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Fourth, the combination of a dollar squeeze and protectionism spells big trouble for developing countries, with the possible exception of some relatively closed economies such as Brazil, Russia, and India, whose development strategies are less reliant on free trade and foreign financing.
Time is money: the more money you can squeeze out of an hour’s work, the better off you are.
Colombian children squeeze through the narrowest shafts of coalmines.
Clinton would like to squeeze expenditures on education, environment, science, technology, and infrastructure into his budgets.
One of the most pernicious effects of the squeeze on middle-income households and the cost of the educational arms race is a voluntary one-child policy that has reduced the country’s fertility rate to 1.2 births per woman, among the lowest in the industrialized world.
After tough and effective UN-led sanctions are imposed, the concerned parties must wait until North Korea feels the pain of the economic squeeze.
But China is reluctant to squeeze North Korea, because it fears that doing so could lead to the collapse of the Kim regime, and the loss of its strategic buffer against the US.
For these sectors, rapid investment-driven growth in the past decade has produced a mountain of excess capacity, reflected in stagnant prices and the banking sector’s soaring volume of bad loans, as price wars squeeze profitability and stimulate real-estate speculation.
The insurance company Lloyds of London has now begun to fret that the absence of natural disasters is putting a squeeze on its premiums.
This lending squeeze resulted in a sharp drop in GDP and employment, while the sharp sell-off in assets ensured further declines.
Any self-respecting populist should like this squeeze on banks, especially one who is still angry about the 2008 global financial crisis.
So the danger is that ITER will squeeze out funding for other vital research.
The combination of a banking sector squeeze with a paralyzed or ineffective lender of last resort is a potentially very dangerous combination.
An earlier classroom lesson was well-founded: temporarily below-normal tax rates on labor this year, when merged with the prospect of reversion to normal rates next year, will encourage households to squeeze more work into this year and to work less in future years.
But the credit squeeze engineered by the IMF simply pushed the enterprises into bankruptcy.
Third, foreign panic combined with the IMF credit squeeze created what economists call a debt-deflation cycle.
Third, the IMF should end its credit squeeze policies, letting interest rates come down, and restoring the flow of working capital to enterprises.
Trump has forced South Korea to accept a new trade deal, and has sought to squeeze India’s important information technology industry – which generates output worth $150 billion per year – by imposing a restrictive visa policy.
I can’t let these assholes squeeze people any more.
Today, many traders see formerly inept state giants as financial geniuses, capable of taming complex financial formulas and exploiting their superior size and trading information to squeeze the life out of currency and interest rate markets.
They then extend their product lines instead of developing new products; cut costs by putting pressure on their workers; lobby governments for favorable treatment; merge with competitors to reduce competition; and manipulate customers to squeeze out every last penny.
Whether poor borrowers can avoid such a financial squeeze will depend on several factors.
The deliberate undervaluation of China’s currency, and the fall in the dollar, are both putting a squeeze on the export prospects of the European Union members and other countries like Canada and Mexico, and China’s covert and not so covert export subsidies and import barriers exacerbate the problem.
Furthermore, the decline in the working-age cohort would squeeze labor supply, fueling wage growth and eroding the country’s economic competitiveness.
Moreover, fiscal deficits and inflation squeeze out investment and limit productivity gains.
On the contrary, we need the private sector to regain its sense of enterprise, innovation and vigour; we need to be careful of regulating so as to squeeze the availability of credit; and we should certainly avoid protectionism.
So the ECB should decide which countries are inherently solvent, and then protect them against a liquidity squeeze with new, scaled-up interventions that do target interest rates.
In 1992, John Major ran for re-election in the midst of an economic slump, a vicious monetary squeeze and the aftermath of a rapid inflation.
In fact, the reforms are a sensible and sustainable response to the fiscal squeeze that many other developed (and some developing) countries are facing.
It soon became obvious that, given Poland’s constitutional 60%-of-GDP debt limit and 3%-of-GDP cap on the budget deficit, together with the squeeze on public finances in the wake of the global financial crisis, the OFE funding model was unsustainable.
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