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But, as with Hiroshima, Three Mile Island, and last year’s Fukushima meltdown in Japan, the spike in global dismay was all too fleeting.
From 1974 to 1981, Latin America’s economy grew at an average annual rate of 4.1%, compared to its annual 2.8% historical average, owing to the 1970s oil-price spike.
China’s past trade liberalization, following its accession to the World Trade Organization 17 years ago, indicates that such a move would not lead to a spike in unemployment, as long as the Chinese labor market remains sufficiently flexible.
According to research by the economist Thomas Piketty, a spike in income inequality is often followed by a great crisis.
It’s considered directly responsible for a spike in the sale of generator sets and even for absences from religious functions which clash with its broadcast times.
Developed countries, faced with the sudden cutoff of a key energy source and a major spike in world oil prices, felt powerless.
The second way Japan could protect itself from an interest-rate spike starts from the recognition that a large share of the money the government owes it owes to itself.
Such a response would immediately cause oil prices to spike – possibly to $200 per barrel in the short run.
The risk now is that a debt-fueled asset spike merely perpetuates the boom-bust cycle.
But no risk is more serious than that posed by a further spike in oil prices.
The last three global recessions (prior to 2008) were each caused by a geopolitical shock in the Middle East that led to a sharp spike in oil prices.
More recently, concerns about pollution, climate change, and the finite nature of fossil fuels has driven a spike in demand – one that must now be managed.
Indeed, opinion polls conducted in Gaza show a spike in support for Hamas after every Israeli escalation.
In fact, there was a temporary upward spike in real long-term interest rates during the financial crisis in countries with indexed bonds.
In addition, many investors have abandoned the safety of government bonds, triggering a spike in interest rates even more pronounced than during the 2013 “taper tantrum” that followed former US Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke’s statement that the Fed intended to wind down its liquidity support.
Delivering that certainty will not be easy, because much of the primary deficit reflects remaining energy subsidies to households and firms; increasing these so-called administered prices (of electricity and natural gas, among others) causes a one-off jump in the relevant price indices, and a temporary spike in inflation.
These are just the latest sources of concern in a turbulent period that began two years ago when food shortages hit many countries in Africa and Asia due to a worldwide spike in prices.
But this is politically problematic, which is why markets are often constructed to spike much less.
The second price spike occurred when Lehman Brothers collapsed, leaving investors scared about the safety of their financial assets – including bank deposits.
The result, they argued, would be runaway inflation (if not hyperinflation), a sharp rise in long-term interest rates, a collapse in the value of the US dollar, a spike in the price of gold and other commodities, and the replacement of debased fiat currencies with cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin.
Such developments would cause US debt yields to spike, disrupting growth.
Of course, this pattern could be disrupted, if, say, a war or major conflict in an oil-exporting region constrained supply enough to cause prices to spike beyond the shale shelf.
Failed direct talks have often led to a spike in violence.
The BOJ’s widely respected governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, whose term expires in April, summarized the situation in his usual restrained way, saying that “long-term interest rates may spike and have a negative effect on the economy.”
A spike in long-term rates would lower the price of JGBs, destroying household wealth and, in turn, reducing consumer spending.
The recent downward trend follows an alarming spike in recruitment by Daesh from the region.
If no deal to raise the debt ceiling is reached by August 3, interest rates on United States Treasury bonds could spike, or they could remain stable, as investors decide they have other problems to worry about.
And the Iraq invasion of Kuwait in 1990 led to another spike in oil prices that triggered the US and global recession of 1990-1991.
To finance measures that require permanent outlays with one-time revenues presages a new spike of public debt--a policy criticized by the European Commission and the IMF.
In my recent work with Vincent Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch, I show that over the past two centuries, this “double bust” (in commodities and capital flows) has led to a spike in sovereign defaults, usually with a lag of 1-3 years.
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