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First, they will offset the contractionary effects of the expected increase in the federal funds rate and the shrinking size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet.
Large companies and wealthy individuals use their power and influence to capture and retain an ever-increasing share of the benefits of economic growth, while the poorest get by on a persistently shrinking piece of the pie.
This is true of weaponry as well as logistical capabilities, where, despite immense efforts over the years to get more out of the shrinking funds, there is still great potential for integration and standardization.
Traditional news organizations, especially local newspapers, are steadily disappearing, shrinking voters’ access to information that is vital to making informed political decisions.
In Europe, for example, raising the retirement age for public pensions and shrinking government employment would curtail welfare-state excesses.
To be sure, it will not be very long before these countries begin to confront the problems of aging and shrinking populations, as well.
Saving the Shrinking MiddleLONDON – There was a time when many regarded being in the middle of the distribution – socially, politically, and in the business world – as a favorable, stabilizing, and desirable outcome.
And, in advanced countries, a larger female labor force can help to counteract the impact of a shrinking workforce and mitigate the costs of an aging population.
During the bubble years, the situation was exactly the opposite: most of the workers released by a rapidly shrinking manufacturing sector could be employed easily in construction and social services, which require only low skills (likewise, real-estate services demand only rather general skills).
As China’s “demographic dividend” disappears, its low-end labor market is shrinking, driving up its once rock-bottom labor costs and diminishing its rate of return on capital.
Since reducing the trade deficit requires increasing exports and shrinking imports, the international value of the dollar must decline to make US products more attractive to foreign buyers and US goods and services more attractive to American consumers.
Greek GDP has been shrinking since the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and it is projected to remain deeply negative until 2015-2016.
There an economy once tipped for ever-lasting boom has barely grown for more than two years, and is currently shrinking.
The population and the labor force are shrinking, implying even higher debt ratios in the future.
Japan’s declining population and shrinking labor force is a major long-term challenge – reflected in Abe’s call for more women to work outside the home.
There is no way to avoid shrinking the budget deficit without jeopardizing debt sustainability – and probably sooner rather than later.
The most important institutions – the United Nations Security Council, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund – remain dominated by the European and American victors of World War II, countries that represent an increasingly small minority of the world’s population and a shrinking share of its economic output.
This time, China’s current-account surplus has been shrinking significantly, owing to the global recession caused by the collapse of the US financial bubble.
A shrinking economy makes private and public debt look less sustainable, which does nothing for market confidence.
Making matters worse, the administration’s shrinking of the US State Department has weakened the institutional base for implementing official foreign policy to an almost mission-critical degree.
Uncertainty about how, exactly, the liabilities of highly leveraged banks and over-leveraged peripheral governments are to be guaranteed is shrinking the supply of safe savings vehicles at a time when macroeconomic rebalancing calls for it to be rising.
Europe cannot afford ethnic confrontation; on the contrary, with their aging, shrinking populations, European countries badly need more immigrants.
In Ecuador, President Rafael Correa has become increasingly authoritarian – recently amending the constitution to enable him to run for a fourth term – in response to the impact of the shrinking economy on popular support for his “dictatorship of the heart.”
In China, where the asset side of the balance sheet is large, the strategy of shrinking it via privatization has been largely rejected, at least for now.
Indeed, though the Islamic State’s territory may be shrinking in Syria and Iraq, it is expanding in Libya.
The Shrinking NorthPARIS – “Demography is destiny,” Auguste Comte is reported to have said.
The consequences of rapid aging are manifold: a shrinking workforce and a narrower pool for entrepreneurship, which undermines prospects for economic growth; a looming threat to the sustainability of “pay-as you go” public pensions systems; and increased health-care and other costs associated with an elderly population.
Europe’s only hope for sustained growth is to boost productivity, so that it can derive more value from its shrinking workforce.
If workforces are stagnating or shrinking and growth is subdued, why spend on boosting output?
The continent needs productivity-enhancing investment in order to compensate for its shrinking workforce; but its demographic weakness is causing companies to hold back.
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