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Yet, you could try to drive a wedge between the natural rate and the real growth rate.
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In theory the natural rate will tend towards the expected nominal growth rate of the economy, so you want to keep that at zero.
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My good friend and sometime mentor, Brian Wesbury, argues that the natural rate of interest is the same as the nominal GDP growth rate.
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Theory and practice both tell us that printing money cannot generate economic growth or lower the natural rate of unemployment, but it can cause inflation.
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The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing.
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The rule of 70 is a shortcut to estimate how many years it will take to double something that compounds at a steady growth rate (say money, or demand for natural gas).
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The US desperately needs no less than 27 million new jobs to soak up natural population and immigration growth and get us back to a traditional 5% unemployment rate.
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The natural birth rate in the USA has been below natural replacement rate for nearly a generation, and the USA has relied on massive immigration to continue population growth.
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Also gaining from falling natural gas prices will be primary metals, a sector that slumped early in 2012 with the weakening global economic growth rate as well as increases in production capacity abroad.
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