On the basis of the past few years, he thinks the trend rate of productivity growth - and thus the economy's potential growth rate - is lower than we thought before the crisis.
Interest rates could come down as early as the first quarter of 2012, with the new leadership offering up targeted fiscal incentives for small and mid-sized companies to encourage job growth as the economy slows from 10%-plus growth to around 9% next year, according to International Monetary Fund GDP forecasts.
It said the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which sets interest rates and authorises other monetary boosts, such as QE - which involves pumping money into the economy to boost growth - should look at loosening the purse-strings.
That world is one in which so-called carry trades keep passive money chasing growth-economy returns.
At a speech in late August, Chairman Ben Bernanke warned that long-term unemployment could harm the economy's long-run growth prospects, though since then he has done little to help.
While I am optimistic about the prospects for continued growth in the U.S. economy (albeit sub-standard growth from a historical perspective) and for the stock market overall for 2013, I remain concerned that many of the same headline risks that were in place heading out of 2012 may still prove to be headwinds in 2013.
As I said, we've got experts from a wide range of business sectors, and what we're going to talk about is, are there mechanisms that we can start putting in place where we see the kind of growth that used to characterize the U.S. economy -- export-driven growth, manufacturing growth, growth that pays high wages and provides high living standards for a broad-based middle class.
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Mr Greenspan is placing a lot of weight on the recent increase in America's productivity growth, which has helped offset faster wage growth, and may well have raised the economy's long-term growth rate.
Markets react to crises with volatility, and Wall Street loves volatility, especially in a no-growth economy.
After two years of Keynesian and monetarist stimulus on steroids, the anemic recovery from the 2008-09 recession is giving way to a slow-growth economy.
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For income investors, a no-growth economy can be a positive.
For almost anyone selling anything, the Beijing Olympics are a chance to reach 1.3 billion people in an economy with double-digit growth, not to mention billions more watching around the world.
Knowing that the demand for used goods could increase in our slow-growth economy, Sageworks analyzed how this type of retailer (second-hand stores, thrift shops, used good stores, etc.) fares differently from its retailing peers.
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It also says it will steer the economy away from export-led growth towards domestic demand.
One critical reason: Mexico still hobbles its economy with excessive, growth-stifling regulation.
The recent spurt in productivity growth up by 3.6% in the year to the fourth quarter may have increased the economy's long-term growth rate.
With the US economy stalled in a slow-growth mode, stock prices cannot go up forever, noted Alexandra Scaggs last week in the Wall Street Journal.
That represents a decline from a year ago, which is hardly uncommon in the current earnings cycle as a sluggish global economy has made top-line growth challenging.
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The economy is stuck in low-growth, employment in no-growth.
Since then, Japan's economy has suffered stop-start growth and chronic mild deflation, with many companies struggling to rebound from the impact of the Lehman crisis and the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Monday, data showed Americans' incomes picked up during December, but that more people chose to increase saving instead of spending, a sign the U.S. economy could remain in slow-growth mode this year.
So, kickstarting the economy into long-term sustained growth with pro-growth tax policy, reduced government waste and other economic incentives will generate more revenue than will increasing capital gains taxes, which would discourage such economic growth.
But the Japanese seem more than willing to continue forgoing some economic efficiency to attain key social and political objectives -- an economy with reasonable growth that provides high wages, stable jobs and a sense of community.
Although the UK is not a member of the single currency, 40% of its trade is with the eurozone and Mr Osborne said there were signs the continuing uncertainty was having a direct effect on the UK economy - which has seen sluggish growth.
The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde said emerging economies - whose growth helped support the world economy during the global crisis - are starting to be affected by weaknesses in the advanced economies.
No serious student of science technology can be anything but bullish about the long-term prospects for profit and growth in the ingenuity-driven economy.
"Now, it might be in their country of origin if the country of origin has a growing economy -- for instance, think of Angola where there is growth, " he adds.
But we can say that - on borrowing, growth, and the rebalancing of the economy - the coalition has fallen far short of its hopes.
From 1967 through 1987 - when through their violent uprising they decided to cut their economy off from Israel's - Palestinian economic growth in Gaza, Judea and Samaria rose by double digits every year.
Likewise, debt-fueled spending risks over-stimulating the economy in the short-term at the cost of future growth, not to mention that it incentivizes the government to keep interest rates low (as high rates worsen the debt burden).
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