From looking at stimulus in physical, operational terms, it is clear that this process cannot increase total demand.
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But just as productivity cannot accelerate indefinitely, so these imbalances cannot increase indefinitely.
These costs could lead to losses for at least the next two years if the company cannot increase the rates substantially.
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As economic policy, this fails because shuffling resources from one group to another cannot increase the aggregate resources available to the community.
Why adopt a new, cheaper technology if you cannot increase your margins?
Practical objections aside, the typical economist or neoliberal will frequently reject this on the basis that you cannot increase their utility by limiting their choices of food types.
He drew on a warning from economists about this economic downturn and said: "Normally a state debt is with its own inhabitants but this time it is international so you cannot increase tax to hit debtors, pensions and demography are against us at this moment in time, and other instances of debt overhang there has not been the same level of personal debt".
Music executives seem to have realised that they cannot continue to increase prices forever, especially when their colleagues in the movie business (who have also been plagued by piracy) are putting out DVDs, with extras like director interviews, at prices that rival music CDs.
While some increase in inflation cannot be ruled out, the more likely outcome will be similar to the U.S. experience.
It may even have made them more widely available, though if half of all households had guns before 1800 the increase in ownership cannot have been all that sharp.
As for the business operators who complain that they cannot afford to handle the increase, when one calculates the small amount of price increase they would have to pass along to customers in order to cover the costs, it is likely that impact will be so minimal as to have no impact.
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But the argument we cannot use is that these behaviours increase the costs of health care.
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Now that voluntarism in Japan is suddenly on the increase, the government cannot resist regulating it.
Without sufficient saving and investment, our stock and quality of capital goods cannot even be maintained, let alone increase.
Eighteen councils along the route which are against the scheme, known as the 51m group, say that taxpayers cannot afford the line and it will increase greenhouse gas emissions.
Our correspondent says Mr Zardari cannot accept any military activities which will increase the mood of anti-Americanism in his country and from his perspective make the fight against militancy more difficult.
By increasing the size of the monetary base (which the Fed controls to the penny), the Fed can increase NGDP, although it cannot control how much of the nominal growth occurs as inflation, and how much shows up as real output.
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"It's just something the city cannot possibly afford" without a dramatic tax increase, he said.
Whatever level is chosen, a minimum wage cannot help the jobless, and might well increase their number.
It offered an increase of 23% which it cannot pay without more subsidy.
Likewise, unless agents in the economy desire an increase in the money supply, it cannot occur.
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Last month, the Financial Ombudsman Service, which mediates in cases where complaints cannot be resolved, said there had been a big increase in the number of complaints.
The Fed has already gone so far with this program that it cannot unwind this huge portfolio of bonds without causing a sharp increase in interest rates and disruption in credit markets.
However, Peto does not address criticisms of his analysis made in two separate editorials in the New England Journal of Medicine, which made more nuanced arguments that an increase in the risk of cancer death from Vytorin cannot be dismissed (see: "Top Statistician Says Vytorin Cancer Risk 'Not Ruled Out'").
Falling prices increase the real burden of debt, and real interest rates cannot be reduced to boost the economy, because interest rates cannot be negative.
The gallery's customers are either avid followers of a certain name who wish to increase their collection, or, conversely, are those who cannot afford a full-size work and this is a creative way of obtaining a piece by a particular artist.
These interventions had effects that cannot be disentangled in our data, but still they do not explain the increase in the lending deposit ratio with respect to domestic banks.
Migrants do not increase America's (low) unemployment figures, partly because they cannot claim welfare.
In my opinion, it was this very level of expressed support for further accommodation that accounted for the dramatic rise in the equity markets during the months of September and October as I cannot point to any other clear economic or market signals that would support such an increase.
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While the increase in tiger numbers is good news, say environmentalists, they warn India cannot get complacent.
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