Her argument is that the reason unemployment remains high is the persistent shortfall in aggregate demand.
A World Bank report in September said a "persistent shortfall in donor funding has exacerbated the P.A.'s increasingly difficult fiscal situation, leaving a financing gap of almost $400 million".
Smith finds Japan's persistent shortfall puzzling, because — he claims — this isn't supposed to happen in New Keynesian models: In a New Keynesian model, when there is a demand shortfall, unemployment is the result.
A short-term fix may be found: Congress has already passed ten of these, shifting money from elsewhere to make up for a persistent shortfall in revenue from fuel taxes, which have been held constant since 1993.
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So a large leveraging/deleveraging cycle is likely to be followed by a persistent shortfall in aggregate demand that can't be cured using ordinary monetary policy; what I consider depression economics.
Our analysis also provides strong empirical support for the assessment that continuing labour market slack is a key reason for the persistent shortfall in inflation relative to the FOMC's 2 per cent inflation goal.
The banks, the report will show, will remain cautious about lending again, which will slow up the recovery but also make companies more careful about their investment; and the securitisation markets that became so fashionable during the boom will recede, though not disappear altogether.A persistent shortfall in demand will weigh on supply.
The goal, writes reporter Sarah Cassidy, is to redress what the Royal Society calls a "persistent shortfall of youngsters taking science and maths-based courses after the age of 16 in the UK".
If the U.S. economy has been faced with a persistent shortfall in demand then we really are not constrained in our spending.
