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Meanwhile, the trade surplus is rising again, in part because China is dumping its excess
supply
of goods – such as steel – in global markets.
This raises a basic credibility issue: how can Europe urge Colombia and Peru to reduce
supply
when its own drug habit is driving cultivation?
The solution is to attack the problem at its source by addressing both
supply
and demand.
On the
supply
side, there must be more support for poor farmers in drug-producing countries to give them viable alternatives to growing coca.
But controlling
supply
is not enough.
The two are intimately connected: micro-level regulation affects the
supply
and allocation of credit – a crucial determinant of macroeconomic activity.
Market makers now have been instructed that the offer prices they report to the PBOC should be based on the market’s closing parity rate from the previous day, along with the demand and
supply
conditions in the foreign-exchange market and the movements of major currencies’ exchange rates.
In a country with a huge amount of liquidity – M2 (a common measure of the money supply) amounts to double China’s GDP – and still-rising borrowing costs, this makes little sense.
We started with the National Food Authority, a government corporation tasked with ensuring an adequate
supply
of rice.
This excess
supply
of credit results in additional consumption and investment, triggering a boom.
But, despite these gains in expanding the food supply, at least 805 million people still go hungry every day, of whom some 791 million live in developing countries.
The Financial Times reports the rise of a new breed of oil trader who is “not necessarily reacting to news about
supply
and demand or utterances from Riyadh.”
The World Bank and other foreign donors
supply
half of the Ugandan government's budget, but a third of the money is wasted on senseless military actions such as Uganda's invasion of the Congo.
But, while for Keynes, the key was to keep the sum of government spending and private investment stable, for Friedman the key was to keep the money
supply
-- the amount of purchasing power in readily spendable form in the hands of businesses and households-- stable.
The Fund would administer Kosmos on the basis of a transparent digital distributed ledger and an algorithm that would adjust total
supply
in a pre-agreed manner to the volume of world trade, allowing for an automatic countercyclical component that boosts global
supply
at times of a general slowdown.
Many observers worry that this liquidity will lead in the future to a rapid increase in the volume of bank credit, causing a brisk rise in the money
supply
– and of the subsequent rate of inflation.
Traditionally, the volume of bank deposits that constitute the broad money
supply
has increased in proportion to the amount of reserves that the commercial banks had available.
Therefore, faster growth of reserves led to faster growth of the money
supply
– and on to a higher rate of inflation.
As a result, the money
supply
has grown by only 25% since 2008, despite the 40-fold increase in reserves since that time.
Those loans would add to deposits and cause the money
supply
to grow.
As food
supply
growth slowed, demand continued to grow, and not only due to population increase.
Falling asset prices in other financial market segments, following the sub-prime mortgage meltdown in the United States, may be more important for explaining the recent surge in food prices than
supply
constraints or other factors underlying longer-term gradual upward price trends.
Digitally enabled
supply
chains initially increased efficiency and dramatically shortened lead times.
With only a slight lag, complexity became manageable, and global
supply
chains’ linear model (something produced in country A is consumed in country B) gave way to a more complex model with more fragmented but more efficient
supply
networks.
Global
supply
networks shifted again, accommodating fragmentation and dispersion on both the
supply
and demand sides of their structure, a process sometimes called technologically enabled atomization: the division of
supply
networks into finer and finer parts, breaking the bonds of proximity and the resulting transaction-cost constraints that previously prevailed.
This re-localization constitutes a major shift in the structure of global
supply
networks.
In some sense, this represents the ultimate compression of
supply
chains, as firms produce to final demand with minimal delay.
Moreover, it wants to stoke anti-Muslim animus, thereby further alienating European Muslims from the rest of European society and boosting its
supply
of recruits in Europe.
Labor markets have been knocked out of equilibrium as new technology and shifting global
supply
chains have caused demand in the labor market to change faster than
supply
can adjust.
Digital technology and capital have eliminated middle-income jobs or moved them offshore, generating an excess
supply
of labor that has contributed to income stagnation precisely in that range.
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