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I'm not sure what you mean by - "then they shouldn't be an issue is price sustainability."
As for
"Since those factors haven't changed, then they shouldn't be an issue"
1 - Factors work over time, often over a long time.
2 - Important factors might have to combine with newer factors to create the actual crisis situation, that doesn't mean the newer factors are the most important cause of the problem. If you have a kid playing in the street, well as long as their is no traffic, he won't be hit. Then if a car does go down to street, its not reasonable to say "the kid playing in the street wasn't the problem, after all he's been doing that for hours (or days or whatever) and didn't get hit until now.
3 - I didn't say they where the only factors, just major ones.
To use a real world economic example, Europe had an extensive welfare state and heavy regulation, before it started to have fairly high unemployment rates. The higher unemployment rates happened 1 - Over time, 2 - with changing world economic conditions and external shocks, such as the oil embargo, combined with the existing heavy regulation and extensive welfare state. |
