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After 1950, however, solar activity showed no significant rise, while atmospheric CO2 increased by 20%, accounting for the warming from 1970 to 2000.
For example, aside from solar magnetic activity, the Sun affects the Earth's climate in several other ways, including ultraviolet warming of the upper stratosphere, the nucleation of aerosols, and cloud formation.
And the monthly purchasing surveys conducted by the Institute for Supply Management now indicate weaker activity among service firms as well.
Stronger consumer spending, along with record-high corporate profits, should boost investment spending further this year, as will re-shoring of economic activity and an improving trade balance, owing to a decline in energy and labor costs in the US.
Finally, entrepreneurial activity is vital to translate economic potential into reality.
Policies that support such activity, such as by removing obstacles to new business creation and enhancing financing opportunities, cannot be left out of growth strategies.
Increased life expectancy is causing the share of elderly people to grow, while economic development and urbanization reduce physical activity and increase consumption of processed food, alcohol, and tobacco.
The fact that the eurozone lacked the labor-market flexibility needed to make it an optimal currency area meant that adjustment via regional reallocation of economic activity would be glacial, while its members’ loss of control over monetary policy ruled out adjustment via nominal depreciation.
This agenda includes centralizing European debt through Eurobonds, mobilizing sufficient rescue funds, allowing the ECB to exercise the full range of central-banking powers, and reinforcing policy coordination in order to sustain economic activity in austerity-stricken member countries.
The recent collapse of those bubbles caused sharp downturns in economic activity and substantial increases in unemployment in both countries.
Meanwhile, two speculative bubbles – in the real estate market and in mortgages – have become grafted upon each other and now dominate economic activity in the US.
More recently, the European Central Bank has adopted a similar approach, guiding the euro downward in an effort to boost domestic activity.
By framing the debate on reform as being about the type of handouts, governments evade tackling the real problem: their control of economic activity.
What is needed is a root and branch transformation of the way that economic activity is carried out in all Arab nations.
Non-tradable sectors tend to account for a growing share of employment and economic activity.
Much design, branding, and advertising activity is also essentially zero-sum.
All that activity would account for a trivial proportion of measured GDP, simply because it would be so cheap.
With private-equity activity having declined in the Middle East and indeed elsewhere in recent years, owing to the fallout from the Abraaj Capital saga, SOEs and SWFs in the region will likely continue to establish their own private equity vehicles.
A Step Back from Trump’s StartSTANFORD – The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency have contained what felt like a year’s worth of activity and rancor.
At first, the eurozone seemed to function like a true currency union: capital-market integration was accelerated; cross-border activity increased; and the per capita income gap between member countries decreased.
The stark truth, however, is that the moral imperatives of each activity are starkly different.
The targets were based on the idea that a “credible” deficit-reduction program would create sufficient business confidence to overcome the depressing effects on activity of the cuts themselves.
In the economist Hyman Minsky's terminology, simple “speculative" finance has given way to completely circular “Ponzi" activity.
The latest survey data indicate a major slowdown in industrial activity.
To the extent that we can identify growth triggers, they seem to be related to relaxing constraints that held back private economic activity.
After all, if China’s political system can still be called socialism, it is at best “socialism with Chinese characteristics,” which embodies an increasing amount of market-oriented economic activity and greater economic openness and transparency.
Macroeconomic policy harmonization is needed to ensure that changes in one SADC member country do not adversely affect economic activity elsewhere.
This is attributable mainly to Angola, Botswana, and Namibia, owing to cyclical investment behavior in the petroleum and extraction industry, and to South Africa, where privatization and acquisitions activity have slowed.
We proposed an alternative – similar to the way corporations are taxed within the US, with profits allocated to each state on the basis of the economic activity occurring within state borders.
A good legal system permits employment and production to continue in cases where the economic activity is still viable; divides up the remaining assets in an orderly and generally accepted way; and makes these determinations as efficiently and speedily as possible, while discouraging future carelessness by imposing costs on managers, shareholders, and – if necessary – creditors.
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