Materialism and consumerism cannot be a substitute for political and religious freedoms, which remain severely constrained.

Consumer confidence has picked up.

Citizens of developed countries increasingly feel like mere objects of consumerism, while citizens of developing countries struggle for daily survival.

Fiscal stimulus is a tricky business. Policymakers are damned if they do and damned if they don t.

Fiscal stimulus is needed as well.

Fiscal stimulus is a tricky business.

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Indeed, the old socialist economic birdcage has now been largely burst by China's capitalist reforms, releasing with a vengeance a mutant people's republic into the global marketplace of consumerism.

Indeed, the old socialist economic birdcage has now been largely burst by China's capitalist reforms, releasing with a vengeance a mutant people's republic into the global marketplace of consumerism.

So that s for fun.

The commission initially showed no interest.

Tom has no interest in golf.

Tom has no interest in science.

Alberta is one of the top producers of plains buffalo (bison) for the consumer market.

Of course, monetary easing is not purely zero sum.

The President himself seems not very interested in economics.

No other names can generate that kind of attention.

In most cases, the explosion of interest is provoked unintentionally.

He doesn't show any interest in science.

I have no interest in politics.

Left to fight alone, they were defeated.

On Thursday, data showed continued export weakness, and a softening in consumer demand.

The increase in credit cards and consumer credit has had the same general effect.

And Japan seems to be intent on inflicting on itself a second, growth retarding consumption tax increase.

In Japan, an excessively front loaded consumption tax increase killed the recovery achieved this year.

But these are not often the questions that trigger the most passionate interest.

And that question has attracted surprisingly little interest.

The party has been canceled due to a lack of interest.

Fueling growth through domestic demand will have to be carefully managed.

Can the values of a consumer society be applied to societies with nothing to consume?

During that time, brand strategists have used 'RBS' to protect other consumer finance brands.

All of this excites little or no interest in the West.

They want to talk to you about areas of mutual interest.

A more effective stimulus would speed up spending that needs to be done anyway. Or cut taxes to change the marginal calculus of firms on layoffs and consumers on spending for example, by suspending the payroll tax on firms and workers for a year or suspending part or all of the sales tax or national value added tax.

But spurring faster growth in services is a complex undertaking.

But there is another reason for the lack of interest in the EU elections.

No other fight creates as much attention and buzz.

A further source of stimulus is quantitative easing, or, more simply, printing money.

Europe would not be allowed to languish, and the stimulus came from abroad.

Boosting regional integration in the Maghreb promises much and would cost relatively little.

But a consumption tax hike is no panacea, particularly given the government s lack of a growth strategy.

Companies now tapping the huge consumer demand represented by the poor in developing countries are reaping big returns. We are investigating what business insights and policy steps made such successes possible.

Paradoxically, the challenge of climate change is a good place to look.

The Europeans don't even seem to care very much about the job.

Now a block of limestone, in itself, isn't particularly that interesting.