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Although all countries could not improve their trade balances simultaneously, when they devalued against gold, they succeeded in raising the price of gold, thereby increasing the real value of the global money supply – exactly what a world in depression needed.
This is not just because China is slowing; years of high prices have led to investment in new capacity and an increase in the supply of many commodities.
Finally, though some evidence suggests that there is an over-supply of university graduates in China, ongoing demographic and sectoral shifts mean that China will encounter a supply deficit of 24 million highly skilled graduates of universities or higher-level vocational schools by 2020.
Their struggle not only underscores the obstacles confronting workers’ organizations in an era of outsourcing and global supply chains, but also might serve as a model for workers in other industries.
A genuine reduction in global excess supply awaits a decline in output, as existing wells, deprived of capital investment, run dry.
Yet labor supply is typically also cyclical, picking up as the economy improves and job opportunities arise.
What might an increasingly elastic labor supply mean for Fed policy?
Might Yellen be willing to make a similar wager on labor supply?
Exacerbating matters, the central bank’s repeated efforts to tighten the money supply raises the cost of capital.
But, instead of blindly tightening the credit supply, policymakers must pursue deep financial-sector reform to liberalize the deposit rate, eliminate quantitative controls, and, most important, allow for the establishment of domestic private financial institutions.
But I was shocked by how large a panic was produced by what seemed to me – and still does – relatively small losses (in terms of the size of the global economy) in subprime mortgages; by the weakness of risk controls at the major highly-leveraged banks; by how deep the decline in demand was; by how ineffective the market’s equilibrium-restoring forces have been at rebalancing labor-market supply and demand; and by how much core-country governments have been able to borrow to support demand without triggering any run-up in interest rates.
Making matters worse, the monetary authorities have tightened the credit supply, in an effort to deleverage the Chinese economy.
Starting modestly in coastal areas and special economic zones, the “world factory” supply chain has spread throughout China, producing everything from stuffed animals to iPads.
The third pillar is the “Chinese financial supply chain,” which provided the financing needed to construct and maintain the infrastructure network.
This supply chain is characterized by the dominance of the state-owned banks, high domestic savings, relatively under-developed financial markets, and a closed capital account.
The final pillar is the “government services supply chain,” by which central and local officials affect every link of production, logistics, and financial networks through regulations, taxes, or permits.
Most foreign observers miss the scale and depth of institutional and process innovation in this supply chain, which has managed (mostly) to protect property rights, reduce transaction costs, and minimize risks by aligning government services with market interests.
For the financial supply chain, the key is to address systemic risks and realign incentives in order to induce investors to support the engines of real economic growth, rather than the creation of asset bubbles.
The Chinese miracle was engineered by institutional and process innovation at all levels of the government services supply chain.
But, with competition in the global supply chain fiercer than ever, China will need more than capital transfer to achieve high-income status.
We learned that the brain damage in these children did not reflect trauma to nerve fibers, but rather a failure of blood supply.
And, with more maize and soybeans being used for fuels rather than food, the food supply tightens even more.
Three days after the hurricane hit, the hospital had no electricity, the water supply had failed, and toilets could no longer be flushed.
Its soaring deficits and unsustainable debts were symptoms of serious pathologies: a dysfunctional public sector, an uncompetitive private sector, and an elite that abdicated its responsibilities and, rather than facing the challenges of the day, used the state as a means to supply jobs to political loyalists.
In 1993, central-government leaders enjoyed relatively limited powers: they did not control the money supply and had difficulty firing provincial governors or relocating top generals.
Or perhaps we have just witnessed a serious step towards global ruin through our failure to cooperate on a complex and difficult challenge that requires patience, expertise, goodwill, and respect for international law – all of which were in short supply in Copenhagen.
Together, wind and solar energy supply a tiny fraction – less than 0.6% – of the world’s entire energy needs.
Indeed, according to Chris Green and Isabel Galiana of McGill University, even with these breakthroughs, the intermittency and variability in wind and solar energy means that they are unlikely to be able to supply much more than 10-15% of grid-based electricity without massive investment in such storage systems.
Another problem is that most Western economies have long since become deeply intertwined in global supply chains.
While the rest of the world floundered in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, China continued to extend its vast logistical and supply chains.
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