Investment spending has certainly not shown a dramatic response to these historically low rates.
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The really good news was a sharp increase in investment spending, both fixed and residential.
Moreover, since GDP is an accounting summary, it adds consumption and investment spending together.
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If it comes from the boom in Chinese investment spending, then the boom could continue.
Whereas Keynes feared shortfalls in investment spending, his intellectual antagonists worried about misallocations of that spending.
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Most analysts agree that the best way to boost industry is to increase government investment spending.
Business investment spending fell 37.9% and was responsible by itself for a 4.7% decline.
Businesses, who pay a single 32% tax rate, can deduct all investment spending (but not interest expenses).
After the dotcom bust, American firms turned cautious and investment spending was weak.
The spending categories are familiar: consumption spending, plus investment spending, plus government spending, plus exports, minus imports, equals GDP.
Keynesians advocate increased government spending and inflationary credit expansion to make up for shortfalls in consumption and investment spending.
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Business investment spending, which had declined for 9 straight quarters, reversed and increased 6.7% per quarter, producing all those new jobs.
In response to the rate cuts, business investment spending, which had declined for 9 straight quarters, reversed and increased 6.7% per quarter.
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But investment spending already accounts for a huge 50% of China's economy.
He likewise pointed to increased investment spending and resultant margin pressure.
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It'll be a component of this total package that will also have support for consumer spending and investment spending and, you know, I think we're going to get there.
It is typical to hear one comment on consumer spending, investment spending, and profits as if they are all part of what you add up to get the GDP total.
That's based mainly on continued negative government investment spending.
Our national investment spending must be financed by saving.
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Chinese states may also see some stimulus from Beijing in their initiatives to promote growth, even though Beijing is trying to stay away from abundant fixed asset investment spending on things like roads and bridges.
The focus now should be on getting the sum of consumption spending, investment spending, government spending and exports minus imports (C, I, G, and X-M) to a level sufficient to promote growth and full employment.
At some point the Chinese government will have to stop raising rates and reserve requirements, and will have to step up investment spending even though it would prefer to see the Chinese consumer pick up the slack.
So on the morning before the bad news to come the prime minister and his deputy went to school to unveil what they hoped would be viewed as some better news - an increase in investment spending paid for by deeper cuts to day to day departmental budgets.
His philosophy was clear - only investment and spending would ensure a rising, thriving middle class.
It assumes the most benign factor in helping growth, through improved investment and spending confidence, is falling inflation.
Deflation, or falling prices, discourages investment and spending by businesses and consumers, and makes debts more difficult to repay.
He talked of the need to restore confidence in the banking system and to implement reforms to boost investment and spending by companies and individuals.
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