Iran's near term political future remains unclear.

As a result, Iran's near term political prospects appear ominous.

Price deflation is far more likely in the near term.

By looking at these two pictures, I say no, it won't overtake China for a while.

It's not easy, it's long overdue, and it needs to start sooner than later even if strong arm tactics that will probably be involved may cause more trouble in the short term.

Faced with the trade off between economic growth in the short run and over the medium to long term, these central banks are opting for the latter.

Social malaise is deepening as expectations and actual prospects for economic improvement are likely to remain poor for the foreseeable future.

The short term will be a miserable time, but I think on the long term things will get better, although with a very high price in blood.

That trend will continue and increase in the near term as Iraqi security forces become more and more capable.

Input output analysis assumes that input proportions between different economic sectors are fixed and do not change significantly in the short term.

While these bullets can be pushed off course at long range, they are so powerful at close range that not even Lucy can stop them.

Part of the problem is that expectations had been distorted by a metaphor that described events in short run terms.

Public institutions are likely to remain only partially able to finance and implement large scale social assistance programmes in the near term.

The events of recent months have exacted a heavy short term economic toll, but they have potentially far reaching long term implications.

In the very near term, certainly indeed, interest rates could still fall further. Over the longer term, however, this situation is definitely not stable.

So, yes, government spending provides a short term boost, but there is a trade off with long run secular decline.

Some of their design philosophy is focused on using current or near term existing launch vehicle systems, permanent human settlement, conceptual EDL systems and enhanced surface ISRU.

As for fiscal measures, the empirical evidence suggests that three quarters of consumption is based on longer term economic prospects, not short run disposable income.

This will not be a short term crisis, so we cannot think only in the short term in formulating our response.

Thus, nothing dramatic will happen to the RMB exchange rate in the near term unless something dramatic happens.

Within this global design, the United States believes that the development of an Indian Ocean part of the global warning system should be a top near term priority.

In the short term, it would reduce the sense of urgency among decision makers to get serious about translating ambitions into deeds.

On the side of those who oppose, there are two quite evident arguments that this is a sacking of a lot of Argentineans' retirement contributions, and the only reason for this change is to increase the government's revenues in the short term.

Is this extraordinary situation stable? In the very near term, certainly indeed, interest rates could still fall further.

America faces long run and short run problems decaying infrastructure, weakening educational systems, and a dysfunctional health care system that produces sub standard outcomes at twice the cost of any other industrial country.

Devaluation of the dollar could improve US competitiveness in the short run, but it is not a solution.

Short term emergency policies are needed to deal with high unemployment, home foreclosures, business bankruptcies, and often with hunger, disease, and a number of other ills. Emergency or humanitarian policies may improve basic consumption in the short run, but they may also discourage investment, increase inflation, and lower prospects for economic in the long run.

Iran's near term political future remains unclear. How reformists regroup, and how the youthful Iranian populace reacts, depends largely on the path the conservatives take.

A general problem is that long term predictions about submarine or underground storage security are very difficult and uncertain, and there is still the risk that might leak into the atmosphere.

In the short term, while Kadima will get fewer votes without Sharon at the helm, some voters will be swayed by sympathy for the stricken leader.

The medium term fiscal outlook continues to deteriorate while, in the short term, politicians play with the country s valuable AAA credit rating by arguing like schoolchildren over how to extend the debt ceiling.

The judiciary, both national courts as well as magistrates', local and chiefdom courts, will continue to be severely strained in the near future, but would benefit in the near term from both additional logistical assistance and support for community based, including traditional, means of dispute resolution.

As the prospects of establishing a visa waiver programme in the near future did not appear promising, in January 2005, the Guam Visitors Bureau redirected its efforts and put into action plans to set up Guam tourist information centres in China.32

If the government were to walk away now, real estate prices would fall even further, banks would come under even greater financial stress, and the economy s short run prospects would become bleaker.

In acute fiscal stress, governments cannot afford to slow down consolidation. But they should place as much emphasis as possible on spending reforms that credibly improve the outlook while having limited adverse short term effects.

With the dollar s hegemony unlikely to be seriously undermined by market forces, at least in the short and medium term, the only way to bring about a major reduction in its role as a reserve currency is by international agreement.

How the situation will develop in the near future can be gleaned from the recent past.

Which means that somehow consciously or not, directly or indirectly, in the short or the long term, whatever we do, whatever we hope, whatever we dream somehow, is related to a deep, profound desire for well being or happiness.

With such endorsements, however, expectations are high, and India s government will have to think about how they can best be fulfilled.

It is a policy for the long term.

Overly optimistic economic projections based on mistaken assessments of the global economy s ailments thus threaten recovery prospects with potentially far reaching consequences.

What's going to happen in the end, it's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And the kingdom of life, of course, is going to be the universe. And if life is already there, it makes it much more exciting, in the short run.

The Israeli disengagement will be judged over the long term.

Such expectations are patently unrealistic.

An Age of Diminished Expectations?