Slump
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After all, if the crisis in financial markets continues and combines with a dramatic
slump
in the real economy, the EU could quickly be at risk if it cannot respond politically.
Fiscal policy has been effectively disabled since 2010, as the
slump
saddled governments with unprecedented postwar deficits and steeply rising debt-to-GDP ratios.
Today, that first lesson appears to have been learned: various bailout and stimulus packages have stimulated depressed economies sufficiently for us to have a reasonable expectation that the worst of the
slump
is over.
Perhaps that would be enough to reassure everyone that policymakers’ current acquiescence in a prolonged
slump
was a horrible mistake that will not be repeated.
The question is whether Germany’s leaders will recognize this before Europe’s economy falls into an even deeper
slump.
It is an argument for temporary transfers to countries like Spain, which balanced its budgets prior to the crisis but then was hit by the housing
slump
and recession.
This whole tangle of debts was finally de facto written off in 1932 in the middle of the global
slump.
Four years later, the repeated failure of economic forecasters to predict the depth and duration of the
slump
would have elicited a similar question from the queen: Why the overestimate of recovery?
Austerity vs. EuropeMADRID – It is now increasingly clear that what started in late 2008 is no ordinary economic
slump.
Now that America's recovery is underway - and it arises from a
slump
not a recession - the current account deficit will widen even further and in no time discussions about the unsustainable high-flying dollar will become fashionable again.
On paper, the Greek bailout will impose a fiscal tightening, thereby aggravating the country’s economic
slump.
As a result, Greece has suffered a
slump
worse than Germany’s in the 1930’s.
This interpretation of the origins of the present
slump
is disputed by the ‘money glut’ school.
I have made an economic argument that taking money out of an economy in a
slump
will damage GDP growth, thereby damaging business confidence as well.
Moreover, Chinese exports sometimes would increase in the face of a
slump
in the volume of cargo being shipped from ports.
The EU has suffered a prolonged economic
slump
since the 2008 financial crisis, largely because the German government vetoed the kind of monetary and fiscal stimulus that helped to pull the US out of recession in 2010.
While not the original or singular cause of the worldwide slump, there is widespread agreement among economists and historians that policymakers at the time made a bad situation significantly worse.
This is the slowest recovery from a major
slump
on record.
The debate about the causes and effects of the price
slump
since 2014 will continue, which both reflects and underscores a fundamental point: the conventional wisdom about the global oil market no longer applies.
The list of policy mistakes is almost endless: interest-rate hikes by the European Central Bank in July 2008 and again in April 2011; imposing the harshest austerity on the economies facing the worst slump; authoritative treatises advocating beggar-thy-neighbor competitive internal devaluations; and a banking union that lacks an appropriate deposit-insurance scheme.
The EU has been the slowest of the world’s major economic centers to recover from the post-2008
slump.
If both the old and new sectors of an economy are in a slump, capital formation will sputter, investment in upgrading human capital will decline, and structural adjustment will stall.
The reforms China needs cannot be accomplished in a slump, or by a large exchange-rate depreciation that deflates the world in a vain effort to turn back the clock to an era of export-led growth that stagnant demand in the West has rendered nonviable.
If improved confidence in the US economy does not translate into stronger hard data, unmet expectations for economic growth and corporate earnings could cause financial-market sentiment to slump, fueling market volatility and driving down asset prices.
For Chinese manufacturers, a long-term trend of rising costs coupled with a short-term export
slump
were unprecedented challenges.
As John Maynard Keynes pointed out in 1937, “The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.”
In the current slump, European countries should be investing in their human capital to spur their economies’ potential growth.
Indeed, although Asia’s unprecedented economic growth has brought with it rising inequality, it has also enabled the region to overcome the financial crisis of the late 1990’s, and to play a crucial role in leading the world out of the current global
slump.
In order to become cheaper, a country’s inflation rate must stay below that of its competitors, but that can be accomplished only through an economic
slump.
The more trade unions defend existing wage structures, and the lower productivity growth is, the longer the
slump
will be.
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