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Unemployment is disastrous on both the individual and societal level.
Individuals who look for work but can't find it are miserable.[1]
On the national level, high unemployment is both cause and effect concerning other problems with the economy. As we'll see below, high unemployment results from a weak economy and – in turn – weakens the economy.
Until the causes of, and solutions to, high levels of unemployment are understood, we will not be able to solve the problem.
How High is Unemployment?
Before we can even start looking at causes or solutions, we have to understand what the current level of unemployment really is, and what the trends portend for the future.
Let's use America as an example. With the largest economy in the world, it has often been said that "when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold". And much of the rest of the world has adopted the "Washington Consensus" – America's neoliberal view of economics.[2] Moreover, the rest of the world has been infected by many types of "toxic assets" invented in America, such as credit default swap derivatives[3], as well as Wall Street style banking strategies. So I will use the United States has a case example, but will also touch on global trends.
Official figures put unemployment in the United States somewhere between 9 and 10 percent. But the official figures use a very different measure for unemployment than was used during the Great Depression and for many decades afterwards.
Specifically, the official unemployment reports of the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provide conventional "U-3″ figures and various alternative measures including "U-6″. [4]
For example, as of December 2008, U-3 unemployment was 7.2 percent, while U-6 was 13.5 percent. [5]
U-6 is actually more accurate, because it includes those who would like full-time work, but can only find part-time work, or have given up looking for work altogether.
As can be seen by the December 2008 figures, U-6 unemployment rate can almost double the more commonly-cited U-3 figures.
But those in the know argue that the real rate is actually even higher than the U-6 figures.
For example, Paul Craig Roberts [6] – former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and former editor of the Wall Street Journal – and economist John Williams both said in December 2008 that – if the unemployment rate was calculated as it was during the Great Depression – the December 2008 unemployment figure would actually have been 17.5%.
Williams says [7] that unemployment figures for July 2009 rose to 20.6% [8].
According to an article [9] summarizing the projections of former International Monetary Fund Chief Economist and Harvard University Economics Professor Kenneth Rogoff and University of Maryland Economics Professor Carmen Reinhart, U-6 unemployment could rise to 22% within the next 4 years or so.
As the New York Times pointed out in July[10] :
Include [those who have given up looking for a job and those part-time workers who want to be working full time] — as the Labor Department does when calculating its broadest measure of the job market — and the rate reached 23.5 percent in Oregon this spring, according to a New York Times analysis of state-by-state data. It was 21.5 percent in both Michigan and Rhode Island and 20.3 percent in California. In Tennessee, Nevada and several other states that have relied heavily on manufacturing or housing, the rate was just under 20 percent this spring and may have since surpassed it.
Indeed, the chief of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank -Dennis Lockhart – said in August 2009:
If one considers the people who would like a job but have stopped looking — so-called discouraged workers — and those who are working fewer hours than they want, the unemployment rate would move from the official 9.4 percent to 16 percent. [11]
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich notes:
Over the past three months annual wage growth has plummeted to just 0.7%. At the same time, furloughs — requiring workers to take unpaid vacations — are on the rise: recent surveys show 17% of companies imposing them. [12]
Temporary employment is still falling as well. [13]
And economist David Rosenberg points out:
65% of companies are still in the process of cutting their staff loads…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics also publishes a number from the Household survey that is comparable to the nonfarm survey (dubbed the population and payroll-adjusted Household number), and on this basis, employment sank — brace yourself — by over 1 million, which is unprecedented…[14]
In addition to the failure of official BLS unemployment figures to take into account discouraged and underemployed workers, many analysts argue that BLS' "Birth-Death Model" severely understates unemployment during recessions. [15]
Many people – including economists and financial reporters – say that unemployment is much lower than it was during the Great Depression. What they mean when they say that is that current U-3 figures in America are under 10%, while unemployment hit 25% during the Great Depression.
But most people forget that the worst unemployment numbers during the Great Depression did not occur until years after the initial 1929 crash . Specifically, unemployment did not hit 25% until at least 3 years after the start of the Depression.[16]
As of this writing (2009), we are only a year into the current economic crisis. Therefore, we have at least 2 more years to go until we hit the same period that unemployment peaked during the Great Depression.
Indeed, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich wrote in April that the unemployment figures show that we are already in a depression.[17]
And Chris Tilly – director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UCLA – points out that some populations, such as African-Americans and high school dropouts, have been hit much harder than other populations, and that these groups are already experiencing depression-level unemployment.[18]
Assuming that Williams, Roberts or Lockhart's calculations of unemployment are correct (using the same methods of measuring unemployment as were used during the Great Depression), and depending on when we deem the current crisis to have commenced, then – as shown by the following charts – unemployment percentages may actuallybe worse than they were during a comparable period in the Great Depression:
We also know that, in terms of total numbers of unemployment people (as opposed to percentages), more people will be unemployed than during the Great Depression. [22]
What Are the Unemployment Trends?
If unemployment is anywhere near as bad as during a comparable period during the Great Depression, the obvious question is where the trends are heading.
It is well known among economists that unemployment is a "lagging" indicator. [23] In other words, there is a lag time. When the economy hits a rough patch, the economic weakness will not show up in the unemployment numbers until several months or years later.
For example, as Europe's largest bank – RBS – warns:
Even if the economy starts to turn up the headwinds will be formidable," [the company's CEO] warned. "The green shoots are short in duration and you need to be cautious about interpreting them. Even if growth returns, unemployment will rise for some time afterwards …[24]
Because of the lag time between conditions in the economy and unemployment, we have to ask the following two questions in order to forecast future unemployment trends:
1) How bad were conditions in 2008 and early 2009?
2) What will economic conditions be like in the future?
How Bad Did It Get?
