Banque de France Governor Christian Noyer said at the weekend that predictions that fiscal tightening would cause European growth to tip over the edge have been proved to be ill-judged and outweighed by the rise of private sector confidence lifting the economy back to a healthy growth rate.

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It would slow down our growth, might tip us into recession, and ironically, would probably increase our deficit.

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But he didn't believe that the growth in manufacturing output would tip the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee into pushing for a rise in interest rates when they meet next week.

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Will the voters pick the growth candidate or, discouraged, tip toward the social equity candidate?

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This one comes from a paper, delivered at a NBER conference last month, on the supply dynamics of the housing boom and bust. (A hat tip goes to Benjamin Keys.) The authors crunched census data to compile the compounded annual growth rates of the population, smoothed out over five years.

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