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...consumer-confidence index--and to the all-time lows in the polls for Bush's economic performance. But the war may also be the White House's way out of the problem. Bush advisers say the economy will surge after the war, as businesses start investing and consumers start spending. And victory in war can jump-start a President's stalled poll numbers. With a postwar mandate, say advisers, congressional opposition to his tax cuts will melt away. "History shows," a top Bush adviser tells TIME, "once the shooting starts, the public rallies around the President. And once...
...push the burden of inflating the economy onto the central bank not only underestimates Hayami's efforts but overestimates the options available to his successor. The deflation busters insist that the BOJ can jump-start growth by encouraging more investing and spending. But a central banker has a relatively small number of imprecise tools at his command, and the current governor has exhausted virtually all of them. Over the past five years, Hayami has consistently kept interest rates at nearly zero in a desperate bid to get people spending. Money in Japan is practically free for anyone who wants...
Captain Sanja Bajin partnered with sophomore Alexis Martire to jump-start Harvard’s effort with an 8-2 win at No. 2 doubles. Martire currently holds the No. 64 national ranking...
WASHINGTON Christmas in January President George W. Bush proposed an audacious tax-cut program - one he hopes will jump-start the sputtering U.S. economy. The plan, which would eliminates taxes on corporate dividends, delighted Wall Street but led Democrats to charge that Bush was merely making the rich richer. To counteract that criticism, the package also includes a rise in child and married-couples tax allowances. In addition, tax-rate cuts scheduled for 2004 and 2006 would be introduced immediately. "Our first challenge is to allow Americans to keep more of their money so they can spend and save...
Over the past few days President Bush has sacked the vast majority of his economic team, including Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill and chief economic policy adviser Lawrence B. Lindsey. Though this should have been an opportunity to bring in new ideas that could help jump-start the economy, Bush has instead appointed more big-business cronies who will act as a mouthpiece for the same old tax-cutting nonsense that has been spewing from the White House since Bush took office...