Unfortunately, many experts – including the following people – have said that the economic crisis which started in 2008 could be worse than the Great Depression:
- Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke said on July 26, 2009:
A lot of things happened, a lot came together, [and] created probably the worst financial crisis, certainly since the Great Depression and possibly even including the Great Depression. [25]
- Economics professors Barry Eichengreen and and Kevin H. O'Rourke said that world-wide conditions are worse than during a comparable period during the Great Depression [26] (updated in June 2009 [27])
- Investment advisor, risk expert and bestselling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb said that the current crisis could be "vastly worse" than the Great Depression [28]
- Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker believes the current crisis may be even worse than the Depression [29]
- Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said "this is worse than the Great Depression" [30]
- Economics scholar and former Federal Reserve Governor Frederick Mishkin said that conditions were worse than during the Depression [31]
- Well-known PhD economist PhD Economist Marc Faber believes this could be far worse than the Great Depression[32]
- Former Goldman Sachs chairman John Whitehead thinks that the current slump is worse than the Depression [33]
- Morgan Stanley's UK equity strategist Graham Secker predicts economic collapse worse than the Great Depression [34]
- Former chief credit officer at Fannie Mae Edward J. Pinto said in January 2009 that the current housing crisis was worse than the Depression, and that current efforts to rescue the mortgage industry are less successful than those used during the 1930s. [35]
- Billionaire investor George Soros said in February 2009 that the current economic turbulence is actually more severe than during the Great Depression, comparing the current situation to the demise of the Soviet Union. [36]
What Will Economic Conditions Be Like In the Future?
As of this writing, the fact that unemployment will substantially increase is quite controversial. Most people still assume that the benefits of the government's policies will soon kick in, the economy will recover, and then jobs will recover soon afterwards.
In order to accurately determine how bad general economic conditions – and thus unemployment – might be in the future, it is necessary to look at a variety of trends, including residential real estate, commercial real estate, toxic assets held by banks, loan loss rates, consumer spending, age demographics, the decline in manufacturing, and destruction of credit.
Residential Real Estate
Citigroup is projecting that unemployment in Spain will rise from its current 17.9% to 22% next year. [37]
Spain's unemployment is largely driven by the bursting of its housing bubble. [38]
Housing bubbles are now bursting in China [39], France [40], Spain [41], Ireland [42], the United Kingdom [43], Eastern Europe [44], and many other regions. [45]
(And unemployment in Japan is apparently at the highest level since the government began collecting the data in 1953, a year after the U.S. military occupation ended.)[46]
Unfortunately, while the peak in subprime mortgages is behind us, many analysts say that Alt-A mortgage defaults have not yet occurred (as of this writing), but will not peak until 2010.[47]
Indeed, the crash in real estate and rising unemployment together form a negative feedback loop. As McClatchy notes, foreclosures rise as jobs and income drop. [48]
Former chief IMF economist Simon Johnson notes that a vicious cycle also exists between unemployment and property foreclosures:
Unemployment is always a lagging indicator, and given the record low number of average hours worked, it will turn around especially slowly this time. Until then, people will continue to lose their jobs and wages will remain flat, and any small rebound in housing prices is unlikely to help more than a few people refinance their way out of unaffordable mortgages. So unless the other part of the equation – monthly payments – changes, the number of foreclosures should just continue to rise.[49]
Indeed, the Washington Post notes:
The country's growing unemployment is overtaking subprime mortgages as the main driver of foreclosures, according to bankers and economists, threatening to send even higher the number of borrowers who will lose their homes and making the foreclosure crisis far more complicated to unwind. [50]
Commercial Real Estate
Moreover, a crash in commercial real estate is now picking up speed. Unlike the subprime mortgage meltdown – which affected mainly the biggest banks – the commercial meltdown will apparently affect a huge number of small to medium-sized banks. [51]
On August 11, 2009, the Congressional Oversight Panel on the bailouts issued a report saying that small and medium sized banks are especially vulnerable, the report will say, in part they hold greater numbers of commercial real estate loans, "which pose a potential threat of high defaults." [52]
That could spell real trouble for employment by small businesses since (1) smaller institutions are disproportionately responsible for providing credit to small businesses [53], (2) credit is essential for many small businesses, (3) commercial real estate is crashing even faster than residential [54], and (4) industry experts forecast that the commercial real estate market won't bottom out for three more years.[55]
Indeed, largely because of the commercial real estate crash, the FDIC expects 500 banks to fail in the coming months. [56]
Unfortunately, the crash in commercialreal estate is occurring world-wide. [57]
Toxic Assets
The Congressional Oversight Panel report also says that banks remain threatened by billions of dollars of bad loans on their balance sheets, more could fail if the economy worsens, and that – if unemployment rises sharply or the commercial real estate market collapses – the banking system could again crash:
The financial system [still remains] vulnerable to the crisis conditions that [the bailout] was meant to fix…
Financial stability remains at risk if the underlying problem of toxic assets remains unresolved.[58]
As Reuters notes:
The chairman of the congressional oversight panel, Elizabeth Warren, said no one even knows the value of the toxic assets still on banks' books…"No one has a good handle how much is out there," Warren said. "Here we are 10 months into this crisis…and we can't tell you what the dollar value is."[59]
Loan Loss Rates
Loan loss rates in could also be worse than the Great Depression, at least in the United States. Specifically, during the depths of the Great Depression, the loss rate which banks suffered on their loans climbed as high as 3.4% (it is normally well under 2.0%).[60]
Last month, banking analyst Mike Mayo predicted that loan loss rates could go as high as 5.5%, which is substantially higher than during the 1930s.[61]
But the Federal Reserve's more adverse scenario for the stress tests – which everyone knows is too rosy concerning most of its assumptions – predicts a loan loss rate of 9.1%, nearly three times higher than during the 1930s.[62]
As US News and World Report wrote in May 2009:
For most of the past 50 years, the loss rate on all bank loans has stayed well under 2 percent. The Fed estimates that over the next two years the loss rate could reach 9.1 percent. You know all those historical comparisons that end with "the worst since the Great Depression"? Well, 9.1 percent would be EVEN WORSE than during the 1930s. Still looking forward to a soft landing or a quick recovery?[63]
Consumer Spending
