"In order to put the world economy back onto a stable growth trajectory, one imperative is correcting the global imbalance that has arisen from overconsumption in the United States and insufficient internal demand in other countries, " Aso said.
"To get the world economy on a stable growth path again, it is necessary to correct excessive consumption in the United States, as well as global imbalance coming from insufficient domestic demand of various countries, especially those with trade surpluses, " Aso said.
Then, the US was worried that a weak yen and a strong Japanese market was buying up US companies and creating an imbalance in global trade.
The result is a profound imbalance in the global production of knowledge: probably the most powerful engine of divergence in global well-being between the rich and the poor.
When I look at the global water crisis purely from a market-driven perspective, I see perhaps the single greatest imbalance of supply and demand that exists in the global marketplace.
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But what enabled the banking crisis to happen was a structural imbalance in the growth model of the global economy over the last two decades.
Speaking at the annual Mansion House dinner in June, the Bank's Governor Sir Edward George admitted the Bank of England had cut interest rates earlier this year to bolster consumer demand and insulate the UK from the global slowdown - at the expense of worsening the imbalance in the economy.
Investors will be faced with dramatic distortions looming in the post-crisis global economy as a result of this failure to come to terms with the currency crisis and trade imbalance.
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