Now, I've said before that the way I measure our economy's strength -- the way you measure it -- is by whether jobs and wages and incomes are growing.
Everyone acknowledges that high technology is immensely expanding productivity, but bean counters haven't figured out in this service-cum-high-tech economy how to measure that.
Economists tend to measure the economy using productivity metrics such as output per hour worked.
Which is really evidence of quite how wrong we are in the way that we measure the economy.
The two different methods to measure fuel economy could coexist, he said.
When you measure data traffic growth, you measure the economy.
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Fuel Economy is the only measure that has decreased from last year by 17 index points likely due to increasing gas prices, which are about 30% higher compared to the same time period last year.
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He added that there was much more detailed work to be done, but that while a lowering of corporation tax should not be seen as a "silver bullet" remedy for the economy it did afford Northern Ireland the opportunity to seize some measure of control over the economy.
But Peter Brewer, group secretary of Peterborough NFU, has criticised the measure as false economy.
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The measure of an economy is what happens when they get their decisions wrong.
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As a result, the commotion on the national bourses in recent weeks may not serve as a reliable measure of each economy's prospects.
While the markets are just one political measure of the economy, Obama is relying on investor confidence to boost stock prices and his own standing.
The point that The Economist is close to but does not quite reach is that the measure of an economy is not whether they get the decisions right.
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This is an important measure of our economy as a whole, one that tells us how much we are producing and how much businesses and families are earning.
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The first relates to how we see the health of our economy how we measure it, and how we ensure that its benefits are properly shared among all Americans.
Yes, I realize one may argue that the stock market is not an accurate measure of the economy but the wealth effect is powerful and a rising stock market has definitely improved the general mood of the investing public thereby allowing them to put some of their new found savings to work.
On one measure, the Welsh economy outperformed that of two neighbouring countries in two successive recent years.
Overall GDP shows the size of the UK's economy, but does not necessarily measure people's economic wellbeing.
It may not seem a big difference, but it matters when it's a measure of the whole economy's output.
Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said the government was now aiming to cut income tax in 2015 as a stimulus measure to boost the economy.
By any objective measure, the Russian economy of 2011 is indeed vastly healthier and wealthier than the Russian economy of 2000 (which is not exactly a big hurdle to clear).
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Using 30 stocks--which is what the Dow is--is a lousy way to measure the performance of an economy.
Another is the informal economy, which is notoriously hard to measure: only one Peruvian in three has a legally registered job.
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From a total factor productivity standpoint, a guide post used by economists to measure capital investment in an economy, Brazil grew 1.2 percent over the last 8 years ending 2010, while Mexico grew just 0.1 percent.
And while this report today represents real progress, the benchmark I use to measure the strength of our economy is not just whether our GDP is growing, but whether we're creating jobs, whether families are having an easier time paying their bills, whether our businesses are hiring and doing well.
So the fact that in a global economy a problem in Europe could affect our economy only reminds us and reinforces the fact that we need to take every measure we can on the issues that we control, to ensure that our economy keeps growing and it keeps creating jobs.
The authors have created a measure of the sophistication of an economy based on two criteria.
And - on one measure, at least - our economy is now even more important to Germany than France.
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