Crude oil prices are currently at their highest level since 2008 and are likely to climb higher still over the short, mid and long term horizons, according to the most recent forecast data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).
That's why his budget lays out ways in which we can cut the deficit in the mid to long term, but in the short term take care of some of the problems that we've got in this economic crisis, putting Americans back to work, helping banks get more loans out to small businesses so they can create more jobs, and things like that.
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You're probably right, that we need to focus perhaps on four or five issues that need to be tackled in the, in the near and mid term rather than the long term.
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.
Since the mid-1970s the long-term trend in household saving has been downwards (see chart above).
And then, of course, the long-term or even mid-term effects on the economy would be significant on growth and on job creation.
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.
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.
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.
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%.
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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Past growth figures suggested the Scottish economy had ended that long-term trend, and put Scotland around the mid-point of UK performance.
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.
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.
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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For this reason, we are not recommending long term investors buy the stock unless it were to slip back into the mid twenty dollar range.
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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.
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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