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Does 2010's 4th. Quarter Results Signal Good Times?

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Gross domestic product (GDP)—a broad measure of all goods and services produced—grew at a 3.2% Final sales—a measure that gives a feeling for underlying demand in the economy by subtracting the change in business inventories from GDP—notched its biggest increase since 1984, growing 7.1% percentage points to GDP.

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China Wants the U.S. to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff, Too

Harvard Business Review

The world's two most significant economies will both benefit from a swift and sensible resolution of the current federal budget crisis in Washington. They know how to contemplate 10-year, 20-year, and 30-year programs and achieve year-on-year GDP growth that averages no less than 8 percent. The Chinese want stability in America.

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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

by 66%, manufacturing in Germany employed 22% of the workforce and contributed 21% of GDP in 2010. In 2010, just under 11% of the workforce was employed in manufacturing, and manufacturing contributed 13% of GDP. Even with wages and benefits that are higher than those in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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China, America, and Copycat Economics

Harvard Business Review

In the second quarter of 2011, China's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 9.5%. pace in the first quarter of 2010. From the vantage point of many in the United States, where optimistic estimates of GDP growth continue to be cut and now hover around 2%, it seems that the Chinese "problem" is a nice one to have.

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The Hidden Costs of Cash

Harvard Business Review

About 12% of the federal budget in 2012 supported programs that provide aid (other than health insurance or Social Security benefits) to poor families. Such government safety net programs kept some 25 million people out of poverty in 2010.

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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

On August 5, 2010, a mine collapsed in Chile’s Atacama Desert, trapping 33 miners more than 2,000 feet underground. The stakes are particularly high for cities, where urban infrastructure projects from mass transit to bridges , tunnels, housing, and hospitals too often exceed their budgets by enormous sums.

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The Economic Record of the McCain Presidency

Harvard Business Review

in early 2009 were so strong that no imaginable set of policies could have avoided a deep and long recession that blew a hole in the federal budget. and GDP has grown faster. The Bernanke reappointment was a no-brainer, and the economic headwinds faced by the U.S. A more helpful comparison might be to assess the U.S.

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