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Compared to banks that are not undergoing examination, the volume of loans by banks in the six quarters surrounding a CRA examination is 5% higher, and these loans are 15% more likely to be delinquent one year after origination.
We all know the consequences: the greatest crisis in three quarters of a century, mitigated only by massive government intervention.
The American expansion seems increasingly well established, with estimated annual growth exceeding 4% over the last two quarters.
Cardiff’s Mixed MessagesLONDON: The recent European Summit in Cardiff has been widely written off as a non-event, or even, in some quarters, as the beginning of a slow-down in the process of European integration.
In addition, net foreign capital inflows are likely to dwindle for several quarters at least, affecting domestic monetary conditions while aggregate demand is weak.
During the first three quarters on 2009, private venture capital firms invested less than $3 billion combined in this sector.
Third, economic growth has been flat on average in the UK over the last couple of quarters, with front-loaded fiscal austerity coming at a time when rising inflation is preventing the Bank of England from easing monetary policy.
Real GDP growth in the US has averaged only 2.1% in the 28 quarters since the Great Recession ended in the third quarter of 2009 – barely half the 4% average pace in comparable periods of earlier upturns.
In fact, unemployment in much of the region has continued climbing during the last seven quarters.
During the first seven quarters of the previous recovery, which began in 2004, average unemployment decreased by 0.2 percentage points for every percentage point of GDP growth.
This time, unemployment over the last seven quarters has actually increased by 0.3 percentage points for each percentage point of growth, resulting in a total rise in unemployment of almost one percentage point since the end of 2015.
During the first seven quarters of this rally, the region’s average investment decreased by 2.2% for each percentage point of growth; in the past, average investment increased by almost 2.3%.
In fact, average annual growth in Latin America was a meager 1.4% during the first seven quarters of the current recovery, compared to 5.4% following the previous one.
According to the International Monetary Fund’s latest update of its World Economic Outlook, economic growth will continue in the next few quarters, especially in the United States and the eurozone.
But its successes in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine are creating great anxiety, and even hostility, in some quarters.
Owing to its expanding middle class, the region will likely account for half of the global increase in annual beef and poultry consumption and over three quarters of the rise in fish consumption between now and 2030.
In the 19 quarters since the start of 2008, annualized growth of inflation-adjusted consumer spending has averaged just 0.7% – almost three percentage points below the 3.6% trend increases recorded in the 11 years ending in 2006.
The performance of China’s services sector has been especially impressive in recent years, with its share of GDP increasing from 44% in 2010 to 51.6% in the first three quarters of 2015, according to official statistics.
One cannot rule out a couple of quarters of sharp GDP growth as the inventory cycle and the massive policy boost lead to a short-term revival.
If economic activity apart from the stimulus package is continuing to decline at nearly the 6% annual rate that was recorded in the last two quarters, the temporary boost from the stimulus package will suffice to make the overall GDP change close to zero or even positive.
While the one-time increase will appear in official statistics as a temporary rise in the growth rate, there is nothing to make that higher growth rate continue in the following quarters.
It is compatible with three consecutive quarters of zero growth in 2008.
The decline in the WES indicator during the last two quarters was the sharpest since 2001, when the stock market bubble burst.
Failing states in Central AmericaWhen the US Defence Department produced a report in December in which it named Mexico as one as one of two countries (along with Pakistan) at risk of rapidly becoming a failed state there was a predictable rejection of its findings in many quarters.
Real (inflation-adjusted) GDP has been rising for 15 consecutive quarters in the eurozone, and all European Union economies are expected to grow in the next few years.
Overheating and the risk of inflation were at issue; both have been attended to by two slow quarters already, and perhaps two more to come.
In the US, annualized productivity growth reached 2% in the second and third quarters of 2017, but was negative in the first quarter of that year and zero in the last.
Argentina abandoned its fixed exchange rate against the US dollar in 2001, and experienced rapid recovery after two bad quarters.
Over the last 18 quarters, annualized growth in real consumer demand has averaged a mere 0.7%, compared to a 3.6% growth trend in the decade before the crisis erupted.
The housing sector has started to recover over the past five quarters, but from such a severely depressed level that its growth has had little impact on the overall economy.
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