Let s Get Real About Money

Economists do not typically conduct experiments with real money.

The first rule in assessing a government s real strategy is to follow the money.

It's about siphoning off the money in Syria and prostituting her 'real' wealth gradually.

And it is the real interest rate not the money rate that counts for economic growth.

That money must come from higher taxes, from eroding the real value of money balances and government debt through inflation, or from outright default and debt restructuring.

If we have learned one thing in the development business, it is that real reform cannot be bought with donors money, let alone with vague promises of money.

Australia put real money on the table for increased food production, along the lines that Spain is proposing.

Before the crisis, a substantial amount of that money was invested in US, Spanish, or Irish real estate.

The real issue is how much money rich country governments will be giving poor country governments, not vice versa.

It s relatively easy to fail on your own, but if your friends have put up real money, it s much harder.

There s real money here for the individual African, says Daniel Sumner, an economist and cotton expert at the University of California.

Nevertheless, the challenge remains to effectively implement the laws and show real progress in seizing criminal proceeds and prosecuting money launderers.

First, they can improve value for money (in that better value for money can be achieved through a competitive market price, and substantial cost savings can be realized through dynamic and real time trading).

Nonetheless, it is argued, whatever the real cost of the damage, developed countries currently cannot afford to provide that kind of money.

Meanwhile, in real (inflation adjusted) terms, second tier players earn much less money from tournaments and exhibitions than they did in the 1970 s.

Maybe the real US strategy is to try to owe the commodity exporting countries so much money that they will feel dependent on making America happy!

Participatory budgeting allows citizens to identify, discuss, and prioritize public spending projects, and gives them the power to make real decisions about how money is spent.

Development aid has to be financed in real terms, or in a reputable manner, not by spending central bank money or by jeopardizing the IMF s financial integrity.

But real per capita GDP in the US is now three times higher than it was in 1958. What have people been spending all that extra money on?

The Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation Program (ITEC) was established in 1964, but now has real money to offer, in addition to training facilities and technological know how.

The error is called the money illusion the belief that a nominal unit of currency is the best measure of value, even though its real value is unstable.

As the money rolled in, wages rose, real estate prices reached to near Parisian levels, and people fooled themselves into thinking that Kazakhstan had become Asia s latest tiger.

Bad Money, Good Money

Thus, although China s total money supply seems excessive, with the M2 to GDP ratio now at about 190 , the real monetary base is actually much smaller than it appears.

Summits of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) leaders are still held, but the real focus of Russia s policy is the OECD countries, which have technology and money.

Embracing the real bills doctrine, they regarded their role as being to provide as much money and credit as was required for retail and wholesale transactions, and no more.

As was true before the crisis, no one is monitoring the almost limitless virtual market for derivatives, where money moves freely without official rules or contact with the real economy.

In the real world, 90 of the money spent on medical research is focused on conditions that are responsible for just 10 of the deaths and disability caused by diseases globally.

It is not your money, or the Government's money, or the Prime Minister's money.

I saw real humans with real compassion.

A lot of them about 55,000 people so far are cash flow positive they're making money from what I mean, real world money from what they're doing in Second Life, so it's a very build still a creative, building things, build your own business type of an orientation. So, that's it.

Germany can provide money and manpower to secure the EU s external borders. Its neighbors can then agree to accept more refugees and to offer them real economic opportunity as an incentive to stay.

The real issue is how much money rich country governments will be giving poor country governments, not vice versa. Third world debt burdens are little more than a scorecard for past development failures.

This is like the joke about the two economists who ignore a 100 bill they see lying on the street, figuring that if the money were real someone would have picked it up.

This is real, tangible change, real, tangible change.

In Russia, power is money and money is power.

Take away subsidies and cotton prices will rise, perhaps as much as 15 . There s real money here for the individual African, says Daniel Sumner, an economist and cotton expert at the University of California.

The danger is that the potential for a real change in values will be co opted, as has happened so often before, by those who see it as just another opportunity to make money.

Usury (making money from money) was an offense against God.

I quickly made an arrangement with a Red Cross relief worker, who used his official van to transport the money to Lungi Airport, Freetown, although he did not know the real contents of the box.

But, because there were insufficient outlets for real investment in countries that already had all the capital they could use, cheap money proved to be a dysfunctional way of dealing with the problem of excess saving.

In 2001 02, the GDP had grown from 433.6 million to 470.2 million, representing an annual economic growth rate of 8.4 per cent in money terms and 7.8 per cent in real terms after deducting inflation.

Now, this is a real hospital, in a real emergency room.

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