So do the zero-growth, sustainable-growth, right-to-die, duty-to-die, life boat bio-ethicists who dominate so much of our intellectual discussion.
Apple is currently being priced as a near-zero growth stock at 9x forward earnings, net of cash.
Surely, it can maintain a near-zero growth rate to fulfill current market valuations.
Slow or near-zero growth in domestic demand has made the inflexibility of the German labour market ever more costly for businesses.
Even this matters: with the economy currently close to zero growth (second-quarter GDP figures will be released on July 25th) tiny changes make a big difference to headlines and political fortunes.
From 1989 to 1995 Gap watched its same-store sales growth fall from 15% to zero as it plied the same old mid-priced khaki trade.
At the end of the day, this begs the question: Is there room in the U.S. apparel industry for this type of growth, or is it a zero-sum game?
For India, alongside China a key growth market, Samsung has created a zero-interest purchase offer, which, along with a variety of cash back deals on websites and retailers, is elevating the popularity of the device.
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Despite all the loose lending promoted by the Fed, we could sink into a decades-long slump of depressed consumerism, cash hoarding and zero growth.
In contrast to the stock market, which over long periods offers positive returns linked to the growth in the economy, commodity trading is a zero-sum game.
When has the world known straight-line peace, prosperity, full employment, zero inflation and continuous growth?
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) argued in its recent annual report that huge growth in bank reserves was driving overnight-lending rates to zero, causing the market for unsecured overnight lending to atrophy.
The simple r-g assumption is one of the most important in debt dynamics: an r-g of greater than zero (when interest rates are greater than GDP growth) means that the debt stock increases over time.
Such investments, borrowed at near-zero interest rates, need not increase debt ratios if their contribution to economic growth raises tax collections.
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Growth as we understand will turn into rounding-error noise around zero percent.
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The fact -- the notion that we are now where we are losing -- in November we had positive job growth, but we're getting much closer to the margin of zero -- that's a fact.
To prop up the feeble growth, Fed officials in December said they expected to keep short-term rates near zero until the unemployment rate falls to 6.5% or lower.
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