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But with long-term interest rates now close to zero, bond purchases would not be able to lower them any further.
But now, with long-term bond yields already close to zero, it could not even be tried.
Net immigration to Britain was close to zero in the early 1990s.
On the Test for Severe Impairment, where scores can range from zero to 24, three-quarters of these patients scored zero.
By contrast, in a deep, long-lasting recession, with the central bank’s policy rate at the zero lower bound (ZLB), a well-timed, sensible fiscal response can, in principle, be helpful.
Order must be restored rapidly, with zero tolerance of looting and other crimes.
The world’s current-account balances must ultimately sum up to zero.
Credit growth has already fallen close to zero in many countries and is contracting in many others as debts levels are reduced for households and companies.
Central bankers must demonstrate that they understand the political pressures and unusual circumstances that zero, or even negative, interest rates create.
The fifth, and most recent, factor is the US Federal Reserve’s signals that it might end its policy of quantitative easing earlier than expected, and its hints of an eventual exit from zero interest rates, both of which have caused turbulence in emerging economies’ financial markets.
Moreover, verbal intervention will be followed by policy action, because slower growth and low inflation – partly triggered by a strong dollar – will induce the Fed to exit zero policy rates later and more slowly than expected.
The sum of all trade balances in the world is equal to zero, which means that not all countries can be net exporters – and that currency wars end up being zero-sum games.
In Japan, the global slowdown and a stronger yen are hitting the export sector, growth is flagging, and inflation is close to zero again.
Policy interest rates are near zero (and sometimes below it) in most advanced economies, and the monetary base (money created by central banks in the form of cash and liquid commercial-bank reserves) has soared – doubling, tripling, and, in the United States, quadrupling relative to the pre-crisis period.
As a result, when surprises occur – for example, the Fed signals an earlier-than-expected exit from zero interest rates, oil prices spike, or eurozone growth starts to pick up – the re-rating of stocks and especially bonds can be abrupt and dramatic: everyone caught in the same crowded trades needs to get out fast.
Central-bank balance sheets have swelled, and policy rates have reached their “near zero” lower bounds.
Given this, China’s current deflation should motivate its policymakers to pursue monetary easing, reducing real interest rates to a much lower level, even zero.
Until the onset of the Arab uprisings, “zero problems with neighbors” meant zero problems with the Middle East’s established autocratic regimes.
The yen and dollar are also being bolstered as central banks elsewhere continue to cut interest rates towards zero, territory that the yen and dollar policy rates already occupy.
According to our model, long-term rates in the US should be even lower than they are now, because both inflation and short-term real interest rates are practically zero or negative.
Once this is achieved, the marginal cost of the hardware is relatively low (and declines as scale rises), and the marginal cost of replicating the software is essentially zero.
Make no mistake: Pakistan is “ground zero” for the terrorist threat the world faces.
Now, however, the malaise has spread to the core economies of Germany and Italy, both of which contracted in the second quarter, and to France, which recorded zero growth.
To be sure, inflation is difficult to bring about when short-term interest rates are near zero – and thus cannot be reduced any further without inducing massive hoarding of cash.
Against this background, major changes in Fed policy – such as the decision to purchase trillions of dollars’ worth of securities or push interest rates to zero – could easily be subjected to legislative approval (except in times of emergency).
The ratio of job openings to applicants has exceeded parity, and the GDP deflator narrowed to close to zero.
The real rate on the ten-year US Treasury bond (based on the Treasury’s inflation-protected bonds) has gone from zero in 2016 to 0.4% a year ago to 0.8% now.
The conventional wisdom is that burning wood only releases the carbon sucked up while the tree was growing, and hence the net climate effect is zero.
On the OECD “Employment Protection Legislation” index, the US scores a 1.2 on a 0-5 scale, where zero indicates full flexibility.
While that is useful information, it does not say anything about the extent to which each forecaster believes that growth might turn out to be less than 1%, or even less than zero.
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