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Further action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (America’s huge quasi-government mortgage agencies) and on some weak banks in America, as well as on some of Europe’s weaker, more thinly capitalized banks (the recent stress tests were a tepid first step), will be necessary.
Persuasive explanations of the crisis point to linkages between today’s tepid demand and rising income inequality.
So Putin recently addressed the time-lag problem in a disarmingly simple way: in his state of the nation address in April, he demanded 8% growth this year, not the tepid 3-4% rate his government's ministers were targeting.
In Germany, the electorate seems poised to eject Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder out of discontent with his tepid allegiance to the neo-liberal project.
Therein lies an additional explanation for tepid job growth, as well as a salutary lesson about policy.
But if the construction industry now has a chance to reinvent itself after decades of tepid productivity growth, economic incentives will have to be realigned.
But whether or not the pessimists turn out to be right about China, it is odd that business investment remains tepid even during times when the engine of global growth is located elsewhere, such as in the US or Europe (Germany in particular).
Eichengreen traces our tepid response to the crisis to the triumph of monetarist economists, the disciples of Milton Friedman, over their Keynesian and Minskyite peers – at least when it comes to interpretations of the causes and consequences of the Great Depression.
After the 2008 crash and the so-called Great Recession, years of tepid growth laid the groundwork for a political upheaval in 2016.
Even after the detention of thousands of anti-corruption protesters in more than 100 cities across Russia in March, the Trump administration issued only a tepid statement.
These differences have persisted in the most recent decade, even though tepid economic growth and labor displacement by smarter machines have weakened demand for high-skill, high-cognition occupations.
Since then, they have fallen back on a discredited theory of “secular stagnation” to explain the tepid recovery.
Responses to America’s call for democracy in the Middle East have been tepid at best.
The fiscal response – tax cuts and spending increases – has varied considerably, being somewhat more tepid in debt-averse Europe than in the US and China.
Excluding this inventory swing, annualized growth in “final sales” to consumers, businesses, and the government averaged a tepid 1.6%.
Many of the countries that are piling on massive quantities of debt to bail out their banks have only tepid medium term growth prospects, raising real questions of solvency and sustainabilityItaly, for example with a debt-to-income ratio already exceeding 100%, has been able to manage so far thanks to falling global rates.
Since 2010, tepid average annual GDP growth of 2.1% has meant weak job creation.
With no signs of inflation, and growth still tepid and fragile, many anticipate chronic slow growth, with some even fearing another global recession.
Yet, in debates in the Diet, our parliament, neither Prime Minister Koizumi nor the Foreign Minister utter anything more than such tepid responses as: "Japan cannot respond to a hypothetical situation;" or "Japan cannot take a definitive stance without assessing the results of the inspections;" and "It is in Japan's national interest not to declare whether or not it supports the use of force."
His war in Chechnya, while popular at home, is responsible for much bad press recently, even if the American administration's response is tepid.
In the US and elsewhere, the Doha round has sparked widespread opposition from workers and trade unions, and has elicited only tepid support from the wider public.
France has some of the highest labor costs for hourly employees in the EU, and a natural consequence is tepid hiring.
Writing with colleague Robert Kagan in the July/August issue of the leading US foreign policy journal Foreign Affairs, Kristol not only welcomes the return to active US international involvement, he dismisses what has been done so far as based not on a strategic vision but merely on "a tepid consensus."
With a relatively small volume of transactions, even relatively tepid excess demand for US dollars can have a significant impact on the exchange rate.
Rather than denounce the IS’s barbaric behavior, members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the preeminent regional organization of Arab states, issued a series of tepid statements denying support for it in the wake of its entry into Iraq.
An imbalance between profits and investment is a major reason for today’s tepid growth in developed and developing countries alike; unless it is addressed, the result could be a wider crisis of legitimacy for corporate governance and economic management.
A Better Bailout Was PossibleNEW YORK – The recent exchange between Joe Stiglitz and Larry Summers about “secular stagnation” and its relation to the tepid economic recovery after the 2008-2009 financial crisis is an important one.
This is the most tepid growth since World War II, with trade volume expanding at a slower rate than world production for the first time in the post-war era.
But, for now, a complete meltdown seems distinctly less likely than gradual stabilization followed by a tepid recovery, with soaring debt levels and lingering high unemployment.
Italy, judged according to US standards, has been mired in a five-year recession: the recovery in 2010 was so tepid that by 2011, before a new downturn set in, the economy had barely recovered one-third of the output lost after the recession began.
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