Martin Feldstein Citas

• El aumento del gasto público puede proporcionar un estímulo temporal a la demanda y la producción, pero a largo plazo los niveles más altos de gasto público desplazan la inversión privada o requieren impuestos más altos que debilitan el crecimiento al reducir los incentivos para ahorrar, invertir, innovar y trabajar.

  Martin Feldstein

  Running, Government, Growth

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• Although economists have studied the sensitivity of import and export volumes to changes in the exchange rate, there is still much uncertainty about just how much the dollar must change to bring about any given reduction in our trade deficit.

  Martin Feldstein

  Dollars, Reduction, Given

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• Hace treinta años, muchos economistas sostenían que la inflación era una especie de inconveniente menor y que el coste de reducirla era un precio demasiado alto. Hoy nadie esgrimiría esos argumentos.

  Martin Feldstein

  Years, Cost, Pay

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• La inflación nacional refleja la política monetaria nacional.

  Martin Feldstein

  Monetary Policy, Inflation, Domestic Policy

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• Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more.

  Martin Feldstein

  Mean, Years, Months

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• A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

  Martin Feldstein

  Judgement, Reason Why, Financial

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• The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.

  Martin Feldstein

  Summer, Oil, Purchasing Power

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• The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit.

  Martin Feldstein

  Dollars, Trade, Deficit

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• We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

  Martin Feldstein

  Pay, Gains, Inflation

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• Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.

  Martin Feldstein

  Real, Modesty, Fluctuation

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• And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgment, on art, on a feel for financial markets.

  Martin Feldstein

  Art, Investing, Matter

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• Para financiar este déficit comercial, Estados Unidos tiene que pedir prestado al resto del mundo o vender activos estadounidenses como acciones, empresas y propiedades inmobiliarias al resto del mundo.

  Martin Feldstein

  Real, World, Finance

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• Así que, al igual que quiero pilotos en los aviones que piloteo, cuando se trata de política monetaria, quiero pensar que hay alguien con buen juicio a los mandos.

  Martin Feldstein

  Thinking, Judgement, Sound

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• En primer lugar, creo que la ciencia de la economía monetaria ha mejorado claramente.

  Martin Feldstein

  Thinking, Firsts, Economics

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• But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.

  Martin Feldstein

  Years, Expansion, Dollars

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• After all, an overvalued dollar gives us the ability to buy foreign goods at lower prices. And the existing volume of exports brings more yen and euros than they would if the dollar were more competitive.

  Martin Feldstein

  Giving, Dollars, Volume

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• But because we in the United States finance our current account deficit by borrowing in our own currency, we can move to a more competitive dollar without the adverse effects that followed currency declines in other countries.

  Martin Feldstein

  Country, Moving, Adverse Effects

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• An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.

  Martin Feldstein

  Latin, Usa, America

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• The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.

  Martin Feldstein

  World, Way, Financial

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• But then in April of 1985 the dollar began a sharp decline. The dollar's trade weighted value fell 23 percent in just 12 months and by a total of 37 percent by the beginning of 1988.

  Martin Feldstein

  Aggravation, Dollars, Months

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• Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

  Martin Feldstein

  Combination, Payment, Interest

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• The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.

  Martin Feldstein

  Running, Strong, Home

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• In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth.

  Martin Feldstein

  Growth, Dollars, Economic

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• Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like.

  Martin Feldstein

  Home, Cash, Improvement

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