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By the same token, good politics can certainly coexist with bad economics: Former British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne’s austerity policies condemned the United Kingdom to years of
stagnation.
Thanks to the European Union’s austerity policies, the eurozone faces the prospect of a Japan-style era of stagnation, and chronic high unemployment on its southern fringe.
Just over three years ago, when I was negotiating on behalf of Greece with the German government to end the combination of unsustainable loans and hyper-austerity that are still crushing my country, I warned my interlocutors at a Eurogroup meeting of eurozone finance ministers:“If you insist on policies that condemn whole populations to a combination of permanent
stagnation
and humiliation, you will soon have to deal not with Europeanist leftists like us but, instead, with anti-Europeanist xenophobes who see it as their vocation to disintegrate the European Union.”
Instead, a crippling malaise has engulfed the Kingdom, as Saudi Arabia’s peculiar inertia has produced idle talk of reform that cannot mask the realities of
stagnation.
But, rather than borrow to invest, firms cut investment to pay down debt, driving two decades of
stagnation
and deflation.
Europe’s Poisoned Chalice of GrowthCAMBRIDGE – After a double-dip recession and an extended period of stagnation, the eurozone is finally seeing green shoots of recovery.
Europe’s continued slide into
stagnation
and disrepute is the natural outcome.
European leaders seeking to escape austerity and
stagnation
should pursue new opportunities for recovery in this fast-growing region.
Whether Summers is right about secular
stagnation
in advanced economies, or whether we are still mainly suffering the aftermath of the financial crisis, it is time to break the political gridlock and restore growth.
A more apt analogy popular in Egypt compares Mubarak to Leonid Brezhnev, who for two decades presided over the Soviet Union's
stagnation
and decline.
Indeed, the hypothesis of “secular stagnation” proposed by Larry Summers is consistent with this fall.
Economic
stagnation
in many European countries accompanies the prospect of double-dip recessions in others (leaving aside the unfolding disaster on the periphery).
For the many, by contrast, there has been only secular stagnation, with depressed employment and stagnating wages.
This time, the damage caused by the Great Recession is subjecting most advanced economies to secular
stagnation
and creating major structural growth challenges for emerging markets.
More recently, former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers argued that “secular stagnation,” manifested in sustained lower investment and growth in many advanced economies, has been a major force driving down rates.
In this unlikely scenario, market expectations would adjust accordingly and rates would rise (saving glut and secular
stagnation
notwithstanding).
So far, financial crisis still seems a rather more vague threat: people are afraid of inflation, stagnation, unemployment, and loss of assets and status.
After all, the evidence so far suggests that the crisis is here to stay for a long time, with unforeseen eruptions, such as the recent adversity in Greece and surrounding the euro, as well as inflation, stagnation, and populist rebellion.
On the contrary, it promises more asset bubbles, financial crises, and Japanese-style secular
stagnation.
The first is a decade of dismal economic performance: for anyone below the age of 30, especially in Europe, the new normal is recession and
stagnation.
Either way, the result would be the same: recession and
stagnation.
Instead, it has brought stagnation, instability, and divisiveness.Learn
Instead, it has brought stagnation, instability, and divisiveness.
Economists such as Robert Gordon of Northwestern University argue that this slump in productivity growth reflects the
stagnation
of technology.
In the country’s election on March 4, the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the right-wing League party captured a combined parliamentary majority by tapping into the public’s discontent over immigration and economic
stagnation.
The likelier outcome of an M5S/League government, then, is not a euro meltdown, but
stagnation.
The
stagnation
that had begun during Leonid Brezhnev’s rule deepened after his death in 1982.
But this picture of
stagnation
in many countries is misleading, because it leaves out an important factor, namely demography.
One might thus conclude that the US should take Japan as an example not of stagnation, but of how to squeeze maximum growth from limited potential.
But the fact remains that one of Abe’s primary worries is the spiritual malaise that accompanied Japan’s long economic
stagnation.
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