Consumer spending accounts for the vast majority of the economy in the United States. The figure commonly cited is that consumer spending accounts for 70% of U.S. Gross Domestic Product. [64]. (Consumer spending has been a lower percentage of GDP in most other countries. [65])
But the economic crisis is driving consumer spending downward. Economist David Rosenberg [66] says that consumers have undergone a generational shift in spending habits, and will be frugal for a long time to come.[67]
The head of Collective Brands, Matthew Rubel, states:
Consumer spending as a percentage of GDP has moved down, will probably continue to move down through the end of year, and then normalize as we get into somewhere in early-to-mid next year, from our point of view.[68]
The chief economist of IHS Global Insight, Nariman Behravesh, says consumer spending will decline to 65 percent of GDP:
With individuals more focused on saving than spending, Behravesh said retail consumer spending as a percentage of GDP is likely to fall from 70 percent to 65 percent. "It will take a while, maybe 10 years," he said. "Correspondingly other countries are going to have to shift in the opposite direction to rely more on their own consumers rather than the U.S. consumers."[69]
Jason DeSena Trennert, Chief Investment Strategist for Strategas Research Partners, says:
Consumer spending as a percentage of GDP is going to go in one direction for a long time — lower.[70]
Time points out :
Economist Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, says that "there is good reason to believe the capitulation of the American consumer has only just begun." U.S. consumer spending as a percentage of GDP reached 72% in 2007, well above the pre-bubble norm of 67%. Using that as a gauge, Roach says that only 20% of the potential retrenchment of spending has taken place, even after the dramatic decline at the end of 2008. "The imbalance that contributed to the crisis — overconsumption and excessive savings — cannot continue," says Ajay Chhibber, director of the Asia bureau at the United Nations Development Program in New York City. "The model where you stimulate and [then] go back to the old days is gone."[71]
The Wall Street Journal notes:
"Economists also see an upturn in U.S. household saving as the beginning of a prolonged period of thrift….."[72]
Financial analysts who have studied U.S. demographics – like Harry Dent and Claus Vogt – point out that the U.S. population is aging:
United States Population Pyramid for 2010
Predicted age and sex distribution for the year 2010:
United States Population Pyramid for 2020
Predicted age and sex distribution for the year 2020:
United States Population Pyramid for 2050
Predicted age and sex distribution for the year 2050:
Vogt argues that an aging population within a given nation is correlated with a decline in that country's economy. [74]. Certainly, a population with less working-age people and more dependent elderly people will experience a drag on its economy.
Dent argues that one of the main drivers of a country's economic growth is the number of people in the country who are in their peak spending years.
For example, Dent says that in the U.S., 45-54 year olds are the biggest spenders, because that is when – on average – they are paying for their kids' college, paying mortgage on the biggest house they will own during their life, etc. Dent argues that the American economy will tend to grow when the number of 45-54 year olds grows, and to shrink when it shrinks.
As the charts above show, the number of 45-54 year olds in the U.S. will shrink considerably in the year ahead.
Decline in Manufacturing
As everyone knows, the manufacturing has shrunk in the United States and the service sector has grown. Even in a manufacturing center such as Detroit, manufacturing jobs have been declining for decades:
Indeed, according to professor of economics Dr. Mark J. Perry, manufacturing jobs have dropped to their lowest level since 1941, and are now below 9% of the workforce for the first time. [76]
Wayne State University's Center for Urban Studies argues:
For each job lost in the manufacturing industry, more spinoff jobs are lost than would be in other sectors. Each manufacturing job helps support a larger number of other jobs than do most other sectors. [77]
That means that the ongoing reduction in manufacturing jobs will adversely affect unemployment for the foreseeable future.
Destruction of Credit
The amount of credit outstanding has been reduced by trillions of dollars in the past year.
For example, the amount of consumer credit outstanding has plummeted:
Banks have become tight-fisted about lending, and this will probably not change any time soon. As the New York Times wrote in an article from October 2008 entitled "Banks Are Likely to Hold Tight to Bailout Money":
"Will lenders deploy their new-found capital quickly, as the Treasury hopes, and unlock the flow of credit through the economy? Or will they hoard the money to protect themselves?
John A. Thain, the chief executive of Merrill Lynch, said on Thursday that banks were unlikely to act swiftly. Executives at other banks privately expressed a similar view.
'We will have the opportunity to redeploy that,' Mr. Thain said of the new capital on a telephone call with analysts. 'But at least for the next quarter, it's just going to be a cushion.'
Lenders have been pulling back on credit lines for businesses, mortgages, home equity loans and credit card offers, and analysts said that trend was unlikely to be reversed by the government's money.
Roger Freeman, an analyst at Barclays Capital, which acquired parts of the now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers last month [said] 'My expectation is it's quarters off, not months off, before you see that capital being put to work.' "[78]
And another New York Times articleincluded the following quote:
"It doesn't matter how much Hank Paulson gives us," said an influential senior official at a big bank that received money from the government, "no one is going to lend a nickel until the economy turns." The official added: "Who are we going to lend money to?" before repeating an old saw about banking: "Only people who don't need it."[79]
Reading between the lines, the bank officials are saying that they will not lend freely until the economic crisis is over.
As WLMLab Bank Loan Performance points out, outstanding loans in the United States have dropped $110 billion dollars quarter-over-quarter. [80]
McClatchy notes:
Over the course of 2008, the nation's five largest banks reduced their consumer loans by 79 percent, real estate loans by 66 percent and commercial loans by 19 percent, according to FDIC data. A wide range of credit measures, including recent FDIC data, show that lending remains depressed.[81]
The Telegraph writes:
US credit shrinks at Great Depression rate prompting fears of double-dip recession…
Professor Tim Congdon from International Monetary Research said US bank loans have fallen at an annual pace of almost 14pc in the three months to August (from $7,147bn to $6,886bn).
"There has been nothing like this in the USA since the 1930s," he said. "The rapid destruction of money balances is madness."
The M3 "broad" money supply, watched as an early warning signal for the economy a year or so later, has been falling at a 5pc annual rate.
Similar concerns have been raised by David Rosenberg, chief strategist at Gluskin Sheff, who said that over the four weeks up to August 24, bank credit shrank at an "epic" 9pc annual pace, the M2 money supply shrank at 12.2pc and M1 shrank at 6.5pc…
US banks are cutting lending by around 1pc a month. A similar process is occurring in the eurozone, where private sector credit has been contracting and M3 has been flat for almost a year.
