Green Shoots or Yellow Weeds?

Photo of Cherry Blossoms In January by Night Heron on Flickr.

Some species have the polyps budding directly off the stolon which roots the colony.

The larvae of Rhynchitinae feed in flower buds, fruits, and terminal shoots, or are leaf miners.

BEIJING Now that the green shoots of recovery have withered, the debate over fiscal stimulus is back with a vengeance.

Recent data on employment, retail sales, industrial production, and housing in the United States remain very weak Europe s first quarter GDP growth data is dismal Japan s economy is still comatose and even China which is recovering has very weak exports.

Cambridge Markets are bubbling over signs of green shoots in the global economy.

New York As spring comes to America, optimists are seeing green sprouts of recovery from the financial crisis and recession.

By seven months of gestation, the fetus' taste buds are fully developed, and its olfactory receptors, which allow it to smell, are functioning.

Attention will focus on turning the green shoots of recovery into sustainable green growth, leading to green economies consistent with the goal of protecting the world s climate.

In spite of some spring sprouts, we should prepare for another dark winter it s time for Plan B in bank restructuring and another dose of Keynesian medicine.

So, green shoots of stabilization may be replaced by yellow weeds of stagnation if several medium term factors constrain the global economy s ability to return to sustained growth.

NEW YORK While discussions about economic green shoots continue unabated in the United States, in many countries, and especially in the developing world, matters are getting worse.

Whether we're talking about beef cattle or we're talking about chickens, or we're talking about broccoli or Brussels sprouts, or in the case of this morning's New York Times, catfish which wholesale are going out of business.

Japanese media tracks and reports on the pollen season each year in much the same way it reports on the blooming of the cherry blossoms.

The question is how long and deep this downturn will be. In spite of some spring sprouts, we should prepare for another dark winter it s time for Plan B in bank restructuring and another dose of Keynesian medicine.

Cunningly, Putin then strapped this apathy to the first shoots of post Soviet economic growth in order to conclude a new social contract he would raise living standards in exchange for ordinary Russians acceptance of severe limits on their constitutional rights and liberties.

NEW YORK There is little doubt that green will be the metaphorical color of choice for world leaders when they gather at the G 20 Summit in Pittsburgh. Attention will focus on turning the green shoots of recovery into sustainable green growth, leading to green economies consistent with the goal of protecting the world s climate.