Back in the real economy, the overriding issues right now are jobs and GDP growth.
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This was done to alleviate the country's debt burden and to encourage investments in the real economy.
The question for policymakers, says Mr Kim, is what will generate future growth in the real economy?
Perhaps worst of all, the financial strain in the euro zone is increasingly apparent in the real economy.
Growth in the real economy is also going to continue to disappoint .
Most intriguing, perhaps, he also talked about linking policy explicitly to developments in the real economy: the unemployment rate, for example.
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What ties all of this together is the desperate need for growth in the real economy, and not simply in the money supply.
Everyone knows that healthcare makes up 4.6 percent of the CPI index but a much greater part of spending in the real economy.
Money will slosh in and out, driving underdeveloped local asset markets up and down and affecting the level of demand in the real economy.
The low inflation rate makes the additional monetary stimulus in train now less risky and more likely to make its impetus felt in the real economy.
"I spent most of my life outside of politics, dealing with problems in the real economy, " he told the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in San Antonio.
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In his annual Mansion House speech, Chancellor George Osborne said the stimulus packages would "support the flow of credit to where it is needed in the real economy".
"I will go to Washington using the experience I have in the private sector -- in the real economy -- to strengthen our economy, " the former Massachusetts governor said.
Despite his second-place finish on Tuesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told supporters he will stay in the race, saying America needs someone who has had a job in the real economy.
Although the stronger banks have been able to access markets once more, the sector as a whole still needs more surgery before it can contribute to a recovery in the real economy.
As I suggested, I think the very rapid and sweeping changes we've had in financial markets in recent decades helped prolong the imbalances in the real economy but in a very overall way.
For although violent currency movements would be damaging, because they disrupt companies' investment plans and debt repayments as well as producing sudden shifts in the terms of trade, steadier movements are generally a consequence of something going on in the real economy.
That is because with the lower tax rates, incomes boomed along with the economy, and high income taxpayers had the incentives to pull their money out of tax shelters and invest it in the real economy, fueling the boom while increasing their reported incomes.
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"However, of course, in the real economy we have a very difficult situation in many countries -- high unemployment, low growth -- and we have to use the better sentiment in the markets and restoration of confidence to bolster growth and job creation, " Rehn said.
"Gambling only played about as much of a role in Second Life's economy as it does in the real world economy, " he says.
What's different about this one is it seems to me that the financial system has taken such a huge role in our society, the faults of that system are creeping over in part of the real economy, you know, the manufacturing sector, the consumer sector.
It took only a matter of months for the financial meltdown in 2008 to spread to the real economy, which prompted an overnight crash in international trade volumes, as production orders were terminated, shutting down operations throughout supply chains across the globe.
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Meanwhile, with bank failures on the horizon and the ECB frozen in its trakcs, the real economy is beginning to feel the pinch.
As the troubles in that sector began to spill into the real economy, the government felt it had no choice but to step in, and the bailouts and stimuli began.
In terms of the real economy, the Swiss currency certainly looks over-valued.
They said yes, we see the need for a real appreciation in the economy.
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