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It could be that the prospects for continued slow economic growth at home and the gloomy economic picture globally are weighing on them.

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Also, while consumer debt is falling and corporate debt is not yet at crisis levels, keep in mind that government debt has skyrocketed — ironically, as a response to slow growth in the global economic system.

«There's no reason to think that the pace of economic growth today is excessive and needs to be slowed because of incipient inflation,» Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not economic growth today is excessive and needs to be slowed because of incipient inflation,» Josh Bivens, research director at the Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not Economic Policy Institute, said in calling on the Fed not to hike.

«The already challenged restaurant industry has been hit with slowing overall economic growth and the gap between the cost of dining at home compared to dining out,» Dine Equity CEO Julia Stewart said in a call with investors in November.

While strict mortgage - lending laws were in place before he took office and they came at a cost — less home ownership and slower economic growth — the state's conservative rules, as WSJ notes, «largely prevented the state's residents from signing the types of dubious home loans written in other markets across the country.»

«The argument is the types of things we're doing now with information technology just don't show up in GDP because a lot of what we do on the Internet is free,» or very nearly so, says Philip Cross, a former chief of economic analysis at Statistics Canada who wrote a paper on the slow - growth economy for the Fraser Institute think tank last year.

Slower growth — a function of structural changes such as an aging society — means economic slack created in the last recession is being eroded at a sluggish pace.

«China's economic growth has slowed over the past few years... but economic growth has rebounded this year, with GDP reaching 6.9 % in the first half, and may achieve 7 % in the second half,» Zhou was quoted as saying at the G30 International Banking Seminar in Washington on Sunday.

Chapter 2 looks at efforts by policymakers to revive weak credit growth, which has been seen by many as a primary reason behind the slow economic recovery.

«We are probably looking at slower economic growth.

But for Gerhard Schwarz, Head of Equity & Cross Asset Strategy at Baader Bank in Munich, the currency outlook for corporate Europe looked favorable, even though overall earnings growth was set to slow compared to 2017 due the slowing economic growth.

Given that economic growth is languid at best and is likely slowing, the divergence between the stock market and economic reality can not be sustained.

WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund projects moderate economic growth for Canada this year and next, albeit at a rate lower than last year's and significantly slower than in the United States.

At a time of slowing economic growth, the world can ill - afford watching the largest economies turn inward.»

At least part of the difficult market can be attributed to slower economic growth and reduced spending by many Canadians in a fickle market.

With debt already higher as a share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than at any time other than the aftermath of World War II, this new debt is likely to slow economic growth and hasten the country's fiscal deterioration.

But De Gregorio acknowledges the challenge they present going forward and fears that, particularly at a time when growth in the region is slowing and external circumstances are changing, a flair for populism and the power of vested interests might undermine the process of continued economic reforms needed to foster, among other things, shared prosperity and social inclusion.

Citing information received since its prior Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in August, the Federal Reserve indicated at the conclusion of today's two - day FOMC get together that economic growth had remained slow in the interim.

Just as important, at a time when fears over China's slowing economy are widespread and there's evidence of retail saturation in the country's major metropolitan areas, nearly half of survey participants said they expect to be better off financially in the next 12 months — and they are eager to spend, contrary to gloomy assumptions about the drag of sluggish economic growth on consumer sentiment.

On the other side of the debate, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business has argued that requiring employers to pay higher CPP premiums would cost jobs at a time of slow economic growth.

At worst, CBO finds the cost of a tax cut would increase as higher debt slowed economic growth.

Asian stock markets fell Thursday as weaker - than - expected orders for U.S. durable goods, falling commodities prices and signs of slower economic growth in Britain kept investors at bay.

This was a welcome development for Metals & Mining equities, as metal prices have been under pressure for most of 2011 and 2012, largely, we suspect, due to concerns about a recession in Europe, slowing growth in key emerging markets, especially China, and the sluggish pace of economic recovery at home.

