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But it would be more accurate to say that there is global investment shortfall, with investment trending downwards despite the
upward
trend in global growth.
It is said that the International Monetary Fund, which earlier this year revised
upward
its estimate of bank losses, from $1 trillion to $2.2 trillion, will announce a new estimate of $3.1 trillion for US assets and $0.9 trillion for foreign assets, figures very close to my own.
Despite the government’s recent
upward
revision to a still-depressed personal saving rate, the overall US national saving rate, which drives the current account, remains woefully deficient, averaging just 1.9% in net terms (adjusted for depreciation) over the post-crisis 2009-17 period.
The fact that people want to come to the US, together with immigrants’
upward
mobility, enhances the country’s appeal.
Unless America experiences a dramatic
upward
boost in civic engagement in the next few years, by 2010 Americans will join, trust and vote even less than they do now.
Those who have used the prevailing economic fable about the 1970s to predict
upward
outbreaks of inflation in the 1990s, the 2000s, and now the 2010s have all been proven wrong.
Three of the top ten ideas under “Economy & Jobs” are about imposing greater constraints on the big banks – and there is a sharp
upward
trend in support for Break Up Citigroup (full disclosure: I suggested this item for the website).
But they thought that by providing rock-bottom interest rates and generous liquidity conditions in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, they could push investment and consumption
upward.
In the longer term, however, a better overall system for skills upgrading could be designed – one that could be integral to facilitating
upward
mobility.
And asset prices, far from collapsing, hit new highs and accelerated
upward
from early 2013 onwards – exactly when the Fed started talking about “tapering” QE.
While the Fed is raising interest rates, Europe and Japan are planning to keep theirs near zero at least until the end of the decade, which will moderate the negative effects of US monetary tightening on asset markets around the world, while European unemployment and Asian overcapacity will delay the
upward
pressure on prices normally created by a coordinated global expansion.
The crux of the problem may lie in China’s system of
upward
accountability in governing its officials.
Given the system of
upward
accountability, de-emphasizing GDP growth in assessing the performance of local officials would help reduce these officials’ incentive to abuse decentralized powers and make unproductive investments.
But if Chinese leaders do not abandon the system of
upward
accountability, how would they measure and assess local officials’ relative performance?
The more skeptical you are of the ability of government-run antitrust policy to offset the monopoly power-increasing effects of M&A’s, the more you should seek other sources of countervailing power – which means progressive income taxation – to offset any
upward
leap in income inequality.
Indeed, the surprising actions taken by Singapore and Switzerland were a direct response to this divergence, as was Denmark's decision to halt all sales of government securities, in order to push interest rates lower and counter
upward
pressure on the krone.
Moreover, rapid economic and population growth in emerging markets is already putting strong
upward
pressure on the prices of food, water, and commodities, while limits to supply persist.
But when the Office later revised its data upward, it became clear that the Ifo indicator was right.
While the US economy begins to stagnate, across the Atlantic the business cycle seems to have turned
upward
at last.
However, unemployment has increased from one boom to the next, with the lowest rate in each business cycle following a linear
upward
trend.
Economies appear to be on a stable,
upward
path.
Structural concentration of incomes at the top is combining with easy money and a chase for yield, driving equity prices
upward.
It all starts when some imbalance causes overall inflation or some key price – typically the exchange rate, but also power, water, and gasoline – to come under
upward
pressure.
Likewise, following the 2008 global economic crisis, food-price spikes and recession caused the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to revise its hunger estimates upward, to more than one billion people.
The last
upward
move in London was a decade ago.
Proposals to increase housing density are frequently met by opposition from current residents, whose fears range from adverse impact on services to downward pressure on existing home values (or
upward
pressure and gentrification).
Ensuring the wealth and wellbeing of the continent’s residents will not be easy; but there is much that policymakers can do to put Africa back on an
upward
trajectory.
Together with the fact that worldwide production of goods and services has been rising by more than 3%, this means that the trade-to-GDP ratio has been falling, in contrast to its steady
upward
march in earlier years.
Although this reflects a decline from the 2011 peak of 57%, the long-term trend is upward: the average shortfall was 41% in 2005-2010, compared to 37% in 2000-2005.
He says that it merely reflects a feedback mechanism that is always present: any initial
upward
shock to asset prices strengthens the balance sheets of financial institutions, so in response they borrow more and bid up prices even more.
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