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Apocalypse Not NowPRINCETON – Recently, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, located near Geneva at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) – announced that the celebrated discovery in 2012 of the Higgs boson was indeed the Higgs boson.
The accelerator explanation of the shortfall in business investment in the US is consistent with evidence that, where projected demand growth has been relatively strong – for example, in cable, telecommunications, digital platforms, social networking, and, until recently, energy – investment growth has also been relatively strong.
As the accelerator theory of investment would predict, much R&D investment is occurring in technology-intensive sectors where current and future expected demand has been strong.
Was the Chinese incursion intended to serve as a sort of diplomatic accelerator?
All this need not end horribly, but policymakers in most regions have to start pressing hard on the brakes, not the accelerator.
Cafeteria (now more inviting and more frequented with the advent of free food), or the halls of the Plug & Play startup accelerator, proximity matters.
Finding what was, until then, just a theoretical prediction required one of the largest and most complex scientific undertakings ever attempted: the creation of the particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, near Geneva.
With so much pressure, how can policy makers avoid stepping on the accelerator just a bit too hard?
The unbridled ambitions of the neo-conservatives and assertive nationalists in his first administration produced a foreign policy that was like a car with an accelerator, but no brakes.
But if that strategy is conceived as mastering two dynamic processes, overcoming the ecological constraint could be an accelerator of growth.
Achieving an African Industrial RevolutionBEIJING – In the mid-2000s, after decades in the slow lane, African economies hit the accelerator.
The current crisis in the advanced countries, which may very well lead to a global recession (if it is not already doing so), not only reveals the many maladies of democratic regimes, but also acts as their incubator and accelerator.
With monetary policy firmly on the accelerator, and regulatory policies firmly on the brake, the likeliest result is heightened instability.
Several large accelerator research centers were built, and the scattering of particles at high energies revealed a fascinating structure of matter.
In the last few years, however, experiments at the HERA accelerator in Hamburg, Germany, have observed the strong interaction effects in slow motion, which could open a way to a precise understanding of the strong force.
At the HERA accelerator, the scattering of electrons on protons was studied at the highest energies ever for this type of experiment.
In deciding to raise interest rates, it will be doing more than simply lifting its foot from the financial-stimulus accelerator; it will also be taking a notable step toward the multiyear normalization of its overall policy stance.
In other words, the ECB is likely to expand and extend experimental measures that will press even harder on the financial-stimulus accelerator.
If China’s economy were a car, the country’s leaders would always be either flooring the accelerator or slamming on the brakes.
The Fed also left no doubt that it will maintain its foot on the accelerator until the US unemployment rate declines significantly, at least to 6.5%, and as long as inflation is contained at or below 2.5%.
Rural-to-urban migration, new public-sector universities, incubators, and accelerator initiatives have also helped.
They emphasized their 2%-or-higher inflation objective; were sincere in doing so; and kept their foot on the monetary accelerator (via quantitative easing) so long as inflation remained below target.
But the relationship is less simple than before, making it harder to justify the argument that policymakers should have their foot on the accelerator just because inflation is below 2%.
But, as European leaders increasingly recognize, it is time to hit the accelerator.
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