Do you know what slows it down?

So the expansion slows down with time.

Keynes called this the paradox of thrift saving slows down recovery.

In developing countries, money laundering hampers or slows down economic development.

Folks, this is shaker cup juggling. It's not a showstopper but it certainly slows it down.

The RMB middle price is registered at 6.4401, a depreciation of 66 basis points. The rising slows down.

As incomes rise, categories reach a takeoff point where demand accelerates by 3 5 times. At higher levels of income, markets become saturated and growth slows.

And the fiber fills you up before you get too many calories, and it slows the absorption so you don t get that rapid rise in blood sugar.

(c) Controlling growth in the use of fuel and power by industries through increased energy end use efficiency slows growth in the emissions of climate damaging greenhouse gases.

But the EU cannot realize this scenario as easily as the US can, because micro level rules in the EU generate friction that slows that kind of an expansion.

We have a big gap in that money. We're cutting corners, and every time we cut corners, more places get infected that shouldn't have, and it just slows us down.

The Fed s tapering merely slows the growth of its balance sheet. The authorities would still have to sell 3 trillion of bonds to return to the pre crisis status quo.

After all, its dysfunction not only cheapens political discourse it also delays essential legislative business. Bills languish, policies fail to acquire the legal framework needed for implementation, and governance slows.

Oil prices are especially volatile, as the large swings over the last five years remind us. The recent oil boom could easily turn to bust, especially if global economic activity slows.

If ocean circulation slows (as warming might induce) or carbon dioxide fertilization of the biosphere saturates (as may happen), much more of the emitted carbon dioxide would remain in the atmosphere.

Now, I'm actually going to ask you to try something, so you've got to pay attention. Complexity if you spend enough time doing something, time slows down or your skill increases, so your perceptions change.

China's 10 trillion economy is bigger than those of France, Germany, and Italy combined. Even if its annual output growth slows to 7 , the country will add some 700 billion to global GDP this year.

Beyond avoidable suffering and death, failure to report research also slows the pace of scientific discovery. It is widely acknowledged that the high current level of investment in pharmaceutical research is yielding too few substantive discoveries.

But there are high costs associated with intellectual property. Ideas are the most important input into research, and if intellectual property slows down the ability to use others ideas, then scientific and technological progress will suffer.

Since the 2008 financial crisis, Colombia, along with Peru, has been South America s top economic performer. As growth slows throughout the region, owing to falling commodity prices and the end of quantitative easing in the United States, Colombia s economy is actually accelerating.

Alhough the Bank of China curtailed its lending growth to only 6 last year because of concerns about credit quality, many new local banks have expanded their lending aggressively, and could now suffer huge losses as the economy slows and firms solvency weakens.

As a result, competitive displays have been interpreted as a way to demonstrate fitness to a potential mate. A bird that survives, despite inconvenient plumage that slows it down or makes it visible to predators, must be fit, and will likely sire a healthy progeny.

Bailing out inefficient automobile companies like General Motors only slows down the rate of progress. In fact, whereas most schools of economic thought maintain that one of government s key responsibilities is to smooth the cycle, real business cycle theory argues that reducing volatility reduces welfare!

The world trade multiplier, though less widely recognized, helps to explain why the growth deceleration has been so widespread and persistent. When a country s economic growth slows, it imports less from other countries, thereby reducing those countries growth rates, and causing them, too, to reduce imports.

No, this time, commodity resources are the primary constraint, rather than a secondary problem, as in the past. That is why commodity prices will just keep soaring until world growth slows down long enough for new supply and new conservation options to catch up with demand.

The United States trade and current account deficits have begun to shrink relative to American and world GDP. Asian current account surpluses are about to start to shrink as well, especially if growth slows markedly in America in the aftermath of the end of its housing boom.

With services in China employing 30 more workers per unit of output than manufacturing and construction, the sector s expansion will help to preserve social stability, even as economic growth slows to 7 . Observers in the West, focused largely on the slowdown of headline GDP growth, continue to miss this key point.

But, as the economy slows, the regime s legitimacy is increasingly being questioned, which implies that neo Maoism may yet make a comeback. Indeed, it is a stance that resonates deeply with the egalitarian tradition of the People Liberation Army (PLA), as well as with its institutional interests, particularly those in the Shenyang District.

