Iran's near term political future remains unclear.

Price deflation is far more likely in the near term.

When incentives don't work, when CEOs ignore the long term health of their companies in pursuit of short term gains that will lead to massive bonuses, the response is always the same.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Defense Dividend

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.

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.

That's a simple bottom line business plan.

There are no income, estate or capital gains taxes.

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 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.

We examined the extent to which firms earning announcements surprised markets (as reflected in stock price reactions to these announcements) and stock analysts (as measured by the gap between announced and forecast earnings).

In the UK, the profits of financial intermediaries, which had averaged around 1.5 of the whole economy s profits in the 1970 s, reached 15 in 2008.

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.

It is a policy for the long term.

On the contrary, almost every activity of government has an impact on corporate profits, and in turn, on the stock market.

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.

By the year 2000, the process was perfected. They merged with AOL, and in just four years, managed to shed about 200 billion dollars of market capitalization, showing that they'd actually mastered the art of applying Moore's law of successive miniaturization to their balance sheet.

While aimed at reducing long term environmental damage, cap and trade policies could produce significant harmful economic effects in the near term that would continue into the future.

João's exploration policies (see below) also paid great dividends.

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Short Term Talk, Long Term Cost

While some efforts have been made to move forward on this, I hope that they will translate into visible improvements in the short term, thus conveying a message to the Haitian people that democracy can have tangible benefits in their daily lives.