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But, for the most part, the rhetoric has not been translated into reality, and what actions have been taken proved largely inconsequential for economic activity and asset prices.
Second, falling marginal production costs and the rise of platforms that aggregate and concentrate activity in multiple sectors augment returns to scale.
For some activities for which a mental age limit may be relevant, the number of people engaging in the activity is very large: voting, obtaining a driving license, and having sex, for example.
But such infrastructure investment would go far beyond what would ever have been undertaken had the economy been left to regain high employment through the workings of adaptive or innovative activity.
It was also well known as a hotbed of Muslim Brotherhood activity.
As a result, construction activity is set to stagnate at low levels.
Highly skilled or specialized workers sell their services to a wide range of businesses, supplementing the work of machines with human value-added activity.
In short, the Netherlands has restructured its economic value chain to accommodate a new division of labor between humans and machines, embracing new kinds of economic activity – especially part-time work and solo entrepreneurship – to balance human needs with technological advances.
And if consumers spend smaller shares of their disposable income on each purchase they make, they will have room to consume more, thus boosting overall economic activity.
By contrast, spending reductions could undermine economic activity and increase, not decrease, the public-debt burden.
For the Bush administration, the Geneva Agreed Framework, signed in 1994 by North Korea and the US with the aim of freezing the North’s nuclear activity and gradually decommissioning its graphite-moderated reactors, was an act of appeasement by the “naive” administration of President Bill Clinton.
The publication, after all, is the BEA’s comprehensive, bottom-up quinquennial reassessment of income, output, and prices going back to the Model-T days of economic activity.
The net effect does not change the big picture – the US still took six years to dig its way out of the Great Recession – but the growth trend (averaging output and income, which is a more reliable measure of activity than either alone) was faster than previously believed.
The concomitant accumulation of debt will weigh on future economic activity and exacerbate financial vulnerabilities.
But Argentina remains overly dependent on commodities, and has failed to encourage economic activity based on its peoples’ culture and ingenuity.
Such activity crossed the line drawn by Putin.
He simply wants the oligarchs to stick to their sphere of activity and to leave politics to him.
Worse still, Russia's bureaucracy would likely perceive such activity as a threat, and so spare no effort to hinder Russia's businessmen from civilizing themselves.
Reagan, Bush, and others declared that their tax cuts would spur so much economic activity that total tax revenue would actually increase.
Even in the 1930’s, most banks failed as a result of bad management and illegal activity, as is true today.
In Russia, for example, 12 foreign NGOs were put on a blacklist last July and threatened with a ban on any further activity in the country.
In France, the OECD has estimated that immigrants engage in 29% more entrepreneurial activity than native-born workers do, which is similar to the average for the OECD as a whole.
Moreover, the authorities have limited power to intercept vessels suspected of illegal activity.
It is not clear what would end this downward spiral of fiscal tightening and falling activity.
These child brides are forced into sexual activity when their bodies are still developing, and most lack the knowledge, confidence, and power to negotiate safe sex.
According to a survey based on data from the Office of the Clerk of the US House of Representatives, the current 113th Congress has delivered the lowest legislative activity “since at least 1947, when the data collection began.”
Now, as the pendulum swings back, it risks overshooting the optimal combination of private and public activity and ending up at a simplistic view of government as the problem and the private sector as the solution.
Much of its wealth reflects the increased value of energy, not productive economic activity.
High energy prices are a boon to Russia’s economy, but, as is often the case in the Middle East and other oil- and gas-rich regions, they can be a burden as well, feeding corruption and discouraging real economic activity.
So far during the financial crisis and ensuing recession, the US has been incapable of kick-starting credit growth, the major transmission mechanism by which monetary expansion feeds through to domestic economic activity.
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