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On the
supply
side, the world’s most important marginal supplier of oil, Saudi Arabia, has suddenly drawn a lot of wary eyes.
As I explained in January 2015, the Brent crude oil spot price is less subject to speculative fluctuations, and is thus a purer approximation of underlying commercial
supply
and demand factors.
“America first” – whether it comes at the expense of China or via the so-called border-tax equalization that appears to be a central feature of proposed corporate tax reforms – will unwind many of the efficiencies of global
supply
chains that hold down consumer-goods prices in the US (think Wal-Mart).
China’s leaders recognize that, after decades of globalization, countries are too deeply intertwined, through both
supply
chains and knowledge networks, to go it alone.
Moreover, following the triple shock of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophe in 2011, Japan has managed (at considerable cost) to replace the 25% of its energy
supply
that the disabled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant provided.
Mill saw that excess demand for some particular set of assets in financial markets was mirrored by excess
supply
of goods and services in product markets, which in turn generated excess
supply
of workers in labor markets.
If you relieved the excess demand for financial assets, you also cured the excess
supply
of goods and services (the shortfall of aggregate demand) and the excess
supply
of labor (mass unemployment).
When the excess demand is for liquid assets used as means of payment – for “money” – the natural response is to have the central bank buy government bonds for cash, thus increasing the money stock and bringing
supply
back into balance with demand.
When the excess demand is for longer-term assets – bonds to serve as vehicles for savings that move purchasing power from the present into the future – the natural response is twofold: induce businesses to borrow more and build more capacity, and encourage the government to borrow and spend, thus bringing the
supply
of bonds back into balance with demand.
When excess demand is for high-quality assets – places where you can park your wealth and be assured that it will still be there when you come back – the natural response is to have credit-worthy governments guarantee some private assets and buy up others, swapping them out for their own liabilities and thus diminishing the
supply
of risky assets and increasing the
supply
of safe assets.
Yes, it argues, having governments spend more money and continue to run large deficits will increase the
supply
of bonds, and thus relieve excess demand for longer-term assets.
But the Iranian government is under economic and political pressure to
supply
increasing amounts of electricity to its growing population and fragile economy.
That way, immigration will improve the quality of
supply
in the labor market and boost firms’ competitiveness, without generating cultural pressures.
Public resources are simply inadequate to
supply
the bulk of that capital.
Should chaos of the kind witnessed in Libya occur in the Persian Gulf countries, for example, the world could literally come to a standstill, given the quantity of oil that they
supply.
On the
supply
side, permanently lower output makes fiscal adjustment even more compulsory; but, on the demand side, a weak private economy lacks the resilience needed to weather fiscal retrenchment.
The
supply
from these sources will drop by roughly 10,000 tons at the end of 2013, when the Megatons to Megawatt Program between Russia and the United States – which recycles highly-enriched uranium from Russian nuclear warheads into low-enriched uranium for nuclear power plants – comes to an end.
Indeed, extrapolations of global
supply
that foresee an increase in uranium mining are based on claims about the ability to expand output in Kazakhstan.
Together, these parties should take a binary approach, addressing both “hardware” factors (which remain constant, such as physical distance to treatment centers and elongated
supply
chains) and “software” factors (the intangibles that vary greatly in each region, such as the role of family and cultural beliefs).
One reason for the inadequate
supply
of jobs is that Iran’s leaders have failed to improve the country’s environment for private investment.
And, while increased
supply
– particularly from North American shale resources – has put downward pressure on prices, so has weaker demand in the eurozone, Japan, China, and many emerging markets.
Instead, the PBOC is employing unconventional regulatory tools – such as short-term liquidity operations, standing lending facilities, and reverse repurchase agreements – to boost the money supply, driving the repurchase rate to a ten-year low.
Furthermore, the decline in the working-age cohort would squeeze labor supply, fueling wage growth and eroding the country’s economic competitiveness.
Foshan has more than 30 specialized market towns with sophisticated industrial clusters and local
supply
chains linked to international markets.
In 2009-2015, Russia served as a critical
supply
route for US-led forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan; it even contributed military helicopters to the effort.
Already, the Kremlin has implicitly warned that
supply
of Western anti-aircraft weapons to Syrian rebels would compel Russia to arm the Taliban with similar capabilities.
The most optimistic of these predicts that renewables could account for close to 80% of total energy
supply
by mid-century, thereby cutting greenhouse-gas emissions by around one-third.
That claim was spurious: China did
supply
data on the Brahmaputra to Bangladesh.
There are established techniques for the voluntary matching of
supply
and demand in other fields, such as matching students to schools and medical interns to hospitals.
Trump desperately wants to bolster US manufacturing by repatriating global
supply
chains and blocking or curbing imports.
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