Indeed, total seasonally adjusted consumer debt fell $21.55 billion, or at a 10.4% annual rate, in July 2009 alone. credit-card debt fell $6.11 billion, or 8.5%, to $905.58 billion. This is the record 11th straight monthly drop in credit card debt. Non-revolving credit, such as auto loans, personal loans and student loans fell a record $15.44 billion or 11.7% to $1.57 trillion [83]
In addition, the securitization market has largely collapsed, which in turn has destroyed a large proportion of the world's credit. As noted in an article in the Washington Times:
"Before last fall's financial crisis, banks provided only $8 trillion of the roughly $25 trillion in loans outstanding in the United States, while traditional bond markets provided another $7 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. The largest share of the borrowed funds – $10 trillion – came from securitized loan markets that barely existed two decades ago. . . .
Mr. Regalia [chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce] said … 70 percent of the system isn't there anymore,' he said."[84]
The reason that seventy percent of the system "isn't there anymore" is because the traditional bond markets and securitized loan markets (part of the "shadow banking system") have dried up. As the Washington Times article notes:
"Congress' demand that banks fill in for collapsed securities markets poses a dilemma for the banks, not only because most do not have the capacity to ramp up to such large-scale lending quickly. The securitized loan markets provided an essential part of the machinery that enabled banks to lend in the first place. By selling most of their portfolios of mortgages, business and consumer loans to investors, banks in the past freed up money to make new loans. . . .
"The market for pooled subprime loans, known as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), collapsed at the end of 2007 and, by most accounts, will never come back. Because of the surging defaults on subprime and other exotic mortgages, investors have shied away from buying the loans, forcing banks and Wall Street firms to hold them on their books and take the losses."
Senior economic adviser for UBS Investment Bank, George Magnus, confirms:
The restoration of normal credit creation should not be expected, until the economy has adjusted to the disappearance of shadow bank credit, and until banks have created the capacity to resume lending to creditworthy borrowers. This is still about capital adequacy, where better signs of organic capital creation are welcome. More importantly now though, it is about poor asset quality, especially as defaults and loan losses rise into 2010 from already elevated levels.[85]
And McClatchy writes:
The foundation of U.S. credit expansion for the past 20 years is in ruin. Since the 1980s, banks haven't kept loans on their balance sheets; instead, they sold them into a secondary market, where they were pooled for sale to investors as securities. The process, called securitization, fueled a rapid expansion of credit to consumers and businesses. By passing their loans on to investors, banks were freed to lend more.
Today, securitization is all but dead. Investors have little appetite for risky securities. Few buyers want a security based on pools of mortgages, car loans, student loans and the like.
"The basis of revival of the system along the line of what previously existed doesn't exist. The foundation that was supposed to be there for the revival (of the economy) . . . got washed away," [economist James K.] Galbraith said.
Unless and until securitization rebounds, it will be hard for banks to resume robust lending because they're stuck with loans on their books.[86]
Not only has the supply of credit been destroyed, but the demand for many types of loans – such as commercial real estate loans – is also drying up.[87]
So there is simply much less credit flowing through the economic system than there was prior to 2007.
The New Normal – Lower Economic Activity
As chief economist for the International Monetary Fund, Olivier Blanchard, said:
This recession has been so destructive that "we may not go back to the old growth path … potential output may be lower than it was before the crisis." [88]
All of the above trends force many economists to conclude that economic activity as a whole will be lower for many, many years. In other words, they say that "The New Normal" will be a much lower level for the economy.
Pimco CEO Mohamed El-Erian says elevated unemployment and record wealth destruction will keep growth at 2 percent or less for years. [89]
As Bloomberg writes:
The New Normal theory predicts that the recession will leave unemployment, forecast to reach 10 percent for the first time since 1983 early next year, higher for years. [90]
Indeed, the "overhang" of inventory [91]- that is, the inventory of unsold goods – in everything from housing [92 and 93] to cars [94] to consumer electronics [95] means that the newly reduced consumer demand is meeting up with very high levels of supply. [96 – Indeed, entire fleets of cargo ships are sitting empty because of slack demand] This is a recipe for unemployment.
Many economists also point out that the length of time people are remaining unemployed is skyrocketing. As the Washington Post notes:
Another disturbing development was that the number of people out of work for 27 weeks or longer reached a record 5 million, accounting for a third of the unemployed. That suggests to some economists that those job losses were caused by structural changes in the economy and that many of those people won't be called back to work once the economy picks up. The longer people are out of work, the harder it becomes for them to find jobs and the more likely they are to exhaust savings or lose their homes to foreclosure. [97]
The following chart from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bankshows that people are staying unemployed much longer than they have in any previous economic downturn since 1950:
As David Rosenberg writes:
The number of people not on temporary layoff surged 220,000 in August and the level continues to reach new highs, now at 8.1 million. This accounts for 53.9% of the unemployed — again a record high — and this is a proxy for permanent job loss, in other words, these jobs are not coming back. Against that backdrop, the number of people who have been looking for a job for at least six months with no success rose a further half-percent in August, to stand at 5 million — the long-term unemployed now represent a record 33% of the total pool of joblessness. [99]
[100: for graphical updates on the state of the economy, see charts from the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank posted at http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/data/updates/index.cfm?DCS.nav=Local]
Other Theories Regarding the Causes of Unemployment
The main cause of unemployment today is the economic crisis. For example, a report from the the National Industrial Conference Board pointed out in 1922 stated the obvious: depressions increase unemployment. [101]
The report also points out that seasonal variations, "immigration and tariff policies and international relationship" can affect unemployment figures. [102]
In fact, economists from different schools of thought ascribe different causes to unemployment. For example:
Keynesian economics emphasizes unemployment resulting from insufficient effective demand for goods and services in the economy (cyclical unemployment). Others point to structural problems, inefficiencies, inherent in labour markets (structural unemployment). Classical or neoclassical economics tends to reject these explanations, and focuses more on rigidities imposed on the labor market from the outside, such as minimum wage laws, taxes, and other regulations that may discourage the hiring of workers (classical unemployment). Yet others see unemployment as largely due to voluntary choices by the unemployed (frictional unemployment). Alternatively, some blame unemployment on disruptive technologies or Globalisation.
