Accommodative monetary policy in developed economies and an extended low-rate environment will both pump up demand for gold and reduce the opportunity cost of holding it as an investment, reads the note.

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The price Pakistanis now pay at the petrol pump is more or less the market rate, Mr Khan says.

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The brakes will pulsate as necessary (and at a faster rate than you could ever pump them yourself) to keep the vehicle from losing traction.

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True, immigration can help, but, all things being equal, increasing the birth rate is the best way to pump really large numbers of young, reasonably healthy people into the economy.

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Whatever his differences with Mr Daim and rumours of a rift began circulating a year ago Dr Mahathir has given no hint that he might question parts of Malaysia's macroeconomic game-plan, such as its fixed exchange rate or its effort to prime the fiscal pump.

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Despite several rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, and additional efforts by the central bank to pump cash into the banking system to ease the credit crunch, banks are still finding the need to raise additional capital by either slashing their dividend, as National City Corp. did last week, or selling stakes to outside investors.

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Despite several rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, and additional efforts by the central bank to pump cash into the banking system to ease the credit crunch, banks are still finding the need to raise additional capital by either slashing their dividend, as National City Corp. (nyse: NCC - news - people ) did last week, or selling stakes to outside investors.

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Rising oil prices push up the rate of consumer-price inflation not just because people are paying more for petrol at the pump, but because companies must pay more to make and transport the goods they sell.

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