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With the United States now in recession (and the possibility of a deep recession not that remote), it is striking how positive ECB officials sound about the European economy: Europe’s “economic fundamentals are sound,” the economy is “robust,” economic performance is “just below potential,” and so on.
While the eurozone’s northern members enjoy low borrowing costs and stable growth, its southern members face high borrowing costs, recession, and deep cuts in incomes and social spending.
In fact, by maintaining large trade surpluses, Germany is exporting unemployment and recession to its weaker neighbors.
Likewise, the early-1990’s recession in the US depressed Japan’s exports and helped to initiate its lost decade.
Now that the boom is over, Panama is still growing at 5%, while Colombia is bordering on a recession.
The moral case for a wealth tax is more compelling than usual today, with unemployment still at recession levels, and with deep economic inequality straining social norms.
America enjoyed a budget surplus only a decade ago, before George W. Bush’s tax cuts, two wars, and recession created fiscal instability.
A recession helped, but even in recession Mexico had no such results.
But that forecast assumes continued growth, whereas France is slipping into recession.
The following decade turned out to be one of, first, the war on terror and, later, the worst financial and economic crisis in almost a century – a time when virtually every developed economy experienced a long and deep recession.
Among economists there is a strong feeling that the world economy is bouncing back from deep recession, and that the current crisis, although severe, is an aberration.
But the real worry is not the risk associated with near-term challenges, like Japan’s return to recession in 2014 or the eurozone’s enduring sluggishness; it is the gale-force headwinds that the entire world will face over the next half-century.
Success at Los Cabos will depend on G-20 leaders’ ability to galvanize the same level of collective, concerted action that enabled them to curb global recession in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
While these seem to be a grab-bag of achievements, they point to a single message: the world community is finding new ways to cooperate, even against a backdrop of terrorism and global recession.
Absent a breakthrough, the inevitable new round of sanctions and counter-sanctions would likely push Russia and Europe into recession, dampening global economic activity.
The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 and the deep recession that resulted made it plain to see that the financial sector in the US and elsewhere had become too powerful.
In the 1970’s, the Western world was confronted with a unique phenomenon: simultaneous recession and rising inflation.
Nor is America’s continued emissions reduction a side effect of lower economic activity: While the US economy peaked in late 2007, the same time as emissions, the recession ended in June 2009 and GDP growth since then, though inadequate, has been substantially higher than in Europe.
But there is also a significant risk that a large and unnecessary dose of fiscal austerity will weaken demand, undermine confidence, and tip the economy back into recession.
Other members champion the cause of a much smaller government and welcome the deep spending cuts that are scheduled to take effect in 2013, even if they trigger a recession.
But the EU's Stability Pact, as commonly interpreted, requires either that tax rates be raised (always difficult, especially in a recession) or that expenditures be cut.
The Keynesians believe that without a large fiscal stimulus – a deliberate temporary increase of the deficit – the European and US economies will remain stuck in recession for years to come.
Infectious diseases neither respect national borders nor conveniently follow economies into recession.
On the economy, he must reconcile the priorities of full-employment Germany with those of Greece and Italy, which remain in the grip of recession and sky-high unemployment.
Does anyone still believe that the US economy is on the brink of recession?
In the 1970’s, oil shocks led to inflation in some countries, and to recession elsewhere, as governments raised interest rates to combat rising prices.
Nevertheless, slower growth – or possibly a recession – in the world’s largest economy inevitably has global consequences.
And the global economy still grew by 4% over the last three years, despite experiencing the deepest global recession since 1945.
Government debt has increased by $25 trillion, with the advanced economies accounting for $19 trillion – a direct result of severe recession, fiscal-stimulus programs, and bank bailouts.
Japan is falling into deep recession.
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