And then, of course, the long-term or even mid-term effects on the economy would be significant on growth and on job creation.
Greenspan explains that because lower deficits will restore confidence, diminish the threat of inflation, and allow savings to flow to private-sector investment rather than public-sector consumption, the short-term pain will lead to gains both in the mid- and long-term.
It is likely the reaction this time will be the same -- compensation will rise, but banks in the mid-to-long term won't need to have to pay big basic salaries and slowly businesses that don't need to be in the EU will cease to be.
Mr. Abe is scheduled to release the outlines of his long-term growth plan in mid-June, but announcements from officials about the likely contents have suggested the blueprint will be vague, at best.
Since the mid-1970s the long-term trend in household saving has been downwards (see chart above).
She recommends investors take a look at Kansas City-based American Century Heritage (TWHIX), a mid-cap growth fund with a good long-term record.
Stewart Johnson, a securities analyst with Friedman, Billings, Ramsey, an investment bank, reckons that many of Genworth's lines, including fixed annuities and long-term care plans sold in the mid-1990s, along with a business in Britain that pays bills in the event of unemployment, were returning less than 6%.
Past growth figures suggested the Scottish economy had ended that long-term trend, and put Scotland around the mid-point of UK performance.
The recent ITA report raises the specter of the energy crisis of the mid-1970s to indicate that "major long-term disruptions in fuel supplies can have serious economic implications, " because of the reliance of various regions on each other.
The report also cited the strong monthly dividend history at Retrocom Mid-Market Real Estate Investment Trust, and favorable long-term multi-year growth rates in key fundamental data points.
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On Tuesday, he said the Fed would consider extending its direct lending window to Wall Street companies (aka, primary dealers typically not allowed to borrow directly from the Fed) beyond a mid-September deadline to promote stability, as long as short-term debt markets continue to be severely constrained by the credit crisis.
The Mets, at the peak of their popularity in the mid-1980s, made the mistake of locking into a long-term cable agreement that cut them off from the escalating rights fees of the 1990s.
The daily RS line failed to move above the long-term downtrend (line c), and dropped below its WMA in mid-August.
Long-term mutual funds reported net outflows for 23 consecutive weeks from May to mid-October of this year, but those flows have finally reversed as investors position themselves for a second round of quantitative easing.
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The CBO's latest Long-Term Outlook in June estimated that total tax revenues would have to double by mid-century in order to finance our current spending path.
Hopefully, voters got it right in the mid-term elections, that we are now in one of those long benign periods of financial stability when gridlock is preferable, when government will not need the ability to make quick and decisive responses to unexpected developments.
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Two ideas are on the table: commit to keep short-term interest rates near zero for even longer than through mid-2013, and restart a bond-buying program aimed at driving already-low long-term interest rates lower.
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