And while U.S. economic growth today is lower than at points in the 1980s and 1990s, it's still quite remarkable in a global environment beset by only moderate European growth and slowing growth in China and other emerging markets.

At their most recent meeting, most members of the Fed's policy - making committee agreed that slow growth was not reason enough to expand the Fed's economic aid program.

The report saw investors slash expectations for a rate hike from the Bank of England at its upcoming meeting next week after overall economic growth slowed to near stagnation in the first quarter.

The review was largely positive, noting that the banks have exhibited remarkable resilience in the face of slowing economic growth, with GDP growing at an average of just 2 percent per year between 2014 and 2016.

Per Stromhaug, assistant vice president for innovation and economic development at SUNY Binghamton, said while growth has been slow, three more companies have since hired new employees in 2016.

«The World Bank figures are there for all to see, our economic growth rate today is at a much slower pace than it was 3 years back, agreed that the present government is doing a good job at diversifying the economy.»

«Development schemes requiring massive displacements, carried out purportedly for the sake of economic growth, tend to target the black and brown poor through dramatic applications of eminent domain or the slow squeeze of gentrification,» writes Connolly, a South Florida native and a history professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

A crucial mechanism at work is that the high R&D subsidy allows for a quicker transition to clean energy while not slowing down economic growth, as a carbon tax alone would.

Chinese emissions grew at 4.2 %, due to slower economic growth and faster improvements in carbon intensity of the economy compared to the previous decade

The current economic crisis is likely to slow down growth in R&D even further in 2009 and 2010, European Commissioner for research Janez Potočnik warned today at a press conference in Brussels.

At their most recent meeting, most members of the Fed's policy - making committee agreed that slow growth was not reason enough to expand the Fed's economic aid program.

Conversely, inflation can be lowered at the cost of possibly increased unemployment and slower economic growth.

OTTAWA — Canada's finance minister is hinting the federal government could take steps as early as this autumn's economic update to help the economy at a time of slower - than - expected growth.

Also, while consumer debt is falling and corporate debt is not yet at crisis levels, keep in mind that government debt has skyrocketed — ironically, as a response to slow growth in the global economic system.

While a few years of outsized growth might sound nice after the years of slow expansion we've experienced, the economic hangover that might follow wouldn't be pleasant at all.

Are we sure there will be proportionate benefits from whatever climate change can be purchased at the cost of slowing economic growth and spending trillions?

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Thus economic growth would merely continue at a slightly slower pace.

«If we look at consumption of coal, the main drivers are rapid growth in clean energy, slower power demand growth due to shifting economic structure and energy efficiency.

These days the greatest hope is for a global economic crisis that slows growth even at the cost of social suffering.

Let's take a «middle of the pack» IPCC SRES model - based «scenario and storyline» representing «business as usual» with very rapid economic growth, human population continuing to grow but at a slower rate, leveling off at a population of around 10.5 billion by the end of the century and no «climate initiatives»

In one of its occasional assessments, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the cowinner with Al Gore of the Nobel Peace Prize — posited a scenario in which the global economy would grow at about 2 percent a year for the next 100 years (it's growing at more than twice that pace currently) with «fragmented» and «slow» per capita economic growth and technological change.

Houston's economic recovery is happening at a slow pace, but any near - term improvement in its office market has less to do with the energy sector than growth in other industries and overall confidence in the economy, according Kevin Roberts, president of Southwest operations with real estate services firm Transwestern.

While the market overall will move forward at a slower pace, economic growth anticipated in 2017 will provide a bump in office occupancy.

(TNS)-- Consumers ramped up their spending in January at the fastest pace in eight months as incomes also continued to grow at a strong pace in a sign economic growth is improving after slowing at the end of last year.

With price growth slowing, and even turning negative, in some major housing markets such as UK and the US due to the recent global financial and economic crisis, it is important for property investors aiming at maximizing returns and minimizing risk, to understand the dangers of purchasing a property in order to rent it.