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Rising dependence on energy imports has already been used to rationalize an increased emphasis on maritime power, raising new concerns about sea-lane safety and vulnerability to supply disruptions.
Many companies are simplifying and shortening their supply chains.
The World Trade Organization’s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), for example, governs trade in services through different “modes of supply.”
This means that unless America’s domestic savings rate rises mightily – which it shows no signs of doing – and unless investment expenditure remains abnormally low for the rest of this decade, the supply of loanable funds to finance investment will soon be much less than demand when the current-account deficit narrows to sustainable levels.
But when supply is less than demand, prices rise sharply.
The size and complexity of these datasets require specialized analytical skills (which remain in short supply), as well as more research and experimentation.
One potential driver of the latter trend is that, by drastically enlarging the global labor supply, the economic integration of countries with large populations like China and India has increased the bargaining power of capital relative to labor.
For the supply of cotton seeds in India has increasingly slipped out of the hands of farmers and into the hands of global seed producers like Monsanto.
This means that farmers can’t renew their own supply but must return to the monopolist for new seed each planting season.
One of NAFTA’s major benefits was that it allowed for integrated supply chains across North America.
The USMCA will not destroy NAFTA’s efficient supply chains, but it will raise their costs, thus undercutting that advantage.
Moreover, Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves enable it to give crucial support to oil-export sanctions on Iran by offsetting the loss of global supply.
Moreover, fundamental threats to the food and water supply – especially food in the tropics and water in the subtropics – are coming if we continue business as usual.
The problem is that the relationship between the money supply (which ultimately determines the value of money) and prices is an unstable one.
For starters, the lag time between changes in the money supply and price movements is long, variable, and unpredictable.
Furthermore, economists now understand inflation as a rise in consumer prices, not as a decline in the value of money resulting from an excessive increase in the money supply.
And while there have been encouraging signs of reform in some countries’ industrial-scale fisheries, the problem remains widespread, discouraging others from following suit and impeding the reform of small-scale fisheries that supply food and livelihoods for millions of families.
The advantage of such “monetary financing” is that such spending, while adding to the deficit and leading to a permanent increase in the money supply, would not increase the national debt, because the government would “owe” the money only to its own banker.
Thus, not only is the EU exposed to global supply disruptions; it is also helping to prop up authoritarian governments and empower hostile regimes, which limits its own ability to provide effective, coordinated responses to threats and provocations.
This prevents potentially positive matching of the skills needed by employers and the available supply of them.
There is no outbreak of the so-called “Dutch disease” – that is, the price of services do not fall with an increase in the supply.
As already noted, the oil price rise has been associated with an uptick in growth, and, whereas the events Hamilton examined related more to supply disruptions, the story of the past two years represents a combination of supply and demand forces.
For them, a weaker US dollar lowers the price of exports relative to imports, and so they restrict supply.
The scissors close with more demand and less supply, implying a higher dollar price of oil.
Second, some of the increase in oil prices is apparently due to supply restraint by the members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and their friends of convenience (particularly Russia).
Further dollar depreciation eroding supply and enhancing demand might just change that.
Third, when it comes to supply, do not look exclusively abroad.
Nonetheless, domestic producers have been moderate thus far in ramping up supply, reportedly owing to their equity owners’ desire for more profit and less capital spending.
And the expansion of global supply chains seems to have reached the frontier of efficiency.
Oil provides somewhat less economic power than gas because it is a fungible commodity, and interruptions of supply can be made up by purchases on world markets.
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