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Simply put, we live in a world in which there is too much supply and too little demand.
Even the International Monetary Fund has correctly pointed out that part of the solution for a world with too much supply and too little demand needs to be public investment in infrastructure, which is lacking – or crumbling – in most advanced economies and emerging markets (with the exception of China).
He was right to worry: a sharply expanding money supply may have unexpected and unquantifiable lagged effects.
But, by early 2016, prices had plummeted to around $30 per barrel, owing to a combination of sluggish demand, alternative supply (particularly shale oil and gas from the United States), and a new OPEC production paradigm under which the cartel, led by Saudi Arabia, withdrew from acting as a “swing producer.”
In fact, the downside risks for oil prices have shifted from the demand side to the supply side.
The international clothing company H&M is working to reduce water-quality risk in its supply chain.
Even though the embargo was aimed at the US and the Netherlands, market forces shifted oil among consumers, and in the long term all consuming countries suffered shortages of supply and the same price shock.
By liberalizing energy prices, governments allowed markets to encourage conservation and new supply.
But the lesson of 1973 is that a disruption of Gulf oil supplies would raise prices and damage both rich and poor economies, regardless of how secure their own sources of supply might be.
However, while this short-sighted mercantilist approach creates foreign policy problems over issues like Darfur, it will not really protect China in a time of supply disruption.
So measures to deal with energy security must address the demand side even more than the supply side.
China and India can pursue security of supply by using their large coal resources, but unless they also have access to improved coal technology, the burdens they impose on the atmosphere will be large.
Over time, Ukrainian producers would become part of an integrated supply chain alongside EU producers.
Rather than being regulated by a contract, the value of labor is being subjected to the same market forces buffeting any other commodity, as services vary in price depending on supply and demand.
Rather than fund comprehensive education reform, international partners can supply the tools with which individual countries can bring about reform themselves.
When there is no excess demand for cash, there will be no excess supply of the bonds and stocks that underpin and finance the economy’s productive capital.
With our current technology, the amount of recoverable natural gas worldwide-called "conventional gas" in industry parlance-represents about a 60-year supply at today's prices and rate of consumption.
Only 6% of conventional reserves are in North America-roughly a ten-year supply for that continent.
The US is estimated to have a thousand-year supply at its present rate of gas consumption.
The supply of e-SDRs would be completely dependent on market demand.
Multinational firms and regional and international financial institutions should provide the needed supply of assets.
That information can go directly onto public-health dashboards, which health managers can use to spot disease outbreaks, failures in supply chains, or the need to bolster technical staff.
The first is that the world suffers from a shortage of aggregate demand relative to supply; the second is that monetary and fiscal stimulus will close the gap.
High levels of involuntary unemployment throughout the advanced economies suggest that demand lags behind potential supply.
The only sustainable solution is to allow the supply side to adjust to more normal and sustainable sources of demand – to ease the way for construction workers and autoworkers to retrain for faster-growing industries.
Populist government spending and the inability of the supply side of the economy to keep pace has, in turn, led to elevated inflation, while Indian households, worried that no asset looks safe, have taken to investing in gold.
It could also be rooted in the supply side, with slow technological progress leading to weak productivity growth.
It is useful to note, therefore, that what seems to have changed recently is not the supply of savings, but the expected return on investment.
That would lift the interest rate that balances supply and demand out of negative territory, solving Summers’ secular-stagnation problem.
Capital controls and sterilization of reserve flows might help to delay the adjustment, but a persistent one-directional capital flow will eventually force the fixed-exchange-rate country to allow either its exchange rate or its money supply to adjust.
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