Shortsighted politicians like Bush often skimp on long term investments in favor of short term advantage.

Long term investments, not short term profits, and productive work, rather than paper gains, need to be supported.

In particular, bonuses based on medium term results of risky trades and investments must supplant bonuses based on short term outcomes.

When contributions are larger than benefit payments, short term mismanagement of investments may not always be detrimental.

In the US, neither R D nor overall investment is declining. Indeed, many industries pursue long term investments, notwithstanding their short term stockholders.

More broadly, international financial institutions should guide public and private investments alike away from a short term logic.

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero.

But most of the institutions upon which they rely for their investments and savings are geared to the short term.

a Loss is due to declines in market values of short term investments which more than offset other interest income.

Pro cyclical fiscal adjustment tends to encourage a short term orientation towards economic policy, which limits long term investments in infrastructure and human capital, thus constraining growth.

These investments are needed in the short term to offset the decline in worldwide consumption spending that underlies the global recession.

Political decision making circles, however, have continued to give disproportionate priority to investments with short term returns, without recognizing that such investments may not contribute to breaking the cycle of extreme poverty and environmental degradation in the long term.

Only with a long term strategy can host governments ensure that Chinese (and other) investments become a tool of development, not just a means of generating short term profit.

Short Term Talk, Long Term Cost

Maybe this allows him to focus more on long term fundamentals and thus to make investments that may not perform well in the short run.

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The policy has short term and long term objectives.

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And southern Mediterranean countries can t hope to make up in America and Asia the opportunities and investments that they are losing in Europe, certainly not in the short term.

But it also seemed to me that a world short of risk bearing capacity needed virtually anything that induced people to commit their money to long term risky investments.

Let me conclude by saying that terrorist financing is not a short term policy with short term goals.

So long as spending goes to investments yielding a modest return of 6 , the long term debt will be reduced, even as the short term deficit increases, owing to the higher tax revenues generated by the larger output in the short run and the more rapid growth in the long run.

But, when it comes to the European financial crisis, China s behavior seems to be determined by purely short term tactical considerations, even as Chinese investments in Europe tripled in 2011.

Short term considerations will not suffice.

Iran is also reaping the returns of long term investments.

First, governments must balance long term goals with short term achievements.

Investors are buying long term bonds at the current low interest rates because the interest rate on short term investments is now close to zero. In other words, buyers are getting an additional 2 current yield in exchange for assuming the risk of holding long term bonds.

However, a backlog of investments in pipeline and port capacity and more generally in energy infrastructure has put a limit on growth in the sector, at least in the short term.

The remainder of the balance, consisting of donor contributions, was tied up in short term investments, the majority of which were placed in an investment pool in order to increase liquidity.

Investment pooling has permitted Treasury to limit very short term deposits to approximately 20 to 25 per cent of investments, allowing the remainder to be held in marketable fixed income securities.

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

Today s short term crisis does not materially alter their long term prospects.

The problem is that such long term investments bring results only in the medium and long term.

Most people who save and invest do so for their entire lives. But most of the institutions upon which they rely for their investments and savings are geared to the short term.

In short, policies are becoming more unconventional, not less, with little clarity about short term effects, unintended consequences, and long term impacts.

This approach too often sacrifices long term essential objectives to short term concerns.

Are Stock Markets Really Becoming More Short Term?

For example, sustained low interest rates hurt savers who traditionally prefer safe short term investments. Pensioners and those near retirement, facing low income from interest, may cut back further on consumption, weakening the economy.

Thus, while there are short term memory components to working memory models, the concept of short term memory is distinct from these more hypothetical concepts.

If we choose to continue suffering these losses, we might save some money in the short term. The wiser course, however, is to make the necessary investments today, thereby averting a much larger bill tomorrow.

In short, the Kyoto agreement meant lots of short term pain for little long run gain.

He said no to many short term marital relationships.

In fact, America s short term advantages pose the biggest obstacle to its long term outlook.