Sentences with phrase «more consumption spending»

The negative effects of lower oil prices hit the economy right away, and the various positives - more exports because of a stronger U.S. economy and a lower dollar, and more consumption spending as households spend less on fuel - will arrive only gradually, and are of uncertain size.

Not exact matches

If the wealthy become wealthier, do they spend more on consumption?

It found that the more time they spent sitting, the greater their risk of death from heart disease — regardless of age, sex, smoking status, alcohol consumption and how much the subjects exercised.

Unsurprisingly, American social networkers aged 18 - 34 self - report spending more time than their older counterparts, and women outpace men in consumption, also.

On the negative side, people do seem to spend more when their houses are worth more, so low housing prices keep consumption down and that probably hurts the macro-economy.

Unless this tax favoritism is reversed, more and more revenue will be diverted away from spending on consumption and investment to pay debt service and «financialize» the economy even more.

Running a trade surplus means that a country sells more to foreigners than it buys from them, and there seems to be an implicit belief that exports are what a hard working country produces, and imports are the equivalent of its consumption, so that a trade surplus means that the country earns more than it spends, and the larger the surplus, the more likely the ants in that country are especially productive, thrifty, morally upright, and perhaps fond of sensible clothing.

That said, the oldest Boomers are past their «peak consumption years», meaning less spending on key categories like transportation, housing and apparel, with the windfall more than picked up by their children, netting out to about an average 0.77 % demographic driven annual growth rate across sectors through 2060.12

In sophisticated economies, the impact of consumption may be less than in emerging economies that are largely import - export driven, but the consumption magnitude is even more pronounced due to both a greater wealth effect and standard of living that enable individuals to spend more freely with disposable income.

M2 growth rates of 5 - 6 % or more in turn would have triggered the portfolio re-balancing plus the increased investment and consumption spending effects that were achieved by the US and the UK QE programmes.

It is important to note that the retail trade survey covers only around 40 per cent of consumer spending and that other recent indicators of consumption have been more positive.

«It means reversing this long time economic model, where the state will profit through the economic system at the expense of the consumers and household, and one of the things that the new leadership is intent on doing in order to create consumption is to empower consumers, so they spend more and stop empowering state organizations which are fuelling the overcapacity and the massive debt bubble».

A consumption tax is on the flow of spending and by taxing consumption you raise its price relative to saving thereby fostering more saving resulting in greater investment in productive capital and higher long - term economic growth.

The poor consumer spending in Q1 could be a harbinger of more economic weakness, not only because the consumer is almost 70 % of the U.S. economy, but because average real personal consumption expenditures grew at a faster rate than real GDP over the last three years, 2.9 % to 2.2 %.

Again, the higher the gearing, the more their wealth would be affected and the more cautious they would become in their consumption spending.

The family begins to spend much more money, and all of this is counted as an increase in personal consumption.

It is also relevant to consider what the proportion of consumption is between processed and packaged foods compared with fresh foods, with one concern being that supermarkets encourage consumers to spend more of their total food budget on processed foods.

advertising campaign, the group has spent more than $ 1 billion to halt what has been a steady decline in U.S. milk consumption in recent decades.

Does Mr. Brownback not factor in the fact that most people still need to spend a minimum amount of money to live in modern society (food, shelter, etc.), and it is those people who can not afford to spend more than a minimum that consumption taxes affect the most (which, as you noted, has often been an argument for income tax)?

Additionally, consumption taxes are fair because they are optional - you can choose to spend more or less money.

Tax on property, for example, could be likened to consumption tax (tax on money spent), and tax on unspent cash or growth assets would be more like an income tax.

Put another way, increase the tax «base,» as it were, by keeping more money in private hands and people will spend more and make more and the government will enjoy increased revenues borne of that increased consumption.

Higgins said 70 percent of the economy is consumption, so if people have more money, they're almost sure to spend it.

For example, the Air Force has watched its energy spending double since 2003 even though it cut fuel consumption by more than 10,000 barrels a day during the same period.

«By developing a more nuanced understanding of the links between spending and happiness, we hope to be able to provide more personalized advice on how to find happiness through the little consumption choices we make every day.»

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Americans are spending more time at home — so much that from 2003 to 2012, U.S. homebodies cut national energy consumption by a whopping 1.8 %, according to a new study.

While people spending more than $ 100,000 on a five - passenger SUV may not give a hoot about fuel consumption, regulators do.

Along with spending more time with news on these devices, users are also going more in - depth in their consumption.

