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Ontario's economic plan to shift focus from austerity to spending and growth - The Glob... - 0 views

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  • how to dig themselves out of debt in a time of slow economic growth. Most are still engaged in aggressive budget-slashing.
  • will emphasize spending, particularly on infrastructure, to increase economic growth. The overall infrastructure outlay – $35-billion over three years –
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'Millions more' Europeans at risk of poverty if austerity drags on - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • guillermo martinez on 06 Oct 13
     
    This article is talking about rrelative poverty because this people are earning less than the average person. The main cause of this is the austerities cuts that the goverment is making were only the rich people can benefit from it. Some consequence of this is that is going to be harder for the countries to exit the resseion and peole will live in bad conditions.
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  • Deflation has acted like a stealth tax cut for households and restored some sobriety to costs.
  • Japan is experiencing “non-monetary deflation” on account of a national cost structure that overshot to the upside decades ago, a graying population that favors falling prices over rising ones, and a political system that doesn’t understand that deflation is a symptom of Japan’s malaise, not the cause.
  • the focus has been on how bond traders will react as a nation whose debt is approaching 250 percent of gross domestic product, and which enjoys sub-1 percent 10-year bond yields, begins to produce sustained inflation. A
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  • ll players have adapted to a deflationary environment:
  • guillermo martinez on 23 Sep 13
     
    The article is talking about the situation in japan. The article talk about the deflation that japan has been suffering for the past years, but is saying how japan adapt to it and benefit from it. At the end of the article talks about a paradox that is happening in Japan called the Abe's Paradox that is when a country is both suffering and benefiting form deflation so they don't now to keep it and increase the countries debt or remove it.  The cause of the inflation in japan has been based on how japan has not make any polices to increase central bank polices and that the resulted in deflation. The effect has been both positive and negative, is that the nation debt has approach the 250 percent of gross domestic product. The positive effect is that how deflation helped the price levels to be stable and act like tax cut for households, and put some sobriety for cost. Also how the economic players of japan have adapted to deflationary environment and they now how to benefit from it.
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