One obvious risk to a sturdy recovery is the looming effect of tighter fiscal policy.
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"This review suggests these drugs have a promising effect on recovery from stroke but, I wouldn't want people to think this supports routine use of anti-depressants, " Prof Mead said.
If the New York Times would interviewed me, or any number of much more distinguished non-Keynesian economists, it could learn why a payroll tax extension will either harm our fragile recovery or have no effect at all.
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Mr Osborne's advisers would say any increase in investment that is large enough to have a material effect on the recovery would set off alarm bells in the markets, even if the formal deficit plan had not been undermined.
Sierra Leone's status as a model for post-conflict recovery has had an insidious effect on its bureaucrats, many of whom waste a lot of time inveigling themselves into delegations to conferences and seminars abroad, where they receive handsome allowances.
The other possibility is that I was simply close enough to recovery anyway, and that the positive effect was purely psychosomatic.
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Since 2008, revenues have fallen increasingly below the 18% average as the revenue-depressing effect of recession and stagnant recovery set in.
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Aside from the obvious fact that any such tax would be passed along to consumers in the form of even higher fuel costs, such an artificial increase to the operating costs of every personal, business and construction vehicle used in the country would have a chilling effect on our fragile economic recovery.
The Fed has kept its easy money policy in effect, and yet the economic recovery stalled once other government stimulus programs expired in the spring.
The compromise legislation includes a procedural trigger so that the provisions only go into effect if the economy continues its recovery, using the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Coincident index, which is a measure of New York City's economic strength.
However, there is still the concern about the possible effect any increases would have on the economic recovery.
The worldwide recovery along with lessening geopolitical volatility has had an interesting effect on global ETFs, especially among BRIC funds.
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Even if the fiscal cliff is partially solved, it will hit home that tax rates are going to go up (in part because of some of the provisions of Obamacare going into effect) and people will realize that the recovery is not as strong as believed.
Expiring tax cuts and budgetary sequestrations that take effect on Jan. 1 will derail the fragile recovery.
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Rising stock prices have the potential to stimulate household spending due to the wealth effect, and that could raise the likelihood of economic recovery.
In remarks a few weeks ago, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke expressed concerns about the austerity measures being undertaken in European countries, worried that they would have a negative effect on European economies going forward and would act as a drag on the global recovery.
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Though recent economic data has offered some encouraging signs for the recovery, Hoversen argued that given the quality of the recovery and the fact that the main driver behind the earnings is cost cutting and a base effect, the currency markets seem to be reacting to a momentum that doesn't accurately reflect the state of the macro environment.
Analysts are anxious to discover whether this indicates that a recovery is already underway, or whether the US slowdown will be prolonged - which would have a knock-on effect on other economies around the world.
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