How much of an increase in
GDP does it take to offset that debt?
-- Martha C. Nussbaum — Increased GDP doesn't always make a difference in the quality of people's lives; often what is wanted are lives worthy of their human dignity.
But when a neighbor helps our a neighbor simply because it's the right thing to do, GDP doesn't bat an eyelid — in fact it sometimes takes a nose dive as paid services are replaced by an act of simple human decency.
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GDP does not tell the whole story.
foreign earnings which are additive and growing (it turns out that
GDP does pick up foreign earnings), 2.)
GDP does not include U.S. profits of foreign firms.
Did you mean to say that «
GDP does not include the U.S. activities of foreign firms»?
Stocks aren't magic, and over the very long haul, they tend to return what
the GDP does plus a few percent.
Notice in particular that contraction of GDP doesn't simply raise the debt - to - GDP by virtue of a smaller denominator.
Stocks aren't magic, and over the very long haul, they tend to return what
the GDP does plus a few percent.
U.S.
GDP does not necessarily increase or decrease, but there would be second order effects that I would find hard to predict.
Finally, simply looking at
GDP does not take into account the growth of other sectors of the economy relative to manufacturing.
This may be a bit technical, but in essence, nominal
GDP does not take into account inflation, and real
GDP does.
Zero rate auto financing already produced a pop in auto sales last quarter, which is why GDP didn't collapse.
In 1985/86, for example, non-farm
GDP did not grow at all for a period of about a year before growth resumed and falls in unemployment recommenced.
In the 1920s, the GDP didn't exist.
5) I would tell them that changes in inflation and real GDP don't have as large of an impact on corporate profits as is commonly thought, both positively and negatively.
My comment was that those changes in GDP don't correlate positively with changes in my quality of life.
Not exact matches
Measuring
GDP is a bit complicated but the calculation can be
done in one of two ways — by adding up what everyone earned in a year, or by adding up what everyone spent.
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Does GDP still get created by that company?»
GDP still isn't at the level that most would like to see, but on Wednesday the Commerce Department
did say that it performed better than expected in the second quarter at 1.7 %, up from 1.1 % in the previous quarter.
Government spending, meanwhile, was set to expand from 20.5 % of
GDP in 2018 to 23.6 % in 2027 (the CBO
did not project the figure after that date).
GDP growth is slowing, oil prices haven't recovered, and the housing market is no longer providing the lift it once
did.
At least part of the reason is that
GDP growth has less to
do with corporate profits than you might expect.
Rajiv Biswas, Asia - Pacific chief economist at research house IHS Global Insight, said the expected uptick in Japan's
GDP growth this quarter will be mostly on the back of «Abenomics,» which doesn't guarantee a strong rebound.
But while the middle class is being hollowed out,
GDP continues to grow (if anemically) and those at the top of the business world are
doing well.
China's stellar
GDP statistics may send western business leaders into raptures, but even the Chinese government doesn't believe them.
When all was said and
done, the 10 years ending 2010 saw an average of less than 2 %
GDP growth per year.
As time passes, the consequences of excessive
GDP optimism grow more significant, especially as the CBO now projects lower growth than it
did in 2001.
(And if you're in the market for more startling numbers having to
do with gender diversity, «the findings come on the heels of a report by the McKinsey Global Institute that showed $ 28 trillion could be added to global
GDP by 2025 if men and women contributed equally to the workforce,» the UK's Guardian newspaper notes.
GDP had a relatively small effect, even though the original projections didn't assume the 2007 - 2009 recession.
If real
GDP can jump 3 % or more this year and keep
doing the same thing for three or four more years after that, and we can put in place some spending reductions, we would go a long way to solving our deficit problem.
We don't know the real figures for
GDP growth, for example.
We don't see those red flags on the horizon as we enter the new year, so we continue to believe that 2018 will witness strong U.S. and global
GDP growth.
Indeed, if we assume that lower rates won't hugely recharge
GDP ---- the CBO's traditional position ---- the numbers not only don't work, they don't even come close.
To
do that, economists say Chinese household spending, which sits at about 35 % of
GDP, has to rise above 50 % — which can't happen overnight.
Kelly doesn't think we'll see a double dip — when
GDP moves back into negative territory — but
does think the market likely will take a slight dive at some point in the year.
True, the state
does have a wealth of pharmaceutical and health care companies (Merck, Wyeth, Merck), and a relatively high per capita
GDP ($ 49,038), suggesting there's more money than usual to pay for health care.
We rage against out - of - control CEO pay, demand stricter corporate governance, and yet we love the dominant leader who cuts through the noise, gives us something we didn't know we wanted and creates the most valuable company in the world in an industry — consumer electronics and entertainment — that commands just two or three per cent of household budgets and
GDP.
China's
GDP growth hovered between 9.5 percent and 10.5 percent between 2008 and 2011, but it's become clear that the spending was
done at a cost.
What's more, if the
GDP accounted for unpaid labor, (which is currently
does not), the economic impact of all women refraining from all work on Wednesday would be far greater.
KERNEN: But the one thing most are bringing up — and then I want to tell you about — if you didn't see the Jamie Dimon and the Lloyd Blankfein interview, I want to just tell you what they said about the potential for
GDP growth...
Conceivably, you could reach a point where Google can
do things like estimate changes in a country's
GDP on a daily basis.
But I'm just wondering if you
did — if you were able to keep
GDP or if the United States grows at 3 percent or 4 percent and we have the coffers, that we can
do a lot with 3 percent or 4 percent.
KERNEN: But — no, but he said, «I don't think the stock market would be where it is, I don't think
GDP would be where it is.
And for the first time since the final quarter of 2011, China's debt - to -
GDP ratio didn't increase and stayed unchanged at 255.9 percent in the second quarter this year, latest data by the Bank for International Settlements showed.
«It doesn't only matter how big
GDP is in the future, but also how it gets there, such as by slow steady growth, or by periods of rapid growth mixed with recession,» he said.
«People assume that
doing anything different from what we
do now is not realistic,» says Philipsen, when asked about the odds
GDP will ever be scrapped.
Even fans of unbridled capitalism have begun to question whether the post-2008 plague of stubbornly low economic growth may have something to
do with the way
GDP accounts, or fails to account, for a growing number of Internet firms like Facebook and Google who offer their services largely for free.
And
doing so makes our
GDP figure more comparable to those published by other nations, many of which are also struggling to measure what goes on in the shadows.