A double dose
of economic distortion.
In «The Dangers of an Extended Period of Low Interest Rates: Why the Bank of Canada Should Start Raising Them Now,» published by the C.D. Howe Institute, Masson argues there is urgency for the Bank to act in view
of the economic distortions and financial risks low interest rates pose for Canada.
Not exact matches
However, the
distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional
economic impact.
The shifting timing
of Lunar New Year celebrations in China, seeing the entire nation break for a week - long holiday, often creates seasonal
distortions in Chinese
economic data during this time
of the year.
With the global economy «floating on an ocean
of credit,» the current acceleration
of credit via central bank policies will likely produce a positive rate
of real
economic growth this year for most developed countries, PIMCO chief Bill Gross writes in his latest monthly commentary, but «the structural
distortions brought about by zero bound interest rates will limit that growth and induce serious risks in future years.»
But it said that «
distortions» from seasonal adjustment and «payback» from the unusually warm winter — which drew
economic activity forward from the spring — seemed to be part
of the explanation.
The replacement
of the federal manufacturer's sales tax with the Goods and Services Tax in 1991 removed
economic distortions and provided the government with a more reliable and stable revenue source.
I remember meetings as far back as 2008, for example involving senior United States or European government officials looking to be debriefed on the Chinese economy, in which the foreign (and some Chinese) analysts present spoke jauntily about the great success
of China's growth policies and the brilliant future ahead, while many
of the Chinese economists present were much more cautious and even gloomy as they discussed the sheer intractability
of China's
economic distortions.
Accounting earnings may have rebounded from 2015 lows, but
economic earnings — which reverse accounting
distortions and account for the weighted average cost
of capital (WACC)-- remain in a persistent downturn.
Nonetheless, as Draghi's remarks imply, the unleashing
of massive new money into bond markets via QE is causing
distortions, with some bond prices increasingly disengaged from
economic fundamentals.
The world is facing many deliberate and unintended
distortions of our social,
economic and political order.
Instead, the price
distortions lead to clusters
of ill - conceived investments, thus setting the stage for a recession or
economic bust.
The
economic gains from such deals come only partly from the efficiency gains that emerge from removal
of distortions to prices; however, an important feature
of these agreements is that they address the various rules under which trade and investment take place.
By reducing these
distortions, the negative
economic impacts
of the carbon tax are partially or fully offset.
We usually have not understood that Amos concerns are not with incidental acts
of injustice, but with the systematic
economic distortion in which the royal - urban managers participate.4
The Minjung experience
of economic power is more than poverty, hunger and exploitation; it is the
distortion of their political economy, which is their basis
of life.
The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment
of the necessary role
of the state to correct the
distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives
of «an active state has played in the
economic development
of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type
of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.
The Minjung experience
of economic power is not merely poverty, hunger and exploitation, but is the
distortion of the very political economy for life.
If the Treasury has any pride as a champion
of economic efficiency, it should apply a windfall tax to these generators to correct this
distortion.
Thedevelopment planningof cities, the spatial distribution
of population and
economic activities
of the municipality and the territory under its influence should avoid and correct the
distortions of urban growth and its negative effects on the environment.
An EC press statement said the «situation is creating serious
distortions of competition that are damaging to
economic operators in the other 25 member states».
If the ultimate cause
of the problem was
distortion from
economic incentives, you have to ask yourself, «What is the
economic incentive and how can we address it to reduce or eliminate it?»
Compression, dissolution, and
distortion are embraced as material traces that manifest intermediate deposits — be they abstract or historical,
economic or emotional — these pieces
of cut infrastructure literally expose the engineering
of transfer and exchange.
The main opposition to that is from the coal - financed Electric Power Research Institute, which makes a business out
of distortion of economic models to «prove» that renewables are just too expensive.
Because these types
of distortions impose societal costs beyond those
of a simple carbon tax, the
economic impacts modeled here will, if anything, be lower than would actually occur in a regulatory scheme.
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We ask for the indulgence
of the reader as there are some lengths and repetitions; the huge
economic impact
of the climate regulations and
of the energy market
distortions striking both the industries and the households require that no ambiguousness, no uncertainty be left.
One
of the worrisome features
of the
distortion of climate science is that the stakes are huge here — even larger than the
economic stakes for keeping the cigarette industry alive.
Embracing the constitutional imperative to realise the freedom and equality
of everyone and accepting that our inequitable past has produced the
economic and skills
distortions overwhelmingly favouring white male practitioners to the prejudice
of black and female practitioners in the legal profession, and now committing to correct that history;
What's clear to me is that, allowing an organization like a Community Legal Clinic to hire unpaid articling students won't result in nearly the kind
of market
distortions or
economic inequity that unpaid internships cause in the private sector.