For example, many Americans believe that globalization has increased unemployment because "American jobs" have moved abroad. Certainly, the American government has encouraged multinational corporations based in the U.S. to move jobs overseas. But quick fixes may lead to new problems. For example, a new American protectionism could stifle trade, further weakening the American economy.
Similarly, some economists believe that inflation decreases unemployment. However, that is only true where the workers drastically underestimate the extent to which higher prices are decreasing the real value of their wages. Indeed, as the Cato Institute notes:
This reduction in unemployment cannot occur unless workers systematically underestimate the inflation rate. When workers are aware of the inflation rate and, for example, have their pay adjusted according to the cost of living, they will interpret wages properly and not be misled into thinking that a normal wage offer is a relatively high wage offer.
Rather than merely failing to decrease unemployment, inflation may actually increase the unemployment rate. Frequent concomitants of inflation, such as high interest rates and volatility and uncertainty in the financial and product markets, increase the risks inherent in business operations and thereby discourage the expansion of firms and the creation of jobs. [105]
Therefore, many "quick fixes" for unemployment may actually do more harm than good.
Isn't the Government Helping to Reduce Unemployment?
The government has committed to give trillions to the financial industry. President Obama's stimulus bill was $787 billion, which is less than a tenth of the money pledged to the banks and the financial system. [106]
Of the $787 billion, little more than perhaps 10% has been spent as of this writing. [107]
The Government Accountability Office says that the $787 billion stimulus package is not being used for stimulus. [108] Instead, the states are in such dire financial straights that the stimulus money is instead being used to "cushion" state budgets, prevent teacher layoffs, make more Medicaid payments and head off other fiscal problems. So even the money which is actually earmarked to help the states stimulate their economies is not being used for that purpose.
Indeed, much of the $787 billion was earmarked pork [109], not for anything which could actually stimulate the economy. [110]
Mark Zandi – chief economist for Moody's – has calculated which stimulus programs give the most bang for the buck in terms of the economy:
But very little of the stimulus funds are actually going to high-value stimulus projects.
Indeed, as the Los Angeles Times points out:
Critics say the [stimulus money reaching California] is being used for projects that would have been built anyway, instead of on ways to change how Californians live. Case in point: Army latrines, not high-speed rail.
Critics say those aren't the types of projects with lasting effects on the economy."Whether it's talking about building a new [military] hospital or bachelor's quarters, there isn't that return on investment that you'd find on something that increases efficiency like a road or transit project," said Ellis of Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Job creation is another question. A recent survey by the Associated General Contractors of America found that slightly more than one-third of the companies awarded stimulus projects planned to hire new employees. But about one-third of the companies that weren't awarded stimulus projects also planned to hire new employees.
"While the construction portion of the stimulus is having an impact, it is far from delivering its full promise and potential," said Stephen E. Sandherr, chief executive of the contractors group.
It's unclear how many jobs will be created through the Defense Department projects. Most of the construction jobs are awarded through multiple award contracts, in which the department guarantees a minimum amount of business to certain contractors, and lets only those contractors bid on projects.
That means many of the contractors working on stimulus projects already have been busy at work on government projects.even the stimulus money which is being spent [112]
David Rosenberg writes:
Our advice to the Obama team would be to create and nurture a fiscal backdrop that tackles this jobs crisis with some permanent solutions rather than recurring populist short-term fiscal goodies that are only inducing households to add to their burdensome debt loads with no long-term multiplier impacts. The problem is not that we have an insufficient number of vehicles on the road or homes on the market; the problem is that we have insufficient labour demand.[113]
Donald W. Riegle Jr. – former chair of the Senate Banking Committee from 1989 to 1994 – wrote (along with the former CEO of AT&T Broadband and the international president of the United Steelworkers union):
It's almost as if the administration is opting for a rose-colored-glasses PR strategy rather than taking a hard-nose look at actual consumer and employment figures and their trends, and modifying its economic policies accordingly.[114]
How Much Unemployment Do We Want?
On the one end of the spectrum, Article 23 of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares:
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.[115]
In other words, the U.N. says that there should be essentially no unemployment for those who wish to work.
On the other end of the spectrum, some people – who make a lot of money during periods where the condition lead to high levels of unemployment – are comfortable with unemployment percentages reaching those in the Great Depression.
Societies should decide for themselves what level of unemployment they consider acceptable, and then demand policies which will accomplish that goal to the greatest extent possible. As discussed above, there are many factors which affect employment levels, and so solutions are complicated.
However, without an open and visible public policy debate about the issue, unemployment levels will either remain second order affects of policy choices concerning other elements of the economy, or will be decided behind closed doors by decision-makers who may or may not have the best public interest in mind.
Public Funding
As the above facts show, unemployment is a very serious problem in the United states, and world-wide. The policy responses of the U.S. and other Western governments has not been working. As discussed above, there is no simple solution.
Senator Riegle recommends a 4-part prescription, including:
Ensure that loans and credit facilities are readily available to the nation's small and medium size businesses and manufacturers.
Many of the top economists argue that we need to break up the giant banks which are insolvent in order to save the economy.[116] Fortune[117], BusinessWeek[118] and Federal Reserve governor Daniel K. Tarullo[119] have pointed out that breaking up the largest, insolvent banks would allow more competition from small to mid-size banks, and that such banks may actually make more loans to small businesses. More loans to small businesses would lead to more employment by those many small businesses.
In addition, the U.S. has largely been financing job creation for ten years. Specifically, as the chief economist for BusinessWeek, Michael Mandel, points out, public spending has accounted for virtually all new job creation in the past 1o years:
Private sector job growth was almost non-existent over the past ten years. Take a look at this horrifying chart:
Between May 1999 and May 2009, employment in the private sector sector only rose by 1.1%, by far the lowest 10-year increase in the post-depression period.
It's impossible to overstate how bad this is. Basically speaking, the private sector job machine has almost completely stalled over the past ten years. Take a look at this chart:
Over the past 10 years, the private sector has generated roughly 1.1 million additional jobs, or about 100K per year. The public sector created about 2.4 million jobs.
