White House Prop Cost Taxpayers Thousands

Anything to prop up the country's economy.

He worked as an hydraulic engineer and architect under Louis XIII.

He fetched a few cushions to prop up her head.

This poor kid, clearly a prop don't get me wrong, a willing prop but the kiss that's being documented kind of looks like it sucks.

Rulers relied on loyal tribes and narrow cliques to prop up their regimes.

For those who benefit from the politics of ambiguity, international law is an indispensable prop.

Of course, technological advances, like hydraulic fracturing ( fracking ) in the shale gas industry, could increase supply and therefore lower prices.

With America's loss of interest the chief prop of neo liberal policies has been pulled away.

River basin organizations such as that established for the Nile, Niger, or Senegal rivers help facilitate dialogue between states that share hydraulic resources.

In the meantime, no one can predict the ends to which Putin will go to prop up his presidency.

Rural hydraulic projects, which ensure access to water for these populations over large stretches of land, can prove to be efficient conflict prevention tools.

In 1853, the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Mining Company was chartered, which eventually constructed the canals that would be used to generate electricity.

The IMF did not want Russia to devalue, and it provided billions of dollars to prop up the exchange rate.

Citizens are aware of the hundreds of billions of euros and dollars that have been used to prop up banks.

True, even as exports have collapsed, the government has managed to prop up growth with a huge spending and credit expansion.

However, while 90 of world reserves of hydraulic energy are concentrated in underdeveloped regions like sub Saharan Africa, HVDC technology remains the preserve of developed countries.

The young thieves loot consisted of tools worth a total of almost 200,000 rubles two welding units, a perforating machine, a hydraulic system, and a lift.

On the Monday after Putin s Crimea adventure began, the Central Bank of Russia reportedly spent 11.3 billion to prop up the ruble.

In Asia, as in the Middle East, US strategy was to prop up dictators against Communism until their own people toppled them.

To the extent that it is used to prop up declining industries, the stimulus could even prove harmful by delaying necessary adjustments.

Whereas extraction of America s extensive reserves of natural gas was previously thought to be unfeasible, technologies such as hydraulic fracturing ( fracking ) have ushered in a shale gas revolution.

One reason why Flemish Belgians resent having to prop up the Walloons with their tax money is that they regard them almost as foreigners.

President Barack Obama, acting as if the latter scenario remains likely, is betting on large scale government spending to prop up the real economy.

But if they buy more, in an attempt to prop up the dollar, they will only have a bigger version of the same problem.

For example, the hydraulic model of aid the idea that if we simply pumped in more aid, better results would gush out ignores the fact that funds are often fungible.

Since Libya achieved independence in 1951, it has been a fractured state. Rulers relied on loyal tribes and narrow cliques to prop up their regimes.

The first misconception is that he desperately sought Chinese aid to prop up his regime in the face of seething discontent after botched currency reforms.

Do we want to live in a system where profits are private, but losses are socialized, where taxpayer money is used to prop up failed firms?

In fact, the United States is now investing heavily in natural gas without recognizing or caring that its shale gas boom, based on new hydraulic fracturing technology, is likely to make matters worse.

In addition, it takes the heat off an undervalued currency as a prop to export growth, giving China considerable leeway to step up the pace of currency reforms.

Although this plan would prop up the value of the financial system as a whole, it would still allow market forces to determine relative share prices of individual banks.

Do people think it is easy for a 12 trillion dollar economy to spend beyond its means year after year just to prop up other countries reputations for stability?

In the early stages of this precarious succession, China has behaved as expected, trying to prop up the regime in order to ensure stability in its nuclear armed neighbor.

One example of this was the attempt to prop up heavy industries using an import substitution strategy based on what I call the old structuralism, or Development Thinking 1.0 .

China is being pressured to halt its interventions to prop up the US dollar in world currency markets, with opponents emphasizing how much harm the policy is causing to other countries.

As central bankers and finance ministers ponder how to intervene to prop up the dollar, they should also start thinking about what to do when the time comes to pull the plug.

Changing the rules of the game to prop up personal rule would help perpetuate weaknesses such as a lack of accountability, and prevent important government policies from becoming entrenched as state policies.

The federal government under both President George W. Bush and Barack Obama allocated hundreds of billions of dollars to prop up the mega banks, while allowing hundreds of these crucially important smaller lenders to fail.

You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate, you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from Star Wars especially parts from Star Wars I can do this stuff all day long.

President Barack Obama, acting as if the latter scenario remains likely, is betting on large scale government spending to prop up the real economy. If his administration succeeds, the chances that Africa will remain relatively unscathed will grow.

Domestically oriented macroeconomists look at the situation roughly like this at some point in the future, foreign central banks will become less willing to continue buying massive amounts of dollar denominated securities in order to prop up the greenback.

If they do nothing and simply hold onto the dollars, their losses will only increase. But if they buy more, in an attempt to prop up the dollar, they will only have a bigger version of the same problem.

With the financial crisis, the Chinese economy s necessary adjustment towards more domestic consumption has become far more urgent. True, even as exports have collapsed, the government has managed to prop up growth with a huge spending and credit expansion.

The agreement also provides Iran with extensive relief from economic sanctions, which will fuel the regime s ability to support dangerous proxies throughout the Middle East, back a sectarian government in Baghdad, and prop up Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime.