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Robust and resilient economies need strong businesses, and to build strong businesses, governments must play a role in ensuring high-integrity oversight of business activity.
Stroking the palm causes activity in the part of the brain - the parietal lobe - that processes tactile stimulation.
But there is far less brain activity when the person being scanned strokes her own palm.
In terms of physiology, these patients show abnormally high activity in the parietal lobe when making movements that feel alien.
Activity in the part of the brain concerned with sound - the temporal lobe - is reduced when we hear the sound of our own voice while we are speaking.
Patients who experience auditory hallucinations do not show this reduction in activity to the sound of their own voice.
He had no doubt about which vision would win out: “Yearly one nation after another would drop into the union which best suited it; and looking to the commercial activity of the Teutonic races, and the comparative torpor of the Latin races, no doubt the Teutonic money would be most frequently preferred.”
The resulting explosion of critical press stories then causes everything – all activity, all initiative – to stop.
In particular, in addition to individual life-saving efforts, strategies should be implemented to reduce the risk of infection in port cities and other centers of economic activity.
Given this, China’s leaders should focus not only on channeling funding toward innovative industries; they must also ramp up their efforts to weed out excess capacity and energy-inefficient activity in the state-owned sector.
Already the market is full of rumors that guaranteed bonuses are returning, that hedge funds are making double-digit returns, and that activity is reviving in the private equity market.
Others can use brain imaging to visualize and measure the activity of human brains.
Perhaps, then, it is also time to ask once again a basic question: should the state continue to ladle out generous subsidies for such an elite activity?
A study found that Americans aged 55-64 had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than those aged 20-34 in every year from 1996 to 2010.
Noting that developing countries invest much less on scientific research and produce fewer scientists, Annan warned that the resulting imbalance in the geographic distribution of scientific activity creates problems for both the scientific community in developing countries and for development itself.
Like all economic activity, it flourishes when property rights are respected, taxation is efficient and purposeful, letters of credit are honored, tariffs and other barriers are removed, and so forth.
Promoting the participation of girls and women in education and economic activity is also important.
Unsurprisingly, growth was swift – until late last year, when the combination of the US Federal Reserve’s gradual exit from quantitative easing and lower commodity prices worldwide caused a swift deceleration in economic activity.
If people act on this belief by saving every extra pound, dollar, or euro that the government puts in their pockets, the extra government spending will have no effect on economic activity, regardless of how many resources are idle.
Eventually, lower commodity prices and lower inflation will act like a huge tax cut for households, allowing interest rates to fall further and thus stabilize economic activity.
As some confidence returns in an eventually recapitalized banking system, and long bond yields decline with the fall in inflation, mortgage and other borrowing rates will fall and monetary transmission mechanisms will revive, supporting economic activity and stabilizing real house prices, albeit at a substantially lower level.
But this investment rate is likely to decline sharply over the next 5-10 years, because the country already boasts new infrastructure, has excess manufacturing capacity in many sectors, and is trying to shift economic activity to services – which require less investment.
In fact, Putin’s recent address was replete with references to Russia’s weaknesses – specifically, “interethnic tensions,” local-government authorities “constantly shaken by corruption scandals,” an incompetent administration, capital flight through economic “offshore activity,” and the inability to achieve “technology breakthroughs.”
The economic activity generated just by their launch would generate new tax revenues that more than cover the cost to the public purse.
We need as many people working as possible, generating economic activity and paying taxes.
More specifically, training programs aimed at boosting pro-social motivation have led to increased activity in neural networks related to positive emotions and affiliation, as well as to reduced stress-relevant hormonal responses and increased immune markers, when participants are exposed to distress in others.
In the context of a $75 trillion global economy, Britain’s is a relatively small, open one that relies heavily on foreign trade – annual exports are typically in the range of 28%-30% of economic activity.
For example, studies during the past 20 years have shown that changes in solar magnetic activity cause the Sun's brightness to vary by 0.1%, and that the average annual temperature in the northern Temperate Zone has tracked the level of solar activity over the last 1,000 years.
Indeed, monitoring of other solar-type stars has revealed one whose brightness decreased by 0.5% in a period of 5 years, during which its magnetic activity declined sharply, suggesting that the Sun behaves similarly.
A safe bet is that from 1900 until 1950, global warming was driven mainly by the solar brightening, as solar magnetic activity increased by a factor of two or three during this period.
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