But even that gives the private sector too much credit. Remember that the private sector includes health care, social assistance, and education, all areas which receive a lot of government support.
***Most of the industries which had positive job growth over the past ten years were in the HealthEdGov sector. In fact, financial job growth was nearly nonexistent once we take out the health insurers.
Let me finish with a final chart.
Without a decade of growing government support from rising health and education spending and soaring budget deficits, the labor market would have been flat on its back. [120]
Raw Story argues that the U.S. is building a largely military economy:
The use of the military-industrial complex as a quick, if dubious, way of jump-starting the economy is nothing new, but what is amazing is the divergence between the military economy and the civilian economy, as shown by this New York Times chart.
In the past nine years, non-industrial production in the US has declined by some 19 percent. It took about four years for manufacturing to return to levels seen before the 2001 recession — and all those gains were wiped out in the current recession.
By contrast, military manufacturing is now 123 percent greater than it was in 2000 — it has more than doubled while the rest of the manufacturing sector has been shrinking…
It's important to note the trajectory — the military economy is nearly three times as large, proportionally to the rest of the economy, as it was at the beginning of the Bush administration. And it is the only manufacturing sector showing any growth. Extrapolate that trend, and what do you get?
The change in leadership in Washington does not appear to be abating that trend…[121]
So most of the job creation has been by the public sector. But because the job creation has been financed with loans from China and private banks, trillions in unnecessary interest charges have been incurred by the U.S.
Former Washington Post editor and author of one of the leading books on the Federal Reserve, William Greider, points out that governments actually have the power to create money and credit themselves, instead of borrowing it at interest from private banks:
If Congress chooses to take charge of its constitutional duty, it could similarly use greenback currency created by the Federal Reserve as a legitimate channel for financing important public projects–like sorely needed improvements to the nation's infrastructure. Obviously, this has to be done carefully and responsibly, limited to normal expansion of the money supply and used only for projects that truly benefit the entire nation (lest it lead to inflation)…
This approach speaks to the contradiction House Speaker Pelosi pointed out when she asked why the Fed has limitless money to spend however it sees fit. Instead of borrowing the money to pay for the new rail system, the government financing would draw on the public's money-creation process–just as Lincoln did and Bernanke is now doing.[122]
By creating the credit itself – instead of borrowing from private banks and foreign nations – the American government could finance the creation of new jobs without incurring huge interest charges owed to the private banks and foreign countries which lent America the money. In other words, the U.S. government would itself create the new credit, just as Lincoln did to finance the civil war.
By financing new projects with credit created by the government itself, America might be able to pick itself up by its bootstraps and put its people back to work.
The same may be true for other countries as well.


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Not only is he above 50 percent, he's up seven points since the last poll. Read the data any way you like. Proof that Christiemania on the right is spreading statewide in New Jersey? Proof that the red wave that's coming in November is starting to lift Republican governors, even in blue states? Or merely proof that, even in Democratic strongholds, it just ain't that hard these days to poll better than Barack Obama?
Fifty-one percent of voters approve of Christie, while 36 percent disapprove. That's a major jump from the last Quinnipiac poll, taken on June 17, when 44 percent approved and 43 percent disapproved.
"This is a good poll for Christie," said pollster Maurice Carroll. "People are getting to know him, and they apparently are getting to like him."
President Obama does not fare as well. Fourty-seven percent approve of the president and 47 percent disapprove. In June, 50 percent of New Jersey voters approved of his job performance and 46 percent disapproved.
Only 39 percent call him a "bully" whereas 51 percent call him a "leader." How much of a rock star is he? Well, the Republican Governors Association — led by "the most powerful Republican in politics," with fundraising money to burn — is putting together a 20-minute movie/campaign commercial about Christie that's set to drop sometime next month. He's their poster boy for the midterms, in other words, and to me a perfect choice in light of what I said yesterday about emphasizing fiscal conservatism as the message in the fall, not anything mosque-related. Given how sweet the RGA's ads have been thus far, it should be dynamite. Here's a sneak preview.
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Still snowing. I'm hoping school will be shut Monday too but I don't see it happening...
Still snowing. I'm hoping school will be shut Monday too but I don't see it happening...
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I'm in online college right now for my next degree, so my days are always pretty good and I love my courses.
Turns out my school ended early today. I don't see the snow staying until Monday, though, unfortunately.
I wonder what happened to the people on the school buses.
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I have this Monday off for Martin Luther King day. :) We got no snow days this winter, so it's great having a three day weekend.
School finished early and most were closed yesterday.
Honestly, we're so useless with the snow. It's only snowed less than two inches in most places in London and what happens? Airports close, flights cancel, trains are delayed, the entire bloody city grinds to a halt. And the worst part? The government are never prepared to do anything even though this happens every. single. year.
Although I suppose this isn't as bad as when we get told our trains are delayed because there are "leaves on the track".
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I know right? my school closed early, and it wasn't that snowy. i did slip at one point and almost fall down a hill, people were falling about inside because of wet floors.
The school canteen sold all the lunches at break time so when lunch came they had to make pizza out of burger buns.
I mean honestly. *rolls eyes*
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Been studying for exams, then the snow hit. Now, some exams have been postponed until after the inter-semester break, which is when everyone celebrates exams being over. I for one am going on a student skiing trip, which should have been epic, but now we have to carry on revising for exams over the break and then go straight into next semester :/ little bit of snow and the country shuts down
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I love when when there's no school on Mondays. Means just one day of school for me(:
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Im really happy to be back to school. This semester will be really interesting. We are missing half of my class due to placement this month but I actually like having smaller classes. Next month everyone who had school this month will leave for placement (that includes me) and the other half will be back for school. I'm just really stressed out for Tuesday. Since our classes are smaller, our surgery group went from 4 persons to 2 persons. And I have my surgery class this week. My job will be to assist the vet during the dog neuter. (Im a second year vet tech student). I will need to scrub in, gown up and pass the surgical instruments to the vet. I'll also have to monitor the dog during induction.
