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Beyond reducing the incentive for asylum-seekers to risk their lives and life
savings
to cross the Mediterranean, such an approach would show solidarity with the frontline countries, which will continue to host most of the refugees.
A plausible pickup in business investment in the US and northern Europe, combined with a sudden slowdown in Asian economies with surplus savings, could in principle produce an outsize rise in global rates, jeopardizing today’s low borrowing costs, frothy stock markets, and subdued volatility.
With
savings
comes increased overall prosperity.
True,
savings
rates in emerging markets and oil-rich countries have been increasing since 1970, and especially in the last few years, but this has been offset by declining saving rates in advanced countries.
Consider Copenhagen’s wind-turbine plan, the single largest expected source of
savings.
Even assuming a very large carbon tax, this amounts to a rather paltry $142 million, meaning that the project’s value – $261 million in
savings
– stems largely from the $1.04 billion saved on electricity payments.
In the US, for example, while many goods and services are less expensive than they would be if the country were walled off from the global economy, we cannot assume that these cost
savings
necessarily compensate for diminished employment opportunities.
The US Resolution Trust Corporation rapidly shut down 1,000 insolvent banks and
Savings
and Loans from 1989 to 1995 so that they would not damage healthy institutions.
The next year, the Petroleum Revenue Management Act divided the wealth among consumption, investment, and offshore savings, as recommended by economists around the world (including us).
Based on current economic assumptions, the US needs about $4 trillion in
savings
to stabilize the debt/GDP ratio over the next decade.
America depends on China’s trade surplus and
savings
to finance its outsize budget deficits, while China relies on its huge exports to the US to sustain its economic growth and finance its military modernization.
It may pile up in bank reserves or
savings
accounts, or it may produce asset bubbles.
Old people invest their
savings
and pensions from home computers; young men and women give up working for salaries to seek a big pay-off in the stock options on offer from dot.com firms.
If, instead of investing in the Standard & Poor index of 500 largest companies quoted on Wall Street, an investor put his
savings
in small, and often more innovative, companies (the so-called "small caps"), his return would have gone up in the last 50 years by 6% – i.e. by a mere15% over the return on ultra-safe government securities.
Second, China’s fiscal surplus, growing foreign-exchange reserves, and high
savings
rate have ensured the financial resources needed to maintain adequate investment and sufficiently rapid growth.
After all, capital inflows traditionally have been regarded as a positive transfer of
savings
from rich industrial countries to capital-scarce emerging markets.
This implies a slowdown in reforms that increase the private sector’s productivity and economic share, together with a greater economic role for state-owned enterprises (and for state-owned banks in the allocation of credit and savings), as well as resource nationalism, trade protectionism, import-substitution industrialization policies, and imposition of capital controls.
The benefits of default are the
savings
on future payments by the government – especially payments to non-residents, who cannot vote.
They also contribute to further income concentration at the top by hurting small savers, while creating opportunities for large financial players to benefit from access to
savings
at negative real cost.
Meanwhile, the reforms necessary to reduce
savings
and increase private consumption are being delayed.
Indeed, given a very low
savings
rate and high fiscal deficit over the past few decades, the US might otherwise have faced economic disaster.
Lowering private and public consumption in order to boost private savings, and implementing fiscal austerity to reduce private and public debts, aren’t options, either.
This European finance triggered additional investment of €2.2 billion, created 15,000 local jobs, and has resulted in
savings
of €98 per month per household, thanks to a 40% average decrease in heating costs.
The implementation of the agreement with the European Union on the taxation of
savings
is a good example of this.
Many small savers place their
savings
in so-called money-market funds that pay a premium over ordinary federally insured deposits.
We expect 6-7 billion pesos in
savings
by the end of this year, which can be used for other high-priority development projects.
Investment in vaccines is not about short-term savings, either in terms of lives or economic costs; it is about providing children with lifetime protection and the ability to realize their full potential.
For example, he has already announced measures to promote foreign direct investment in insurance, defense, and telecommunications, including higher infrastructure spending and new tax incentives for
savings
and investment.
Rising prices reduce the value of
savings
and pensions, while falling prices reduce profit expectations, encourage hoarding, and increase the real burden of debt.
Rising inequality may also have increased vulnerability to crisis: with fewer people able to dip into
savings
during bad times, the impact on growth is even larger.
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