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On the heels of the budget deficits of Reaganomics and the related plunge in national saving, the current account swung sharply into deficit, averaging -2.4% of GDP from 1983 to 1989.
It had swung too far in the direction of chaos under Yeltsin, and has now swung too far in the direction of order and state control under Putin.
It has not swung back to Stalinism;Czarism might be a better historical metaphor.
But, more than a year after the economic fundamentals swung against emerging markets (and especially away from commodities) and toward the United States, this adjustment was due.
The pendulum has swung too far.
The private-sector financial balance swung from a deficit of 3.7% of GDP in 2006, at the height of the boom, to a surplus of about 6.8% of GDP in 2010 and about 5% today.
Instead, after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, momentum swung toward a “global war on terror” that, in practice, became the rationale for maintaining a Cold War mentality and supporting strategies of preemptive war and regime change that have intensified insecurity, instability, and international terrorism.
The current account of the balance of payments swung from deficit in 1949 to surplus in 1950, and GDP rose strongly.
Yet today the pendulum has arguably swung too far in the opposite direction.
Gradually, the balance of advantage swung away from the Communist leadership – especially after Mikhail Gorbachev took over as Soviet leader – and back toward Solidarity.
During the right-wing ascendancy of the past 20 years, the pendulum of politics swung too far towards individualism and ignored the capacity of collective action, regulated or organised by governments, to achieve what individuals could not do.
In Spain, Portugal, and Greece, the deficit has been reduced by more than seven percentage points of GDP since 2007, and in Ireland the current-account balance has swung into surplus.
Japan’s economy has swung from negative to positive growth and is on the verge of breaking free from chronic deflation.
It is impossible to fix a date when the pendulum swung back, but something happened around 1993 in Poland, as it is happening now (for a variety of reasons) in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, and Hungary as well.
Meanwhile, the Senate, the French parliament’s upper house, a conservative bastion between the two world wars and ever since, swung to a Socialist majority for the first time in history at the end of 2011.
The picture is little better in Italy, where the current-account balance has swung from a surplus of around 2% of GDP to a 3%-of-GDP deficit over the last ten years.
If that swung by two percentage points – as the government and the central bank want – to a positive 1% inflation rate, the interest rate would also increase by about two percentage points.
Obama swung into action, now not just a suspect candidate but a trusted president whose services were sorely needed by the battered population of the East Coast.
Now, however, the pendulum has swung back toward “imperial” leadership, after a growing perception of drift at the top of the Party hierarchy led many to worry that big decisions – not least those regarding economic reforms – were being ducked.
White women, by contrast, marginally supported Clinton and had swung by 15 percentage points against the Republicans.
Among voters without a college education, the gender difference was even starker: less-educated white men favored Trump by a 60% margin and had swung in favor of the Republicans by 28 percentage points, while women had swung by ten percentage points in the opposite direction and only marginally supported Trump.
In 2017, economic growth in the EU swung up to an annual rate of 2.3%, after member states had finally reduced their budget deficits to an average 1.5% of GDP, down from 6.4% of GDP in 2010.
In contrast, other companies have swung to the opposite extreme and embraced fully virtual meetings.
The Global Recovery’s Downside RisksNEW YORK – For the past two years, the global economy has been growing, but it has swung between periods of rapid expansion and deceleration.
Countries who borrowed heavily when the dollar was cheap were squeezed when the pendulum swung back to an expensive-dollar cycle.
During the last two decades, economic growth in these countries was led by consumption – so much so that economic activity in these economies swung from investment to consumption by a total of 10 percentage points of GDP.
But this view misses the real reason why capital flowed into emerging markets over the last few years, and why the external accounts of so many of them have swung into deficit.
But austerity in Europe has had a profound impact on the eurozone’s current account, which has swung from a deficit of almost $100 billion in 2008 to a surplus of almost $300 billion this year.
Weak demand in Europe is the real reason why emerging markets’ current accounts deteriorated (and, with the exception of China, swung into deficit).
For a time, the pendulum of political opinion may have swung too far against the nation state and its role.
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