Obama has more than doubled the W. deficits, while coming up short a tenth of a point of growth.
Economist Alec Phillips of Goldman Sachs remarkably argues that benefit cessation would shave a half a percentage point of growth from the admittedly unreliable GDP calculation.
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Wall Street is betting that the cuts, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will take 0.6 of a percentage point of economic growth this year and cost 750, 000 jobs, won't be enough to derail the recovery.
For now, the European economy does not seem to be doing too badly, though Lehman Brothers reckons that every 5% rise in the trade-weighted euro shaves about a quarter of a percentage point off growth and inflation.
The main conclusion from this demographic work is that, barring a new increase in female labor force participation or a significant increase in the growth rate of the population, these demographic factors point towards a further decline in trend growth of employment and hours in the coming decades.
Democrat-leaning and bailout recipient Goldman Sachs estimates that an expiration of the tax cut could knock two-thirds of a percentage point off growth in early 2012.
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She set about making her views known, telling reporters on her third day of work that French labor laws were ''too complicated, too heavy, to the point of constituting a brake on growth.
And both private sector as well as public sector economists are estimating that we could lose as much as six-tenths of a point, maybe a little bit more, of economic growth.
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Will people vote on fractions of a percentage point on the growth rate?
But coming out of deep contractions, the rate of growth was a point higher, some 4.5% per year, for extended runs. 1947-1953, for example, a period following a steep GDP trough, growth averaged 4.6% per year.
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Looking ahead, 2013 looks even brighter, and a look at the talent pool and hiring trends point to the rise of the startup as a driver of growth.
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The Bank of England predicted that the extra bank holidays in June might knock half of a percentage point off the quarterly growth figure.
But a growth of price-point retailers tends to degrade the quality of the High Street offering, which results a general, area-wide fall in rents.
Even a 50 basis point increase in annual growth of customers per restaurant beyond our projections would boost our price estimate by almost 3% assuming we hold the total number of restaurants and profit margins flat.
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You can debate the cost of Labour's "five point plan for growth", but given that a good part of it is funded through higher taxes on banks, the net impact is unlikely to be more than 1% of GDP.
Such collaborations point to a shift in the growth strategy of big pharma firms.
The governor's decision represents a turning point for a city that was once the industrial capital of America and an engine of its growth.
The gross profit margin (excluding occupancy expense as a cost of the merchandise) edged up a percentage point, to 56%, in 1998, but sales growth slowed, to 6% from 14%.
If they are, and America's sustainable long-term rate of growth has increased by a full percentage point or more, the outlook for everybody is doubly fine.
U.S. stock futures point to a lower open Tuesday after poor growth figures out of Europe.
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From an economic growth point of view, this is a very bad thing.
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In addition, they find that there is a non-linear impact of debt on growth beyond this turning point.
Today's mega data centers are nearing a breaking point where further growth is restricted due to the current economics of traditional infrastructure.
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Still, officials predict an economic recovery this year, consumers in Brazil have been eager to spend, and with a growing number of people buying smartphones and computers, signs point to continuing growth in connectivity.
And the Treasury estimates that the economic growth rate has been boosted by a quarter-point because of immigration.
The developers point out that the first wave of multiplexation has coincided with a growth in the movie-going public.
The third of a percentage point lift would limit the downside risk to our Q4 GDP growth projection, which remains 2.0%.
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After two quarters of nominal growth, their collections were down by nearly a whole percentage point from the first quarter last year.
Though it's difficult to predict exactly how the year will pan out, weak job growth, a slowing economy and troubled housing markets all point to signs of an economic recession.
This is one thing that economists of all stripes agree will directly affect growth, and a half percentage point, I believe, in growth is what economists estimate the payroll tax cut would provide.
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