Sentences with phrase «trade imbalances which»

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These inventions necessarily create an trade imbalance - we have the violins and you don't - which is transformed into profit for the owner of the technology.

Here are the countries with which the US has the largest trade imbalances in goods (services not included).

What's important to recognize is that the deep trade imbalances afflicting the U.S. in recent years mainly reflect the impunity with which other countries exploit access to its capital account.

Because I have long argued that these reforms would at best reverse the process by which the imbalances were created (especially the elimination of the financial distress «tax») if the balance sheet approach to rebalancing were the appropriate model, and are implicit in the trade - off among three outcomes I list above, they are at least consistent with what I believe is the correct analysis.

First, trade imbalances originate in other countries that resolve them directly by exporting excess savings to the United States, and indirectly by exporting excess production in the form of intermediate goods shipped to several countries in a value chain, which in turn run trade surpluses with the United States.

Spain could therefore either use the imported German capital to (a) increase domestic investment (which it did in the form of a real estate bubble)(b) binge on consumption and sharply reduce its savings as a function of GDP (which it also did)(c) accept higher unemployment (which it is now forced to do) which forces GDP to fall faster than consumption falls or (d) try to emulate Germany by passing off a trade imbalance at the expense of the rest of the world (which Europe as a whole is trying to do and which will go nowhere in the long run because only one country is even remotely capable of accepting such massive inflows, and it is increasingly unwilling to import the unemployment caused by German and Asian policies).

Ambassador Wise noted, in his address, quite a number of factors — mostly misconceptions about Thailand — which had contributed to the trade imbalance.

He raised taxes at a time when the average family was near or in starvation mode, he confiscated all of the nation's privately - owned gold and then promptly devalued the dollar by 40 % (reducing the buying power of any saved dollars by almost half overnight), he raised bank reserve requirements numerous times (taking yet more cash out of the real economy so it could be hoarded in vaults), he actively supported a trade war with tariffs that created massive global imbalances (some would argue ushering in the rise to power of fascist regimes that would have had no chance in times of prosperity), and perhaps most damning, rather than plowing most of those raised tax dollars back into the stalled economy, he instead bought gold on the global markets for the government and sequestered it, keeping it from backing new dollars (monetary expansion, which most understand is required to turn a recession around) and instead further crushing the economy — and not just the US economy.

The Fund invests in gold and other precious metals, which involves additional risks, such as the possibility for substantial price fluctuations over a short period of time and may be affected by unpredictable international monetary and political developments such as currency devaluations or revaluations, economic and social conditions within a country, trade imbalances, or trade or currency restrictions between countries.

The California Independent System Operator (CAISO) has successfully extended rapid trading of electricity with other grid operators through the Energy Imbalance Market, which facilitates the integration of more renewable energy.

Five utilities and grid operators have already joined the Energy Imbalance Market, a real - time wholesale power market managed by California's grid operator which allows electricity trading in intervals as small as five minutes.