Slashing spending and expecting privatization or competition to pick up the slack is not working.
Natural gas is not picking up the slack and is in short supply.
It thinks the economy has too much slack, not too many slackers.
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Attention all you drivers of SUVs, pilots of cabin-class twins, captains of Cigarette boats: Now is not the time to go slack.
Analysts think strong consumer demand will pick up the slack, but shoppers may not save the economy.
Tim Harvey, senior vice president at ETF Securities, said countries like Russia would not be able to pick up the slack should South Africa supply dwindle near term.
Realistically, however, even an improved state pension would not be enough to take up all the slack left by retreating companies.
If orders are slack, rather than tell workers not to come in tomorrow the factory boss schedules some of them to go to dealerships to do repair work.
If a wimpy greenback meant fewer purchases of foreign products by American consumers, domestic consumption in Europe and Japan might not rise by enough to take up the slack.
The Tax Court did not allow the Patels to be hit with an accuracy related penalty, but I would not count on the Court cutting the same slack in the future.
"Marriage is one of those entities that you have to know going in, it will be hard, but you're not alone, " says Dr. Rozario Slack, speaking to an audience at a couples graduation.
But right now the government is cutting the banks some slack, partly because Project Merlin was not signed until February 9, so for the first 40 days of the quarter the banks were not subject to the agreement and were able to lend as much or as little as they chose.
Western producers of bottled beer picked up the slack, but at prices most people could not afford.
"First of all, because business is pretty slack at the moment, and there is not much point going in and bashing your head against a brick wall, " explained CEBR chief executive Douglas McWilliams.
Inflation is not driven by the rate of growth, but by the amount of slack in the economy.
The appropriate interest rate depends not only on the level of inflation, but also on the amount of slack in the economy.
But the problem is that all the slack in these under-employed workforces means any rise in demand does not necessarily translate into new hiring.
First of all, it wasn't nearly as snappy as we'd have liked it to be, but the phone's not hitting retail for a couple months yet so we'll cut 'em some slack while they're ironing out the final kinks in the firmware.
This is not the best option, but for example Congress could end Medicare entirely, letting Medicaid pick up the slack for the poor.
Despite the widespread slack in the economy, including an almost 10 percent official unemployment rate, money growth has not been overly rapid for the circumstances.
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