For example, a drop in Treasury yields would lower borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, helping to stimulate consumption, business investment and housing.

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He urged China to stimulate consumption by introducing better pensions and health care and upgrading its financial services to allow capital to flow from people who have it to people who need it.

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SHANGHAI China has been supporting property purchases by certain buyers to meet genuine rather than speculative demand in the past few months, as Beijing seeks ways to stimulate consumption and ease credit to stave off a hard landing for the world's second-largest economy.

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Likewise, the notorious clash-for-clunkers program was nothing if not a scheme to stimulate auto consumption.

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Mr Wood argues that China is doing more to boost domestic consumption (for example, through incentives to stimulate purchases of cars and consumer durables, and increased health-care spending) than America is doing to boost its saving.

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Broken windows would stimulate glaziers, but the shift from consumption to building repairs would necessarily depress others.

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Does Boris tells everyone how great the beef is to stimulate demand, while Leo takes a small portion and urges sustainable consumption?

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