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If true investment income were double what is reported, the difference was reinvested abroad in the years 1982-2000, and those assets were discovered by 2014, that would explain about half of the upward revision in the US net international investment position.
As more of China’s population converges to Western standards of consumption, demand for commodities – and thus their prices – will remain on an upward trajectory.
Of course, upward pressure on commodity prices also stems from supply-side challenges.
Should that happen, more upward mobility will be possible, thus negating (2) and (3).
But we must likewise be united in seeking to avoid an upward spiral of antagonism and confrontation.
This upward trajectory is having a disproportionate impact in Africa, where the share of household income spent on food is also rising.
The second factor that could push US interest rates sharply upward is not fear of a decline in the future value of the dollar, but the fact of a past decline in its value.
But if interest rates don’t rise far enough, the value of the dollar will spiral downward and US inflation will spiral upward like in the 1970’s, setting the stage for the type of extremely painful measures imposed by then Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
Even if the asset pool declines in value, the fund’s managers keep the value of each share at $1.00 by rounding upward the fund’s real value.
The June referendum’s initial economic effects were negligible, and may even have been slightly positive, now that the UK’s post-referendum growth figures are being revised upward.
As a result, gold can be very volatile – upward and downward – at the peak of a crisis.
Nonetheless, informal markets in developing countries provide a vast field for experimentation to transform a patchwork of jobs into a steady upward path for workers.
But several years of ultra-loose monetary policy in the advanced countries has led to significant liquidity spillover abroad, putting excessive upward pressure on higher-yielding developing countries’ currencies.
It will surely be reflected in upward pressure on interest rates, at which point the Federal Reserve will enter the picture.
The increased spending leads to higher employment, an increase in capacity utilization, and, eventually, upward pressure on wages and prices.
Subdued wage growth in the face of a tightening labor market is unlikely to continue, and any big rise in wages will put strong upward pressure on prices (though this might not happen anytime soon, given the relentless downward pressure on wages coming from automation and globalization).
For example, the capital inflows associated with external borrowing are putting upward pressure on the peso, threatening sectors that are important for job creation.
Comparing the outcomes of these two simulations suggests that large export flows of Palestinian labor to Israel reduce the capacity of the Palestinian economy to export goods by putting upward pressure on wages, undermining competitiveness.
As a result, the International Monetary Fund’s latest forecast has revised upward UK growth – and more so than for any other G-7 economy.
If that happens, China will no longer be a net buyer of US and other foreign bonds, putting upward pressure on interest rates in those countries.
Their actions on one side would provoke the other side’s hardline response, fueling an upward spiral of distrust that strengthened the extremes in both camps.
But, ironically, more expensive imports will also put upward pressure on the domestic inflation rate, which could force the Fed to raise interest rates even faster than planned.
For starters, the same forces that led to an upward shift in the global savings curve will soon enough begin operating in the other direction.
Independence or WarSTRASBOURG – In the 1990’s, the world averted its eyes to genocide in Rwanda, and to the “Great Lakes War” in eastern Congo, which claimed upward of five million lives – the most in any war since World War II.
Trump will take charge of an economy on a strongly upward trend, with third-quarter GDP growing at an impressive annual rate of 3.2% and unemployment at 4.6% in November.
For the quarter-century until 2009, the OMB’s three-year forecasts of economic growth were biased upward by a whopping 3.8%, on average.
In almost all industrialized countries, official forecasts have an upward bias, which is stronger at longer time horizons.
The US Federal Reserve may respond to such an increase by hiking its policy rate, a move that would ultimately lead to a rise in long-term interest rates and place further upward pressure on the dollar’s exchange rate.
So savers did what one would expect: seek higher risk-adjusted returns in emerging economies, causing increases in credit and fueling upward pressure on exchange rates and asset prices.
In highly polarized and politicized Venezuela, it is unlikely that upward of 20% of voters have yet to decide what they will do.
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