In the short run, reducing government spending (in the U.S. at local, state, and federal levels) is deflationary in the short run.
And remember, if you reduce government spending, in the short run that is a drag on the economy, so you are guaranteeing slower growth in the short run.
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Responding to a customer slows down the workers doing their immediate work, adding to the costs of getting their job done, and in short run, making them less efficient, and thus possibly making less money for shareholders.
And I think that as we strengthen the economy in the short run, we need to do two things at once: We need to strengthen the economy in the short run, and we need to return to a fiscally sustainable path.
My hunch is the benefits will be overestimated in the short run but underestimated in the long run.
Moreover, the decrease in employment will be greater in the long run than in the short run, as employers shift to labor-saving methods of production.
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As a country we need to do four things: We need to stimulate in the short run, cut in the long run, tax to raise revenues, and invest for the future.
Interestingly, while Argentina faces an energy crisis, experts think that fuel-oil imported from Venezuela cannot resolve the Argentinean energy problem in the long run and scarcely in the short run.16 It seems Kirchner has become an ally of Hugo Chavez because he feels that he represents a new spirit in Latin America.
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Either the caps will be repositioned (Congress is well known for its ability to provide extra spending in the short run in return for eschewing future profligacy), or they will be avoided by accounting gimmicks.
As in cases of predatory pricing, when a big firm slashes prices to unprofitable levels in the hope of recouping its losses and more once weaker rivals are driven from the market, revenue is sacrificed in the short run in the hope of dividends later.
In this era of global conflict, such penny-foolish-and-pound-reckless measures could prove not only to be harmful in the short run, but possibly disastrous in the long run.
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In the short run this meant sacrifices, but in the long run it worked out almost magically.
Yet each firm has sunk so much capital in plants that it is strongly tempted to use the capacity to build extra cars that fetch enough revenue to cover marginal costs in the short run, but not total costs in the long run.
There is abundant evidence that a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage leads to a 1 to 3 percent decrease in employment of low-skilled workers (using teens as a proxy) in the short run, and to a larger decrease in the long run, along with rising unemployment.
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So in the long run the economy suffers terribly, but in the short run, it may look very good.
In the short run, prices can go anywhere, but in the long run they are inevitably driven by rental values.
Further, it is assumed that bonds are relatively safer than stocks in the short run, but stocks outperform relative to bonds in the long-run.
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That positive long-term news is partially offset in the short run by shifts in the production landscape, where the rapid advances and lower costs achieved by some firms have outflanked many others.
It is often said that the stock market in the short run is a voting machine and a weighing machine in the long run.
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And cutting the budget, while essential in the long run, is only going to hurt the economy in the short run.
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In the short run, perhaps, in that it reduces demand for simple dentistry.
With their borrowing costs largely locked in for several years at fixed rates, they were little affected in the short run by the rise in rates.
Many see that as both good and bad news--good news for investors in the short run, since it raises the dividend yield, but bad news in the long run, since it means Lennar sees less likelihood that it will need the cash it paid in dividends to finance the building of more new homes.
However, they do provide an incentive to boost the share price in the short run, which may not be in the company's best long-term interest.
All I can tell you is, I think at this point the right fiscal path for the country is to try to support the economy in the short run, and to do it in a fiscally responsible way, which is over a period of, say, a 10-year window -- which is common -- to have it be paid for.
"Saving lives in the short run by making it harder for people to die when they make an attempt saves lives in the long run, " Miller said.
In the short run, officials hope that more students in school will help ease unemployment burdens.
In the short run, however, a continued recovery in neighbouring economies offers greater hope of a turnaround.
Given the fallout in the solar panel industry, in the short run, the bigger alternative investment opportunity in energy may be energy efficiency, according to Orts.
Slower growth in the short run might therefore be balanced by faster growth in the long term.
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