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As for the new swing producer, the US has a much slower (and leakier) reaction function relative to that of Saudi Arabia and OPEC.
True, as a new institution it has had to establish its credibility, but the result is a smaller, slower decrease in interest rates.
The impending collapse in Europe, the global drop in risk appetite, and slower world trade are already having an impact on the region’s economies.
The current US stimulus has been much slower to enter the economy than promised.
The consumer- and services-led rebalancing initially proposed in the 12th Five-Year Plan and endorsed by the recently concluded Third Plenum implies slower GDP growth than the 10% average annual rate recorded from 1980 to 2010.
Yet slower growth need not be a bad thing.
For China, rebalancing and slower growth go hand in hand – and yield the additional benefits of less intensive resource demand, a more subdued rise in energy consumption, and related progress in addressing environmental pollution and income inequality.
Because China’s problems are long term and structural, the country should be focused on supply-side structural reform, even if it means accepting slower GDP growth.
Moreover, while slower growth is unavoidable because of adjustment, there is a limit to how low a growth rate China can accept.
Back in 2007, the record low stunned climate scientists, who considered it an outlier in an otherwise much slower decline in sea-ice cover.
If countries began to define energy security as energy independence and try to supply all their own needs, the result could be expensive overcapacity, massive price distortions, slower technological progress, and weaker economic growth.
Whereas Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity quickly took power, political change in Venezuela followed a much slower path.
Economic growth is slower in many cases than the historic norm.
Together, these three trends – a loss of economic and physical autonomy, the diffusion of information technology, and slower growth against a backdrop of larger and older populations – will create enormous political challenges in virtually every country.
In other words, what we are witnessing is the effect of a major shift from hyper-growth led by exports and investment (thanks to a vibrant manufacturing sector) to a model that is much more reliant on the slower but steadier growth dynamic of consumer spending and services.
The problem, as I argue in my new book, Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China, is not with China, but with the world – and the United States, in particular – which is not prepared for the slower growth that China’s successful rebalancing implies.
In the long term, large budget deficits lead either to a crisis or to slower economic growth.
When voters rallied behind Rouhani’s call for lower inflation, they may not have realized that prices rising at a slower rate would also mean slower income growth.
So far, slower trade growth has been the result of slower GDP growth, not the other way around.
In addition, slower trade growth reflects China’s economic deceleration.
China’s growth has now slowed by a third, leading to slower growth of Chinese trade.
For example, Zhou indicated that the SRF will adopt at least a 15-year time horizon for investments, rather than the 7-10-year horizon adopted by many private equity firms, to account for the slower return on infrastructure investment in developing countries.
Slower growth in the new member states could also delay the planned introduction of the Euro, which in turn could deter many Western companies from investing in the region.
After all, annual economic growth - at an average rate of 2.5% - may have been markedly slower than during the Clinton years, but it still looks strong compared to Europe's anemic 1% growth.
Higher interest rates, slower growth, and a weaker primary budget position all raise the debt-ratio trajectory.
Further dollar depreciation as well as slower US growth will undermine EU exports, the one relatively successful component of demand in Europe.
But that is far slower than in the United States and Britain.
The key questions now are whether global economic growth is self-sustaining without QE, whether emerging markets’ output will continue to rise strongly, albeit at a slower pace, and whether current global financial-reform efforts will be sufficient to prevent another crisis in emerging markets.
Prolonged recession or a financial crisis in Europe and slower growth in emerging markets are the main external sources of potential danger.
Without the significant expansion in US-Chinese trade and financial relations, China’s growth would have been much slower and more difficult to sustain.
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