For example, every dollar of GDP generated in Chile's capital, Santiago, requires 60% more energy than a dollar of GDP generated in (much colder) Helsinki in Finland.
U.S. corporate profits (which are expressed in nominal terms) have tended to rise and fall at about twice the rate of world nominal dollar GDP, suggesting double-digit profit growth again in 2006.
Using energy intensity as a measure, the U.S. is using slightly more than 9, 000 BTUs per dollar of GDP.
Ukraine uses 138, 000 BTUs of energy for every dollar of GDP--roughly 30 times the level of consumption in Japan.
The Turkish lira is slipping against the dollar, GDP is expected to shrink this year and unemployment is rising.
Rich economies now use half as much oil per real dollar of GDP as they did in the early 1970s.
Short-term interest rates of 2% are consistent with money demand of about 10 cents of base money per dollar of GDP.
Developed countries use half as much oil per real dollar of GDP as in the mid-1970s, thanks to improved energy efficiency.
Mr Hu says that China will go further in the coming years, by trying to cut the carbon emissions per dollar of GDP produced, for example by developing renewable and nuclear energy.
Because the only way we are going to solve our long-term fiscal challenges when it comes to programs like Medicare and Medicaid is to improve productivity, so that we can get more healthcare for every dollar of GDP that we spend on it.
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Multipliers embody the Keynesian belief that each dollar of additional government spending will produce more than a dollar of additional GDP.
Rising debt may reduce the value of the dollar, drive inflation, significantly reduce GDP growth, reduce innovation, and increase the risk of sudden fiscal crisis (collapse).
What has happened is that an increasingly uncompetitive corporate tax rate has suppressed nonresidential investment as a percent of GDP, and our unstable dollar has caused much capital investment to be misdirected and wasted.
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China's economy is the world's seventh largest, bigger than Canada's and Russia's, with a GDP climbing toward the trillion-dollar level.
GDP, profit margins, the dollar and oil pricing are pivotal elements.
Moreover, during the 2000-2007 expansion, the 10% increase in industrial production was a full 8 percentage points less than the expansion in real GDP, indicating that the falling dollar destroyed rather than increased manufacturing jobs.
That is in dollar terms, but even as a percentage of GDP, US government spending has been at its highest levels since World War II.
GDP, so pegging its currency to the dollar, in which most of that trade is denominated, makes some sense.
Since the abandonment of Bretton Woods, the dollar has lost 77% of its value against the GDP deflator and 97% of its value relative to gold.
The US GDP data was definitely not favorable to either the dollar or to risk appetite and as a result there was some safe haven buying present in the yen.
The megacity contributes to over 20% of the country's GDP and is also home to a multi-billion dollar informal economy.
One of the things you never heard was anybody in this room -- meaning me -- say that this was going to be a dollar for dollar -- that dollar for dollar we were going to meet the downturn in overall loss of GDP.
The weaker dollar helps explain why the trade deficit has shrunk from 6% of GDP in 2006 to about 4% today.
GDP, America remains dangerously reliant on foreigners' willingness to buy dollar assets.
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And since a large slice of Brazilian debt is indexed to the dollar, it could also raise the percentage of debt as a share of GDP.
Because GDP expansion is driven by long-term capital investment, a fiat dollar retards real economic growth.
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One factor that has somewhat been overlooked though, and could dampen momentum for the dollar was the mixed report from the International Monetary Fund regarding their outlook for global GDP.
The Tax Foundation estimates for each dollar in additional tax Washington hopes to collect under this deal, we might expect eight fewer dollars in GDP.
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