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The $200 Trillion QuestionPerhaps the most remarkable trend in global macroeconomics over the past two decades has been the stunning drop in the volatility of economic growth.
This brings us to the $200 trillion question (roughly the value of global money and asset markets, including housing): What could cause macroeconomic volatility to start rising?
So far, such measures affect only a small fraction of the $305 trillion in assets held by banks, investors, financial institutions, and individuals in the global financial system.
According to the New Climate Economy initiative, $89 trillion will be spent on global infrastructure investment by 2030 – with an additional $4.1 trillion needed to make it low-carbon and resilient.
In the US alone, the opportunity cost of failing to improve education would amount to $1.7 trillion by 2030.
But with the US now undertaking its most radically pro-cyclical fiscal expansion since the late 1960s, and perhaps since World War II, the Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal government’s fast-growing deficit will exceed $1 trillion this year.
Data from a growing number of governments suggest that, so far this century, such losses have amounted to around $2.5 trillion.
According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute research study, they could increase global GDP by $2.7 trillion annually by 2025; that is equivalent to adding another United Kingdom to the world economy.
Hernando de Soto, a member of our Commission, estimates that roughly $9.3 trillion in land value--largely in the hands of the poor--lies unexploited as collateral to spur investment and growth;Companies now tapping the huge consumer demand represented by the poor in developing countries are reaping big returns.
But such reforms take time: German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to have forgotten that it took more than a decade and roughly €2 trillion ($2.5 trillion) in subsidies for structural reforms to make the former East Germany competitive with the rest of the country.
The economic damage resulting from environmental degradation is estimated to be roughly $7 trillion a year, much of it irreversible.
All told, the legislation is expected to add $1.9 trillion to the US national debt by 2028.
When is Fighting Corruption Worth It?COPENHAGEN – Some $1 trillion was lost to corruption last year.
The 100 most indebted countries still find the burden of servicing their collective $2.3 trillion in official debt increasingly hard to bear, leaving them hard put to finance national programs spelled out by the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), which seek to halve global poverty by 2015.
From November 2008 to November 2014, successive QE programs added $3.6 trillion to the Fed’s balance sheet, nearly 25% more than the $2.9 trillion expansion of nominal GDP over the same period.
Illicit capital flight is draining Africa dry – costing the continent about one trillion dollars over the last 50 years, according to a high-level panel chaired by former South African president Thabo Mbeki.
Russia’s GDP is around $2 trillion, and its population of 143 million is falling fast.
The United States and the European Union have a combined GDP of about $34 trillion and a population of 822 million, with the US population growing rapidly.
Two articles published in December show that an extremely high degree of precision and specificity of gene-editing is possible, and that anomalous cuts in DNA made by CRISPR-Cas9 can now be reduced to fewer than one per three trillion base pairs of DNA.
This implies that intervention is not only unnecessary; it is ineffective: Faced with wide swings and trading volumes of $2 trillion per day, central banks are helpless to counteract traders’ irrational zeal.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the cuts will result in a cumulative deficit of about $1.4 trillion over the next decade.
A “dynamic scoring” by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center suggests growth windfalls might prune the multiyear deficit from $1.4 trillion to $1.3 trillion over the next decade – hardly enough to finesse America’s intractable funding problem.
Yes, the big Asian central banks do sit on almost $3 trillion in assets;China’s central bank alone has around a trillion dollars.
Hedge funds constitute only a small percentage of overall world financial markets, which, according to a recent study by the McKinnsey Global Institute, now exceed $120 trillion.
Its scale is staggering: more than $4 trillion of mergers and acquisitions this year, with tradable and (theoretically) liquid financial assets reaching perhaps $160 trillion by the end of this year, all in a world where annual global GDP is perhaps $50 trillion.
And then there are the numbers that sound very large and are hard to interpret: $300 trillion in “derivative” securities; $3 trillion managed by 12,000 global “hedge funds”; $1.2 trillion a year in “private equity.”
Consider the $4 trillion of mergers and acquisitions this year, as companies acquire and spin off branches and divisions in the hope of gaining synergies or market power or better management.
With foreign assets worth €6 trillion ($7.9 trillion), most of which consist of claims on its eurozone partners, Germany would lose out massively if the eurozone fragments.
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, fully empowering women would add some $12 trillion to global GDP by 2025.
After waging the longest war in its history, at a cost of tens of thousands of lives and nearly a trillion dollars, the US is combat-weary and financially strapped.
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