Sentences with phrase «trade deficit caused»

The New Zealand dollar stabilized despite an unexpected trade deficit caused by a jump in imports and a surprisingly large drop in consumer confidence.

Mostly he says unless the U.S. is a developing country without domestic access to capital (obviously not), out trade deficit causes unemployment and asset bubbles.

Of course, the concept of reducing the trade deficit causing short term benefits is weak.

Not exact matches

To make matters worse, economists can not agree on what has caused America's manufacturing malaise or why the trade deficit is so persistently large.

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw from NAFTA unless he can rework it in favor of the United States, arguing that the pact has hollowed out U.S. manufacturing and caused a trade deficit of over $ 60 billion with Mexico.

a trade deficit can have a role in producing financial - market bubbles and the devastation that's caused when those bubbles burst.

Reducing the fiscal deficit, according to Shultz and Feldstein, causes total U.S. savings to rise, and as total U.S. savings rise, the gap between U.S. savings and U.S. investment must fall, bringing down both the capital account surplus and the trade deficit.

I don't recall reading that a fiscal deficit will lead to, cause a trade deficit.

This is why Shultz and Feldstein claim that cutting the U.S. fiscal deficit would cause the U.S. trade deficit to fall.

If the fiscal deficit is crowding out investment, cutting it will cause investment to rise, and it might rise by the full $ 100, in which case both savings and investment will rise by enough to have no impact on the trade deficit.

In fact, if investors are worried at all about the U.S. fiscal deficit, then if anything a cut in the deficit will cause even more money to enter the United States, and if the U.S. capital account surplus rises, then so must the U.S. trade deficit, which is the opposite of what Shultz and Feldstein claim.

I am in the bottom right box, in which a cut in the U.S. fiscal deficit will cause no change in the U.S. trade deficit because it will be matched by a decline in household savings as unemployment rises, as consumer debt rises, or both.

The U.S. trade deficit will not decline, and may even rise if it causes foreign confidence in the U.S. economy to rise.

Trade surpluses can have many causes, too often just the low share of GDP that ordinary households are allowed to keep, but trade surpluses or deficits that persist for many years are always the result of significant distortions at home or abTrade surpluses can have many causes, too often just the low share of GDP that ordinary households are allowed to keep, but trade surpluses or deficits that persist for many years are always the result of significant distortions at home or abtrade surpluses or deficits that persist for many years are always the result of significant distortions at home or abroad.

If Washington takes steps to reduce or eliminate Mexico's bilateral surplus with the United States, and this causes net capital inflows into Mexico to decline, Mexico's [trade] deficit must decline, regardless of what happens to its bilateral surplus with the United States.

Finally, the fifth way would cause the U.S. trade deficit to decline in ways that would likely either reduce U.S. unemployment or reduce U.S. debt; this fifth way would also cause the Chinese trade surplus to decline in ways that would likely either increase Chinese unemployment or increase Chinese debt.

If, on the other hand, it causes productive investment to rise, it is the reverse: a higher trade deficit makes the United States richer.

The second two ways would change nothing for China but would cause the U.S. trade deficit to decline, either in ways that would reduce U.S. unemployment or that would reduce U.S. debt.

As evidence that the U.S. deficit is caused by expensive labor, high manufacturing costs, and the spendthrift habits of Americans, many economists will point out that the United States runs bilateral trade deficits with many countries, and not just with China.

To return to our example, we want to understand what will happen if China runs a $ 22 billion trade surplus and exports the full amount to the United States, which causes the U.S. capital account surplus and the US current account deficit both to rise by $ 19 billion.

How many times, for example, have you heard economists insist that the US trade deficit was «caused» by the fact that Americans refuse to save, or, even more foolishly, that «no one held a gun to the American consumer's head and forced him to buy that flat - screen TV»?

Until we understand this do not expect the global crisis to end anytime soon, except perhaps temporarily with a new surge in credit - fueled consumption in the US (which will cause the trade deficit to worsen) and more wasted investment in China (which, because it is financed with cheap debt, which comes at the expense of the household sector, may simply increase investment at the expense of consumption).

When concerns about burgeoning debt suddenly caused inflows to reverse in 1997, the result once again was collapsing currencies and rising unemployment that violently converted trade deficits into surpluses.

A tit - for - tat trade war would leave all parties worse off, they say, while doing little to address the underlying causes of the United States» big trade deficits.

In particular, President Trump insisted that the free trade agreement caused millions of jobs to be sucked down to Mexico, resulting in a $ 63 billion trade deficit with the US's southern neighbor.

Contrary to claims coming from some trade hawks, America's large and persistent trade deficit is not caused primarily by bad trade deals.

Chapman expects it will develop into a prolonged recession caused largely by the bursting of the housing bubble and the weakness in the dollar attributable to the United States» large federal budget deficit and international trade imbalance.

President Trump's plans to force US companies to bring their factories back to the US, to renegotiate trade deals and / or to impose trade tariffs on China and Mexico would all cause the US Current Account deficit to shrink.

This causes trade deficits, as the developing countries trade goods to get the foreign exchange.

With bank debt at 2 trillion causing debt deflation, a slump in output, supermarkets losing profits because of poverty, a slump in output, a massive trade deficit that requires a massive boost of sovereign currency issue, I would say he is in the neoliberal mold, not the Labour one, and probably not that competent.

There is now broad consensus on how these imbalances - the huge gaps in trade deficits and surpluses, and the associated gaps in national savings, consumption, and investment rates - helped caused the housing bubble and the Great Recession.

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