Crises are never caused by excessive exposure of businesses and individuals to risky assets. Crises can only happen when investors, governments and households accumulate risk in assets where most people believe there is little to no risk – namely government bonds. The recent sell-off and the underlying trend What does the recent sell-off in US …
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The Criteria for Whether a Fiscal Adjustment Is Successful or Not
The term fiscal adjustment refers to all those policies implemented by a government to achieve a future stable economic orthodoxy, i.e. to improve the fiscal balance by drastically reducing the annual state budget deficits. The reduction of the state budget deficit must reach the level of 1.5% of GDP or 1.5% of GDP as a …