The early 2012 upturn in US economic activity still owes a lot to extraordinarily expansionary monetary policy and unsustainable fiscal deficits. If income concentration could be reduced as the budget deficit was reduced, demand could be financed by sustainable, broad based private incomes.

The result is that free markets don t generate enough final demand. In the US, for example, slashing labor costs has sharply reduced the share of labor income in GDP.

Demand for illicit drugs must be reduced, and all relevant laws must be enforced, particularly those limiting the use of drugs for medical purposes and research in producing areas.

So the US economy faces a 750 billion shortfall of demand. Moreover, the usual automatic stabilizers of unemployment benefits and reduced income tax collections will do nothing to offset this fall in demand, because it is not caused by lower earnings or increased unemployment.

The solution is to attack the problem at its source by addressing both supply and demand. Coca crops in Latin America need to be replaced with agricultural crops, and cocaine use in affluent Europe must be reduced.

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Compassion can't be reduced to sainthood any more than it can be reduced to pity.

The fastest way to adjust is via reduced demand and imports, and that is what almost always ends up happening. Growth and job creation take the hit, as we are seeing today in emerging market economies around the world.

Fiscal retrenchment amid weak private demand would lead to chronically high unemployment. Indeed, deficit cuts would court a reprise of 1937, when Franklin D. Roosevelt prematurely reduced the New Deal stimulus and thereby threw the United States back into recession.

It is also worthy of note that the price of DDT has risen over the last couple of years and this may be a trend that persists as a reduced demand erodes the economies of scale in a shrinking production.

They can take the form of direct subsidies, reduced interest rates or reduced costs for acquiring land.

We reduced immediately the quantity.

Management reduced inputs and outputs

(d) Reduced oil import dependency

So, because it went into mass production, costs were reduced, 100 years of refinement, emissions were reduced, tremendous production value.

Our school was reduced to ashes.

How the Fed Just Reduced Inequality

The fiction reduced girls to tears.

Management reduced inputs and additional outputs

Management reduced inputs and same outputs

Management reduced inputs and same outputs

Management reduced inputs and additional outputs

Energy demand

Demand reduction

Demand reduction

Demand reduction

The fire reduced the house to ashes.

There they were defeated, and utterly reduced.

There they were defeated, and utterly reduced.

That has considerably reduced the Council's legitimacy.

Housing and fuel subsidies have been reduced.

Germany s fiscally conservative establishment would like other EU countries with large budget deficits to return to economic health through fiscal discipline, reduced domestic demand, and high export growth. The problem, German leaders believe, is not their country s high saving rate, but other euro zone members excessive spending.

In South Asia, UNODC focused on ensuring a more balanced approach between demand and supply of drugs, culminating in improved treatment, rehabilitation and social reintegration for drug abusers (especially abusers of synthetic substances) reduced HIV vulnerability to drug abuse and strengthened non governmental and community based organizations.

Demand or Supply?

Netanyahu s Useless Demand

Price reflects demand.

Drug demand reduction

Drug demand reduction

Demand savings accounts

What actually happened was the impulses were reduced.

I reduced my mailing list to 150 people.

Mass production reduced the price of many goods.

The mountains reduced to dust and blown away,

The mountains reduced to dust and blown away,

Agricultural parcels continue to be fragmented and reduced.