On that basis Mr White thinks the Fed was right to pursue the first round of quantitative easing, since nominal GDP was falling, but wrong to pursue a second round with activity recovering.
By the second week, activity had picked up slightly, though workers at the site said it was averaging just 300 bicycles per day, well below capacity and a tiny proportion of the roughly 200, 000 people who were attending Olympic Park events on peak days.
Second-to-second changes in its activity might, though, be expected to be correlated with changes in the amygdalas, because of its role in regulating them. fMRI allows such correlations to be measured.
The better October flash PMI and September data paint a consistent picture of a likely further pickup in economic activity on the back of more accommodative monetary conditions, increasing infrastructure investment, recovering property market activity in second and third tier level cities and improving external demand, mainly in Asia and emerging markets.
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First, to survive a constitutional challenge, the subject matter must be economic in nature and affect interstate commerce, and second, it must involve activity.
The sale of Nascar teams, including minority stakes, has been quiet in recent years after a flurry of activity in the second half of the 2000s.
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There is no breakdown between public and private sector activity for the second quarter, but the first quarter numbers show public housing output down 18% on the year, and public non-housing output (schools, for example) down 21% on the first quarter of 2011.
Also, the volume of activity makes them the second rail company in the European Union.
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This means that credit conditions should start to get better and support a faster activity recovery in the second half.
The series shows economic activity peaked in the second quarter of 2007.
Separate data also from Markit, and released before US stocks opened, showed US manufacturing activity fell for the second straight month in May.
On Wednesday the Institute for Supply Management reported U.S. factory activity contracted for a second month in September, while inflationary pressures tumbled and employment in the sector fell.
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The three months ending June is the second consecutive quarter of significant deceleration in economic activity.
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Second, hopes for an immediate jolt of activity were misplaced.
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In addition, they anticipate that expenditures on repair and remodel activity will be challenged in the second half of 2010 and expect that big-ticket items will continue to be deferred, in the short-term, until general economic conditions, unemployment, consumer confidence, credit availability and home prices improve.
Last year, Christie's captured more market share in the second half, which caused a slowdown in auction activity.
Mr Piner said there was "very little consumer activity by historic standards" in the second half of January because of the snow.
These travelling waves occur hundreds of times a night, and most commonly at a frequency, 1 cycle per second, which has been shown to depress the activity of synapses.
Second, their brain functions, as measured by electrical activity and high-tech scanning, are dissimilar.
Destatis said economic activity "slowed down considerably" in the second half of the year, and particularly in the final quarter.
Giving a big boost to stocks was the release at 10:00 a.m. of the ISM Manufacturing Survey, showing a second straight month of expansion, with index of factory activity rising to 51.7 in October, up from up from 51.5 in September.
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Michael Mann notwithstanding, there is good evidence that unusually cold periods have been recorded in times of reduced solar activity, and that the warming of the second half of the 20th century has coincided with a series of unusually strong solar cycles.
The second key ability that is more regularly called upon in government activity is striving to reconcile the conflicting needs and wants of multiple stakeholders.
Then they divided the whole brain into small sections with a three-dimensional grid and recorded the activity in each section of the grid for each second.
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However, even consumer-driven processing models with operations in Europe are facing increased scrutiny with slower consumer activity expected to take hold as we head into the second half of 2012 and 2013.
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