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The third point is more diagnostic: The shockingly anemic pattern of post-crisis US consumer demand has resulted from a deep Japan-like balance-sheet recession.
A pre-1990 recession was triggered by a Fed decision to switch policy from business-as-usual to inflation-fighting.
As the economist Dan Kuehn likes to say, a recession is like somebody knocking your jigsaw puzzle, disturbing the pieces, and turning some of them over.
A higher target is essential in order to have enough room to make the cuts in short-term safe nominal interest rates of five percentage points or more that are usually called for to cushion the effects of a recession when it hits the economy.
The people who bid up the prices of long-term US Treasury bills in anticipation of interest-rate cuts when the Fed overshoots and triggers a recession are the same people who are now on tenterhooks wondering when to start cutting back on investment plans because a recession will soon produce overcapacity.
Britain appears to be sliding toward recession as companies put their investment plans on hold.
Meanwhile, the slow-growing sectors risk falling into a “balance-sheet recession," with highly indebted SOEs and local governments becoming so focused on paying down their debts that they stop investing in needed infrastructure, even when interest rates fall.
The European Union’s economy is sliding into a severe and, in all likelihood, long-lasting recession, largely self-inflicted.
Dollar commodity prices could plunge at any time, as a result of a new recession, an increase in real interest rates in the United States, fluctuations in climate, or random sector-specific factors.
It is striking that even amid all the doom and gloom assailing world markets, there is no fear of a recession in India.
Next and importantly, if budget cuts happen, they will create a recession: the estimate for Brazil is that a 2.5% budget cut will cause a 3% loss in GDP unless there is a dramatic offset from interest rates and confidence.
As in Hong Kong, investors will argue that, in a recession, the temptation to devalue your way out of it is just too overwhelming.
Hence interest rates will stay high, the budget will not improve, recession will weaken Cardoso's political base, and further budget cutting becomes doubtful as a vicious cycle ensues.
The United States’ economy is gradually reviving, albeit slowly by the standards of recovery from a deep recession.
China, Brazil, and India have not decoupled from their customers in Europe and North America, and so are slowing, though a relatively soft landing is likely if Europe’s recession is as short and mild as predicted.
Most large US banks – Citi is an exception – passed US Federal Reserve stress tests recently, with enough capital to withstand a hypothetical deep recession (13% unemployment, a 21% further fall in home prices, and a 50% stock-market decline).
As declining consumer confidence and household purchasing power deepen the recession, projections of when the crisis will end are repeatedly pushed back, and those bearing the brunt of austerity are losing hope.
A US recession would frustrate President Donald Trump as he seeks re-election in 2020, but it would not be at odds with established patterns.
A global recession would be more than premature for countries whose post-crisis recovery has been delayed, feeble, or both.
The collective cost of a temporary inflation overrun is dwarfed by that of a premature recession resulting in permanent scars and a political backlash against economic orthodoxy.
The 2008 recession is not the only reason for this staggering figure; long-term political and policy choices are also to blame.
If policymakers raise interest rates too briskly, the result will be recession.
While Bill made business deals with some shady international figures, Hillary made a lot of her fortune by giving speeches to Wall Street firms, the main target of public wrath for causing the Great Recession of 2008.
There has been a “democratic recession,” as Fukuyama calls it, but it is concentrated in the more democratic regions of the world: Western Europe and North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe.
This also implies that if Greece could escape from its current recession, its national debt would decline, both absolutely and as a share of GDP.
A “credit crunch” – particularly in trade finance – was certainly a key reason why the financial crisis generated a real economy recession.
Mian and Sufi show that the recession was caused by a collapse of household consumption, and that consumption fell most in those counties where pre-crisis borrowing and post-crisis real-estate prices left households facing the largest relative losses in net wealth.
Moreover, even when public rescue costs are inevitable, they are typically small change compared to the economic harm wrought by the financial crisis and post-crisis recession.
The US has pulled out of recession faster than the eurozone, not only – or even primarily – because it fixed its banking system faster, but because it pursued more stimulative fiscal policies.
Monetary policy is an effective means of managing inflation and can boost employment and output in a recession.
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