Bell says he's seen a real increase in productivity from having fast access to information.
Obama has increased debt levels with an explosion in government expenditures without any real increase in GDP.
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Sceptics argue that the pick-up simply reflects a temporary boost from rebuilding inventory, with no real increase in demand.
In law and order it means a 25% real increase in police funding since 1999, and police numbers up 11, 000.
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Third, it will cause a real increase in free household cash flow.
She said the unions believed the 12.6% offer represented a real increase of less than 11%, and members had "overwhelmingly endorsed" their approach to the dispute.
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Cleveland's voucher scheme has led to the founding of new schools, free from the dead hand of school-board bureaucracy, offering poor families a real increase in choice (see article).
According to the Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New York in Albany, the adjusted real increase was just over 2% in the past six months (see chart 2).
Using this new lower spending base for 2010-11 and applying the official Treasury deflators, spending will be back just above the 2009-10 level in 2014-15 - but by only a 0.1% real increase.
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Even if we assume that public education is wonderful, can you think like a factory owner for a moment and explain what value we have derived from a 57 percent real increase in federal education spending since 2000?
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But if the power of the grey vote secures a big one-off real increase in the basic pension before an election, pensioners are unlikely to stop there, and allow the subsequent erosion of its value through the resumption of the link with prices.
In addition, a real increase in job numbers would reduce the amount of government spending that goes to people who are hard hit by the economic downturn, resulting in a built-in reduction in spending that is passively targeted at those who will no longer need or receive government assistance.
The net result would be increased revenue, either from high earners who simply desired to keep their tax breaks in their coffers or, hopefully from a real increase in job creation that will lead to a wider pool of tax payers who will increase revenue by the weight of their numbers.
True, small nominal pay rises will still give a real pay increase if inflation is lower.
The real annual increase in pump prices has averaged only 1.5% over the past three years .
The Scottish Government's draft budget, published in September, saw a real terms increase of 2.1% in university resource budgets.
The real wage increase is actually stunning, more than 22.1% in 2006.
"We had a real unexpected increase in business, " Ms. Leary said.
The estimate is derived from the trend line shown in Exhibit 3.(4) Subtracting a 3.0% inflation rate would net a respectable 5.92% annual rate of real wealth increase.
Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon's amendment, which said there had been a real terms increase in the NHS budget for this financial year, was carried with 80 MSPs voting for and 47 voting against.
When the chancellor, Gordon Brown, announced in the spring that he was raising taxes on middle-income earners to help pay for a 43% real terms increase in health spending over the next five years, his personal poll ratings soared.
In addition, rising migrant wages and higher farm-gate prices have led to a 13.7 percent increase in real rural incomes and 16.8 percent increase in rural retail sales during the first half of 2011, CLSA says.
But it is hard to see the gold price collapsing unless real interest rates increase sharply.
But does it increase real final demand, which is what the Keynesians are so seemingly desperate for?
Estimates in our recent paper suggest that real house prices increase by about 75% of the decline in after-tax mortgage payments.
The CBO notes early on in the report that it expects real GDP to increase by 2.3% this year and by 2.7% next year.
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But, he told peers, "we cannot ignore the question of finance" and he underlined that the government was against any real-terms increase in the EU budget.
The coalition government has ring-fenced the NHS from spending cuts elsewhere and criticised Labour for not being prepared to match its commitment to a real-terms increase in funding every year.
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