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Thus, the world cannot help but be pulled down by a US slump.
Because of this downward spiral in economic activity, banks are now flush with liquidity, which is supporting a rally in the domestic bond market, as the slump in domestic demand drags down demand for bank credit (see the chart below).
The world’s central banks are already cutting interest rates on safe assets, and will cut them more as the proximity and magnitude of the likely global slump becomes clear.
The economic consequences of the crisis have left a number of developed countries in a severe slump and scrambling to bring about a healthy recovery.
The Fed is under pressure to make good for a growth slump that turned out to be bigger than expected.
From a purely economic point of view, pulling Japan out of its long slump would be simple.
Unfortunately, until it does, Europe is unlikely to recover fully from its current slump.
It can choose to lead the Middle East into vibrant multi-sectarian democracy or slump back into corrupt local politics under foreign tutelage.
Success should not be measured by the fact that recovery eventually occurs, but by how quickly it takes hold and how extensive the damage caused by the slump.
As there is a zero lower bound to the nominal interest rate, the central bank may well find itself unable to drive the interest rate/inflation differential to a low enough level, which may result in a slump and even a downward spiral.
Tough budgetary criteria and deflationary policies imposed by the Maastricht treaty are blamed for aggravating Europe’s present slump, exacerbating unemployment, and threatening social stability.
Given the slump in energy prices, there has never been a better time to undertake the transition to smart, credible, and effective carbon pricing.
The Last Bastion of a Profitable PressNEW DELHI – Around the world, newspapers seem to be facing imminent extinction, as a mass exodus to the Internet causes their circulation to slump and their advertising revenue to collapse.
But financial reform is hard to do during a slump, when the main task is to revive growth.
Growth could easily slow following the next energy-price slump or other external shock, such as proposals in Russia to limit employment and remittance opportunities for Central Asian workers there.
After all, full separation implies that resources from elsewhere in a given banking group are unavailable to address a retail-banking crisis resulting from, say, a slump in residential and commercial property prices.
Indeed, economists failed to forecast most of the major crises in the last century, including the severe 1920-21 slump, the 1980-82 back-to-back recessions, and the worst of them all, the Great Depression after the 1929 stock-market crash.
A regional and global security shock caused by asymmetric warfare could add still further to the world economy’s troubles, causing exports to slump even more.
Despite the temptation to spend its way out of slump, Argentina's non-interest expenditure remained roughly constant.
The shock absorbers that were dismissed as unnecessary for a golden child (world capital markets, remember, were supposed to finance your way out of a slump) turned out to be crucial.
Indeed, since the current slump began four years ago, economic activity for many commodity exporters has slowed markedly; their currencies have slid, after nearly a decade of relative stability; interest-rate spreads have widened; and capital inflows have dried up.
Meanwhile a slump in the real-estate market deprived local governments of their main revenue source: land sales.
Japan's chronic slump is a case in point.
But what still needs to be explained is the timing of Japan's boom and bust over the last 15 years, as well as the reasons for the duration of the country's ongoing slump.
In fact, China is emerging in reasonably good shape from yet another global slump.
The scenario could worsen if there is a breakdown in commodity prices – one of the most serious threats to Brazil from a global economic slump.
Even Japan, in a deep slump since the 1990’s, is expected to grow faster than Europe.
Should it fight inflation or slump?
Although the expansion is in its ninth year, there is no sign of an imminent slump.
The Slave Ethos and the African EconomyDAKAR – The slump in prices for Africa’s natural resources, which led to chronic deficits in the past, has been reversed.
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