And because nobody makes money just for the mere sake of making money, a consumption first policy is simply trading consumption in the future with compounded effect for consumption today with compounded debt.
Equally important, it is not clear how much of an effect a one-off rebate will have on consumption, or how quickly that effect will come through.
Lower consumption nowadays has an effect of making people feel good about environment consciousness.
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Under these conditions, climate control combined with higher-speed driving produces increased energy consumption, hence the effect on range.
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However, studies of the stockmarket crashes of 1929 and 1987 found they had a much smaller effect on consumption than might have been expected.
Moreover, the resumption in deep water drilling has the immediate effect of increasing consumption.
Raise the cost and the effect, in reducing consumption and boosting conservation, would be dramatic.
From those numbers calculated above we can see that this would have quite a large effect on the gas consumption of the fleet.
And a study published by three finance professors from Harvard, Stanford, and New York University confirms investors actually behave this way ( The Effect of Dividends on Consumption).
In any event, the evidence is that consumption smoothing does not neutralise the stimulus effect of tax cuts.
Private equity doesn't often show up on the to-do lists economists propose for Beijing as leaders trying to effect a transition to domestic consumption.
It is estimated that efficient white light LEDs, if successfully developed and widely implemented, could have a massive effect on reducing global energy consumption and C02 emissions.
According to Dr Jones there are no benefit of devolving more powers without having a debate about cutting down on carbon consumption as this would have a considerable effect on current supplies.
They would ensure that millions of people in effect paid tax only on their consumption.
For what we really want to know is what is the effect of the price change upon consumption?
They rarely take physical delivery of raw materials and have no effect on the actual production and consumption of metal, grain or oil.
"The past two years have shown that no economy is insulated from a major financial crisis, especially one that has a direct effect on U.S. consumption, " Lowlicht says.
The most fruitful reform, notes Lardy, would be to end financial repression by liberalizing interest rates, which would increase real rates on deposits, thereby decreasing saving if the income effect is strong, and increasing consumption.
"Given the increase in sweet beverage consumption in Europe, clear messages on its deleterious effect on health should be given to the population, " Dr Romaguera and colleagues conclude in their research paper.
One would allow an unlimited exemption for saving, in effect turning the current income tax into a consumption tax.
Private consumption is picking up and will continue as the wealth effect of a stock-market bull run kicks in.
The British are, quite simply, immature in their attitude to alcohol consumption and this in itself will have only a marginal effect on rates of offending.
The more likely conclusion is that dropouts in the low sugar group returned to old beverage consumption habits in the interim, thereby muddling the intervention effect on the 18-month results.
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So all of these things will have a cumulative effect to reduce the portion of our energy consumption that comes from foreign sources, and by doing that, reduce the impact of fluctuations in the global oil market on average Americans.
Furthermore, healthcare consumption is not only a cause, but is also an effect of lengthening lifespan.
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Although this plan does less than Mr McCain's to shift taxation from income towards consumption, the reduction of marginal tax rates could have a bigger effect on economic growth.
The effect held good when other possible factors, such as alcohol consumption and physical activity, were taken into consideration.
Some economists have suggested that the wealth effect may be asymmetric: falls in share prices may dampen consumption by more than rising prices boost it.
The fact that those paying higher taxes will reduce their savings somewhat does not fully offset this effect as some of their higher taxes would come out of consumption.
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