Hiring can boost consumer spending, which accounts for a large chunk of U.S. economic output, so if private sector employers start to regularly add more than 200, 000 workers each month this spring, as Shepherdson expects, it would bode well for a pickup in growth.
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But the only way the transition to clean energy will ultimately succeed is if the private sector is fully invested in this future -- if capital comes off the sidelines and the ingenuity of our entrepreneurs is unleashed.
Of course, both are necessary if the private sector is truly going to expand employment.
If the private sector rebounds of its own accord, unemployment will fall and budget deficits will decline.
If the private sector is part of the solution, how do we get information from the federal government?
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At first sight, it looks as if the private sector is gouging consumers.
If the private sector does not meet certain cost-cutting targets in, say, five years, a public-sector plan should automatically kick in.
That objective may be thwarted if the private sector becomes too concentrated.
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If the private sector are beginning to lead, and have the greatest capacity to make change happen, that at least is a good sign.
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If the private sector suffers, the public sector may be forced to step in and assume, or guarantee, the debt, as happened in 2008.
If the private sector could provide mass higher education, they would.
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Since most of the cost of space travel is the launch, the price might come down even more if the private sector can lower the costs of getting into orbit.
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Obviously, if the private sector does not begin adding a meaningful number of jobs, expect the unemployment number to remain high and possibly rise in the second half of 2010, just in time for the November elections.
If the private sector is accepting a 21% reduction in the net present value of their Greek holdings, in exchange for longer term bonds from a country that is now able to service to its debt, that would be a pretty good deal for the banks.
Sometimes commentators talk about the public and private sector as if they are completely different worlds but I've been to a private company that works largely for the public sector - in particular in education and health.
These projects also provide jobs, so they are unlikely to slow even if the overall local private sector economy is slowing.
"You see, in the private sector if you don't change and improve, you go out of business, " Romney told the crowd.
These measures would not be needed if governments followed private-sector accounting rules.
That means Infy will have to settle for lower margins in the private sector if it is to gain any market sector on Tata and Wipro in the months ahead.
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The forecasts, if you look at private sector forecasts, are for fairly moderate growth, perhaps not strong enough to bring down unemployment without the extension of the payroll tax cut, which is why the President proposed extending it and expanding it.
But if sky-high private-sector debt is holding the economy back, what is the solution?
Regulated rewards must therefore match the risks if we are to maximize private sector investment.
This is true even if you are in the private sector, since those government employees bought groceries, paid rent, went to the mall, etc.
This will indeed accomplish our goal over time if, and only if, across the entire private sector institutions and individuals alike reset goals and values.
In August, Prime Minister David Cameron suggested tenants in England should get fixed-term contracts and be encouraged to move into the private housing sector if their finances improve.
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They lend to a Government on the backs of a vibrant private sector, if the Borrower nation can prove (a) a viable and stable political environment, and (b) a fairly predictable, and sustainable tax base.
The Keynesian story goes like this- if there is collapse in private sector demand due to a failure of business confidence or some other economic shock, then rather than suffer unemployment and all the other negative consequences of recession it is possible for government through public spending to replace the lost demand and steer the economy back to full employment.
In the middle ranks, outside hotspots such as London, the south-east and Bristol, the rewards are often not out of line with those for comparable private-sector jobs, if pensions, benefits and holidays are all added in, and have recently been rising in relative terms as private-sector pay has stalled.
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This is not a problem that the private sector would solve if left to its own devices.
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