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The US economy was in free-fall: financial markets had seized up, GDP was shrinking, and employment was plummeting, with some 800,000 jobs being lost each month.

His measures have increased prices while shrinking the number of transactions – precisely the opposite of what is needed.

This knocks a hole in current deficit-reduction plans, but, provided government continues to cut spending, it has the benefit (from a conservative’s point of view) of shrinking the state’s role over time.

Facilitating individuals’ relocation does nothing for those left behind in shrinking towns.

Lending dried up and economies started shrinking.

“Austerians” believe that only balancing government budgets and shrinking national debts will restore investor confidence.

Now the right – increasingly catering to a Southern, rural, and white constituency – cares much more about shrinking the federal government, and in recent years has viewed shutting it down or threatening nonpayment of debts as a way to “starve the beast.”

The shrinking domestic share of their total employment – a share that also fell by four percentage points in the 1990’s – has fueled concerns that they have been relocating jobs to their foreign subsidiaries.

Nominal GDP never stopped shrinking, public and private debt continued to become less and less sustainable, and all along investment and credit remained comatose.

We have gone from managerial to stockowner capitalism, from economies with large doses of state direction to far more deregulated markets, from the active and expansive social policies of the 1960s’ and 1970’s to a world in which such spending is constantly shrinking.

There is no consensus, but the group of inflation fear mongers is shrinking.

The good news is Argentina on the way to being the next Chile, following deep structural reform, shrinking the state and financial rebuilding.

Add to that a shrinking pool of workers capable of meeting the needs of Germany’s labor market – the country’s population is aging, and the arriving refugees lack the needed skills – and the German economy seems set for a protracted period of sluggish performance.

But the Iranian budget is now running a 15%-of-GDP deficit, and foreign reserves are shrinking, despite the oil boom.

But given Japan’s demographics – the country’s working-age population has been shrinking by almost 1% per year since the start of this century – this result is remarkable.

But in an era of diminishing profits and shrinking audiences, is fake news really the biggest threat that traditional media face?

In a shrinking economy, a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio rises rather than falls, and Europe’s recession-ridden crisis countries have now saved themselves into a depression, resulting in mass unemployment, alarming levels of poverty, and scant hope.

And the context was dire, with jobs lost and balance sheets shrinking.

And both face serious demographic problems, given shrinking and aging populations, as well as the challenge of Asia’s rising superpowers.

The economy is shrinking.

Since the crisis reached its nadir, these imbalances have been partly reversed, with America’s trade deficit, as a share of GDP, declining from its 2006 peak of 5.5% to 3.4% in 2012, and China’s surplus shrinking from 7.7% to 2.8% over the same period.

There is undoubtedly merit in shrinking the size of government and making it less intrusive.

The consequences of retaining it might not be as dramatic as Keynes’ prophesied, but there is a real possibility that the Bank will ossify into an institution whose increasingly impoverished G-7 donors dispense progressively smaller sums of money in the same questionable ways to a shrinking number of supplicants.

Debt held by the public is expected to mirror this path, shrinking from 77% to 60% over this period.

The False Promise of Later RetirementEU Economics Commissioner Pedro Solbes warns that Europe's shrinking population will soon hit the Continent's economies hard.

Many experts advocate raising the official retirement age as an efficient tool, because it would-in theory, at least-increase the pool of contributors while shrinking the pool of benefit recipients.

As a result, capital expenditure – already a fragile proposition, given weak demand – has plummeted, triggering a vicious circle of shrinking GDP, lower tax revenues, higher expenditures, and further destabilization of public-debt positions.

The US must raise its national saving rate by shrinking its budget deficit, which currently stands at nearly 10% of GDP.

Shrinking budgets are also damaging established scientists.

Distance is shrinking.

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