The Real Dow is important, because it is a measure of the impetus for productive investment.
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Proper fiscal policy is the way to keep capital in productive investment.
In this rotten environment, speculation is rewarded, and productive investment is crushed.
And how do we get all these profits that companies have been making since the economy recovered into productive investment and hiring?
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Subsidies to incentivize consumption and keep basic goods cheap have crowded out productive investment, as firms are forced to sell at set prices.
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By calling into question existing titles, farmers say, Mr Chavez is undermining the constitutional right to private property, encouraging squatters and discouraging productive investment.
All adding up to innovative ways of prising productive investment and endeavour from the private and third sectors, in order to bolster the economy.
"I guess it was a combination of wanting to do even more for the island and believing it would be a productive investment, " Mr. Sillerman says.
Finance gushed into property and consumption rather than productive investment.
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It fuels speculation and hoarding, as well as misdirects investment into normally uneconomic activities or stops the flow of productive investment altogether as people and businesses clutch their cash.
Even bigger losses are thought to result because money is diverted from productive investment and paid to lawyers and accountants who hunt for ways to escape or minimize the tax.
Asia's oft-claimed miracle economic growth consisted of two parts: productive investment that resulted from Western and Japanese capital and technology, and non-productive investment that Asians made with their own savings.
Inflation is a destructive distorter. it fuels speculation and hoarding, as well as misdirects investment into normally uneconomic activities or stops the flow of productive investment altogether as people and businesses clutch their cash.
Such borrowing pushes up interest rates and thereby crowds out more productive private investment.
My speculation is that it might be government spending and debt crowding out private savings, not leaving enough for productive private investment.
Instead of taxes and redistribution, the reformed programs rely on modern capital, labor and insurance markets, highly productive savings and investment, and highly effective, pro-growth market incentives.
Once again, inflation is a function of sagging currency values that foster reduced investment in productive endeavors.
All of these mistakes freeze investment in productive capacity tomorrow and consumption today.
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In particular, President Obama's advisers have no appreciation of the need for a strong dollar: A volatile greenback inhibits productive long-term investment.
Ministers, she said, envisaged an easy leap to autonomy - making Scotland like "Namibia or Togo", she said - while they were apparently unable to divert productive expenditure to capital investment in schools.
If so, investments in the ground might decline, but this will occur alongside greater investment in the productive economy.
And with investment in the productive parts of any economy most prevalent during periods of currency strength, the formerly dormant stock markets boomed.
We might actually find that passing those profits straight through to shareholders as dividends leads to exactly what we say we want to happen: an increase in investment in the productive powers of the American economy.
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If they then start to actually use that investment in some productive way that pays wages and earns a profit, then they start to generate additional value-added from that activity, and that value-added continues to be created as long as they keep doing that productivev activity.
The marginal tax rate is the rate on the next dollar to be earned from any investment, enterprise or productive activity.
First savers are receiving a low rate of return on investing in short term government bonds because such investment is not economically productive.
What our economy needs now is a stronger dollar, but foremost it needs a stable dollar so that capital can more rationally reach its most productive use, free of the investment distortions and illusions wrought by unstable money values.
Tax rate cuts promote economic growth and prosperity because they increase the proportion producers can keep of what they produce, which increases incentives for productive activity such as saving, investment, starting businesses, expanding businesses, job creation, entrepreneurship, and work.
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