Sentences with phrase «savings over consumption»

Now, if that's not controversial enough, perhaps I will write a post where I say that tax policy should not favor savings over consumption.

Not exact matches

Some analysts have suggested that the relatively low level of savings has helped consumption, though much of the consumption gains seen over the last year seem to be financed rather than supported by cash.

Yes, and there are 300 million citizens in the US and they can't stop from shooting each other and putting each other behind bars, and ruining the world banking system with dubious methods and instruments and wreck people's retirement savings all over the world, not to mention the high abortion rate, murder rate and consumption of resources rate... It's just a disorganized disaster, as opposed to the Nazi's who had an organized disaster.

Finally be careful not to wreck retirement saving: a major long term cause of Britain's economic problems is that savings and investment have been too low and the economy over dependent on consumption.

Examining a major Michigan weatherization program, the study found that while upgrades reduced consumption by about 10 to 20 percent, the total energy savings generated over a 16 - year window amounted to less than half of the initial weatherization costs.

The energy department and members of the Green Grid — which also includes Hewlett - Packard, IBM and Microsoft — signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to develop over the next three years a common set of metrics and tools for measuring data - center energy consumption, to encourage data centers to obtain energy savings assessments, and to train personnel to conduct energy savings assessments and use tools to identify energy efficiency enhancements.

Mattu: There are two key components of assets in every participant's portfolio: 1) financial assets (both inside and outside the DC plan) and, even more importantly, 2) the value of human capital in excess of consumption — i.e., the present value of future savings over the participant's working career.

Savings represent a preference for future consumption over present consumption, while the opposite is true for borrowing.

While it might not feel like a fit for people who already keep a close eye on their computer energy consumption, it might work for many other people who don't know that their computer settings can make an impact on energy savings over time.

A study prepared for the European Commission reports that achieving this target would cost less than 600 EUR per car, but savings from reduced fuel consumption would be twice as high over the lifetime of the car.

Reduced hospital electrical consumption by retrofitting light fixtures providing an FPL rebate in excess of $ 300,000, with an annual savings of over $ 150,000