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In the past, emerging-market governments defended exchange-rate pegs, which meant that stress was borne first by local interest rates rising sharply, and then through wider external debt spreads as currency pegs came under pressure.
Indeed, at the peak of the global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009, gold prices fell sharply a few times.
Fourth, gold prices rose sharply when real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates became increasingly negative after successive rounds of quantitative easing.
And that study – produced, unsurprisingly, by Economists for Brexit – has been sharply criticized by the rest of the economic profession for lacking an appropriate analytical basis.
There are two alternative and sharply contrasting approaches to getting currencies right.
This contrasts sharply with Brazil’s success in developing innovative and globally competitive aerospace and agricultural sectors.
Indeed, today’s US predicament contrasts sharply only with the current experiences of developing Asia.
China, which channeled around one-third of its stimulus package into environmental sectors, has seen its GDP rise sharply, and employment in renewable energies such as solar has climbed to more than 1.5 million, with 300,000 workers added in 2009 alone.
Ireland and the southern European countries must reduce their debt burden and sharply enhance their economies’ competitiveness.
America’s soft power declined sharply, demonstrating that how a country exercises its hard power affects how much soft power it can evoke.
Moreover, premature and excessive hawkishness would strengthen the US dollar and sharply increase the US trade deficit, undermining Trump’s stated goal of creating jobs and boosting incomes for his blue-collar, working-class electoral base.
By 1995, relative poverty was increasing sharply for young adults, while the opposite trend occurred among the elderly.
Itau, Latin America’s largest bank, is predicting GDP growth in Argentina of only 3.2% next year, down sharply from 6% in 2011.
Moreover, Trump’s plans to increase protectionism and sharply reduce immigration, if realized, would both have significant adverse effects on growth (though, to be fair, the proposal to have the composition of immigration more closely match the economy’s needs is what most countries, including Canada and Australia, already do).
What will the Fed do, for example, if inflation rises sharply, but unemployment remains high?
According to the CSO, as a result of the methodological change, annual output growth in the second quarter of 2014 stood at 8.2%, up sharply from the original estimate of 5.3%.
In 2010, the South Korean public was sharply critical of the military’s failure to retaliate immediately following the North’s sinking of the Cheonan, a South Korean warship carrying more than 100 personnel, and its shelling of Yeonpyeong Island later that year.
Record-high food and energy prices, combined with sharply rising wages in China, are pushing up inflation in much of the world.
Then, in a series of leaks and explicit statements, the new government pointed out the previous policies’ high legal, bureaucratic, and financial costs, and that many more crimes of all types were committed, despite sharply higher spending on law enforcement and security.
So only the EU’s strongest countries can really do anything against the sharply worsening recession.
Indeed, the only reason that America’s current-account deficit was lower in 2010 than in previous years is that investment in housing and other construction declined sharply.
Interest rates (short and long maturities) had been trending lower in most of the advanced economies (to varying degrees) since the 1980s, as inflation also fell sharply.
And though the refugee situation in the Central Mediterranean continues to make headlines, the number of migrants crossing from North Africa has actually declined sharply over the past year.
With migrant numbers sharply down, the current political crisis is obviously symptomatic of a broader existential battle between empathetic liberalism and populist illiberalism.
Research has shown that so-called tier one capital ratios above 13% cut the risk of banking collapses sharply.
Recently, however, the environment for capital flows to emerging economies has deteriorated sharply.
While global goods trade has stalled and cross-border financial flows have fallen sharply since 2007, flows of digital information have surged: Cross-border bandwidth use has grown 45-fold over the past decade, circulating ideas, intellectual content, and innovation around the world.
But when supply is less than demand, prices rise sharply.
Yet if you are among the world’s poor, you have never felt poverty so sharply.
The yen has depreciated sharply over the last year, and some US economic interests, particularly the auto industry, accuse Japan of manipulation to keep the currency undervalued.
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