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Moreover, economic forecasters have made only modest
upward
revisions to their growth projections.
Moreover, the International Monetary Fund’s recent
upward
revision of global growth data came at precisely the point in the cycle when the economy should be showing signs of slowing.
Both countries are vulnerable to inflows of “hot” money from rich countries, but Mexico’s lower interest rates have better insulated it from the resulting threat of
upward
exchange-rate pressure.
Intensive discussions since September among Japanese government, business, and labor leaders have been geared toward setting in motion an upward, virtuous cycle whereby increased wages lead to more robust growth.
Only when this trend is reversed can Japan’s economy resume a long-term
upward
trajectory.
Even without hot-money inflows, the renminbi’s exchange rate would face
upward
pressure, owing to the absence of corresponding outflows to finance the trade (saving) surplus.
Much of the existing research focuses on the US economy, where some studies have measured the growth of dominant firms’ market power through the steep
upward
trend in mark-up pricing; and others have examined the role of proliferating information technologies in the accumulation of “surplus wealth.”
It was sincerely believed, and supported by deep intuitive judgment, that interruptions in this
upward
trajectory could only be small and transient.
In other words, Americans overestimate
upward
social mobility and underestimate the likelihood of remaining stuck in poverty for generations.
California once was a source of widely shared rising standards of living and tremendous
upward
economic mobility.
These include demographics, fiscal conditions, social policies that affect income distribution, access to public services, the extent of
upward
mobility, the backlog of past extra-legal immigration, the ethnic composition of the country, and the values that define national identity.
The US will continue to provide a large open market, even as China’s role in serving it will shift
upward
in value added and in global supply chains.
Trying to achieve 2% inflation in a context of such shocks, the BIS warns, would lead to excessively easy monetary policies, which would put
upward
pressure on prices of risk assets, and, ultimately, inflate dangerous bubbles.
At the same time, we should see meaningful
upward
pressure on wages for the first time in many years.
But, with the BOJ joining the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England in easing monetary policy, there will be
upward
pressure on the euro.
With the PBOC unable to sterilize the inflows,
upward
pressure on the renminbi’s exchange rate would threaten competitiveness.
Ensuring that domestic demand decelerates to a more sustainable pace is necessary to moderate the
upward
pressure on prices that threatens the credibility of the inflation-targeting monetary-policy framework – indeed, in April, the 12-month consumer inflation rate breached the upper limit of the central bank’s tolerance band.
Moderating domestic demand requires, first and foremost, fiscal tightening, because further increases in interest rates, which are already relatively high, would only fuel further capital inflows and put even more
upward
pressure on the real, which is already over-valued.
In the sciences, however, even a middling talent is on an
upward
escalator.
Last week, the International Monetary Fund revised
upward
its growth projections for the eurozone, with the more favorable outlook extending broadly across member countries and including the Big Four: Germany, France, Italy, and Spain.
It is the lack of
upward
mobility, not inequality, that is the core problem.
Both developments suggest that China will be under renewed pressure to nudge its currency sharply
upward.
Corporate defaults are already creeping
upward
in China; and in Brazil, one-quarter of all corporate bonds at a higher risk of default are in the industrial sector.
European unemployment had just taken another large
upward
leap, and the “socialist” countries were so incompatible with rational economic development that their political systems would collapse within two years.
This new danger to Africa must be addressed if the continent is to maintain its
upward
momentum.
These countries are trying to achieve a difficult “internal devaluation” – that is, a reduction in their domestic unit labor costs relative to the eurozone’s stronger economies – while the overall eurozone surplus caused by Northern Europe puts
upward
pressure on the exchange rate, undermining their competitiveness outside the monetary union.
It puts
upward
pressure on US prices, which is helpful when there is a risk of deflation.
But when deflation looms,
upward
pressure on prices is just what the doctor ordered.
On the contrary, it is possible that the world will experience even-faster-than-expected growth this year, with growth forecasts being revised
upward
again this summer.
Protest in China has spun
upward
dramatically in recent years, in numbers, scale, and organization.
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