft landing in slightly less than four years.
But the two dynamics have something in common: intransigence, even if coming from different quarters, reflects a denial of reality.
For example, they call for reducing by 2015 the proportion of the world’s population that was chronically under-nourished in 1990, and for cutting the child mortality rate by three
quarters.
In the first two
quarters
of this year, America’s GDP barely exceeded the level it attained at the end of last year, and much of the increase was driven by goods that have been produced but not yet sold.
More than three
quarters
of Venezuela’s 31 million people want to free themselves from the stranglehold of their rulers, a small group of no more than 150 mafia-like figures (mostly military) who have hijacked the country’s democracy, robbed it blind, and created a devastating humanitarian crisis.
True, China has been rebalancing away from exports: domestic consumption contributed to more than 60% of its GDP growth in ten of the 15
quarters
since 2015, and up to 80% in the first half of 2018.
Might the world’s leading economists be so keen to protect their own ideas that they ignore (or, worse, stifle) innovation from unexpected
quarters?
But he has foresworn trying to change Trump’s behavior – from his unpredictable but often consequential tweets, to calls made on a personal phone from his private
quarters
(so that Kelly couldn’t monitor or listen in).
(Indeed, during my tenure in the finance ministry, real GDP grew more than it had done during the last two
quarters
of 2014, which Schmieding identifies as a period of increasing confidence.)
Given the risk that Trump will face derision and even outright mockery from some quarters, why he has decided to attend Davos remains unclear.
Among advanced economies, the United States has just experienced two
quarters
of growth averaging 1%.
And it has remained in deficit ever since (with the exception of a temporary reprieve in the first two
quarters
of 1991 due to external funding of the Gulf War).
The reaction in some
quarters
followed similar lines.
The EU’s Global MissionIn some quarters, pessimism, sad to say, dominated the recent celebrations marking the European Union’s 50th birthday.
As a tourist draw, seen at close
quarters
in its natural habitat, a manta ray can be worth thousands of dollars; dead on a slab at the quayside, its flesh and gills fetch a fraction of that.
But $350 billion is roughly what the financial sector as a whole earned in an average quarter during the credit boom – and profit levels in recent
quarters
have reached or exceeded those levels.
To be sure, there have been some setbacks: Japan’s GDP shrank in the second and third
quarters
of 2014.
Recent improvements in data for industrial production, fixed investment, and retail sales suggest that the Chinese economy, which had slowed in recent quarters, may already be on the mend.
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