Summary:
Europe already has one foot in ‘Japanese’ deflation
grave
Ambrose Evans- Pritchard writes in his article,
published in The Telegraph on October
23th 2013, about Europe’s inflation crisis and how policy errors increase debt.
He describes Europe as the world’s next epicenter of policy errors.
Consequently, deflation becomes lethal for most of Western Europe. Many
countries, for example France, Italy, Spain etc. have seen price falls and are
now standing with one foot in deflation. The Eurozone is close to the danger of
exploding dept ratios. Using the example of Italy there are two options to get
out of this dilemma - return to the lira or increase the primary budget to 6.3%
to stabilize debt, which is unrealistic. Over the past two years, Italy’s debt
has jumped from 121% to 132% - this ‘denominator effect’ happens when debt rise
faster than the nominal GDP. It is not only the public debt, but also the
private debt which causes problems. Companies run down their liquid assets to
stay in business. The author proposes a possible break out of this impasse with
Club Med forcing Germany to accept inflation. He says once you let deflation
lodge in your system, it takes heaven and earth to get out of it.
My comments:
I like the topic sentence. However, there is no space
between names that are joined with a hyphen.
The second sentence more or less repeats what you have said already, so it is kind of redundant. I would lose it.
The ext mistake that caught my eye is this part: "increase the primary budget to 6.3% to stabilize debt". I do not think, "to 6.3%" is unclear. First of all, it would be "by 6.3%". Secondly, 6.3% of what?
The second sentence more or less repeats what you have said already, so it is kind of redundant. I would lose it.
The ext mistake that caught my eye is this part: "increase the primary budget to 6.3% to stabilize debt". I do not think, "to 6.3%" is unclear. First of all, it would be "by 6.3%". Secondly, 6.3% of what?
debt rises
The last couple of sentences in your paragraph do not
link very well. I can see your bullet points.
Again I do like the last sentence. Even though, I am
not sure whether or not the register is right.
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