TEMPLE-RASTON: General Motors announced dismal earnings on Friday and said it could run short of money by mid-2009.

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The smart CIO knows this only increases the odds that the startup will run short of money and die.

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The U.S. federal government will soon run short of money once the country reaches its borrowing limit on Dec. 31.

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In the short run the influx of new money can actually boost returns, they say, because managers buying, say, stock in a mid-sized industrial company might see significant gains as they buy more.

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When savings rates rise, but savers hoard, rather than invest, the central bank pushes its newly created money out of short-run credit markets and out into the whole yield curve.

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It was just as wrong to invest money for your short term goals into the stock market during the bull run of the 1990s as it is to put long term money into CDs today.

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But in the short run at least, the free-money policies of the Federal Reserve are supporting many blue-state economies.

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Responding to a customer slows down the workers doing their immediate work, adding to the costs of getting their job done, and in short run, making them less efficient, and thus possibly making less money for shareholders.

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