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The European Central Bank would contain the collateral damage by flooding Europe’s banking system with liquidity (against subpar collateral).
The record plunge in consumer demand during the Great Recession has been followed by persistently subpar consumption growth.
Several more narrowly economic issues – for example, defective growth patterns, underinvestment in tangible and intangible assets, and the absence of reforms designed to increase structural flexibility – remain a cause for concern, because they underpin subpar growth.
But there is another problem with persistently subpar growth: It provides no cushion to shield economies from unexpected blows.
Rapid growth in earnings for a few years can thus easily be followed by a return to the long-term trend or even subpar levels.
Rather than privatizing, governments around the world are increasingly looking for ways to address their SOEs’ perennial weaknesses, including their lagging corporate governance, low productivity, and subpar innovation.
If America fails to solve its saving problem – a reasonable scenario in light of fiscal gridlock and persistently subpar personal saving – the current-account deficit will persist.
Afflicted by historically high unemployment, massive under-employment, and relatively stagnant real wages, while burdened with underwater mortgages, excessive debt, and subpar saving, US consumers are stretched as never before.
China enabled the US to sidestep the mounting perils of subpar saving, reckless fiscal policy, and weak household income growth.
At the same time, sharply elevated unemployment and subpar income growth have combined to tighten the noose on over-extended consumers.
In an era of outsize government deficits and subpar household saving, that may be America’s toughest challenge of all.
After a year of subpar 2.9% global growth, what does 2014 hold in store for the world economy?
As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have shown in their book This Time is Different, over the long sweep of history, post-crisis recoveries in output and employment tend to be decidedly subpar.
There can be no mistaking the decidedly subpar character of the current global recovery.
That would be subpar relative to the 6.4% growth trend from 1994 to 2011, but nowhere near the collapse recorded during 2008-2009.
While this approach has succeeded in boosting financial markets, it has failed to cure bruised and battered developed economies, which remain mired in subpar recoveries and plagued with deflationary risks.
With American consumers responding by hunkering down as never before, inflation-adjusted consumer demand has remained stuck on an anemic 0.9% annualized growth trajectory since early 2008, keeping the US economy mired in a decidedly subpar recovery.
Where most forecasters and policy officials saw green shoots and reasons for confidence, I saw strong headwinds that would cause an economic downturn and then a subpar recovery.
Even with the “success” of the bailouts, countries suffered massive output losses due to recessions and sustained subpar growth.
Given that public-sector underinvestment is a common cause of subpar growth, this is a step in the right direction.
Dennis Kelleher of Better Markets, a pro-reform group, recently summed up the current situation well: “[A]dvisers can recommend investments that generate lucrative commissions for them, even though their clients get stuck with high fees, subpar performance, and unacceptably risky products."
Created to absorb army rejects who must still complete their mandatory national service, the CSF is a lower-rung security organization in a country whose armed forces are subpar to begin with.
The US economy, for example, remains stuck in a subpar recovery: inflation is too low and unemployment is too high.
percentage points off already subpar US economic growth of around 1.6% in 2016.
The COVID-19 crisis is an especially tough blow for a country that has long been operating on a razor-thin margin of subpar saving.
Nor does his administration show any understanding of the linkages between ever-expanding budget deficits, subpar domestic saving, and multilateral trade imbalances.
This subpar response should serve as yet another reminder that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
First, its anti-pluralistic and exclusionary elements undermine basic democratic institutions and rights; second, it favors an excessive concentration of political power and de-institutionalization, leading to poor provision of public goods and subpar economic performance.
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