Bad news: the most resilient and powerful economic force--the spending power of U.S. consumers--is beginning to falter.
Fife Council, however, says that the promise of 300 jobs and the spending power of well-heeled golf tourists is too good to miss.
But Indonesia urgently needs more and better spending on its transport and power-generation infrastructure and public services, and on health care and education.
The Conservative AM added: "Mid Wales is suffering from a general wage packet downsizing which inevitably means a knock-on loss of spending power from the local economy and an end to any ideas of owning a house for many more local people".
The green inclinations of baby-boomers, their growing spending power and their yen to turn holidays into something between a forced march and a spiritual retreat, have been the making of an industry that barely existed 30 years ago.
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Studies predict that the Chinese middle class will wield enormous spending power as it reaches 600 million-800 million people in fifteen years.
More and more, Americans are disturbed and, indeed, angered by what they see unfolding in the way of binge spending, increased tax burdens and government power-grabbing.
His approval ratings have dipped, and the Washington power-broker has been spending rather more time in Texas than he used to: opening a new office, announcing money for new roads, posing for photographs to celebrate federal funding for new military hardware.
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But the country's few safety activists perceive a deadly double standard, with automakers earning more money from selling cars that offer drivers fewer safeguards a worrisome gap for new middle-class households, whose surging spending power has outpaced consumer protections taken for granted in more developed countries.
At present, China's banks shovel workers' savings into state-owned enterprises, depriving workers of spending power and private companies of capital.
That implies spending a lot more money on long-endurance air power and sea power, such as the new Air Force bomber and Navy unmanned strike aircraft that Gates endorsed in January.
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His free-spending ways reduced poverty, but he also concentrated power, divided his population, and left an economy hobbled by corruption, inefficiency and almost entirely dependent on high oil prices, many observers say.
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More importantly, prices of many domestic products, from housing to haircuts, are always cheaper in low-income countries, implying that households' real spending power is bigger.
Concern was also raised about the number of budget holders within the department - more than 50 staff have some degree of spending power, but are monitored by a finance team of just three.
But there's another political argument that focuses on those GERS figures - resentment at Scotland's relatively generous allocation of spending power.
In a small way, the measures to cut German welfare benefits may help if they encourage more non-workers into the labour force and boost consumers' spending power.
Even if the Treasury wanted to hand over spending power, it's doubtful that the private sector-led replacements for RDAs are up to the job of handling all that cash, or of strategic regeneration decisions.
Mr. Mahathir is just the latest high-profile knight errant charging the dragon that is scorching our spending power.
Remember one thing - regardless of the political changes in the county council elections - local government still faces a 30% cut in its spending power.
In the other section, known as "traditional track, " the winning business plan was one aimed at exploiting the increasing spending power of a key segment of China's 1.3 billion-strong population.
So this region is not going to make it back onto its feet by Blues Power alone - the Obama administration's huge expansion of public spending is going to have to play a role too.
The spread of consumer spending power across China means that a company must constantly expand its geographic footprint--but the requirements of scale make it extremely critical to cluster locations appropriately to ensure competitive scale economies.
For four years, 1999-2002, much of rural India suffered from failed monsoons, seriously denting spending power.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has insisted no decision has been taken on whether, if returned to power in 2015, Labour would stick with the coalition's spending plans - as Tony Blair did for two years after winning the 1997 election.
With a barrage at least a decade away from generating power, other environmental groups question whether spending so much money on such a long-term project is the best way to address climate change and rising carbon emissions.
How convenient it was to assume that government could take over the health-care system, raise taxes, hugely expand regulatory power and unleash a deficit spending orgy without producing a significant deviation in the growth trend of the previous quarter century.
Their spending power suddenly became apparently near limitless, while the immediate aims of the club also sky-rocketed, with ADUG spokesman Dr Sulaiman Al-Fahim claiming he expected the club to be challenging for the Champions League inside three years.
Mr. Monti's government of technocrats took power and passed tax increases and spending cuts that pulled Italy back from the brink of the euro-zone debt crisis.
Mr. Monti's government of technocrats took power and passed tax hikes and spending cuts that pulled Italy back from the brink of the euro-zone debt crisis.
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