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Even if the UK economy does not fall into outright recession after this vote (the pound’s decline might cushion the initial blow), there is every chance that the resulting economic and political disorder will give some who voted to leave “buyers’ remorse.”
Putin’s bellicosity was later reinforced by domestic political concerns – a deep recession that made it necessary to channel voters’ anger – and perceived slights, especially at the hands of the United States (President Barack Obama once referred to Putin as “the bored kid in the back of the classroom”).
When the recession officially ended in June 2009, there were 6.2 unemployed workers for every job opening.
In November, this ratio had fallen to 2.7, compared to 1.8 before the recession began (and just 1.1 in 2000).
When the recession hit, unemployment rates for workers at all education levels jumped, and they have yet to fall back to pre-recession levels.
Moreover, both the short-term and long-term unemployment rates underestimate the slack in the labor market caused by the significant and sustained decline in the labor-force participation rate (LFPR) since the recession began.
But the recession triggered sudden and sustained declines in the LFPR across all age groups in response to weak demand and poor job prospects.
Emerging-market central-bank governors fear a US that alternates between expansionary policy that fuels huge hot-money inflows and a domestic inflationary spiral, and rapid tightening that chokes off credit and causes a domestic recession.
Meanwhile, the eurozone’s recession is deepening and unemployment is rising.
A prolonged recession, punctuated by high – or prohibitive – borrowing costs, makes achieving either the fiscal or the reform targets increasingly difficult, if not impossible.
Continued recession and recurrent speculative attacks in the bond markets will prevent at least some over-indebted countries from attaining their adjustment targets, creating conditions for political crisis within the eurozone and individual countries.
Implementing today’s conventional un-wisdom promises only a deeper recession and the postponement of the inevitable day of reckoning.
Lending dried up, fear intensified, and the economy plunged into recession.
Banks, stripped of cash, would then cut lending, as they did in 2008 and 2009, plunging into a recession yet again.
The “Volcker shock” created a triple whammy: the US entered a deep recession; commodity prices plummeted; and Latin America’s capital inflows abruptly reversed, shifting toward US dollar-denominated instruments that offered better yields.
The Spring of the ZombiesNew York – As spring comes to America, optimists are seeing “green sprouts” of recovery from the financial crisis and recession.
Even before the current economic recession, unemployment in the Arab world was estimated at 14% – the world’s highest average outside sub-Saharan Africa.
These could be justified during the recession of 2008-2009, but now they have become counter-productive, because they undermine the markets’ controlling function.
After the end of the 1920-21 recession, real annual earnings, which had been depressed by the downturn, increased more than fivefold in the eight years to 1929, and real stock prices increased almost as much – more than fourfold.
Then, from 2003 to 2007, during a period of gradual recovery following the 2001 recession, real corporate earnings per share almost tripled.
A bear market could come without warning or apparent reason, or with the next recession, which would negatively affect corporate earnings.
This is particularly important because continued currency turmoil would tip the economy into recession, raise inflation, stress the banking system, and increase corporate bankruptcies.
In Britain, Brexit opponents insisted that if voters decided to leave the European Union, a recession, if not a full-blown economic crisis, would be inevitable.
A looming recession undoubtedly spurred this debt accumulation, possibly aided by former Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s massive 2009 stimulus package.
There are, of course, short term risks of some lost growth, perhaps of recession, in such sectors as agriculture or textiles.
Brazil and Russia are in recession.
The Secular Stagnation Hypothesis accounts well for the mistakes made in the eurozone in the aftermath of the global recession, when sovereigns attempted to deleverage while companies and households were unwilling to spend, and the ECB was keeping monetary policy relatively tight.
Such a system provides important advantages – most notably, it enables the US Federal Reserve to pump money into the economy to prevent or halt a recession.
Though reform programs aimed at building viable macroeconomic frameworks remain essential, they must include strong provisions for countercyclical policies to offset the “paradox of thrift" (the tendency to save more during a recession, undermining economic growth).
As a result, Greece has fallen into a deep and prolonged recession, with output down 25% from pre-crisis levels.
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