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Despite the International Monetary Fund’s mea culpa for underestimating the short-run adverse effects of fiscal austerity on European growth, over the longer term, Fund studies make clear, “reducing government debt is likely to
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output, as real interest rates decline and the lighter burden of interest payments permits cuts to distortionary taxes.”
Even a small decrease in bond and equity prices could force investors to sell securities in order to
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cash to meet margin requirements.
Notably, the word “patient” does not appear, and the Fed has signaled that it may
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its benchmark rate as early as June.
The Fed’s failure to
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rates earlier thus holds a powerful lesson for the European Central Bank: after a prolonged period of monetary stability at unusually low interest rates, waiting too long to
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rates to more normal and appropriate levels holds dangerous consequences.
In these circumstances, there is no good reason to wait to
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interest rates.
So-called “Abenomics 2.0” entails efforts to
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the fertility rate (free preschool education, support for fertility treatments, and greater assistance for single-parent families) and to mitigate problems associated with population aging (boosting social security and providing more employment opportunities for retirees).
In India, they have marched to
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awareness of widespread sexual assault.
The old orthodoxy held that one had to cut the deficit –
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taxes or cut expenditures – to “restore confidence.”
Current reliance on coal, natural gas, and petroleum, without regard for CO2 emissions, is now simply too dangerous, because it is leading to climate changes that will spread diseases, destroy crops, produce more droughts and floods, and perhaps dramatically
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sea levels, thereby inundating coastal regions.
Set at a very low level – 0.05% is a commonly mentioned rate – such a tax would
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hundreds of billions of dollars for global public goods while discouraging short-term speculative activities in financial markets.
Long ago, the United Nations called on rich countries to
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their foreign aid to 0.7% of their gross national income (which of course is very different from government spending).
These efforts to
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more resources are also supported by donors, including the US.
Moreover, those who warn that the Fed might fail to
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interest rates if inflation picks up don’t understand that the Fed’s culture of inflation targeting is deeply ingrained.
A US Congress engaged in political grandstanding might fail to
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the debt ceiling, triggering a technical default.
From 2010 onwards, governments started to
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taxes and cut spending in response to growing fears of sovereign default.
In that case, we would not only reap dishonor, but also, to paraphrase Winston Churchill,
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to extreme levels all of our present dangers, starting with a dramatic increase in the tide of refugees, most of whom have fled Syria as a direct consequence of the world’s nonintervention.
Similarly, broadening the range of available savings instruments could
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household disposable income and increase consumption.
Greece is refusing to acquiesce to demands by its creditors that it cut payments to the elderly and
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the value-added tax on their medicine and electricity.
The economics of fiscal deficits are easy: boost economic growth,
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taxes, or lower expenditures.
Almost surely, the best way forward would be to
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taxes.
Because Costa Rica is already so green, a carbon tax would not
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as much money as elsewhere.
Before a match starts, the two contestants
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their hands to show that they are not hiding weapons in the folds of their loincloth-like belt.
These links
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the question of the real objective of the Japanese police, a bureaucratic behemoth, in their investigation of the Sumo circle.
The greatest curse is Israel’s inability to
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a leadership strong enough to make peace.
The bigger parties must ignore the vested interests of their junior partners, go back to the drawing board, and
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the Knesset entry-level substantially.
Worryingly, QE2 appears to be viewed in the US as a growth strategy, which it isn’t, unless one believes that low interest rates will reverse the private-sector deleveraging process,
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consumption, and lower savings – neither a likely nor a desirable scenario.
For example, Ghana, despite being eligible for IDA loans, recently chose to
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money from the bond market, from which it received an interest rate several times higher.
So a country where labor productivity is low will become an attractive location for foreign direct investment, and the resulting increase in the capital-labor ratio will
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productivity.
But these innovations served only to increase the human population, not
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median standards of living.
With the exception of what appears to be a covert effort to force EU countries to
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corporate taxes to French and German levels, there is ostensibly nothing unreasonable in the Competitiveness Pact.
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