Word: spurs
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...will be less likely to fly the Trump Shuttleon spur-of-the moment occasions," Tabor said
There is little doubt that in the next century, the world's economic center of gravity will shift to Asia. As a Pacific power, the U.S. can and should participate in that shift, and this could spur a long-term American resurgence. But it won't happen if we succumb to economic nationalism...
...would work overtime to get tax breaks for their clients. "Lawyers will tell you that any tax planner can make something look like a start-up," says Princeton University economist Harvey Rosen. At the same time, some studies show that cuts in capital-gains rates have done little to spur investment over the past 20 years. "It is not a major factor in terms of capital formation," notes Susan Wachter, professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. So for all their sound and fury, neither the Clinton nor the Tsongas plan would be likely to have...
VEILED ATTEMPTS to paint Japan as an enemy rather than as a worthy economic competitor might serve to unite and even temporarily spur our country out of its economic malaise. But whether it succeeds or not, such political and economic deception has terrible consequences for Japanese Americans and other minority groups...
Tsongas would start with the basics. The former U.S. senator realizes that a middle-class tax cut will do nothing to increase our competitiveness with foreign powers. It won't create any jobs. And it won't do anything to spur an economic recovery...