For silver prices to remain supported as the supply increases, it will be important for investment demand to fill any gap that otherwise might exist between output and fabrication demand, Newman said.

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This, of course, still understates the ultimate economic burden of education, its "opportunity cost"--the output that could otherwise be generated by those in school.

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As the ONS points out, cheaper labour is an incentive for bosses to use labour where otherwise investment in capital could boost output.

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Jobs versus output is a different story: Regulations that make it more expensive to create output that could have otherwise been created with less input must impact either existing jobs somewhere in the economy, or job creation and growth down the line.

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Otherwise, the current boxes have 1080p output, more than 700 channels, and a Bluetooth gaming remote on the high-end units.

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The result could be 3.2 percent lower output by 2015 in these economies than would otherwise be the case.

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Developing countries that open their stock markets to foreign investors reap big benefits: output per worker grows by 2.3 percentage points faster than it would have done otherwise.

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