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Ultimately, when the next recession strikes, central banks in advanced economies will have no choice but to plumb the zero lower bound once again while they choose among four unappealing options.
Quantitative Easing for the PeopleOXFORD – It is now a near certainty that, by the end of this year, falling energy and commodity prices will push annual inflation in the eurozone below zero – well under the European Central Bank’s target of near 2%.
But interest rates cannot fall below zero (in fact, they may be stuck above zero if there is a strong desire to build up cash balances).
As capital becomes more abundant, the expected return on new investment, allowing for risk, falls toward zero.
If the Bundeswehr’s guns don’t work, its frigates are in dry dock, and its logistical capacity is zero; what other commitments might the French taxpayer be taking on?
As Chile deepens its integration with the world, we are also moving forward with structural reforms through which we will be able to improve substantially the quality of education received by millions of our children and youths; retrain three-quarters of Chilean workers over the next four years; grant universal access to broadband Internet service; double our investment in science and technology; promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the public and private sectors; and reduce the time needed to start up a company to one day – and the cost to zero.
Low rates also leave central banks little room for loosening monetary policy in a slowdown, because nominal interest cannot fall below zero.
Starting almost from an economic “point zero,” Latvian entrepreneurs have built a new and modern economy, based on new and efficient technologies.
Clearly, keeping interest rates at the near zero level does not necessarily lead to higher levels of credit or investment.
The balance is not reported on the ECB’s balance sheet, since it is zero in the aggregate, but it does show up on the respective balance sheets of the national central banks as interest-bearing claims against, and liabilities to, the ECB system.
Until mid-2007, the Target accounts were close to zero, but since then, they have grown by about €100 billion per year.
Thaksin’s supposedly legal “tax planning,” which allowed him to pay zero capital gains tax on the billion dollar sale of his flagship telecom company, Shin Corporation, in 2006, offended the rising urban professional classes.
If this is achieved, we believe it will be possible for cars to have zero impact on the environment in the foreseeable future.
The Federal Reserve and the Bank of England lowered short-term interest-rate targets to near zero and are adopting “quantitative easing” – i.e., continuous infusions of money.
Tropical countries, almost all of which are poor, had virtually zero share of the total patents (Singapore being the only notable exception).
And emerging markets (the fourth engine) are slowing sharply as decade-long global tailwinds – rapid Chinese growth, zero policy rates and quantitative easing by the US Federal Reserve, and a commodity super-cycle – become headwinds.
Similar efforts are underway on many other fronts – the control of worm infections and leprosy, and now a major global effort to bring malaria deaths nearly to zero by 2015.
A more peaceful and prosperous future will demand a clear and credible strategic vision from Modi, including a zero tolerance approach to terrorists and their sponsors.
In all too many countries, however, it moved them from low to zero productivity jobs – unemployment.
Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.
And once software has been developed, the marginal cost of copying it is effectively zero.
Let’s start with “patient zero” in this political plague: Rupert Murdoch.
With interest rates at or even below zero, investors borrow for highly speculative purposes.
This requires improving access to all forms of education – and at low or zero cost.
The result is that net social security liabilities are essentially zero.
In fact, emissions will have to fall to zero later this century to stop any further rise in the atmospheric concentration of CO2.
The American consumer was, in effect, ground zero in this horrific crisis.
Worse yet, unless financial systems spring back, growth could disappoint for years to come, especially in “ground zero” countries such as the United States, Britain, Ireland and Spain.
The United States Federal Reserve is now preparing to raise interest rates, which it has kept near zero since the crisis.
The conventional response – reducing interest rates – is impossible, because current short-term interest rates in the eurozone countries are already near zero or negative.
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