Sentences with phrase «more stimulus if»

The Bank of Japan policy meeting on October 4 - 5 showed signs that the Japanese economy may require more stimulus if it is to remain strong.

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But many economists warn the stimulus could give the sluggish economy only a temporary jolt if the government fails to follow through with politically more difficult economic reforms.

If the cash transfers were broadly distributed, the subsequent spending would be more representative of sustainable demand than other means of stimulus, such as costly and ineffective «job creation» programs.

This year, anticipating the new Administration's emphasis on energy efficiency — if not the $ 8 billion worth of weatherization grants as well as more generous tax credits in the stimulus bill — Serious has gone on a serious shopping spree.

The stimulus from a weaker currency is over; if companies didn't respond to a 20 % drop over two years, they likely aren't going to respond to a decline of a few more percentage points.

On the other hand, Yellen might decide to hold off scaling back the QE stimulus if the current government shutdown and debt - ceiling battle last long enough to take a sizable toll on the economy or end with a deal that entails more heavy - handed spending cuts.

More broadly, economists are nearly universal in saying Obama's $ 800 billion - plus stimulus passed in early 2009 helped create both public - sector and private - sector jobs, even if they fell short of what sponsors had hoped.

But if your stimulus plan is to boost the economy then I think my plan offers more than just my company profiting I as well plan to help boost the profit of all my sponsors.

** MC, if you want to contribute to a more direct stimulus plan to inject some life into a lifeless economy, I can not think of a better way to do it — this is it!

If what will avoid a lost decade is more stimulus, do you really think just hiding that fact because «The Republicans will never allow it» is a good move?

Jared Bernstein writes that «I believe that if we were to make policy based purely on the economics, more stimulus would be at the top of the list.»

That will be important to private investors, because if the central bank held itself out as a privileged bondholder, effectively passing more risk on to other bond holders, other buyers might undermine the stimulus program by demanding higher interest rates.

We would be more constructive on the efficacy of immediate expensing as a stimulus if tax writers allow tax carry forward losses to accrue an annual real rate of return as prescribed in the House bill (H.R. 1).

If accompanied by a surprisingly large fiscal stimulus, this change could create a more challenging environment for bond investors.

The latest tame reading on inflation may give the Federal Reserve more wiggle room, if it is deemed necessary, to enact another round of stimulus, especially with recent economic data on the U.S. economy a bit disconcerting.

They look at the ineffective remedies at the time: negative monetary growth, Smoot - Hawley, and lack of stimulus, and they conclude that if they can stimulate a lot more, they can avoid Depression II.

 Almost a quarter of that was the auto aid. It was important for preserving jobs, for sure. But does it count as «stimulus,» in the sense of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs).

From what we know about brain development, it is quite possible that continued exposure to this type of stimuli, especially if it occurs in different types of circumstances will gradually generalize to a more permanent reaction style to new and novel things they encounter.

Frankly, if the stimulus was put more into infrastructure than into banks, brokers and the paper pushing ponzi schemers on Wall Street, Zurich and Brussels, millions more people would have jobs.

Research has shown that active forms of surfactants can respond to individual external stimuli, but what if it could interact with more than one?

To see if this is true of dolphins, too, Ridgway's team gave the dolphins a more complex task — in which they had to make different sounds in response to two different visual stimuli — at intervals during the 120 - hour vigilance test.

So what's going on is the person who is addicted to the drug, if you expose them to an environment with stimuli that for them are salient, those stimuli will hyperactivate — much more than is normal.

NIH faces «a perfect storm,» he said, partly driven by a flood of more than 20,000 applications for stimulus - funded grants, that could bring record - low success rates if the agency's budget doesn't rise above the current $ 30.6 billion.

The landing could also be softened if investigators get more time to spend their stimulus money, which NIH can do to some degree by giving them 1 - year, no - cost extensions, Lively said.

«It is as if the brain reacts to a stimulus by building then razing a tower of multi-dimensional blocks, starting with rods (1D), then planks (2D), then cubes (3D), and then more complex geometries with 4D, 5D, etc..

