Money and Finance
Debt and growth revisited
Found via Simoleon Sense.
With the advanced economies at a critical juncture, some economists are urging more fiscal stimulus while others argue that raising debt levels will stunt growth. This column presents the Reinhart-Rogoff findings on the relationship between debt and growth based on data from 44 countries over 200 years with a focus on the debt-growth link during high-debt episodes.
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Deleveraging, What Deleveraging? - The 16th Geneva Report On The World Economy
Link to report: Deleveraging, What Deleveraging? It is widely accepted that high levels of debt (of various forms) have played a central role in the 2008-09 global financial crisis, the 2010-12 euro crisis and many previous crisis episodes. The adverse...
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Reinhart-rogoff Recrunch The Numbers
Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff have had a bad day. The two economic historians’ research, which implied that public debt overhangs can hamper economic growth, was perhaps one of the most cited pieces of work in recent years. Their advice that high debt-GDP...
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Gr-neam Reflections: 07/01/2012 - Long Journey, Map Provided
Debt reduction in advanced economies will persist for years, but is underway in a number of cases. The latest data on the U.S. household sector confirms our long standing assessment that growth is essential to reducing debt loads relative to incomes....
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The Economy Can’t Grow With Debt - By Carmen M. Reinhart And Kenneth S. Rogoff
As public debt in advanced countries reaches levels not seen since the end of World War II, there is considerable debate about the urgency of taming deficits with the aim of stabilizing and ultimately reducing debt as a percentage of gross domestic product....
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Bill Gross – June 2010 Investment Outlook: Three Will Get You Two (or) Two Will Get You Three
Several months ago I rhetorically asked whether it was possible to get out of debt crisis by increasing debt. Yes – was the answer, but it was a qualified yes. Given that initial conditions were favorable – relative low debt as a % of GDP, with the...
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