Sentences with phrase «spent on consumption»

So while most mortgage money was used to bid up the price of home ownership, about a quarter of new lending was reported to be spent on consumption goods.

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.

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Brian Wieser, a Pivotal Research analyst who reviewed Nielsen digital consumption data, said Google properties, including YouTube and Waze, combined to account for 27.4 percent of all time spent on digital media — up 3 percentage points from the previous year.

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

Every company is looking to trim paper consumption and waste, and being green is only part of the reason: As much as 3 percent of corporate revenues are spent on printing costs, according to research by Gartner Inc., largely because of the high price of toner and ink.

And this comes alongside larger changes in Facebook's business model, in which Mark Zuckerberg says he is steering the business away from optimizing to «time spent» by users and toward a new focus on connections over consumption.

In Germany, new data showed the economy expanded 0.6 percent in the second quarter of the year on strong private consumption and state spending.

That's U.S. personal consumption graphed against spending on capital goods; one represents some 70 % of GDP and the other represents about 4.5 % of GDP.

The reason: When people retire, they stop saving and begin spending by drawing down on their nest eggs; when consumption exceeds investment, prices rise.

On the consumption side, personal spending growth in February was revised lower to 0.3 percent, instead of the previously reported 0.4 percent.

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.

To pinpoint the average retirement income you would need to live comfortably throughout the U.S., GOBankingRates looked at five factors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia: Per capita spending on groceries, healthcare, gas and fuel, housing and utilities and personal consumption expenditures not included in the four other categories.

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

It means that instead of spending income on buying goods and services in the «real» production - and - consumption economy, they are paying the bill for past asset price inflation.

It may not get spent on immediate consumption, but it often gets reinvested.

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.

Time spent per subscriber was up 8 %, and viewers have doubled their consumption of on - demand content since Hulu released its Live TV product last year.

Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.

Around 1980, U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE) were divided roughly evenly between income spent on physical goods and that spent on services.

«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».

The U.S. Medicare program is a system of socialized medicine that imposes no constraints on medical spending or consumption.

In China, this has been the case since 2011, with total household consumption spending growing on average faster than overall GDP by 1.5 percentage points each year.

If they cut spending, will it be on consumption items, such as health care for the elderly, or on growth - promoting investments, such as education for the young?

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.

A: If you look at consumer spending patterns, you'll see lower income people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income on consumer goods, so a consumption tax cut benefits them disproportionately compared to upper income people.

Estimates are based on the analysis of various elements related to the ad spending market, including macro-level economic conditions; historical trends of the advertising market; historical trends of each medium in relation to other media; reported revenues from major ad publishers; estimates from other research firms; data from benchmark sources; consumer media consumption trends; consumer device usage trends; and eMarketer interviews with executives at ad agencies, brands, media publishers and other industry leaders.

In actuality, they spent the funds on conspicuous consumption instead: long robes and banquets.

When you spend an entire day planning, consuming, and recovering from the consumption of your addiction on a daily basis, then you have a problem.

If pollution kills trees, that does not subtract from personal consumption, but if we spend money on gasoline additives or add equipment to reduce this killing, that improves the personal consumption measure.

Steenblik maintains restaurateurs in Utah are careful in how they spend their money because they lack the profit from liquor sales due to the tight control on its distribution and consumption.

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Global brewer Heineken has produced a strong first half performance but remains cautious on the development of beer consumption in Europe and the US due to continued weak consumer spending and planned austerity measures across many countries.

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.

Obviously there's volatility with income taxes during a recession, but I would think the tendency of people to slow spending on unnecessary goods during a recession would be particularly damaging to a consumption tax.

The goal of Buy Nothing Day, celebrated this year in the US on Nov. 28 and internationally on Nov. 29, is to raise awareness about unnecessary spending and consumption, not just for one day, but for every day.

Our parents might have limited our consumption of sodas, flavored lip gloss, MTV, or time spent talking on the home phone.

This board would then spend 20 billion dollars over the next decade marketing the health benefits of real food with tv and magazine adds, and a massive PR campaign to report on studies that link real food consumption to wellness, vitality and disease treatment.

Another by University of Chicago economists suggests «trickle - down consumption:» when the rich spend on high - end goods, that influences the non-rich around them to also spend to keep up.

The consumption tax may seem fairer on the surface, but it ignores the fact that those at the very top of the earnings pile spend comparatively less of their earnings on consumption.

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.

Indeed, in the short run (which is the period of concern during a downturn), the adverse impact of a tax increase on the economy may, if anything, be smaller than the adverse impact of a spending reduction, because some of the tax increase would result in reduced saving rather than reduced consumption.»

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

«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.»

«If you look at this in a broad sense, about 5 percent of our total global energy consumption is spent on electronics,» said co-senior author Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Berkeley Lab's Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Technologies and a UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering and of physics.

Specifically, we will spend your generous donations on cell culture reagents, oxygen consumption measurements, virus production, quantitative reverse transcription PCR, DNA synthesis services, and publication of our results in a peer - reviewed journal.

Life has spent about 3.8 billion years on Earth, and its ecosystems are organized through strategies based on constant trial and error, hence we can learn many lessons for the building of a new human evolutionary phase capable of ending poverty, hunger, inequality between countries, gender inequality, irresponsible consumption, unsustainable industrialization, pollution of the seas and oceans, and so on.

According to a recent study by Common Sense Media, the average teen spends over an hour a day using social media, and only 3 percent of the time tweens and teens spend online is focused on creation vs. consumption.

Plus, with claims of 21mpg in the city and 29mpg on the highway, the Audi A7 is quite economical by class standards (not that many people who are spending at least $ 68,000 on a car will mind about the fuel consumption levels).

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.