United States: Selected Issues

August 5, 2003

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United States: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the United State’s (U.S.) household savings role in supporting the U.S. recovery; and focuses on the market for single-family housing, and the importance for household balance sheets. It discusses the underfunding of corporate pension plans, macroeconomic, and policy implications; the U.S. fiscal position, and reviews the causes of the fiscal crisis. It examines the impact of energy shocks, energy policy, and the taxation role. It analyzes the growth in linkages between the United States and other G-7 countries, and the regional and bilateral trade links issues.

Subject: Consumption, Energy prices, Financial services, Housing prices, Labor, National accounts, Pensions, Prices, Real interest rates

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Central America, Consumption, CR, Energy prices, Equity wealth, Europe, GDP, Global, House price, Housing prices, ISCR, NAFTA, NAFTA partner, North America, Pensions, Price, Price shock, Real interest rates, Saving rate

Publication Details

Pages:

101
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2003/245
Stock No:

1USAEA0032003
ISBN:

9781451839623
ISSN:

1934-7685

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