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As the rich became richer, the middle classes were squeezed by near-zero nominal interest rates, which, in real terms, were actually negative.
Falling prices mean that the real cost of capital is high and the real value of nominal debts rise, leading to further declines in consumption and investment – and thus setting in motion a vicious circle in which incomes and jobs are squeezed further, aggravating the fall in demand and prices.
Global debt ratios have risen sharply since the financial crisis began, while traditional lenders’ margins have been squeezed, raising questions about their overall health.
Countries who borrowed heavily when the dollar was cheap were squeezed when the pendulum swung back to an expensive-dollar cycle.
Slouching Toward SanityBERKELEY – In America today – and in the rest of the world – economic-policy centrists are being squeezed.
The credibility of the G8 is on the line, as the world’s poorest nations are squeezed by financial crisis, climate shocks, and unfulfilled aid promises, all beyond their control.
Government officials presumably recognize the embarrassment that would be caused were Britain to fall short of the 2% target, so they seem to be looking for programs that can be squeezed into the Defense Department’s budget to pad spending.
So when advanced-country workers were squeezed economically, they concluded that globalization was the problem.
As a result, American workers got squeezed from two sides.
After years of saying advanced countries no longer need to worry about their near-record public-debt levels – now averaging over 100% for general government debt – the IMF has started to warn that many countries may find themselves squeezed for fiscal space if faced with a new recession anytime soon.
Then, in 2008, the authorities began to enforce the contribution rate vigorously, which squeezed firms.
But the notion that the genii of democratization can now be squeezed back into the bottle is a self-serving fantasy.
Moreover, the rapid expansion in the US of shale gas, which contains no economically recoverable helium, has squeezed marginal conventional-gas supplies.
Together with the Russian authorities’ expropriation of oil company Yukos, foreigners have been squeezed out of Russia’s energy extraction sector.
Beleaguered US businesses, goes the argument, are being squeezed by confiscatory taxes and onerous regulations – strangling corporate earnings and putting unrelenting pressure on capital spending, job creation, and productivity, while sapping America’s competitive vitality.
Rather, the external deficit has been squeezed by a collapse in investment activity, while America’s overall savings rate has fallen below 13% of GDP, owing to worsening government finances.
The poor – and even the middle classes – are seeing their incomes squeezed as the global economy enters a slowdown.
By late 1995, inflation was gone, but exporters were squeezed.
The success of right-wing populism in Europe stems not only from unease with the EU, but also from a surge of resentment against liberal/left elites, who are blamed for many sources of anxiety: immigration, squeezed economies, Islamic extremism, and, of course, the alleged domination of the “Eurocracy” in Brussels.
It was as if the consequences of Netanyahu’s cruel neoliberal policies – a weakened welfare state and squeezed middle classes – did not matter at all.
The EU is trying to become more sovereign in a world where it feels squeezed between two great powers with competing models.
Its economy has been squeezed ever more tightly by US sanctions following Trump’s decision a year ago to withdraw the US from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal – officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
Argentina is now being squeezed by a high debt burden, impaired social conditions, and soaring inflation and unemployment all at the same time.
As these ideas gain traction among the country’s squeezed middle class, they are changing the terms of US political debate.
Moreover, history suggests that a significant percentage of private creditors may decline to participate, particularly when their own balance sheets are being squeezed by the effects of the pandemic.
On the contrary, he met with other senators, cast votes on the Senate floor, played a round of golf at a private club, and even squeezed in a few laps at the Senate pool.
But European exporters that have become more dependent on China would be squeezed.
This is not a time for penny pinching, and the reputational costs of causing unnecessary economic hardship are not worth whatever small concessions might still be squeezed out of the country.
Independent media are squeezed further by chronic underfunding.
For starters, Hong Kong’s citizens are unhappy about squeezed living standards and high housing costs.
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