By keeping its currency undervalued and flooding world markets with artificially cheap goods, China pursues a predatory trade policy.

Many American congressmen, for example, complain that American jobs are being destroyed by China s intervention in currency markets to maintain an artificially low value for the yuan.

The policy is rooted in central planning, which, three decades ago, led to artificially low prices and, in turn, to shortages of basic necessities and key production inputs, such as grain and steel.

It also affects negatively the exchange rate by making it appreciate artificially.

Keeping domestic prices for food and energy artificially low has proved to be not only ruinously expensive, but also very ineffective in achieving the declared goal of helping to alleviate poverty.

Floating exchange rates were supposed to prevent countries from manipulating their currencies, but, by accumulating large quantities of US treasury bills, East Asian countries, especially China, kept their exchange rates artificially low.

Like most economists, he believes that if policymakers try to keep interest rates at artificially low levels for too long, eventually demand will soar and inflation will jump.

While the carbon had been sequestered naturally, some point to the event as evidence for the potentially catastrophic effects of sequestering carbon artificially.

Japan kept the yen undervalued and erected hidden barriers to foreign goods, precipitating strong pressure and periodic arm twisting by the US for Japanese concessions.

Quite a few years later, this element 61 was created artificially in nuclear reactors and was named promethium.

To be sure, China overcame a similar challenge in its public sector from 1998 to 2001. It pursued growth boosting investment in infrastructure and real estate development to eliminate deflation, while maintaining artificially low interest rates to contain the rise of public debt.

But if those reserves mainly take the form of dollars, then their rising demand allows the United States to finance its external deficit at an artificially low cost.

We have significantly lower capital costs in our plant equipment.

Unemployment has remained remarkably low and confidence relatively high.

The show was of low budget, which was constantly noted by the media.

Moreover, the Greek government s interest payments are exceptionally low.

And so, asks The Economist The first artificial organism and its consequences.

Now it is essentially sustained by a Ponzi scheme, with the Fed s policy of quantitative easing keeping the price of Treasuries artificially high.

Meloxicam has been shown, especially at its low therapeutic doses, selectively to inhibit COX 2 over COX 1.

A municipal council had drawn up and approved a plan to develop low cost housing, principally benefiting local Roma.

Yet even in Africa, Malaria is largely preventable and completely treatable at low cost.

The Muslim population before the genocide was 4 which was unusually low compared to that of neighbouring countries.

A competitive dollar abroad means that other countries should not implement policies that artificially depress the value of their currencies in order to promote exports and deter imports.

So far, the country has not experienced a debt crisis, and interest rates remain exceptionally low, at around 1 .

He was particularly interested in the possibility of detecting low levels of heavy metal poisons with this technique, pioneered by Davy.

And over the years, around the turn of the 20th century, it started to take on this other kind of deception this definition for any artificial interest in, or association with, an object through which it appears delusively magnified or glorified.

NEW YORK The global economy, artificially boosted since the recession of 2008 2009 by massive monetary and fiscal stimulus and financial bailouts, is headed towards a sharp slowdown this year as the effect of these measures wanes.

But if the central bank reduces interest rates and credibly commits to keeping them low in the future, asset prices will rise.

As China enters an era of more subdued growth amid increased competition from other low cost countries, this damage will become increasingly apparent and increasingly destructive.

Therefore, prices could be low but not abnormally low.

History suggests that interest rates will not remain at record low levels indefinitely, and that when change comes, it might be abrupt.

The country would then have been unable to price itself out of the market through an artificial debt financed boom. There would have been no high, but also no hangover.

It includes developing the services sector, funding the social safety net, liberalizing an antiquated residential permit system (hukou), reforming state owned enterprises, and ending financial repression on households by lifting artificially low interest rates on savings.

New capacity is mainly planned in developing countries and countries in transition with relatively low production costs and rapidly growing domestic demand.

In another case, researchers report that bismuth telluride has high electrical conductivity of 1.1 105 S m m2 with its very low lattice thermal conductivity of 1.20 W (m K), similar to ordinary glass.

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Interest rates are already low.

Emerging economies once again spoke nearly in unison. They told the US not to boost the money supply artificially, as this would create the risk of yet another financial bubble, this time in the emerging economies and in commodity markets.

Socialization of bank debt across borders implies that a country s private borrowing costs are artificially reduced below market rates, as insurance (in the form of credit default swaps) is provided free of charge by other countries.

The regular budgets of the specialized agencies, based on assessed contributions, have been locked at historically low levels because of the application of zero or no nominal growth policies.

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The share of management and administration has remained low.

And, while raising so much revenue with so low a tax rate sounds grand, the declining volume of trades would shrink the tax base precipitously.

According to him, nothing would be more dangerous than to impose an artificial silence on a question that is boiling under the mask of political correctness.

Moreover, while China may have profited from the rise in government bond prices over the last few years, prices have been inflated artificially by expansionary monetary policy in advanced countries, which implies that the bubble could burst.