That makes sense, since consumer spending accounts for 70% of the economy, and houses and cars are the largest purchases consumers make.
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We are also targeting the tools of gang crime by banning armoured vehicles and body armour and seizing gangsters' houses and cars.
Despite the misleading personal savings rate (negative because it arbitrarily excludes gains from income), the U.S. has more household financial savings than the rest of the world combined, an even bigger lead if tangible assets like houses and cars are counted.
"Every day when I go to school, to college, I see dead bodies on the street and ... destroyed houses and burnt cars and things like that, " Adel says.
They live in big houses and drive cars about twice as big as they need to be.
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Some posted cartoons mocking Leung, who is backed by Beijing but widely unpopular, and circulated a satirical photo-montage joking that donations would be spent on prostitutes, shopping trips and expensive cars and houses for Communist Party bureaucrats.
Politicians literally disappeared, whisked off to unknown safe houses in cars and helicopters.
Since late 2008, the prices (in dollars) of commodities like gold, oil, corn and wheat have skyrocketed, while the market values of things like houses, cars, and labor (wages) have experienced relentless downward pressure (especially in real terms).
Considering billionaire Peter Thiel and his visionary willingness to fund it over yachts, cars and houses, we should all say thank goodness.
They have good houses and some even have cars - how many farmers do you know that have cars?
Less money, smaller houses, smaller cars and smaller dreams.
Borrowing to buy cars and houses, and the use of credit cards, have leapt.
Brazil is a cash-based society where people pay in cash for big stuff, like cars and houses.
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More of everything cash, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, houses, cars, collectibles and other belongings.
They buy their children cars and houses if they are just starting out.
As their wages soared, they bought cars, houses and trailer homes and many airplane tickets to visit family south of the border.
Most recessions end as companies clear excess inventories and as households, with a boost from lower interest rates, release pent-up demand for cars and houses.
The Colombo press has been full of allegations that the government was offering bribes of cash, cars and houses to opposition members who would vote for the bill.
As consumer deleveraging continues, big ticket items that fuel economic expansions, like cars and houses, are facing lower demand. (Read No Recovery Possible While U.S. Consumer Continues Deleveraging).
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And despite recent surveys showing a decline in consumer confidence, there are plenty of signs that consumers are still spending on cars and houses, as well as on smaller items.
Since rising prices would mean money spent now will go further than later, the government hopes to get Japanese to step up spending, especially for big ticket items like cars and houses.
"The item that caused the explosion was put under a 4x4 vehicle and it damaged two to three cars and smashed glass in two houses, " Mr Hughes said.
Compared with previous generations, today's younger techies are less interested in owning cars and big houses.
They are older and their houses are paid down or paid off, as are their cars and the boats.
The existing law aims to make California's cars, trucks, houses and appliances more efficient, and to foster green industries.
Company directors and staff had words such as puppy killer, murderer and scum daubed on their houses, cars or on the roads nearby.
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They loan most of it out for people to buy cars, houses, start businesses and the like.
Today, boarded-up houses, graffiti, burned-out cars and a huge crime and anti-social behaviour problem have been replaced with sport's centres and libraries youth clubs.
This will affect the sale of cars, houses, personal computers and other goods, Ballmer said, and will take a long time to work out of.
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