Recognizing that the internationally agreed development goals including those contained in the Millennium Declaration will not be achieved without, inter alia, an intensified, expanded and effective global response to HIV AIDS, since it affects population dynamics, shortens life expectancy and slows economic growth through lost productivity and other factors that undermine development,

Still, we brazenly drop this enigma into the first days of a first year course without batting an eye. We write down equations that show how friction slows the motion of sliding objects or dampens the vibrations in springs, but, ultimately, the math merely reproduces our observations while disguising our ignorance of what underlies them.

As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google's Lalitesh Katragadda demos Map Maker, a group map making tool that people around the globe are using to map their world.

Perhaps most important, even as economic growth slows, technological change continues at a breakneck pace, raising seemingly unanswerable questions about its potential impact on the global economy. While some warn that technological progress will leave many unemployed, others remain convinced that displaced workers will find new jobs that do not yet exist, as has occurred in the past.

Over the past decade, China has accounted for an average of 1.6 percentage points of world GDP growth per year more than double the combined 0.7 percentage point contribution of the so called advanced economies. Even if its GDP growth slows to 6.8 this year, China would account for slightly more growth than is likely from the advanced world.

As China s growth slows, so does its demand for oil and commodities, with severe effects for other emerging economies that depend on commodity exports. Moreover, the benefits of lower commodity prices do not seem to have materialized among net importers, except perhaps India if they have, they have been far from adequate to offset other growth damaging forces.

President Xi Jinping faces the politically risky task of pushing the CCP s reform agenda against fierce opposition while the economy slows. By emphasizing Party control through a crackdown on SOEs, government opponents, and critics in the media and academia Xi seeks to maximize his ability to impose economic reforms while minimizing the risk of a challenge from conservative forces.

Second, with low interest rates causing vast sums of money to chase so few opportunities for decent yields, it is understandable that investors have turned to government bonds, thereby driving down yields still further. But this situation cannot last forever if the flow of funds slows, or alternative, higher yielding assets become available, demand for government bonds could drop markedly.

Even as the pace of growth slows, China is contributing more to the world economy than ever before, because its GDP today is 10.3 trillion, up from just 2.3 trillion in 2005. Simple arithmetic shows that 10.3 trillion growing at 6 or 7 produces much bigger numbers than 10 growth starting from a base that is almost five times smaller.

One factor could be deposits of dust and black carbon (collectively called aerosols) upon the snow, which, up to an accumulation of 400 grams per square meter sharply raises the rate of melting. Between 400 and 600 grams, it has no further effect, but when it exceeds 600 grams, it acts as a shield against the sun, and slows down melting.

The rebalancing of growth away from fixed investment and toward private consumption is occurring too slowly, because every time annual GDP growth slows toward 7 , the authorities panic and double down on another round of credit fueled capital investment. This then leads to more bad assets and non performing loans, more excessive investment in real estate, infrastructure, and industrial capacity, and more public and private debt.

But the Communist Party leadership has decided that in the next decade hairdressers, accountants, karaoke hostesses, tour guides, and movie directors will be the new pillars of economic performance. As investment growth slows and export markets endure their unpredictable business cycles and protectionist moods, China will increasingly rely upon consumption for creation of jobs and income and the service industry is where most consumption occurs.

With export performance also set to slow, owing to the economic downturn in the United States, employment and growth could be weakened further, which implies mounting pressure on China s government and thus on the fiscal deficit, creating another source of inflationary pressure. And, once an inflationary trend emerges and economic growth slows, the steady as you go pattern to China s decade long boom will be over.

We have discovered that we can get a much simpler set of equations for fundamental physics by supposing that what we ordinarily perceive as empty space is actually a medium. We have observed the effects of the water that we use to simplify our equations it slows down particles, and makes them heavy but we do not know what it is made out of.

The acceleration of particles at high energy slows down all physical processes, because, according to Einstein s theory of relativity, time runs more slowly for fast moving objects. Since protons are the simplest nuclei, it was hoped that, at high energy, the forces acting during the scattering of protons could be observed and analyzed like in a slow motion film, providing a precise understanding of the strong force.

Second, the perception of weakness and division in the WTO will make it far harder to resist protectionist pressures worldwide, especially if the global economy slows. We must not forget that the multilateral trading system along with the Bretton Woods institutions was originally created to avoid a repeat of the protectionism and competitive devaluations of the 1930 s that plunged the world into depression.

By contrast, if China s economic growth slows, which is likely in the coming years, protest against corruption a source of fragility for any regime will escalate. Indeed, it is important to bear in mind that, ahead of the upcoming Chinese leadership transition, new occupants for only the top two posts have been chosen, and that through a process of gradual anointment by roughly a hundred people at most.