Much of the attempted manipulation would have cancelled out and it most certainly would only have had a short term effect even when successful.
Given that there are a number of reporting banks, their trading positions often being opposite to each other, the reported manipulation would not have much even short term effect on LIBOR and almost no long term effect at all.
Sure, it would have a short-term effect, but demand would quickly fill the increased capacity.
The short-term effect that money creation has on interest rates will affect investment patterns, often setting us up for future reversals.
Although sulfate particles may have had the short-term effect of cooling temperatures, in the long run, pumping CO2 into the atmosphere spells trouble.
And analyses of that hike seem to suggest that while it had a big short-term effect on revenues, there is little evidence of large, permanent damage to incentives.
Data seen by the BBC suggested that the blocking of The Pirate Bay had only had a short-term effect on the level of pirate activity online - with levels of peer-to-peer sharing returning to normal soon after.
The Federal Reserve, having lowered short-term interest rates in effect to zero, has intervened in bond markets to push down long-term mortgage rates as well.
None of them would have near-term, short-term, positive economic impact -- positive effect on growth, positive effect on job creation.
Given the currently very low short term interest rates (and assuming that the effect would be the same) that would mean that a default on Aug 2 could double short term interest rates.
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Proponents say a transaction tax would discourage short-term trading, with little effect on long-term investors.
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Resuming a boycott then would have little practical effect in the short term.
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Stack says that many analyses of the market, like Gross', fail to account for the effect of short-term interest rates just above 1%, which he believes make current valuations tenable.
Roy Amara, longtime president of the Institute for the Future, said that people tend to overestimate the effect of a new technology in the short run and underestimate the effect over the long term.
The editor-in-chief of Bicycling magazine, Peter Flax, told HLNTV.com that he thinks the scandal would have an effect in the short term but that people should understand that cycling has already made moves to clean up its act.
In that case, a fiscal stimulus might be smoothed so much that it would have hardly any effect in the short term, when it is needed, but continue to boost spending later, when that may be the opposite of what is required.
In either case the weakening effect on the dollar should lift short-term earnings prospects for American exporters and the positive market response should spur consumer spending via the wealth effect.
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The key conclusion of this theory is that transitory, short-term changes in income have little effect on consumer spending behavior.
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If this succeeds in stimulating demand, Japanese saving will fall and the current-account surplus in due course will narrow. (In the short term, however, most of the effect will be masked by a cheaper yen.) Perhaps demand in Japan is already stronger than the figures suggest.
Investors feel more comfortable with the stability of ultra-short term investments while ignoring the long-term effect of inflation.
Even in the short term, this demographic shift could have a massive effect.
One lesson that the late 1990s did teach America was the powerful effect on corporate behaviour of short-term moves in share prices.
It was facing a crunch in the form of caps, to come into effect next year, on short-term debt holdings by financial institutions.
In an editorial in the same journal, Dr John Baron, of Dartmouth Medical School in New Hampshire, said short-term studies appeared to suggest there was no effect from high dietary fibre intake on bowel cancer risk.
The cumulative effect of this is very low short-term interest rates.
The foregoing has no effect on Apple stock in the short-term, but I will be revising our model for the long-term with a negative implication.
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Cash and short-term investments, by contrast, have the opposite effect.
The guaranteed, short-term reward outweighs the potential, long-term negative effect.
That would have one beneficial effect, by discouraging the inflows of short-term foreign capital that have pushed up the value of Brazil's currency, the real, thereby making Brazil's exports less competitive.
Snedden warned, however, that if the government prevented Zimbabwe from touring, it could have dire effect on the game in New Zealand in the short term and their hopes of co-hosting the 2011 World Cup with Australia.
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