The NIC suggests that by 2030, Asia will have more "overall power" than the US and Europe combined - taking into account population size, gross domestic product (GDP), military spending and investment in technology.
At a time of economic crisis, their finding resonates - economic growth slows dramatically when the size of a country's debt rises above 90% of Gross Domestic Product, the overall size of the economy.
The amount that you are able to subtract from your adjusted gross income increases with family size.
Barclays said the size of the gross shorts in gold in the legacy report is the largest since 2005, and HSBC said considering that the gold short positions are historically high, any short covering may help boost prices.
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Louis examined gross and net job creation by firm size from 1992-2010.
Recognizing cultural differences among countries, Gross does not advocate a one-size-fits all policy.
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In the old days, you simply looked at the size of an agency, gross revenue and estimated backwards about its ability to take on a big new client.
In copper, managed-money accounts stayed net-short for a second week in a row, but reduced the size of their position by adding gross longs and cutting shorts.
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They don't consider deficits of that size (3.6% of gross domestic product) a problem, particularly if they're financing pro-growth tax cuts.
By late 2007, the notional value of outstanding credit-default swaps was about sixty trillion dollars more than four times the size of the U.S. gross domestic product.
At the target, it stimulates approximately 1 cubic centimeter of brain tissue, "about the size of a pea, " according to Gross.
Although there are ISDA rules to cover such events, the sheer size of Lehman in the market (its gross derivatives positions will be hundreds of billions of dollars) makes this default a severe test.
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To put that into context - it is more than a quarter of the total GDP (gross domestic product) for the whole world - about the size of the US and Japanese economies combined.
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis, the official arbiter of the size of the U.S. economy, reported on Wednesday that real gross domestic product decreased at an annual rate of 6.1% in the first three months of 2009.
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