Or, are oil prices artificially kept high because of a cheap dollar, hedge fund speculation, and political chokeholds on supply?
Economic growth has to be kept high enough to accommodate all those new workers and to meet their rising expectations.
All this accommodation for the market means investor confidence is kept high.
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Interest rates are kept high to prevent currencies entering free fall again.
The standards are high and kept high, the teachers are more 'old school' with proper discipline standards and teacher-pupil relationships rather than pally-pally garbage.
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That would make servicing foreign-currency debts less crippling and might even allow domestic interest rates, which have been kept high to stabilise exchange rates, to drop a bit.
For example, from 1970 to 2010, real GDP annual growth per capita averaged 1.8% and 2.03% in the U.S. and the U.K., both of which dramatically lowered their top tax rates during that period, while it averaged 1.72% and 1.89% in France and Germany, which kept high top tax rates during the period.
This was because price controls kept fares high, and airlines competed for passengers with generous perks.
Still, the error had probably caused interest rates to be kept too high for too long.
After the recessions of the 1970s and early 1980s, Europe's rigid labour-markets kept unemployment high for decades.
Mr Triest concludes that a slow economy in the 1980s kept poverty high.
But those with early tee times had to deal with chilly conditions and sharp, whirling winds, which kept scores high.
Strong global demand, inadequate spare production capacity, and threatened interruptions in the flow of oil from big suppliers Iran and Nigeria kept prices high this week.
And he criticised those firms which kept prices high for millions of existing customers while offering cut-price deals online to attract new business and deter potential competitors from setting up.
The world's largest consumer goods company, whose products like Tide detergent and Gillette razors are in 98 percent of U.S. households, in recent years has lost business to competitors as it grew too fast overseas and kept prices high.
His book series 'The Rats' has kept me on high alert whenever I'm on the tube!!
In the Philippines, privatization has sparked solid economic growth and kept business confidence high.
Cotto kept his hands high but Mayweather was frequently able to penetrate his foe's defenses with his jab.
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Hostess has kept prices relatively high, making it harder to charge even more as costs for ingredients and fuel rose.
Fannie and Freddie have kept their profiles high because of their odd situation: They're not government agencies, but they're not regular corporations either.
One thing that has kept commodity prices high has been the lack of supply to meet a huge growth in demand.
His mother, Nadezhda, says her son has never been violent but is being kept in a high security prison in the eastern city of Mogilev.
He kept his spikes high whenever he slid into a base, a posture that opened opposing fielders to injury, and one of his biographers, Charles C.
The teams kept the tempo high in the second period, and the Jets went ahead 2-1 on Miettinen's first goal of the season in his seventh game.
He notes the influx of foreign buyers and visitors, particularly from Latin American countries like Brazil, have buoyed demand for housing and kept expenses relatively high for residents.
The diamond-encrusted artwork is typically kept in a high-security vault when not on display, though the artist told Wilson he had been discussing the possibility of exhibiting it in both Qatar and Oslo.
One thing you learn from looking at the history of growth is that very dramatic things indeed need to be happening if growth per head is to be kept even as high as 2% in the leading-edge economies.
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