Stocks and the Long Run

This will be a long and difficult process.

To the left you see data over a long period.

The electrification of Africa is a process that is ongoing, with the results set to be impressive.

I cannot afford long vacations.

It is difficult and time consuming to build mature democracies.

A long transition in the Middle East is underway.

First, heavy TV viewing brings little pleasure.

Moreover, heavy TV viewing has contributed to social fragmentation.

CAMBRIDGE America s long boom is at risk.

Twenty years is a long time to have almost no economic growth.

But secular stagnation is an ailment of countries at the economic frontier.

Certainly, heavy TV viewing is bad for one s physical and mental health. Americans lead the world in obesity, with roughly two thirds of the US population now overweight.

Only democracy in China can bring lasting peace to the Taiwan Straits.

To be effective, elections must be preceded by an extensive period of debate and argument.

Certainly, heavy TV viewing is bad for one s physical and mental health.

Otherwise, we can expect a long period of stagnation, punctuated by periodic financial crises.

Long term economic progress comes mainly from the invention and spread of improved technologies.

Today, these countries can simply refinance their obligations at longer maturities.

Commitment to participate in the program would, presumably, be long term.

The prolonged period of renegotiation now proposed by Cameron implies high costs for both sides.

It takes a long time to bring education and better paid jobs to everyone.

So I do not believe that a lasting rift looms.

China s long lasting success is sometimes given as a counterexample to the importance of good governance for economic performance.

A great puzzle in today s world economy is the continued low level of long term real interest rates in the United States.

The key for Bhutan is to regard GNH as an enduring quest, rather than as a simple checklist.

And Japan s political stalemate on structural reforms has left it helpless to stem long term economic decline.

One cannot have a deep and long downturn in the world s largest economy without global ramifications.

1. Notes with concern the continuous trend of hiring staff retirees for extended periods of time

Instead, the date for Easter is determined on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar.

The game had a significantly longer development cycle than previous games, taking 16 months to develop.

Maybe this allows him to focus more on long term fundamentals and thus to make investments that may not perform well in the short run.

More generally, fiscal stimulus is unlikely to have much lasting effect, as is the case now.

Yale lets Swensen invest for the very long term, and does not bother him about quarterly performance.

Beneath the Arab political revolutions lies a deeper and longer process of radical change that is sometimes called the information revolution.

Indeed, the gravest danger to Europe s universities is a prolonged period of confusion about their ultimate aims.

Most constitutions including the American one aspire to freeze history, or to set up a lasting institutional order that will resist the winds of change.

Nevertheless, despite his long tenure, the Dear Leader s hold on power sometimes has been threatened by a small group of dissidents.

Only if growth is significantly faster over the long run will living standards for the vast majority of the region s voters begin to rise.

And central bankers are right to insist on structural reforms and credible plans for balancing budgets in the long term.

Ben Gharbia's lengthy interrogation comes amidst concerns about government attempts to interfere with the media in recent months.

In 2009 Willis signed a contract to become the international face of Belvedere SA's Sobieski Vodka in exchange for 3.3 ownership in the company.

I believe that this amount could be at least doubled and assured for a longer time span.

Change in the global economy, from a decade of high structural growth to a long period of low growth, is playing a major role as well.

This is the strategy that most EU countries, Germany in particular, have chosen.