As estimated by the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. consumers used an average of 554 gallons of gas in 2006; if gas consumption remains the same, people will be spending on average more than $ 2,000 on gas in 2012!

As we age, we expect to spend less of our consumption budget on sports cars and much more on health care.

With some planning, assessment, careful shopping, mindful preparation and consumption, you can spend less, waste less and enjoy more healthful eating.

In addition, more employees who spent their retirement savings used it to improve or enhance their financial situation, choosing to pay down debt or buy a home, rather than on pure consumption.

If Canadians start to feel better about their financial situation and spend more money (which they will have through their TFSAs) then the government will see an increase in consumption taxes such as GST, HST etc..

Changes in water consumption may be more difficult to observe, especially in cats that spend time outdoors or drink from toilets and sinks.

You had mentioned a sort of saturation of images — the insane amount of images we see or scroll through each day — and how you thought of these images as an intentional slowing of that consumption, at least for you to spend more time with them, and how the work also engaged a lot of the materials of advertising, prop styling, and commercial image production.

The more people seek to boost consumption, the more income they require and the harder and longer they must work, undermining those activities that are actually fulfilling and satisfying: for example, Juliet's work, and that of Kahneman, Krueger and Schkade (I hope I'm not overinterpreting) shows people spend far more time working, commuting, and doing other aversive, unpleasant tasks, while the time spent in satisfying activities such as building friendships and intimate relationships, athletics, spirituality, self - improvement, etc. is small.

Highlighting these priorities, Indonesia's energy minister announced that by «shifting the subsidy from consumption into more productive spending... [in] 2015, the public works, the transportation sector and the agriculture [sector] will double the [ir] capital expenditure budget.»

In recent years, the total cost of fossil - fuel consumption subsidies worldwide has ranged from $ 480 billion to $ 630 billion per year, plus more than $ 100 billion spent every year in production subsidies.

49 Rising Energy Costs for Consumers Average annual household utility bills have increased 48 % since 1980 (adjusted for inflation)-- Add in today's average annual gasoline budget per household and today's estimated annual home energy budget is over $ 3,800 Electricity costs continue to rise, with some utilities requesting rate increases of 35 % or more Spending on electricity is the highest share of total consumer spending since the energy crisis of 2000 Energy consumption has been rising along with costs — Electricity consumed by the typical American household has more than doubled since 1980 and is expected to increase another 20 %Spending on electricity is the highest share of total consumer spending since the energy crisis of 2000 Energy consumption has been rising along with costs — Electricity consumed by the typical American household has more than doubled since 1980 and is expected to increase another 20 %spending since the energy crisis of 2000 Energy consumption has been rising along with costs — Electricity consumed by the typical American household has more than doubled since 1980 and is expected to increase another 20 % by 2015

If pollution, CO2 emissions and fossil fuel consumption are your concern, getting people to drive more fuel - efficient cars could be achieved at low cost through legislation, and would make more of a difference than spending vast sums to extend railway passenger services.

Officials of another nine states, including New York, have challenged that assertion, while pointing out that the program has yielded more than $ 700 million for participating states, most of it spent on programs aimed at reducing energy consumption and investing in renewable energy.

We get to decide now whether we spend that $ 90 trillion on damaging, backward - looking more - of - the - same or shift our energy, transport agriculture and consumption to radically new pathways that can be sustained.

Moreover, improvements in resource efficiency are unlikely to be enough on their own, in part because more efficient technologies tend to lower costs, freeing up money that is inevitably spent on additional consumption (the so - called rebound effect) 48.

This estimation is a devastating blow to those nations where food consumption of the poorest households accounts to more than 60 percent of total spending.

More than 2/3 of our time on mobile phones is now used for non-communication activities with the average American spending 94 minutes per day utilizing mobile apps vs. 72 minutes of web - based consumption.

As Bitcoin miners spend more and more electricity in their endless quest for cryptocurrency, now it appears that the energy consumption of Bitcoin farms around the globe already rivals that of a small country.

Personal consumption expenditures were slightly weaker, investment was less negative based on less drag from the energy sector and equipment spending, government spending... Read More»

Frank also believes that this is a great sign for the market in 2018, saying, «-LSB-...] because wealth gains spur additional consumer purchases, the rise in home equity wealth during 2017 should add more than $ 50 billion to the U.S. consumption spending over the next two to three years.»

My understanding of why some say it doesn't is the argument that a tax cut is more effective if it benefits the poor / middle class because the poor / middle class will spend most of it on consumption (say groceries) rather than investment (say purchasing an extra rental property).