On a positive side i love having no school on mondays
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A science teacher at Oak Harbor Middle School who was seriously injured in a bike-versus-truck accident in Greenbank Saturday is recovering.
Christina Bromme, a 56-year-old Coupeville resident, was listed in satisfactory condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle Monday, according to a hospital spokesperson.
The driver of the pickup truck, 23-year-old Taylor C. Evans, of Coupeville, was arrested on suspicion of vehicular assault, according to Trooper Mark Francis with the Washington State Patrol.
Francis said investigators believe Evans may have been drinking prior to the collision.
According to the State Patrol, Evans was westbound in a 1997 Chevrolet S10 pickup on Bakken Road at about 7:30 Saturday night. He turned left into a private driveway in front of Bromme, who was eastbound on her bicycle.
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"It was also still light out at the time of the accident (my step-dad has a picture on his iphone) and my mom had plenty of reflectors and lights on her helmet and neon yellow jacket," Maria Bromme wrote in a comment to the News-Times.
Bromme was wearing a helmet at the time. Evans' pickup was impounded.
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I have started this dedicated thread at the suggestion of another contributor.
This issue has was raised on the main 'Arducopter 2.8 / 2.8.1 released' thread and can be viewed here.
I'm still puzzled by this twitching, however look at the latest log from today and in a little more detail I can see a very small change in the THR IN trace which appears to be directly connected at the time all the motors twitch (see below).
Is the THR IN trace taken straight from the Rx ?
Not only have I done the things as detailed in the main thread, but I have also:
Grounded the aircraft (in case of interference)
Repositioned Rx to top stack
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I have attached the latest log.
Would dropping the ESC Update Speed in MP from 490 - 400hz help ?
Any suggestions would be appriciated, in the mean time i am trying to get hold of a duplicate Rx. Any chance it could be the APM ?
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Thanks Uwe, but this kind of problem has been reported by me to the dev list for months, well before the release of the older version inside your zip (2.2.64).
Thanks Uwe, I'm currently testing version 2.3.13 and initial results look very good.
Its excellent if you have seen no spikes on 2.3.12 also.
Here is a 10 minute bench test flight, nice smooth traces on all channels (just PITCH IN shown below).
Still need to do 10hrs worth of test flight, but looks good so far :-)
where can i find the Version 2.3.13 of ArduPPM Encoder
Is only for the tester at the moment, a debug version...
Please PM me so that i can send it to you.
I have similar issues as well where I almost crashed my Hexa after updating to 2.81, so far unplugging and plugging the battery to re-initiate my APM2 seem to make the problem go away for me, I also took time to cable tie down my loose wiring. My spikes behavior looks exactly the same from the videos you posted. I'll be keeping a close eye on this thread.
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Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer, who has pledged to spend $100 million in the midterm elections to push his climate change agenda across the nation, announced Tuesday that he would fight efforts to delay a key element of California's landmark environmental law.
Steyer said he would "spend what it takes to win" but declined to say how much money he or his Super PAC would devote to thwarting efforts to delay the Jan. 1 start of a new phase of the law: including motor vehicle fuels in the state's system for buying and selling rights to emit greenhouse gases.
Environmentalists and oil industry representatives alike say that including vehicle fuel in the emissions cap-and-trade system could add at least 15 cents to the average price of a gallon of gas. That prospect has prompted the oil industry and some moderate Democrats to try to delay the implementation until 2018, saying Californians will be harmed at the pump and beyond.
"This is yet another direct attack on the basic climate bill in California," Steyer said in an interview after touring a mobile asthma clinic in Boyle Heights and holding a roundtable discussion with physicians, health officials and environmental activists.
Oil interests "do a knee-jerk reflex reaction, which is: We're going to punish consumers if you treat us the way we treat every other industry in the state of California," he said. "That's just wrong. I don't understand where they get off."
Sabrina Lockhart, a spokeswoman for the oil industry-backed Californians Against Higher Oil Taxes, took issue with Steyer's assertion, saying, "It comes as no surprise that an out-of-touch billionaire is pushing policies that will hurt Californians who can least afford it."
The fuel requirement is part of the state's law intended to reduce air pollutants. The law was signed by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006 and later backed by voters who rejected a 2010 effort to suspend it.
Polling released last week showed that about three in four Californians support the inclusion of vehicle fuels. However, that support dropped to 39% if the move would lead to higher gas prices, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
Legislation offered by a Central Valley Democrat would delay the mandate until 2018.
Steyer plans a three-pronged approach against such a move: organizing those most affected by pollution, countering the oil industry's public-relations efforts and monitoring price fluctuations at the pump.
Steyer's announcement is part of his effort to make climate change a pivotal issue in this year's elections. He is being hailed by the left as a deep-pocketed answer to wealthy Republican backers like the Koch brothers but is facing increased scrutiny about his past links to the industry he is now challenging and about recent lackluster fundraising.
"I never thought that I was going to be able to go out and push on energy and climate and not have people try and investigate me and … try and put me in a negative light," Steyer said, chuckling. "I think it's par for the course."
Much of the attention showered on the San Francisco billionaire has focused on his national political spending and advocacy, notably in high-profile gubernatorial and U.S. Senate contests.
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Thanks for this. The first guest segment last night seemed to have been cut short, or edited back. Maybe to give more time to kd lang, including 2 songs. Does this tie in with what you saw?
Also, did kd lang perform at the *start* of the recording session and it was latter edited in to the *end* of the show? Ta!
@ Aussie It was allocated a 12 week run. So Spicks was always going to return after Easter as reported by Tv Tonight
They will have to shoot woodley before they air it.
@ aussietv,, I hope so. Gordon St tonight is becoming tedious (IMO).
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Will Gordon Street be wrapping up soon with this new wednesday night lineup perhaps?
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kelly wright August 19 at 3:36pm
thanks Erin foe everything and thanks to everyone for being so welcoming. I hope to see more of y'all next year:-)
Kelly, I think you're super-awesome and have great t-shirts with rad sayings!! LOL!! I look forward to seeing you again!
Looking foward to seeing you at more tourney's. We had fun at Flip!
