Real corporate earnings growth is a function of real economic growth.

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The failure of these startups to kickstart economic growth is mostly a function of size.

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Indeed, economic growth is a very simple function of getting taxes, trade, regulation, and money generally right.

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Real interest rates are basically a function of economic growth and the difference between real rates and nominal rates rooted in inflation calculations.

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In other words, although Anderson saw, as Keynesians did not, that interest rates are a function of economic growth, he also saw, as some modern supply siders do not, that interest rates are not identical to economic growth.

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To them economic growth and low unemployment are simply a function of allegedly wise central planning whereby 4% GDP growth and 5% unemployment can essentially be conceived in a lab.

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So, unless the economy really nose-dives, I suspect the Fed will allow the market system to function normally this time around, allowing economic growth to slow if that is its inclination, and the stock market to adjust to that, without government interference.

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The corporation is in a virtuous cycle of economic growth, whereby success breeds success: the successful execution of one function contributes to the positive execution of other functions.

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Communications technologies of all kinds function as an economic lubricant, reducing friction in the economy and thus accelerating economic growth.

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