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The fact that people want to come to the US enhances its appeal, and immigrants’
upward
mobility is attractive to people in other countries.
China has not liberalized its capital account, but short-term inflows are now driving stronger
upward
pressure on the renminbi (and larger offsetting reserve accumulation by the People’s Bank of China) than can be explained by the current-account surplus and FDI flows.
Given this dissonance, the financial markets are responding with renewed
upward
pressure on Italian borrowing costs.
CAMBRIDGE – Inflation is now low in every industrial country, and the combination of high unemployment and slow GDP growth removes the usual sources of
upward
pressure on prices.
But all incomes in the candidate countries are much lower than those in the EU, and if EU membership were to give a sudden
upward
shove to rural incomes in Central Europe, it could be quite destabilising for social relations there.
In addition to reporting that real GDP increased at a 4.1% annual rate in the second quarter of this year, output in the first quarter was revised
upward
somewhat, and this was preceded by considerably more income growth.
The
upward
revisions go even further back, with the percentage differences between updated and prior data on nominal personal saving in double digits since the mid-1990s.
The implication of the two is an explosion
upward
for the Euro.
That
upward
momentum carried through to the first quarter of 2017.
After the
upward
jump in energy prices in 1973, annual global growth fell from roughly 5% between 1960 and 1973 to around 3% between 1973 and 1989.
Its efforts focus mainly on increasing banks’ mandatory reserve ratios while introducing administrative measures to deal with food price pressures, approving a couple of token interest-rate hikes, and managing a modest
upward
adjustment in the currency.
Downward mobility is a real threat, while
upward
mobility is limited.
In the US,
upward
mobility is more myth than reality, whereas downward mobility and vulnerability is a widely shared experience.
Indeed, this may explain recent food-price surges better than the factors underlying longer-term gradual
upward
price trends.
Ordinarily, a large surplus puts
upward
pressure on the country’s currency – making its exports less competitive and boosting demand for imported goods and services.
Even though the dollar is already overvalued, it could move into a self-reinforcing
upward
spiral, as it did in the early 1980s and late 1990s, owing to dollar debts accumulated in emerging markets by governments and companies tempted by near-zero interest rates.
Indeed, the fit is even better than the graph suggests, because the GDP figures shown for 2011-2012 have been revised
upward
– that is, they were expected to be worse.
In search of higher yields, investors took that liquidity – largely in the form of short-term speculative capital (“hot” money) – to emerging markets, putting
upward
pressure on their exchange rates and fueling the risk of asset bubbles.
With a fast-rising RMB, net capital outflows will increase, which is what Japan experienced after the Plaza Accord of 1985 pushed the yen
upward.
Annual GDP growth in the first quarter has been revised upward, to 4.1%, exceeding market expectations and providing a strong indication that the Japanese economy is finally recovering, after two decades of stagnation.
Consumer spending is particularly robust, as wages show signs of
upward
movement.
If anything, with oil prices falling, an
upward
revision seems warranted.
Increased crop diversion to feed livestock will put
upward
pressure on food and land prices, making it increasingly difficult for the world’s poor to meet their basic nutritional needs.
The continuation of rapid US productivity growth through the recent recession and into the subsequent low-wattage recovery is a very strong piece of evidence that America's long-run rate of GDP and productivity growth has shifted
upward
permanently, or, if not permanently, at least for a period of time likely to be measured in decades.
Still, even as technological change accelerates, nothing suggests a massive
upward
shift in unemployment over the next few decades.
In principle, Germany could try to boost domestic demand by leveraging up; but, unless the exchange rate adjusts
upward
to shrink the tradable sector at the margin, doing so would be inflationary.
While there will always be cycles – oil prices, for example, will probably fall before they start rising again – the long-run trend for many commodities will clearly remain
upward
for some time to come.
Instead, what is happening is that the integration of 2.5 billion people (China and India alone) into the global economy is producing a demand shift that is likely to put far more
upward
pressure on commodity prices than any technology gains are likely to offset.
So far, the trade deficit has improved; but, with sterling down roughly 25% on a trade-weighted basis for four years, the
upward
part of the J seems a little distant.
But core inflation (which excludes energy and food prices) has been above 2% for much of the recovery, and indirect taxes like VAT – imposed to reduce the fiscal deficit – have contributed to
upward
pressure on prices.
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