An even simpler approach is for central banks to depress interest rates so that real returns to investors are negative.
"If more and more countries attempt to depress their currencies, this could lead to competitive devaluations that will only know losers, " he said.
That is because higher interest rates are likely further to depress house prices, which had risen to giddy heights before suffering a reverse this year.
In the 1980s, the owners were found to have colluded to depress the market for free agents and to make quiet agreements to stop going after the top players from other teams.
Though a number of analysts expect inventory problems to depress holiday sales of gadgets, Apple is believed to have insulated itself from such problems.
Now that's a thought to depress you if you're on the wrong side of 40.
There is another option: to fiddle the figures, perhaps by cutting fuel taxes to depress inflation.
Prosperity is likely to depress turnout among mainstream folk, so activists will be decisive.
Combined with slumping demand, the rebound in supply may continue to depress prices.
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While there is much foreign interest in developing Iran's oil and gas sectors, two factors work to depress such investment.
The snag is that in the short run reforms that reduce job protection are more likely to depress consumer spending.
The main impact of the property downturn will be to depress construction.
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Managers can still choose when they release negative information, for example, to depress the stock price before they get a new slug of shares.
Private pensions are different, but some economists think a smaller working population will tend to depress the value of financial assets and that will in turn affect pensions.
And what really struck me and then began to depress me about my return flight home was that they were very much in the same situation we were in.
These travelling waves occur hundreds of times a night, and most commonly at a frequency, 1 cycle per second, which has been shown to depress the activity of synapses.
Another factor may be the impact of density, which, Cox demonstrates, tends to depress fertility rates not only here in the United States, but through much of the world.
The report cited the previously disclosed decision of Marathon Ashland to withhold some of its cleaner burning gasoline from the market "so as not to depress prices" in the spring of 2000.
In Britain, the committee warned that the labour market appeared to have reached a "turning point" and that the prospect of rising unemployment was likely to depress consumer spending which had been keeping the economy afloat.
On Thursday, Japan's central bank unveiled a plan to buy trillions of yen more in government bonds and other assets, as part of a new easing campaign to depress long-term yields and eventually revive the long-stagnant economy.
Real estate developers, banks, and brokerages were hit by the jump in yields, which followed the Bank of Japan's announcement on Wednesday that it will maintain its own current bond-buying program but won't take additional action to depress yields.
Real estate developers, banks, and brokerages were hit by the jump in yields, which followed the Bank of Japan's announcement on Wednesday that it will maintain its current bond-buying program but will not take additional action to depress yields.
One optimistic note for the near term, though: Tax selling, which tends to depress stock prices, will end in December and thus lay the groundwork for a January effect (when investors gobble up the marked-down stocks, leading to a mini-rally).
Every time it looks as if the government might push for British entry, the pound weakens, with currency traders reckoning that a decision to go in would prompt the government actively to try to depress the pound's value ahead of entry.
Now if you think that interest rates are set to rise before the end of the year, that'll further depress consumers' ability to spend.
Moreover, the moves to boost exports have helped depress consumption, which is in fact beginning to slow.
The trial bar's strategy against corporate America up to now has been to file a suit, depress the stock price and bring the company to the table to get a settlement out of it, he said.
Unfortunately, as the commodity markets are screaming, additional QE will do little other than to further depress the value of the dollar.
Helping to drive sales but to temporarily depress profits was the acquisition out of bankruptcy of Clinton Cards, a U.K.-based chain of 400 retail card shops.
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