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While the US’s current-account deficit was close to 5% of GDP in 2008 (and closer to 7% in some
quarters
of 2007), China was maintaining a whopping current-account surplus of 9% or higher.
In the Frenchman Victor Guérin’s Description of Palestine, published in 1875, one finds a city full of life, and divided into at least eight
quarters.
A common rule of thumb is that two consecutive
quarters
of falling real GDP constitute a recession.
In fact, defined more loosely as a sequence that includes periods of growth followed by periods of decline, followed by further periods of growth and decline, the 1973-1975 period in the US, with eight
quarters
of alternating gains and losses in real GDP, was one quadruple-dip recession.
As a result, the United States will no longer play the leading international role that has defined its foreign policy for three
quarters
of a century, under Democratic and Republican presidents alike.
For justice must mean more than the cries of "Death to Saddam" that now echo in some
quarters
around the world.
Limiting NATO expansion to the favored three creates (at least in some quarters) the impression of a geographical division between central Europe as a part of the West returning to the fold after having been kidnapped, and the Baltic and Balkan regions, seemingly thrown back into the Russian "near abroad" or the anarchic East.
The result was an economic downturn, with two
quarters
of declining GDP.
That was more than double the $297 billion invested in renewable electricity generation, even though achieving the Paris agreement’s target implies leaving at least three
quarters
of known fossil-fuel reserves in the ground.
It is remarkable how, having proven their incompetence, they are still revered in some
quarters.
CAMBRIDGE – The release of revised GDP data by the United Kingdom’s Office for National Statistics in late June seemed like an occasion for cheer, because growth had not quite been negative for two consecutive
quarters
in the winter of 2011-12, as previously thought.
European countries, like most, use a simple rule of thumb: a recession is declared following two consecutive
quarters
of falling GDP.
For example, it generally would say that a recession had occurred if GDP had fallen very sharply in two quarters, even if they were separated by one quarter of weak growth.
Similarly, if a trough were subsequently followed by several
quarters
of positive growth, the Committee would not necessarily announce that the recession had ended; it would wait until the economy had recovered sufficiently that a hypothetical future downturn would count as a new recession, not a continuation of the first one.
Fortunately, the US economy has recorded positive growth for 15 consecutive quarters, so recession-dating is not a salient issue currently.
For example, according to revised data, the US economy contracted three
quarters
in a row in 2001.
At the time, the NBER Committee declared that there had been a recession in 2001 (based on employment and various other indicators), even though the initial GDP data did not show two consecutive
quarters
of declining output, let alone three.
These were probably the right judgments: growth in the
quarters
between the two slumps was sufficiently strong in countries like Germany that economic activity on average across the eurozone had by mid-2011 recovered about two-thirds of the ground lost in 2008-09.
China’s slowdown may be stabilized for a few quarters, given the government’s latest fiscal, monetary, and credit injection; but this stimulus will only perpetuate the country’s unsustainable growth model, one based on too much fixed investment and savings and too little private consumption.
In the six
quarters
of Shinzo Abe’s latest stint as prime minister, annualized real GDP growth has averaged just 1.4% – up only slightly from the anemic post-1992 average of 1%.
That endgame will play out in weeks and months, not
quarters
and years.
But barbarism is found in many quarters, as the grisly beheading of an American hostage made clear.
And at a time when the economy has been growing steadily for 33
quarters
and is approaching full employment, the legislation will have only a modest effect on growth.
As a result, the public has become increasingly bewildered as the unremitting questioning of the IPCC and its chair assumes almost witch-hunting proportions in some
quarters.
Indeed, three
quarters
of Canada’s exports go to the US, while foreign demand accounts for a quarter of its GDP.
It should respectfully leave the rabbis and the army officers in their confined
quarters.
Annual GDP growth in the first three
quarters
of 2010 averaged only about 2.6% – and most of that was just inventory building.
Third, the economy has been in recession for five
quarters
since mid-2012.
A recession is normally defined as two
quarters
(six months) of decline in GDP.
Following the German economy’s sharp contraction in the last quarter of 2012, the question for the country today is whether it can avoid a technical recession (defined as two consecutive
quarters
of economic contraction).
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