Raise
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We don’t literally
raise
our hackles when angry, or sniff each other’s backsides when making new friends.
First, inflation is likely to remain very low, with many more years of high unemployment bearing down on prices and the European Central Bank unwilling to pursue the aggressive monetary easing needed to
raise
them (making it difficult to reduce the real value of the country’s debt burden).
In particular, the influx of Venezuelan labor has put significant downward pressure on wages in Colombia’s informal sector (including agriculture, services, and small manufacturing business) – and just when the government was hoping to
raise
the minimum wage.
The problem is that a succession of railway ministers, viewing the trains as poor people's only affordable means of transport, have refused to
raise
passenger fares, squeezing freight instead.
Prabhu's most impressive promise – to
raise
$140 billion from market lenders – is also his most problematic, as he has failed to clarify how exactly the railways would repay the loans.
Even the hint of a default would jeopardize the government’s credit rating and
raise
the cost of future borrowing.
And because company headquarters can now be moved between countries with ease, governments are finding it ever harder to
raise
taxes.
If credit expands too rapidly, the Fed can
raise
the interest rate that it pays on deposits.
How high would the Fed – or the ECB, for that matter – have to
raise
the interest rate on deposits to prevent excessive growth in bank lending?
Under these conditions, the Fed will want to
raise
the interest rate to prevent an acceleration of inflation.
But, if the unemployment rate is then still relatively high – say, above 7% – some members of the Fed’s Open Market Committee may argue that the Fed’s dual mandate – low unemployment as well as low inflation – implies that it is too soon to
raise
interest rates.
There could also be strong pressure from the US Congress not to
raise
interest rates.
In particular, should they
raise
interest rates?
On one side were Fed governors who argued that the only effective way to rein in financial excesses was to
raise
interest rates.
By contrast, grand coalitions are, in the long term, likely to
raise
doubts about the system and encourage radical groups.
The Fed has now started to
raise
the short-term rate and has said that it will continue to do that gradually for the next few years, aiming at a rate of nearly 3% in 2020 and beyond.
They would contend that low interest rates
raise
financial-stability risks that grow more acute with time.
The authors said the findings “call into question the view of oxytocin as an indiscriminate ‘love drug’ or ‘cuddle chemical,’” and
raise
new questions about how humans might manage “intergroup conflict and violence.”
An appropriately sized helicopter-money program might also
raise
inflation in a measured way, heading off the possibility of a Japanese-style deflationary trap.
Their actions would, however,
raise
the cost of doing business, lower corporate productivity and feed the UN's predilections for meddling.
Big Danger at the Lower BoundCAMBRIDGE – Markets nowadays are fixated on how high the US Federal Reserve will
raise
interest rates in the next 12 months.
The other approach, first analyzed by Fed economists in the mid-1990s, would be to
raise
the target inflation rate from 2% to 4%.
The idea is that this would eventually
raise
the profile of all interest rates by two percentage points, thereby leaving that much extra room to cut.
It probably would not take long to
raise
the resistance.
But the debt levels of some European countries relative to their income
raise
serious questions about whether their bonds really are risk-free.
All of this would
raise
expectations among financial-market actors that central banks and governments would always step in to smooth out credit bubbles and mitigate their consequences, even if that meant accumulating more debt.
Of course, such a deal would
raise
challenges for the EU.
The first is the classroom, where we should continue to
raise
awareness – particularly in the field of biomedical engineering – of the health-care challenges that refugees face.
This approach makes sense if one is selling habit-forming goods, because you can
raise
prices and make up for earlier losses once the customer has become dependent on the product.
With greater investments, it will be possible to
raise
farm yields, lower energy use to heat and cool buildings, achieve greater fuel efficiency for cars, and more.
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