Precision is unlikely, but at least money needs some growth to prevent a drag on real growth.
But the relatively low average selling price that fuels volume growth also promises to put a drag on overall revenue growth for several years.
Tightening policy would act as a further drag on growth, possibly threatening the recovery.
And then, after the housing bust and high-tech job losses, it became a major drag on growth.
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Instead, they become forced to retrench and adopt austerity measures which tend to drag on growth further, prolonging recession.
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The main reason is that the City historically the dynamo of the London economy will act as a drag on growth.
Governments are big in Europe mainly due to high social transfers, and big governments are a drag on growth.
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Probably the biggest drag on growth is the mammoth overhang of defaulted debt, which restricts both lenders and borrowers.
After two years of stimulus, federal government spending has now joined state and local budgets as a drag on growth.
The result is a net drag on growth, as the private economy spends money more productively and efficiently than the government.
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Michael Dicks, an economist at Lehman Brothers, points out that a slowing economy will start to drag earnings growth down next year.
Bracelin figures HP's U.S. retail PC sales will sink by 7%, a drop that will drag sales growth down for HP's entire PC business.
Some government spending can be useful aircraft carriers to win the Cold War or new roads but overall it tends to be a net drag on growth.
Despite improvements in life expectancy and literacy, the current economic growth rate will not drag the average Ghanaian out of poverty for another 30 years.
In fact, given the austerity programs that many countries have been forced to implement, reduced government spending will be a drag on growth for the next few years.
And looking at the recent PMIs from countries like China, and everyone can see that demand is weak and likely to remain a drag on growth into the fourth quarter.
While these policies - clamping down on loans, currency appreciation and interest rate rises - have been effective inflation fighting tactics, they have proven to be a drag on growth for the corporate sector.
What is important is that, despite the protestations of the pension funds, the scale of the UK national debt - and many others - is still large and growing, and exerts a drag on growth in most economic models.
While the housing drag on growth seems to be abating, and job growth seems to have steadied (although without growing family income), both areas are doing so at levels that are unlikely to propel the economy at a much faster pace.
Even so, UBS, a bank, forecasts that in 2009 net exports will be a negative drag on GDP growth.
And while it could be introduced gradually, let there be no mistake that it will be a drag on economic growth.
And even a small drag on economic growth will be more detrimental than losing this tax as a source of federal revenue.
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If so, China's trade surplus will shrink in 2009 and, for the first time in years, become a drag on GDP growth.
High foreclosure rates and a weak labor market, coupled with inherent real estate market weakness, will remain a drag on economic growth going forward.
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Pharmaceutical companies often argue that non-pharmaceutical businesses drag on earnings growth and distract the company from the incredibly lucrative business of developing new drugs.
If there were a serious deflationary slowdown, that would certainly make life trickier for banks, especially if it were to drag down economic growth.
Austerity is a drag on economic growth, which cuts tax revenues.
Lack of access to water and sanitation is a major drag on economic growth and costs countries in sub-Saharan Africa around 5% of their GDP each year.
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Housing slowdowns drag down GDP growth in two ways: by slamming the brakes on the construction industry, and by making consumers feel poorer so they spend less.
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