The Inequality Trap

There is some danger, there is some trap. One trap the vertical.

The Impunity Trap

The Gaza Trap

The Fed Trap

So the way many cons work is not that the conman gets the victim to trust him, it's that he shows he trusts the victim.

And as the World Bank recently noted, women are stuck in a productivity trap.

So we're caught in a kind of trap.

The Climate Policy Trap

Free Trade Pitfalls

The Debt Death Trap

The Middle East Turmoil Trap

It's a trap!

Don't grow up. It's a trap!

A poverty trap is therefore at work in Haiti, one that the country cannot overcome alone.

Europe s Leisure Trap

Negotiations in a Strategic Trap

The Sino American Codependency Trap

Do you think it's a trap?

I know how to set a trap.

What kind of trap is it? In Greece and Argentina, it is both political and economic.

The poor are caught in a complex poverty trap in which low income leads to low consumption, which in turn results in low capacity and low productivity.

We set a trap to catch a fox.

China is therefore caught in a currency trap, owing to its own saving surplus (and America s saving deficiency) and near zero interest rates on dollar assets. Although fully liberalizing China s domestic financial markets and internationalizing the renminbi may be possible one day, that day is far off.

Greece, Argentina, and the Middle Income Trap

And as the World Bank recently noted, women are stuck in a productivity trap.

Come back. Because, after, there is another trap.

Though 3.6 trillion of incremental liquidity has been added to the Fed s balance sheet since late 2008, nominal GDP was up by just 2.5 trillion from the third quarter of 2008 to the second quarter of this year. As John Maynard Keynes famously pointed out after the Great Depression, when an economy is locked in a liquidity trap, with low interest rates unable to induce investment or consumption, attempting to use monetary policy to spur demand is like pushing on a string.

Faith leaders grappling with women's inclusion in religious leadership roles are in danger of the same pitfall.

For countries that have reached the completion point, the challenge is to achieve lasting debt sustainability and avoid falling into a new debt trap.

A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

God is a trap. God is the answer when we don't know the answer.

If we avoid that trap, others are waiting for us.

And you never know when you're going to come across one of these booby traps.

Because it s very easy to fall into the trap that these states are absolute.

Nick the camera, again, an automatic camera took thousands of pictures of this.

They have a series of traps, of snares that they've set up to catch wild pigs, snakes, monkeys, rodents anything they can, really.

We may be in a permanent liquidity trap, in which nominal interest rates cannot fall below zero, but the expected rate of return to investment remains negative. Unconventional monetary policies like quantitative easing may inflate a new generation of asset bubbles, but the underlying problem negative returns to new investment will not have been solved by the time the next crash comes.

Hobbled by severe damage to private and public sector balance sheets, and with policy interest rates at or near zero, post bubble economies have been mired in a classic liquidity trap. They are more focused on paying down massive debt overhangs built up before the crisis than on assuming new debt and boosting aggregate demand.

It was really a death trap. I mean, it was incredible, it worked incredibly well, but it was really dangerous.

It matters to me because I think we're setting ourselves up for trouble trouble certainly in how we relate to each other, but also trouble in how we relate to ourselves and our capacity for self reflection.

He's actually taking his own picture, shot with what's called a camera trap.

The strategic shift is also a deliberate effort by Chinese policymakers to avoid the dreaded middle income trap a mid stage slowdown that has ensnared most emerging economies when per capita income nears the 17,000 threshold (in constant international prices). Developing economies that maintain their old growth models for too long fall into it, and China probably will hit the threshold in 3 5 years.

Ever since Japan s banking crisis began in 1990, the country has been in a liquidity trap, with central bank rates close to zero, and from 1998 to 2005 the price level declined by more than 4 . Japanese governments have tried to overcome the slump with Hansen s recipes, issuing one Keynesian program of deficit spending after the other and pushing the debt to GDP ratio from 64 in 1991 to 171 in 2008.

Because people leave the poverty trap, an ecological disaster of subsistence farms, and head to town.