This figure is based in part on the thought that big oil companies like ExxonMobil, which recently agreed to buy the natural gas company XTO Energy, will increase investment in recovery technology to squeeze more gas out of huge stateside shale formations.
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Fed, has repeatedly warned that a recovery in business investment will be critical for a sustained economic recovery.
This problem is made in Germany, which lacks the sustained economic recovery and investment sex appeal necessary to attract capital and bolster the battered euro.
What we saw was not a 50 percent reduction, but in fact a 39 percent increase, because investment in wind energy through the Recovery Act fixed the credit market as it related to investment in those long-term energy jobs.
To be sure, there has been some recovery in investment (the blue line), but it has also backtracked and we are a long, long way from the levels that were generating around 4.5% unemployment (the red line) back in early 2007.
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Mr Swinney had written to Chancellor George Osborne calling on the UK government to provide an immediate targeted boost to capital investment to protect the recovery in the short term and provide the infrastructure necessary to facilitate long term economic growth.
Rather than spur recovery by welcoming investment and rewarding production, Washington steers toward borrowing and spending.
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Mr Obama has previously cited infrastructure spending as the best possible investment to propel an economic recovery.
With so many uncertainties, the Greek economy cannot hope to attract the investment it needs to spur recovery.
The key will be a recovery in private investment which fell by over 4 percent in 2012 according to EIU estimates.
With companies' share prices sharply lower and access to credit markets getting tougher, the omens for a rapid recovery in business investment do not look good.
But, these were offset by the recovery in residential investment and consumer spending on durable goods which was boosted in part by an aging auto fleet feeding new car sales.
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If net trade exports less imports can make a decent contribution to GDP growth in 2011, that should encourage a recovery in business investment, which slumped by almost a fifth last year.
Already, we have made a historic investment in education through the economic recovery plan.
"Continuing capital investment is key to supporting the recovery and to transforming public services, " said the spokesman.
Already, we've made a historic investment in education through the economic recovery plan.
Through the Recovery Act, public investment spurred greater private investment.
But they now realised investment in infrastructure was crucial for economic recovery, he added.
It is lack of confidence in the recovery that is keeping their investment plans on hold - not over-cautious banks.
These included Austost Anstalt Schaan, a Liechtenstein-based investment company that bought a stake in Recovery in 1998, and Arie Rabinowitz of L.H.
We agreed to strengthen the economic recovery and expand trade and investment so we can create jobs for both our peoples -- Americans and Indians.
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Instead, the recovery has been led by investment and consumer spending.
While the investment is not risk free, a recovery in the banking sector could lead to a healthy profit for the government and in turn the taxpayer.
To meet this goal, the Recovery Act included the largest investment in education in history while preventing hundreds of thousands of educators from being fired because of state budget shortfalls.
So the Recovery Act included the largest investment in education by the federal government in history while preventing more than 300, 000 teachers and school workers from being fired because of state budget shortfalls.
We often forget that the 1930s were much less awful for the UK than the US. From 1933 onwards, the Bank managed to deliver a decent recovery, led by private investment - even as UK Treasury was busily ignoring Keynes' advice, trying to balance the budget.
But the financing market for leveraged buyouts is getting squirmy, the music business itself is harder than ever to value, and with new tenanting prospects in double-dip-recession limbo as an ebullient recovery in office-building investment slows, the tower may become part of the collateral damage caused by the shuddering fall of EMI.
But for a sustained recovery, consumer spending and business investment need to take over.
The recovery plan is, in its investment in infrastructure funding, doing both of those things.
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