Hong Kong's Hang Seng fell 0.5 percent to 23, 134.51 after the Chinese government issued a report showing that inflation rose slightly in April, which could temper any stimulus response by Beijing to China's shaky economic recovery.
It acts out of instinct and is primarily a stimulus-response machine with survival as its focus.
We have moved from viewing animals as instinct-driven stimulus-response machines to seeing them as sophisticated decision makers.
Policymakers have begun to worry that the country's massive stimulus spending in response to the global financial crisis could run out of steam.
Of course, the financial crisis explains this massive forecasting error, but the study finds that relatively little was due to fiscal stimulus programmes in response to the downturn.
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Meanwhile Kaoru Yosano, the new economy minister with a clear sense of what needs to be done to overhaul the country's finances in the face of an ageing population, was ordered to cobble together a fiscal-stimulus package in response to panicky (and probably unfounded) fears that the economy was tipping into a deep recession again.
Historically, the Federal Reserve has provided audited financial statements on an annual basis, but given the unprecedented stimulus efforts undertaken in response to the 2008 financial crisis, the central bank is now offering a more regular update on its bottom line.
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But love is not like a response to a stimulus.
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The improvement is also the expected response to monetary and fiscal stimulus, both of which have been exceptionally aggressive.
Nomura Securities said Friday that they are expecting the Federal Open Market Committee of the bank to ask for further stimulus (as in more QE) in response to fading economic growth and greater downside risks.
Secondly, the additional activity can be identified only by a process of averaging the results of subtractions after the stimulus has been given repeatedly: variations in the response to successive stimuli are ironed out.
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Choked with emotion after seeing Ms Gillard take over, he took credit for invoking a swift response to the global financial crisis with a fiscal stimulus that helped Australia avoid a recession.
Their response contrasts sharply to the surprisingly widespread embrace of fiscal stimulus during the Great Recession.
He has suggested that fiscal stimulus - encouraging spending to boost the economy - is a sensible response to recession if the country can afford it.
Keynesian economists argue that the correct policy response is to boost government spending (G) through fiscal stimulus, allowing consumers and businesses time to adjust and recover, and to gradually remove that stimulus as the economy returns to its normal growth trajectory.
Canongate Classics began as a response to Scotland's shifting cultural climate, and are now a stimulus in their own right.
About the policy response from the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve, Huether notes that the stimulus package produced a beneficial uptick in demand, but its temporary impact has limited the proper distribution of profits that resulted.
Others argue that temporary stimulus, even if well timed, will not work because people will hardly adjust their spending in response to a one-off tax cut.
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