The deficiency can also result in diabetes and heart problems over the long term.
You can see what problems this might create in the long term.
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Grebeck said the only negative for gold would be if politicians were to come together and address the the long-term structural problems in the economy.
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When questioned on the long-term deficit problems (in addition to the current deficit and the increases from TARP and ARRP, Social Security and Medicare are on an unsustainable path) by Sen.
That's why his budget lays out ways in which we can cut the deficit in the mid to long term, but in the short term take care of some of the problems that we've got in this economic crisis, putting Americans back to work, helping banks get more loans out to small businesses so they can create more jobs, and things like that.
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The question being asked by economists today is if recent massive global government stimulus under already strained deficit condition can result in larger long-term problems than the short-term problems it is intended to solve?
If that fails, then obviously other steps might be looked at in order to address what the President -- again, what the President will discuss in terms of a -- the medium and long term problems that we have with our debts and our deficits.
With Europe, Japan and the United States all mired in long-term debt and demographic problems, emerging markets will be some of the few reliable sources of growth in the years ahead.
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In the medium to long term, support for gold will come from production problems that curb the expansion of supply, in addition to persisting sovereign-debt issues, Commerzbank says.
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The big long-term problems are runaway entitlement spending and inadequate revenue, but the specific cuts in the legislation focus almost entirely on discretionary spending.
And he sounded glum about prospects that the two sides will come together in the spring on a separate, long-term budget blueprint to address the government's fiscal problems.
Moreover, the turmoil threw into sharp relief long-term problems in Hong Kong's economy and suddenly made them into potential short-term crises.
In the face of the nation's myriad long-term problems and challenges, even a little good news is a pleasant surprise.
And the result is an exceedingly dangerous political climate in which the nation must try to address its long-term fiscal problems.
Despite myriad social, political and economic problems, China's long-term prospects were exponentially improved by the enactment in March of the country's first law to explicitly protect private property.
Answering reporters' questions in the Oval Office following a bill-signing ceremony, the president once again urged Republicans in Congress to work with him to deal with the long-term problems involving Medicare.
And while there are problems, a long term down trend is highly unlikely in any of these markets because the alternatives are plagued with debt, getting old, and losing income to the emerging powers of the new world.
Some long-term problems are unsolved, such as a low rate of participation in the workforce and patchy public services.
The real problems set in in about five years' time, as a result of long-term growth in health and social security spending.
The only way to solve the long-term problems of deficit and debt will be bipartisan deal-making in which each side gives a little and takes the risk of offending their respective special interests in the national interest.
Worse, the government now finds itself struggling to put long-term reform in place at a time when the short-term problems are mounting.
It says the large fiscal deficit being run by the United States, while beneficial now in stimulating the U.S. economy, raises long-term domestic and global problems.
This, the inevitable result of a pay-as-you-go system in an ageing population, is the cause of the programme's long-term financial problems.
But one last thing I want to be clear about -- we can do all those things, dealing with sort of the emergency crisis, and still fall behind in the 21st century, in this global economy, unless we recommit ourselves to solving some of the long-term problems that have been with us for years.
In fact, I think the Stimulus Bill signed into law by President Bush makes long-term problems worse.
When it comes to health problems caused by the disaster in Japan, the lack of medical care, food, and clean water could dwarf the long-term death toll from radiation.
As I report in the latest issue of Forbes, global automakers frustrated by problems elsewhere in the world are now rushing to open new factories in Brazil which they see as the next frontier for long-term growth.
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