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He recently eliminated the job of marketing director, a role with a six-figure salary, and plans to double ad-word spending this year.
The other major obstacle would be a double-dip in IT spending.
In fact, in the first quarter, the growth in e-commerce spending was roughly double that observed at offline retail.
Dell recognized that business IT spending was off but he decided double-down on business customers.
When a recession comes, the economy takes a double hit as banks fail and credit-fueled consumer spending collapses.
Digital Advertising is rapidly increasing its market share from 14.0% in 2010 to 17.9% in 2013 globally. eMarketer projects a 10.5% increase in US online spending in 2011, followed by double-digit growth every year through 2014.
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The CBO's latest Long-Term Outlook in June estimated that total tax revenues would have to double by mid-century in order to finance our current spending path.
As the output slump sends Germany's jobless rate towards double-digits, it is hard to see consumers going on a spending spree.
The challenge is building as much influence as possible over what people are saying about you, a concern that has U.S. companies now putting a third of their online budgets into their own sites, double what they spend on search-engine marketing, says ad-spending research group Outsell.
It shows not only that 49% of American households now depend on government, more than double the rate of the 1980s, but that spending on dependence-oriented programs, as a portion of all federal spending, increased from 28% in 1962 to 49% in 1990, and 71% in 2010.
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He added that if the government cuts public spending too aggressively it could send the UK into a double-dip recession.
In an article published in the Financial Times newspaper, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, warned governments that they must balance spending cuts with measures to support growth to avoid the risk of a double-dip recession.
Business capital spending, which fell off a cliff in 2000, is now expanding at double-digit rates.
First some gory details about entitlement spending: As the 78 million baby boomers begin retiring over the next few years, under business-as-usual scenarios, spending on their Social Security and health care will more than double by 2050 to about 18% of the GDP.
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He said health spending should double as a proportion of GDP between 2003 and 2013 and that by the mid-2020s the cost, as a proportion of GDP, would vary between 12.5% and 10.6%.
Many investors fear a double-dip recession, as the debt problems in Europe and huge budget deficits in the U.S. stifle spending and growth.
With the fiscal cliff and its double whammy of expiring tax breaks and spending cuts, this has to go down as one of the strangest year-ends on record.
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