Some Wall Street economists figure this is worth about 1 percentage point of growth.
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No doubt, these are just in the early stages, which means TIBCO is at the tipping-point of growth.
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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.
"We're reaching the point of significantly decelerating growth, " says AG Edwards analyst Gregory Gieber of the home building industries' profit outlook.
Roberto Newell, director general of the Mexican Institute of Competitiveness, estimates this could add an additional percentage point of annual economic growth.
However, as I discussed in this piece a few months ago, the recent evidence on productivity growth as well as the long-run demographic trends both point to slow rates of growth in the coming years.
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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.
Given the increasing average age of populations in the developed world, healthcare innovation and spreading prosperity, signs point to continued exponential growth of global healthcare consumption.
India's politicians point out that growth of 6% or 7% is far faster than most other countries.
It does, of course, raise the question: what was the point of the Stability and Growth Pact?
So long as roads (unlike trains and buses) remain free at the point of use, traffic growth looks inevitable.
From an economic growth point of view, this is a very bad thing.
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In the U.S., every data point on the pace of growth is being closely examined after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke indicated that the central bank could pare back its stimulus efforts should the economy continue to show signs of improvement.
That concept isn't really compelling to the masses until one focuses on the "knee" of this exponential curve -- the point where the perpetual doubling of technological growth skyrockets and negates the linear models of progress that people like economists have relied on for so long.
Moreover, recent indicators, including new claims for unemployment insurance and surveys of hiring plans, point to the likelihood of more sluggish job growth in the period ahead.
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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.
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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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.
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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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.
While there are a variety of methods and data sources, the results consistently point to significant negative effects of taxes on economic growth even after controlling for various other factors such as government spending, business cycle conditions, and monetary policy.
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Which is still the flip side of the Starbucks growth story: At what point will it exhaust the supply of customers willing to pay a premium for coffee?
The point of course is that innovation is the primary rocket fuel of economic growth.
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Will people vote on fractions of a percentage point on the growth rate?
Supporters of growth promoters will point to the lack of cases in the field of cross infection or gene transfer.
The energy industry was also quick to point out that much of our economic growth can be directly tied to the rise in domestic energy production.
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