Their rhetoric often implies not only that lower tax rates stimulate economic activity and tax revenue and that that higher tax rates depressed economic activity and tax revenue, but they often go further and imply that any change in tax rates would be so powerful as to have Laffer-curve effects.

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Even after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has forced interest rates to record lows, allowing people to refinance their mortgages at cheaper rates, activity remains depressed.

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He places only marginal emphasis on the hit U.S. companies and the domestic economy will take directly from the depressed levels of business activity in struggling Asia.

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In fact, the committee said, new roads might actually drain economic activity from a depressed remote area.

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In one study in 2004 researchers at the University of Toronto used positron emission tomography scanning to track the brain activity of 14 depressed patients who had successfully been treated with CBT, comparing them with 13 patients who got better by taking only Paxil.

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Prices remain 30% below their 2006 peak, according to Case-Shiller, while home sales and house-building activity both remain heavily depressed compared with a decade ago.

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Otherwise, with no deal activity, bond financing remains depressed along with the equity underwriting calendar.

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Dr Miller found that physical activity accounted for about half of the difference in immunity between depressed and normal women.

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