Instead they have been used to bail out risk-takers who took very bad risks, increasing our collective debt and deficits at the expense of long-term productive economic capacity.
Less profit means less economic capacity to invest risk capital?
The capacity for anyone, even those with an average income, to fund economic growth and the capacity of more people to circumvent the gatekeeper.
FORBES: Are We On The Verge Of The Greatest Entrepreneurship Bubble Ever?
When this policy tries to push economic output beyond its capacity, then inflation emerges.
Gordon which puts forward the hypothesis that humanity is running out of capacity for economic growth and that we need to prepare for great stagnation.
The program also contributed to a major expansion of new wind power capacity in 2009, despite the economic crisis underway. 10, 000 MW of new wind power capacity, more than double the capacity forecast at the start that year, came online in 2009.
FORBES: Critics of Clean Energy Stimulus Program Miss The Point
He also acknowledged a "growing conflict between downward pressure on economic growth and excess production capacity".
David Rosenberg, the former Merrill Lynch economist, now with the Canadian firm Gluskin Sheff, has argued that the run up in commodity prices is not a forerunner of a generalized inflation because incomes are not rising and there is huge excess capacity in the economic system, as indicated by high levels of unemployment.
In short, Bernanke believed and still believes that inflation results from too much economic growth thanks to labor and capacity shortages.
But there are question marks over whether the public-sector sort has the same entrepreneurial drive, political impact or capacity to sustain high economic growth over time.
Its galloping GDP growth, 8.8% in both 2003 and 2004, owes a lot to high soyabean prices and the use of capacity left idle by the economic collapse in 2001-02.
China is boosting its military capacity and increasing its diplomatic and economic reach into Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
However, in the current weak economic climate, firms with lots of spare capacity find it hard to pass on costs, so rising labour costs are more likely to squeeze profits than to push up inflation.
The results of these efforts are that nature's fury may not be subdued, but the cost in terms of human lives and economic devastation can be substantially reduced and our capacity to rebuild afterward significantly enhanced.
UNESCO: Let's be prepared for tsunami threat in Caribbean, Gulf
Sullivan continues to explain how headcount freezes can negatively impact revenue and cripple the future sustainability of a corporation by reducing its capacity to innovate (see The Economic Downturn Means That Hiring Freezes Will Soon Decimate Recruiting).
From an economic point of view, it gives us more capacity and is more cost effective.
Enabling greater access to higher education and increasing capacity are critical objectives in the current economic crisis.
The fact is, both companies and consumers have the financial capacity to fuel an even more vigorous economic expansion.
The current strain shows that the electric power system is at capacity even though there has been little economic growth.
James Bullard warned earlier that despite global catastrophes the Fed might not have the capacity to leave the engine idling while economic gauges heated up.
FORBES: Rosy Jobs Report, Hawkish Sounding Fed Put Bonds On Defensive
Also gaining from falling natural gas prices will be primary metals, a sector that slumped early in 2012 with the weakening global economic growth rate as well as increases in production capacity abroad.
FORBES: Manufacturing Forecast and Executive Agenda for 2013
U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook retail sales reports, the consumer price index, real earnings, new residential construction, industrial production and capacity utilization, and the IMF world economic outlook.
This has, in turn, not only perpetuated their marginalisation from leadership positions at community and national levels but has also led to the feminisation of poverty as women have restricted capacity to compete with men in the economic sphere.
But this Economic Revolution also brings more opportunity and more wealth creation capacity than anything any living human being has ever experienced.
The Scottish Chambers of Commerce said it firmly believed the plans were "misguided" and would damage the capacity of town centres to adapt to changing economic and social trends.
Kerkorian regards Ford stock as undervalued, and he may in fact buy more of it, Healy said, hedging that the American auto industry will pass through the current economic situation and that Ford will survive it in some capacity.
The current attack on cartels comes at a time when the temptation to strike cosy deals with competitors is stronger than ever, as pricing power remains weak and excess capacity abounds in the wake of the global economic slowdown.
And what has made it possible to harness the incredible productive capacity of the American people -- the greatest economic force in the history of the world -- has been a free market where people can pursue their dreams, their goals and their happiness, and where you can take charge of your own destiny.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Addresses Business and Tourism Leaders
应用推荐