Jean Mayes August 17 at 6:03pm
Thank you Erin for starting the Ladies series. I probably would not be competing if not for this series. I have met so many amazing people this summer. It is great to meet people who understand the desire to tramp through fields and woods throwing discs! This final was great and I can't wait for next year. Thanks to Matt and Keith for all of the work you do for us ladies! It is awesome!
Jean thanks for the comments. It means so much to me that you came out and played! See you soon I hope!
Ditto 100% Big Kudo's Erin for starting this series I really enjoyed it!! Jean is one of the new ladies I met! Looking forward to playing with you on Saturday at Thrills at the Millsls
Nancy Leat August 17 at 7:37am
HUGE thanks to Erin, Keith and Matt for making this series so much fun!! I had so much fun playing all the courses and meeting great ladies and playing great disc golf! I can not wait to do it again next year!
Erin Oakley August 15 at 11:38am
In hopes of boosting the registration, I am changing the Renegades Trail layout to ALL SHORT tees to SHORT baskets. This will make for a faster round and I hope encourage more women to play. Rivers Edge has a shortened basket on hole 2, and shortened tee pads on holes 6, 9, 10, 12, 14, and 16, those are all the par 4 holes. Please spread the word and encourage your friends to come!
Jay Serratos August 14 at 1:27pm
Unable to attend; please unregister me. Good luck and have fun ladies!!!
Becky Carlisle August 14 at 10:55am
Anyone coming from metro Detroit that would like a ride or to take me?! I'm in Farmington Hills.
Hey! Give me a call - 619-916-8313. I'm in Wixom, and I usually pick up Nancy on the way out that way.. I'm sure we can figure SOMETHING out! :)
Abby Calhoun August 13 at 1:01pm
Sorry, I won't be making this tournament. Please unreg me.
Carol Click August 11 at 6:38pm
Carol Click 55318. Rec.
Becky Gilbert August 11 at 5:25pm
Rebecca Gilbert #27947 Advance Grandmaster please!
Jennifer Sawyer August 11 at 11:37am
Ladies, there is a cost to enter the park for those who may not know.
What about the pay to play? Is that covered by each player or included in registration?
$5 park entry for out of towners....pay to play fee is covered, $2 is covered by CCR club and other $2 will come out of entry fees. Thank you for the reminder, I always forget about the fees since this is my first time hosting an event there, I never think of it:)
Nancy Wright August 11 at 10:19am
Nancy Wright #59790. See ya tonight and Sat.
Erin Oakley August 11 at 9:58am
FYI, there is no online registration. You will just pay Saturday morning. Thanks!
Jay Serratos August 11 at 9:22am
Jay Serratos, 66463, Intermediate
Me, too! I love all you girls and have so much fun playing with ya'll :)))
Hey, you said you weren't going to play this one....glad you changed your mind! Let me know if you want to ride with me.
Yes I would like very much to travel with you Jean :) and I'm a typical girl...change my mind often lol
Erin Oakley August 11 at 9:05am
Nancy Wright August 10 at 7:21am
I would like to register as Advanced Senior Grandmaster, please. #59790.
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Jean Mayes , 66930 intermediate please!
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Nancy Leat August 2 at 5:57pm
Nancy Leat, Intermediate, #58700
Serina Jinks August 1 at 6:00pm
Please un-register me... really sad I will not be able to play


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BEIJING: Foreign investment in China rose 6.2% on year in the first nine months of 2013, the government said Thursday, but warned that the world's No 2 economy still faced domestic and external headwinds.
And while the commerce ministry said Chinese investment overseas had increased sharply over the first nine months of the year, the amount of cash going to Japan had almost halved as a diplomatic row with Tokyo drags on.
Beijing said Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), which excludes financial sectors, reached US$88.6bil for January-September.
For September alone FDI climbed 4.9% to US$8.84bil, well up from the 0.62% rise seen in August. But the figure is sharply down from 24.13% seen in July and 20.12% in June.
Ministry spokesman Shen Danyang said the size of full-year FDI was expected to be "stable", but noted that uncertainties remained.
"Given the complex and changing global economic situation, the sustained and stable growth of the Chinese economy is facing pressure and challenges such as insufficient foreign demand and rising labour costs," Shen told a news conference.
"These will affect to some extent China's foreign investment environment," he said.
The amount of money coming from the European Union rose 23% year-on-year to US$5.94bil during the January-September period, while from the United States it increased 21.3% to US$2.88bil.
The vast majority, however, comes from a group of 10 Asian countries and regions including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand and Singapore. FDI from the region jumped 7.5% to US$76.3bil in January-September.
"Investment from the 10 Asian countries and regions, the EU and the US maintained rather fast growth," the commerce ministry said.
Separately, Chinese investment abroad rose 17.4% year-on-year to US$61.64bil during the nine months, the ministry said.
However, the amount of cash going to Japan slumped 45.5%. The plunge comes as the two countries are embroiled in a sovereignty dispute over islands they both claim in the East China Sea – known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan.
The long-simmering tensions boiled over in September last year, when Tokyo nationalised the islands, sparking a bitter diplomatic stand-off.
Despite the row, Japanese investment in China during the first nine months rose 5.62% to US$5.94bil.
After data last weekend showed a surprise fall in September exports Shen added that China's trade "is still facing a severe and complicated external environment".
He singled out sharply slowing growth in emerging markets that has dampened demand for Chinese goods.
But the government is still confident that trade will maintain "stable development" and expects exports to see marginal growth in the next two months, thanks to supportive policies and an improving domestic economy, Shen said.
China has set an 8% target for foreign trade growth this year.
Beijing is due to announce third-quarter economic growth figures on Friday, with economists surveyed by AFP predicting growth of 7.8%, which would mark an acceleration from the 7.5% recorded in April-June – AFP.
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With everyone dug in and refusing to compromise, the National Assembly kicks off two bloody months of hearings. Neil Young is gently critiqued for his views on Alberta's oil patch. Not all of us appreciated Chris Christie's apology. And the Toronto Star unwittingly pumps Rob Ford's tires.
The Canadian rock icon said he was 'shattered' after visiting a Fort McMurray industrial site he compared to the atomic bomb-devastated wreckage of Hiroshima, Japan
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