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The recovery could only be partial, because the previous level of output was unsustainable, but it was enough to allow the government to balance its books again.
At the end of the day, conditioning retirement benefits on work represents a fair compromise between the self-defeating technocratic approach and the unsustainable populist approach.
Idle retirement is a remarkable socioeconomic experiment that has been rendered unsustainable by current economic and demographic trends.
As central banks attempt to combat these pressures by lowering interest rates, they are inadvertently causing releveraging (an unsustainable growth pattern), elevated asset prices (with some risk of a downward correction, given slow growth), and devaluations (which merely move demand around the global economy, without increasing it).
In Europe, countries have threatened to crash out of the eurozone unless the European Central Bank or other European governments underwrite their unsustainable debt; and European policymakers have threatened to cut off support to certain countries unless they implement reforms.
Salmon stocks are endangered up and down the West Coast of the US, and ecologically unsustainable aquaculture is now the major source of salmon supplies for restaurants and supermarkets.
But it was only a matter of time before that performance became unsustainable.
Skeptics worry that the economic progress may not last, arguing that the high growth rate is simply a reflection of loose monetary policy and fiscal stimulus – a strategy that inflation will render unsustainable.
Private and public debts in advanced economies are still high and rising – and are potentially unsustainable, especially in the eurozone and Japan.
It is a risky experiment: faster growth could drive up interest rates, making debt-servicing costs unsustainable.
And the bizarrely low long-term interest rates set by complacent bond markets will provide a safety net for global financial markets – at least until complacency proves to be unsustainable.
But, with debt still unsustainable, the next round of Greek default could well make Argentina’s look positively Teutonic in its orderliness.
The first historical rule of thumb is 10% on the dollar for each percent of GDP's worth of unsustainable current-account deficit.
The late Rudiger Dornbusch - who used to write this column - used to say that unsustainable situations lasted longer than economists who believed in market rationality and equilibrium could imagine possible.
The Internet will not only create economic momentum for China in the years ahead; it will help to transform an unsustainable growth model based on fixed investment and cheap labor.
Seizing Sustainable DevelopmentHELSINKI/JOHANNESBURG – The world is on an unsustainable path, and must urgently chart a new course forward, one that brings equity and environmental concerns into the economic mainstream.
We cannot mortgage her future to pay for an inherently unsustainable and inequitable way of life.
The result is environmental degradation, unsustainable public debt, and generations of under-educated, unemployable people who will have difficulty raising their own children to become productive adults.
Its logical destination was the country with the deepest financial markets, the US, where it raised asset prices to unsustainable heights.
There is the risk of overstimulation, with fiscal deficits fueling large current-account deficits and debts, which suddenly become unsustainable when money gets tight.
Unsustainable growth paths often end in a sudden stop of capital inflows, forcing countries to bring their spending back in line with production.
Indeed, much of the acceleration in GDP growth has been bloated by an unsustainable surge of restocking.
Europe’s Last Best ChanceSTANFORD – The resignations of Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi have highlighted how Greece, Italy, and many other countries obscured for too long their bloated public sectors’ long-standing problems with unsustainable social-welfare benefits.
This fundamental problem has now manifested itself in these countries’ unsustainable debt dynamics.
Obviously, holding a G-8 summit just before a G-20 summit, as happened in Canada this June, simply serves to prolong maintenance of separate clubs, which is unsustainable.
In light of experience, the view that the financial system is only exceptionally unstable or on an unsustainable path seems at least questionable.
Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz and Martin Guzman of Columbia University Business School, writing before Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico this fall, warned that proposals to address the US commonwealth’s unsustainable debt will make a bad problem even worse.
And it would not dissuade governments intent on pursuing unsustainable monetary and fiscal policies financed by external borrowing.
That pace of employment growth now appears unsustainable.
Even the economy’s apparent strengths – a thriving service sector and low unemployment – rest on unsustainable credit policies.
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