«If you're going to be flat, you'd like to be flat relative to a healthy budget,» says Thom Mason, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, which has a staff of more than 4800 and a budget of $ 1.5 billion, including $ 170 million in stimulus funding.

If sight or visual perception were no more than an ability to process information about light stimuli, then blindsight subjects could be said to see.

If the stimulus change came when the cells were in a more active state, the monkey was also more likely to correctly identify the change.

If you are not running at maximum speed or close to it (around 95 % or more), you simply will not provide your central nervous system with a strong enough stimulus to adapt.

And if you're starting out, it could even just be a power walk, like you just going all out for 10 to 20 seconds is helpful, just to get those muscles stimulated because certain muscles are tonic muscles, meaning they're more endurance, low threshold, low stimulus muscles.

If you're eating in a calorie surplus but aren't generating a sufficient growth stimulus through your training plan, you'll inevitably end up gaining more body fat as opposed to lean muscle.

If your goals as an athlete are to improve performance — to get stronger, faster and more powerful, to be able to respond quickly and effectively to outside stimulus — then maintaining muscle glycogen stores to fuel the need for fast energy production is an absolute necessity.

If you have been lifting for several years, this may need to be done every two weeks because you will adapt more rapidly to the same stimulus.

In other words, you will burn more fat and less muscle if you provide a stimulus like exercise.

If Obama really wants a stimulus package that is more than a short - term political fix, education is where he needs to go.

Race to the Top: President Obama's Race to the Top (RttT) initiative helped (and continues to help) to distribute billions of dollars in federal stimulus monies to states, thus far to a total of $ 4.35 billion, if states promise via their legislative policies that they will use students» large - scale standardized test scores for even more consequential purposes than NCLB required prior.

Obama has also made an effort to devote more spending to education, with $ 80 billion given to K - 12 districts in the stimulus bill and his Race to the Top program offering states and addition $ 4.35 billion in federal funds if they can come up with innovative reform plans.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)- Three cash - strapped states may find themselves left at the starting line in the competition for more than $ 4 billion in education stimulus funding if they don't amend laws that prevent student test results from being tied to teacher evaluations...

When asked about hydrogen as a practical fuel, Bereisa told us, «There's a lot more hydrogen production around than people think, so if the country wanted to move to a hydrogen economy, it could get done pretty quickly and with a lot less investment than we're already seeing in the current stimulus package.»

Alternatively, if the next few years include both the effects and the reversal of the recent emergency fiscal and monetary stimulus - call it the Great Unwinding - inflation volatility could move above average, leading to more moderate valuations for the S&P.

Well, if you purchase a $ 225,000 home and plan to live in the home for at least the next three years, with the tax credit savings you receive from the MCC, you will have gotten more than $ 8000 in stimulus money!

If you recently adopted a dog, or did not have time to allow a bond to bloom, your dog may find other stimuli around you more interesting.

If the pet is removed from the situation before it has reached a non-reactive, relaxed state, the pet can actually be made more fearful and reactive to that particular stimulus or situation, therefore sensitizing rather than desensitizing the pet to the situation and making the problem worse.

Here we presented content - mismatched stimuli (e.g. adult content with dog prosody and vice versa) and predicted that if the content of naturalistic DDS was driving preferences, dogs should attend to and spend more time near the individual producing dog - relevant content.

If there is any sign of anxiety associated with any of these situations, then more formal reward - based training should be practiced and repeated until your pet exhibits no problems in the presence of the stimuli.

If your dog seems unusually tired, uninterested, or slow to respond to you or other environmental stimuli for more than 24 - hours, it's time to call your veterinarian.

I think that one day, when the allure of novel technology and obscene profits are no longer the primary stimuli people will return to a more natural relationship with the land and will again begin to garden their surroundings and appreciate the consveration oriented efforts such as these... if we survive long enough.

But if it is either the start of a more lasting demand - driven trend, or if stimulus continues, it could put a brake on further drops in coal consumption over the coming years.

Legislatively, stimulus from tax reform and the recently passed budget could add to growth; however, if additional growth is accompanied by signs — or even fears — of inflationary pressure, it could complicate the Fed's attempt at a «soft landing» and may require more aggressive monetary action.»