Surely this has implications for the currency and long-term consumption?
The second reason why significant oil consumption will continue long-term is that viable and economically-sensible alternatives have yet to emerge.
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He sees a scalable, long-term growth story based on the rising consumption of fast food, strong brands that cater to local tastes, a dominant market position at home, strong cash flow and strong management.
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Using energy to make solar cells is, accordingly, speculative, not a long term means of reducing consumption of non-renewable fuels.
Not only does sugar give you a quick rush while taking away your long-term energy, it also tends to increase your calorie consumption (ie: appetite).
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.
Long-term follow-up suggests a significant interaction between sugary beverage consumption and both the composite genetic predisposition and BMI itself.
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For all the familiar signs of British economic frailty that are now making headlines, such as demand driven by consumption rather than investment, the biggest long-term worry is a different one: whether productivity growth, troublingly weak in the past few years, can revive.
And consumption as a percentage of GDP is on a long-term decline.
The long-term growth fundamentals for the global energy sector are strong as per capita energy consumption levels in developing and under-developed economies are significantly lower than those in developed economies.
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For low long-term interest rates, by holding up the bubbly property market, are underpinning American consumption and growth.
Most analysts have forecast a long-term rise in personal savings in the U.S. as well as depressed consumption and slower growth because of it.
Meanwhile, central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan says the country should "sacrifice" short-term growth for long-term economic change to rebalance the economy away from a reliance on exports and toward more domestic consumption.
Meanwhile, central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan says the country should "sacrifice" short-term growth for long-term economic reform to rebalance the economy away from a reliance on exports and toward more domestic consumption.
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