It should be enough to keep the economic contraction down to 4 quarters of misery.
And that would have saved the Fed from actually needing to intervene very much to offset the economic contraction.
"It has started taking a more realistic view, given the depth of the economic contraction, " says World Bank economist Kawai Masahiro.
In the press release, Fastenal noted that the economic contraction forced it to alter plans to shift drivers of growth from store openings to personnel additions.
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The consequences of inflation for the federal government are a host of new problems, usually involving the spending of more money to counter the economic contraction they caused in the first place.
What caused the economic contraction?
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The economic contraction as the United States draws down is likely to be less severe than might be supposed, partly because the hundreds of billions that the U.S. military has spent in Afghanistan over the past decade is spending that almost entirely benefits the United States.
We are supposed to believe that the hideous economic contraction in Greece is due to the intolerable decline in government spending.
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If the risk of economic contraction has increased and the governments are in the mode of spending cuts, can the banks refinance themselves with their shares under severe selling pressure?
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Thailand said this week that manufacturing production had fallen 21% in March compared with a year earlier, suggesting that the scale of economic contraction already exceeds most of the gloomiest forecasts.
The data is consistent with an economic contraction across the board, which includes France and Germany, and is a presage of further fragility to come, given falls in new orders, low levels of business confidence, and signs of distress in the periphery.
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The inflationary impact of sterling's slide will be countered by the collapse in commodity prices and the contraction in economic activity.
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The upshot is that economic contraction may spur further stimulus from the European Central Bank and other European authorities, and that assumption contributed to gains in European markets Tuesday morning.
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That data suggests the Euro zone is still in overall economic contraction in the first quarter.
Most believe the EU will continue its economic contraction at least into the fourth quarter of 2012.
It was the first quarter of economic contraction since 2009, and is halfway to the two straight quarters of negative GDP that is the official line that marks a recession.
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It has -- it did lead to the cessation of economic contraction and a sustained period now of economic growth, albeit too slow.
It was the first such economic contraction in almost four years.
Nevertheless the speed of economic contraction in Malaysia is frightening.
But despite the debt crisis, economic contraction in many European Union countries and instability in the European banking system, experts at Jones Lang LaSalle say confidence in the hotel real-estate sector has risen since October 2011.
Instead of paying back the excesses of the credit boom in terms of magnitude (a more severe economic contraction that clears the system), we have opted to repay debt in the duration of our economic malaise, thereby opting to stunt the natural course of deleveraging by borrowing more at the sovereign level and printing money.
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Data out Thursday from the euro-zone purchasing managers' index, produced by Markit, showed that the currency area remains stuck in economic contraction but that the pace of contraction is slowing.
Despite mostly avoiding the bank crisis that plagued so many countries, Sweden suffered a sharp contraction after the economic meltdown a 5 percent drop in GDP in 2009.
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Or are the forces of financial and economic contraction now so powerful that they are incapable of being solved by any of the tools likely to be at the disposal of the European Central Bank and government leaders in the foreseeable future?
The latest indication of the state of the eurozone economy came on Thursday from financial information service Markit, which said the region's economic contraction had worsened last month.
And a series of statistics indicate that the eurozone is heading for an economic contraction, which would make it even harder for the financially weaker governments to repay what they owe.
That would put the UK back into a recession - technically defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction - for the third time in about four years.
Statistically, Scotland can qualify (where have you heard that before?) as one of the poorest performers of Europe, in that its economic contraction, at more than 4% since the start of the downturn, is similar to that of deeply troubled Spain.
They often set the market tone for a week or two after their release but may garner more attention this month following Thursday's surprise news of the U.S. economic contraction.
He warned that the country could not escape the global slowdown, saying that the economy was likely to shrink for a few more quarters this year--marking the country's first economic contraction in nearly two decades--but a rebound may occur by year's end.
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